Jen - YES! Your description of days without alcohol is spot on: keep on accomplishing things - going to bed earlier - unable to relax. Those all describe my days without alcohol - LOL, my YEAR without alcohol. Actually the relaxing does get better with time, but the early bedtime is a constant and getting more accomplished.
Eschano - Hello hello! Thank you for swinging by although I'm a bit chagrined that of course here I am talking about alcohol again.
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Yesterday while casting around for things to do I made some decent choices, although it involved shopping so I'm not sure if that was just replacing one dopamine hit for another...... anyhoo, what I bought were some office supplies: lots of stickers to use in my journal and in my daily encouragement letters; colored mechanical pencils - yes, apparently there is such a thing, and for a teacher like me, such a new find is always fun. I have never been much for using pencils, being a sharpie-preferring teacher, but since I have switched to making my videos digitally, I find myself using pencils as I research and take notes in preparation for the video. So some colored mechanical pencils are a super fun find. We'll see how they perform. I also bought these little loops that tape down to a notebook so the pen/pencil is always handy - I need three - one for my research notebook for work stuff, and 1 for my habit tracker, and 1 for my journal. Oh, and I also bought a few magnetic bookmarks - another new item for me that I'm not sure how it will work, but it seems fun to try it out and I'm desperate for bookmarks and tired of using ugly pieces of scratchpaper.
On an entirely leisure note, I'm reading a very fun book called Winter World. I don't know that I can recommend it yet because I'm not very far into it, but I enjoy the fast pace and complete escapism (it's about an ice age covering the world because of aliens blocking out our solar energy.... LOL... so yes, space travel involved). Back to what Jen had said, having an escapism book (short chapters, improbable plotline, and nothing like real life) is a good solution to the "needing to be doing something" and "wanting to go to bed too early" issues of a non-alcohol existence.
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Sunday, February 21
130.2
Eating
B: coffee w/cream
L: sardines and collagen proteins, 1 glass of milk
D: 1 glass of milk, microwave popcorn, 2 nutter butters
Moving
No plans!