Sobriety - Not for Whimps

So a friend of mine e-mailed me about a bumper-sticker she saw on the way home from work the other day that said "Sobriety - Not for Whimps".

Came home from work today and my husband was on the couch in the dark watching the second playing of a hockey game we watched last night, with the pillow wrapped around his head. I asked him if he was all good, and he looked at me and I knew it had been a bad day for him. He tried very hard to keep busy all day but ended up on the couch (aka the womb) and waited for me to come home. So we did what every other bored American family does, we went to...the mall!

Dude...dodging strollers, kids with soda's too full for comfort and those crazy kiosk people trying to grab your hand to make your fingernails shiny is stressful. Going to 3 different stores to look at new phone plans = get ME a stroller because I'm about to fall asleep from boredom. While he was talking phones I was connecting every Blackberry to the internet to see if I could view porn. Not because I NEED porn, but just to see if there any blocks on them for it.

I'm the person that goes directly to the toy aisles at Walmart and Target and winds, pushes buttons and makes every single noisy toy go off in staggered time frames so it sounds like a circus just exploded all over aisle 7 - for about 10 minutes straight.

So anyways, we finished up the phone plan browsing and went to get the famous foodcourt Teriyaki chicken - double meat of course. He ended up not wanting to stick a pen in his eye after all, and I got some yummy dinner. We're home now, in MSG bliss.

*drumroll* List of things making me anxious today:

1) I finished my project for the promotion...took me 4 hours to get all the spacing right, and giving the solution I thought was the right one. I agonized the last 10 minutes before I hit "SEND" and let it fly. If I get it, fantastic. If I don't, my next career might be specializing in saying, with just the right amount of boredom and contempt "Would you like to try a combo today?!?"

2) Smoking. I'm smoking way too much lately, and I'm taking Mucinex to combat that tight chest phlegm syndrome. Taking a pill to continue using a product designed to KILL YOU just doesn't seem like the smartest idea I ever had.

3) Isolation. Since my husband has basically had to cut his circle of friends by oh, 70%, it's harder to find someone to play with these days. We feel like those birds that start plucking out their own feathers just because they don't have anything else to do. "When Cameron was in Egypts laaaaaaaaaand - Let my Cameron GOOOOOOOOOO". Gotta love Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

On a good note I won a prize for being a member of a market survey panel. Bye-bye Pit of Despair and Hello Thanksgiving destination!

Took 1 pill today...cracked that sucker in half and used both halves today. Was a nightmare day at work and people suck. Mickey Rourke in Barfly said it best - "It's not that I don't like people, I just feel better when they're not around".

You're not a whimp, Baby...you're my hero today.