Living with Addiction - Day 59

So, one more day, and it will be 2 months since giving up my Caesars Slots FB game. I'm so grateful for everyone that has checked in to let me know that they are there. It means so much to me to have these very special types of long term friendships. It's interesting, today I celebrate my cat Merlin's 20th birthday. He has been in my life for almost as long as everyone else has that I call friend.

I continue to make great strides in kicking the habitual gambling habit. I am feeling so much better about myself and what I have accomplished thus far. My writing continues to be creative as I'm up to 28,000 words in book 2 of The Order of the Wolf, Species Chronicles series. I have to give myself a big hug because I took a couple of days off of work and with all that downtime, I did not break and play the slots game. This is monumental, because I think the trigger may have been too much downtime, not enough social interaction, isolation, etc., but this long weekend was necessary. I think I was feeling a little burnt out from work. The last few times I took off, I had medical and health stuff to handle, so it was not like I truly took vacation time.

I was, however, a little bummed that my bestie had to reschedule our dinner at Coopers Hawk. She was not feeling well at all, so I definitely want her to get better. Her and I have not had a dinner with each other since before covid. We rescheduled for next week, and I'm very much looking forward to it. I just hope she feels better by this Friday as her band will be preforming at this quaint place in Lombard called Shannon's Deli. Her band is purely acoustic, lots of oldies and sing alongs.  I love it.

Anyway, today, I go back to work, but at least I am still home. Wednesday, though, I will go into office. It is also the day we are going to hang out for dinner. I love these little dinner plans with co-workers. We are such as small department now, and we all are still feeling safer working from home, so it's rare we get to see each other. It should be a short week. September is almost here, which means bowling starts. I am looking forward to that as well. Our league is a great group of folks, and we bowl every other Thursday which is nice. It is a long season, but so much fun.

I toast to Merlin and myself. Love you my lil man, happy birthday.