Dave's December Detox
No Booze, No Soda, No Social Media
Every year I take a month break off of all social media. This year it's going to be different though. First of all I'm going to be taking my CDL classes so it may complicate things a wee bit, but that's just life.
I'll be cutting out all social media, booze, soda, and try to cut out some unhealth foods as well. This shut down has been a pain though. This year I'm also giving myself the challenge of 30 days taking Carnitine and 30 days doing a beard growth kit. The beard growth kit is probably a scam, but it is what it is.
Week One
December 1st - 7th
Day one of my December detox wasn't bad, honestly I thought it was more of a mild annoyance. One perk of it though is that this whole thing is starting on a Monday. It was a really slow day at work due to all the snow we got that day. It just kept coming ;) So I just spent the day pressing burgers and cutting tenderloins, only made a few orders. As soon as the snow started I said my coworker was probably gonna call off. She did so I ended up working till close, luckily we closed at seven instead of nine, but hey can't complain cause "Every dark cloud has a silver lining" and the silver lining to this was me getting more money on my paycheck.
Day two went a lot better. I woke up and did my regular daily stuff, we got so much snow and they didn't plow yet so when I went to take the kids to school my van got stuck in the snow. I drank my weight loss stuff though I don't believe it's working, but it's been two days so what do I know. I put on my beard stuff, but that's probably a scam, then I went to work. Worked by myself so I came in early. Came in at nine-thirty and made some taco meat for Taco Tuesday and I actually got kinda busy. Had a group of hunters came in and they tipped thirty-five dollars. So many orders between eleven A.M and two-thirty P.M and I only sold seven tacos, that's bogus. What ain't bogus though is I made sixty-one dollars in tips and got paid that day. Since I haven't gotten my link in over a month I was so happy. I paid my rent and bought some food to make the kids dinner. Then after we had dinner we made hot chocolate and watched The Polar Express, it was a really good night.
Day three was a bit of a stressful one, but that's because we waited TWO YEARS for this. Today was my sons autism evaluation. The kid's mom woke up and four A.M and drove down all the way from Macomb, IL and the kids and I woke up at five. My daughter went to the babysitter at six and we went straight to Bloomington after that, well actually we made like two stops, but we got there ten till eight. We spent all day there doing like four different big tests and we didn't make it out until two P.M. They said they'd call around three or three-thirty and give us the results. We already did a small evaluation at the school and they said he was just delayed, but even the principal said we should get a second opinion. The doctors finally called around four and said he has ADHD and ADD just like I do and then said he is level two on the Autism spectrum. Which we all suspected he had something, I'm just happy to finally have a diagnosis. It was a long day though...
Day four was alright, I stopped at Casey's and for the first time in a while and got a breakfast burrito, but I managed to scare the hell out of myself. My driver side window had some ice on it so I thought maybe rolling it down and back up would help. NOPE My window got stuck about half way and I just replaced that motor recently. It cost me a hundred and fifty dollars. I stopped for gas at Thornton's and when I turned on my van on my window rolled up fine. I only had a few customers today other than these three hunters that came in. Started casually then three more came in. They ordered fourty-two wings and a lot of beer. When I say a lot I mean these guys showed up a little after eleven A.M. and was still drinking at three thirty P.M. One of the guys I normally have issues with, but today he seemed fine. Apparently they were harassing the other bartender today making sexual comments and one of them even showed a picture of their nutsack. I hate people sometimes especially that the other bartender was my sister. That's so disrespectful. I only made fifteen in tips today and after I got my milk, some juice, and some food for the house I went through all that so that's great.
Day five was very antichlimatic i worked till two-thirty, left work got the kids, couldn't get the sittee to answer the door so I called in a coworker to come in an hour and a half early. and that was about it.I made $12 in tips.
Day six went about like any regular saturday in my life, I shoved all my furnature into the hallway so I can clean and that was about it for most the day. When I went to go to work around eight P.M. though and that was a struggle cause I couldn't find my damn keys. I eventually found them and went to DG where I spent yesterdays tips on diapers and wipes. The girl I like showed up to the bar tonight and it was a good night. Said I was only drinking hot tea or water cause I wasn't gonna drink this month a n d.... that didn't go as planned. I got handed a cup of hot tea, but it was spiked. So that kinda sucked and them I decided since I already drank might as well have more. Long story short the girl I like and I both got drunk and kissed like twice. I don't wanna get my hopes up though. I'm honestly terrified of getting close to someone and getting hurt again. I especially don't wanna get the kids envolved. I did really well when I was single and it just scares me. Every time I let my guard down with someone I end up getting hurt, last time I ended up getting my kids hurt. Which they seem to be over it already, man to be able to move on as quickly as a kid does. Anywho it's three A.M, I'm going to bed."
DAY SEVENToday marks one week since I started this and to be honest I feel less distracted having social media off of my phone. The only thing I have to check facebook for is the daily specials at work and I have to use messenger for work. I've been doing good, I need to start working out though. I have a manual tredmill, but it's a pain is the ass. Checking my weight tonight it's at 235 lbs In other news I think I'm thinking of asking Crystal out to dinner or something sometime soon. I'm excited to keep this going though. After this month though I'm going to teach myself how to make an archive page for this so I don't all the storage on this site.
Week One
December 1st - 7th
Day Eight I think I finally got my link stuff situated. HOPEFULLY I honestly think I'm addicted to Flowers by The Devil Wears Prada. This album is stuck in my head I can't escape it so it just makes me listen to it on repeat. My food stamps usually comes today, still nothing. I didn't get any last month either. It's terrifying as a single parent.