Living with Addiction - Day 20

So, I've reached the end of the week. This is exciting. I'm still going strong, not being tempted by the game. Although, they have sent me several emails about new specials and they are doing another build your pet type promo. I really did enjoy these PET ones as you got treats to feed your pet to help he or she grow. Well, I'm quite proud of myself that it didn't spur me to action getting that email. I've been hitting the unsubscribe option when it's available in the emails they are sending me.

Work continues to surprise me as one of my co-workers got transferred to the ASC group. I felt bad for her because that dept is truly difficult with not a lot of resources to help the requestors with their accounting issues. The dept's call volume is much larger than my billing unit, so management went to my management group to ask us for assistance.  I just hope that this will not become a trend. But in terms of employees in the dept, they still have less than us. The billing help line has assistance from offshore so I suppose this is why one of our people got transferred.

On the bright side, I got a raise, which was fantastic, given the new car payment and the publishing monthly costs for book 1 in the series to be re-released. I'm still working on book 2 of the series and already have written 17,500 words. Long way to go yet, before the book would be considered a novel, which would be like 50,000 words minimum. Ugh!.  In the meantime I am also trying to finish my memoir, so that I can enter it into the memoir contest Minerva Rising is having.  Minerva Rising was the first publication that I got something published. They published an excerpt from my memoir, so I'm hoping, given they published the excerpt, they will be interested in the rest of the memoir.  I need to get to at least 25,000 words minimum and my memoir is only at about 15,000. 

Over the past several weeks, I've been lending support to a dear friend who is going through a tough time. I think this is also helping me cope with my addiction. All the people I've shared my struggle with have been fabulous, sending me text messages to check in, etc.  Helping someone else is also contributing to my own healing. This Monday coming up I will have another appt with my therapist.  She's fabulous.

That's it for today. I'll check back soon.