Egg flower soup

 I just finished a bowl of egg flower (AKA egg drop) soup I just made, 500ml water, boil, add flavor packet from ramen noodles, stir in one beaten egg. 

Actually the flavor packet I used was some kind of fancier-than-normal one, had miso in it and I was pleasantly surprised. I have a bunch of these packets because I kept eating the noodles dry as a snack - which is really unhealthy.

The last time I ate was something like Thursday night so I'm taking it slowly and carefully. Also, carbs are really bad for alcoholics when they're drying out. I actually had a couple pats of butter earlier in the day, too. 

This is feeling harder than the last time I got off the sauce. Maybe it's this damned cold weather. 

Come to think of it I think I'm less bad this time. Last time, I had "brain zaps" - sort of flashes of light in my peripheral vision. And I was not able to sleep for a couple of nights. This isn't that bad, it's just that the cold weather is bugging me. 

But I'm also about 2 years older, and from all my readings about alcoholism on reddit I know drying out gets harder each time. 

Interestingly, I'm getting off coffee too.  It's just too much fussing about, with the filters and the grounds and all that. Maybe not caring so much about coffee is an old-person thing. 

I'm just amazed at all the old-person stuff I do now. Like, I have two different little boxes of Japanese chocolate and a Korean chocolate bar and they're just sitting where I keep snacks. 

And an hour or two ago I ate "all the cheese I wanted" where that actually meant, one slice. Classic old person. At least one old-person thing I did was pretty cool: I took the blood stain I had on the sleeve of my shirt away with some hydrogen peroxide. By the time you're old, you're expected to know how to deal with all kinds of stains. 

OK so I have 15 packages packed and will pack some more when I get up tomorrow, Ken will come by and pick them up (I'm putting the packages in big plastic bags so they'll stay dry) and take them to the post office and FedEx for me. Tomorrow and Tuesday are going to be very wet and rainy, but then it's supposed to be clear on Wednesday. 

So if Ken wants to do a package pick up Tuesday also that's fine and if he doesn't, that's fine too. After all, the whole idea of this business is for it to be pretty hands-off for Ken. Assuming I'm going to be feeling OK on Wednesday and can literally get back on the bike.