September has passed by with the usual full-speed-ahead method. I am very glad to have tacked on a vacation day to the first long weekend. Unfortunately, a head/chest cold took me out for a good part of that same week. It is a weird experience not being able to talk without feeling completely winded. I have to say, I am glad that I decided to try acupuncture. The darn cold was not clearing out and I had some travels to look forward to for work, so I got went in for a treatment. It was amazing how much it helped clear my chest. When I get sick, it becomes a game of staying ahead of the cold and not overdoing it as to not flare the fibromyalgia. I did pretty good actually :)
As I mentioned, I have been travelling for work. Of course, with work events there is usually dinners or lunches with co-workers. At each outing there was wine offered, which I turned down. Oh, an Irish Coffee was terribly tempting. Of course, each time after I turned down the wine, I got a perplexed look, following by my saying that I don't drink alcohol, followed by, "why". Sometimes the person would like a couple of possibilities (i.e. bad experience?, choice?, etc). I would say a bit of all the above and if they seemed curious enough, I explain that it started as an experiment to see the effects of cutting out alcohol would have on my wallet and waistline that resulted in very positive results so I just stuck with it. They generally accept that. And I would proceed to order a latte (a latte with Irish Cream flavour in lieu of the Irish Coffee even). It'll be 2 years next month since I started my "experiment". Damn it feels good!
