First Day of Sobriety Complete

 First Day of Sobriety Complete

I made it through the first sober day of my journey back to health. Even though I went shopping, I did not buy beer or other alcohol. I bought some ginger beer, but it was alcohol free. I made a good dinner, got some light exercise, and worked on my journal. Right now I am winding down after a long day. I even made it into Ann Arbor to pick up some medication at the clinic pharmacy.

I seemed to have only a few aftereffects from yesterday's binge. The occlusion in my ears is resolving, and the tinnitus is quieting down. I didn't have many breakthrough hallucinations, like voices in the walls, and I did not experience any delusions of reference. Also, I worked on my journal as if it were my job. I did dishes, got the house cleaned up a bit, the kitchen at least, and made an easy dinner of mashed potatoes and scrambled eggs with cheese. It was an enjoyable day.

I have a lot of empty cans and bottles I should probably return for deposit, but I don't even want to look at the damned things, reminders that they are of my excesses. They will go back one or two bags at a time, and I will put the cash in my bank account. I need a few days sober under my belt, and to have the common sense to not just spend the cash on things I don't need, like cannabis. They are safely tucked away in my closet now, so they are not going anywhere.

I watched some interesting videos today on YouTube, about cooking, history, technology, and a harebrained scheme to make a flying Ford Pinto that ended the careers and lives of it's inventors. Hey, aircraft and automobiles are two widely different vehicles, and you can not just put wings on a pig and fly it, to steal an image from Pink Floyd. It makes me wonder about the qualifications for an engineer who uses sheet metal screws to attach wing struts to a compact car and think he can make it fly. 

I think this journal is a good project, and already have plans for marketing it once I am safely off the sauce, as it were. There is no need to keep poisoning myself with depressant drugs like ethanol. And there is a need for me to lose some of this excess body fat that has attached itself to my body because of all the calories in beer. At least it gives me the reason to find better health and refrain from being a nuisance to the people around me. In any case, I am going to have to find better ways to cope with stress, like meditation, reading, and of course writing. 

That's all for today. It's 9:37 PM and still 6/27/2025.