Thursday...

What a couple of weeks it's been. I had a HUGE ice cream promotion last week, Anthony sprained his wrist, then this week another ice cream promotion, 2 frozen promotions, and all sorts of issues with shipping ice cream. I did learn one thing from all of this. I need to calm the fuck down! All week, as soon as I saw a request for a conference call, or a date change on an order, I would fucking flip. We had a huge meeting on Tuesday at our alternate office, and I was there for about 4 minutes of it. The rest of my time was spent working orders, on conference calls, taking calls from my counterparts up north, and trying to keep my mind off the fact that I didn't have any coffee around. Took care of that though. When I got home, I hit the hard stuff ... GRAPE JUICE! Two big glasses of it! Oh it was GOOOOOOOD! What the fuck do you want for me to say, I hit the bottle of JD? Nope, I quit drinking. Been on the wagon since January 1st. No, I'm not an alcoholic, at least not by the "normal" definition. However, when I DID drink, I would not stop until I passed out or got sick (or in a couple of cases, BOTH!). AND, hearing all of the people I work with going to drink because "school is over" (they apparently graduate 6 times a semester), or because they have to "celebrate making it through the day without yawning" or some bullshit excuse like that. My favorite is "I married a guy who has 3 kids and they are driving me crazy, so I must get drunk every night to tolerate them and my marriage." Well what the fuck did you get married for you stupid fucking twit??? I decided I didn't want to be like any of them. I have a wife and son who need me, they enjoy seeing me sober to spend time with them, to speak coherently to them. My wife likes her spouse, not her souse. So I quit drinking. Now if I can do the same with smoking, I'd kill someone. Ha Ha! Nah, I know I need to quit. I have already started by cutting down 1 to 2 cigarettes per day over a one-week period. I figure in a few months, I should be able to ween (sp?) myself off completely. Will keep you posted.