Whoops - I fell off my detox wagon. I lasted 9 days and until 9:30 last night before caving and having "just one glass of wine". I feel crappy for giving in but in looking at these next two weeks and my crazy schedule, there's just no way I can keep up the maintenance that the plan demands. I have decided that I will do a juice fast/detox one week before surgery. A week is easier than 28 days. Anyway.
Dane's holiday party was last night, it was rescheduled due to the power outages in December. Dane got the highest award possible, the President's Choice award. Good job baby! For the gift raffle-game we made away with a $50 Staples cards because I knew the Staples slogan (that was easy) and a $50 AMEX card because I had an AMEX card. The president kept passing out drink coupons, so Dane got drunk because he had me for a DD. But the drink tickets kept coming and I finally decided that with all that free booze it would be fiscally irresponsible of me NOT to drink. So drank I did. My one glass of wine turned into three. Then after the party was over we headed up to the rooftop club, which was a predominant black club. We were too drunk to feel out of place. We nabbed a table by the windows and continued to drink and gab and have a good old time. The VP's wife got lit and told me all about how the VP just adores Dane and I and how he fell in love with us the second he met us. They are definitely coming to our wedding - YEAH!! After we closed the club - literally, they kicked us out cause we refused to leave, we tried to find Amy Buttkey's room (I'm still not sure if Amy exists) but couldn't so we went back to another room and crank called the front desk looking for Amy's room. When nothing pulled up, we decided to go to "Jason's" room because he claimed to have bourbon. We arrived at Jason's room (he was already asleep in his skivies) and partied it up. Sometime after 3:30 am and the bourbon and coke (I normally vomit at the mere smell of whiskey and haven't touched a regular soda in years or even a diet soda since Thanksgiving) it was time to go back to the room. So a drunk Crystal and Dane fumbled their way back to the room and passed the toot out! I tried to sleep on the floor but Dane wouldn't let me citing it was too cold. Good job honey. Woke up at 6 am to a loud neighbor only to discover it was really 10 am and we were still drunk. We tried calling Nick to come get us but he wasn't answering so we made the most of our 11 check out time and cautiously made it home.
I left the crock pot on all night so my detox soup was ruined. That coupled with my drunken hangover created the need for Taco Bell. I suck, I know. After that Dane and I went back to bed till 3 pm. Got up, ate, laid back down, got up, ate, and watched the Steve Irwin program on tv. I have never been so affected by a celebrity/famous death as I am by Steve's. My heart just simply aches for him and his family. I cried the whole show. I have the utmost respect for Terri Irwin and I will watch in excitement as Bindi and Bob grow up. None the less, I still hurt for Steve's passing. :-(
In other news, I cut over 8 inches of hair off yesterday and donated it to Locks of Love. That felt so good! First and foremost to give to such a wonderful cause and because my hair was getting too long - it was a mop! I have a cute haircut now that falls just below my shoulders.
I will post a few pics later. :-)
4 comments:
New haircut!! Yay! I can't wait to see it!
One of the messages I really appreciated from "Skinny Bitch" was to take it easy, give yourself time, it takes years to learn the discipline and no one always makes the best decisions. Our culture in no way makes it convenient or simple to be a vegetarian or a vegan, it's part of the trap if you ask me but also keep that in mind. There are many forces working against you, none of us are impervious!
Also, it has been made abudantly clear to me that alcohol is in fact the root of all evil and does nothing but cause one's defenses to fall down rapidly and basically leaves some of us totally useless and weak. Or at least me, so...my two cents on that are that if/when you drink...I think you have to plan so that you have access to the foods you would normally eat, otherwise...it's to easy to go straight to the bad stuff.
Kudo's to Dane on getting the high five from the boss team. It's always a good sign of the bosses wife likes you!
Wow, that's a lot of hair! Good for you, a friend of mine here does it once a year...it's a very thoughtful gesture.
Also, Steve's passing really has been painful for a lot of us. It's very sad. His last special was on last night and I couldn't watch it.
I should note that I didn't eat or consume any animal products, I fell off the detox wagon by drinking alcohol. I don't think I could ever knowingly, drunk or not, consume meat or animal products again. :-) Taco Bell is one of the few fast food places that have vegan options, in a pinch. I love the tostada (fresco style).
I watched the Steve program. It was heartwrenching but I felt for me it would have been more of a disservice to Steve's life mission to not watch what he poured his life into and died for. :-( Ah, how sad.
sounds like you didn't fall off, you pulled over and got off for a night. Becareful not to beat yourself up over it. When it's your wagon by choice, it just circles around like a ski doo until you get back on. It's not like you'll get drug behind wild horses. ;)
Steve and Terri were such an inspiration as people and conservationists. I used to watch them and hope that someday I could have a man so passionate in my life. And be as strong a partner as Terri. You're not alone in your mourning. *nods and hugs*
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