Woke from a
super deep sleep, and remembered how great sleep is without any booze in the
system. No waking up at 4am, thirsty and feeling restless and anxious. I even
slept through the husband’s snoring. I do remember that the early stages of
going booze free create miraculous sleep quality, and also that the deep sleep
and intense dreams levelled off for a while, but I’m making the most of this novel
experience while I can get it.
Spent most
of the day preparing for a long flight back home to India after the Christmas
and New Year holidays. Packing and travel preparations are usually accompanied
for me by a few glasses of wine or G&T. As it happened, there was a half full
bottle of my favourite white and almost a full bottle of gin lying around after
a NYE party, along with tonic chilling in the fridge. I have to admit that I
was tempted to knock a couple down, and sink into my customary slightly blurry
pre-flight excitement. But I resisted. No point giving up boozing on Day One,
to start again on Day Two!
The
temptation to drink returned again in the form of the free bar in the airport
lounge, and I have to admit that I looked longingly at the large glasses of red
and white being consumed all around me, but again, I stayed strong, and swigged
on the large bottle of Evian I’d picked up for the flight.
Now I’d got
this far in resisting a boozy journey, refusing the dinky bottles of wine on
the flight was a breeze.
And so I am
completely sober on this long (15 hour) flight. I am fueled by water and some nasty
plane carbs, but most importantly, still dry. No looming headache and no light
fuzzy feeling that you get from drinking at 35,000 feet. Which incidentally I
love (at the time) but of course regret later.
Eye bags –
slightly less puffy than yesterday morning.
Weight –
160 pounds, I found a set of scales at my friend’s place this morning. Now I
have to do the calculation into kilos. My maths isn’t great, guessing at around
75 still.
Quit lit –
several downloaded
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