Calendar Girl Blog: Abstaining
My Jorden Ferry chum is in town. She rolled in on Wednesday with a full crate of fresh lobsters, one of which had my name on it. I'm still licking traces of garlic butter from my lips.
Here's a thought that popped in my head when I turned the page of the calendar.
My friend Don shared this piece of wisdom with me a couple of year's ago as a way of keeping his alcohol intake in check. Due to his various positions in the booze soaked entertainment industry, this wee plan likely added year's to his life.
One day per week, one week per month and one month per year he totally abstains from the devils drink. He chooses December as his month off, and offers himself up as the designated driver for his friends.
Now there's a gift for yah.
Glory be and hark to Harold, the beauty of Dons' formula is in it's versatility. You can applied the 'day, week, month stop' to any substance or activity that controls you more than you control it.
Always willing to lead by example, I put my sugar and butter addiction to the test. After year's of bingeing on both, it was a sobering and revealing experience to really see how much white death and fat I was shoveling down my pipe and how hard it was to stop for 24 hours, let alone a week.
Sugar and butter, cut with a bit of flour are my crack cocaine. The only difference between me and the chap that hangs out downtown in the square is I'm legally addicted. Cookies are traded on the open market.
December is National Butter Sugar Month in North America. Calendar Girl has already fallen off the abstention wagon thanks to one lobster dinner. This does not mean she will throw in the towel and submerge herself in sweet grease blindness. But, Calendar Girl does realize that the month will be a challenge to negotiate. Tis a slippery slope.
Calendar Girl
Here's a thought that popped in my head when I turned the page of the calendar.
My friend Don shared this piece of wisdom with me a couple of year's ago as a way of keeping his alcohol intake in check. Due to his various positions in the booze soaked entertainment industry, this wee plan likely added year's to his life.
One day per week, one week per month and one month per year he totally abstains from the devils drink. He chooses December as his month off, and offers himself up as the designated driver for his friends.
Now there's a gift for yah.
Glory be and hark to Harold, the beauty of Dons' formula is in it's versatility. You can applied the 'day, week, month stop' to any substance or activity that controls you more than you control it.
Always willing to lead by example, I put my sugar and butter addiction to the test. After year's of bingeing on both, it was a sobering and revealing experience to really see how much white death and fat I was shoveling down my pipe and how hard it was to stop for 24 hours, let alone a week.
Sugar and butter, cut with a bit of flour are my crack cocaine. The only difference between me and the chap that hangs out downtown in the square is I'm legally addicted. Cookies are traded on the open market.
December is National Butter Sugar Month in North America. Calendar Girl has already fallen off the abstention wagon thanks to one lobster dinner. This does not mean she will throw in the towel and submerge herself in sweet grease blindness. But, Calendar Girl does realize that the month will be a challenge to negotiate. Tis a slippery slope.
Calendar Girl
posted by Sue Richards at 11:07 AM
3 Comments:
Everything in moderation, is what I say, including the moderation. It's so hard when you set complete limits for yourself, because if you fall off the wagon (so to say) it's hard to get back on. But when you remember that if you indulge today and cut back tomorrow, everything will be ok.
The day/week/month is a fabulous trick!
I saw your comment on MBs blog. I like that you're giving information about breast cancer prevention -- my mother died from that when she was 46, so I have a "connection" to that subject.
Thanks again,
andrew lockhart
Hilarious!
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