Bags are packed

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My bags are packed and I am heading out tomorrow afternoon.  Day 4 under my belt.
For my trip I have brought a good book, magazine, some games, and of course my pup.  She is just 4 months old but as my husband put on the phone earlier, ‘a good escape plan’ if I needed a little time away from the festivities.
She loves the beach though and we can have pets at the house so it’s a no brainer for me.
I bet she will come in handy 🙂

Hoping to blog about it all on Sunday… that will be day 7!  Above is a picture of my little lady hanging out on my husbands suitcase a couple of weeks ago.

Putting it all together

I woke up two days ago with a bruise on my arm, dent in the wall and a pounding that felt like the seven dwarfs were mining my brain.  So I decided to quietly call it quits.

I am 30ish and am needing a little change.  That is what I am going to tell myself for these next few days and potentially move on from denial at some point.  Right now though it seems pretty nice, and safe, so I am going to hang out here for a bit.

Recently, my weekend nights have gone a little like this:
go to work all day, get off around 4 pm, meet up with my husband or friends for happy hour or drink at home, eat a little dinner, polish off a bottle of wine — then two.  Wake up Saturday, do a little work (if my headache wasn’t too bad) start drinking around 2pm.  Drink enough wine to sink a small boat, with friends or alone.  I would always make it a little event to look forward to, like going to the park and having wine, putting on an old movie, or trying out a new tasting room.  However, obscure or glamorous I tried to make it, it is still binge drinking.  Sunday would be a hangover followed by a boozy brunch and then would start Sunday Funday, also known as day drinking all day.  In bed wasted around 7pm.

I think it started in college but who really knows… I am sure I have blacked it out along the way.  All I know now is that I am sick and tired of being the drunkest girl at the party, the last one to go home, and the first to pop open a bottle.