quick update on a new stage of quitting drinking

when the drinker tries a drink only once over 11 days, he encounters a clearer realization and a clearer problem. me, being the drinker, i, thus now making this a first-person account, have noticed something that makes quitting drinking all the harder. when i'd go a few days to 5 without drinking, as i've documented many times in other posts, each day got better, i'd feel better, giving the promise that stopping for ten days would mean ten times the good feeling. instead, it plateaus, as would be obvious, and so when it was hard not to drink after five days, because i felt so good anyway, it is always going to be hard to not want to drink after 10 or fifteen.

but not just as hard. in fact it's been much easier for me to not be tempted and i actually feel like i'm now reaching the realm of the healthiest social binge drinker in that i only feel like drinking if something great is happening - like a friend riding his bike from pittsburgh to ebensburg. so this is all good. i'm just not pumped about not feeling a lot better, quickly.

but i am happy about not drinking. so it's just, you don't feel better than the last day, but you still feel pretty grateful that you don't feel bad when you wake up, and that's enough for me. for now.

anything else?

hmm, oh, a few posts ago i noted that i was thinking i should be worried that i stopped excercising and working out and stretching even less. then i said i wasn't worried. also i ran out of vitamins and my vitamin world store closed in altoona.

anyway, point is, i've had a migraine headache everyday for the last 11 days. starting with my last night of drinking. the pharmacist at weis' market says allergies