Today I had a lazy sick day. I didn't want to go all around the house and infect people. I think it's probably the big C. I didn't have the big fever day that I did when I had it the first time. But I looked at the symptoms compared to flu and RSV and it is more of a Covid type of thing. I felt a lot better by the end of the day, I really needed the rest since I had been on the go since I came down with it.
My partner is starting to say things like "January is almost over." So a new challenge should be coming up if he starts drinking again. He doesn't find it as hard to stop as me. I think he was talking like he just wants to drink on weekends, which is fine. But if I do that, just on the weekends always becomes also drinking on a particularly stressful day. Then Wednesdays become drinking days because it's the middle of the week and you need something to get you through. Then it slowly but surely turns back to two drinks a night every night. It's happened many times! It's better for me to go without.
It's always a good plan to go to bed early if I feel tempted. Having a big glass of water after dinner has also been surprisingly helpful. If you don't feel thirsty you think less about drinking. I think I can keep it up. I went to a meeting for my kids' school and they were talking about driving an hour to pick them up at 1 a.m. and it brings to mind an 'oh no!' but now it's more for the late night rather than I'm going to have to make sure I don't drink that night. Other parents were more vocal about how picking the kids up will be hard and I thought to myself "drinkers."