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Drinking Pop as form of Self-Care but Dad wouldn't be Happy about that?

User Profile: Disneywoman
Disneywoman December 11th

Background:


So because I'm having a kind of *** week.    For instance for over a week for 6 days,  I have to make my own supper.   Last Thursday, Last Friday,   Sunday Dec 8th,  Monday Dec 9th.  tonight (Dec 11th) and the last one-person supper is Tomorrow, Thursday Dec 12th.     So any wonder I'm running out of supper meals and side-dishes?


Another thing  this week  is I'm not able to sleep in until Saturday Dec 14th.   On Monday i  had to set my own alarm because Mom was going to a pot-luck, and Dad had a doctor's appointment so without the alarm going on -I wouldn't have woken up unless I woke up on my own, because no one was going to be in the house until afternoon.   

 On Sunday my Friend Grace called the house and wanted mom to change her hair appointment from next Wed (Dec 18th) to Tuesday Dec 10th (yesterday).  So that means since neither Mom and I can drive,  it meant Mom and I had to be leaving the house at 11:45am which is when I'm normally making my own lunch by then.    And after getting Grace back to her house I'm sitting on my behind being bored out of my mind watching CP24 on Grace's TV.   The only thing I I did was put garbage in the Garbage and hand Mom the Candy Canes to put on the Evelopes for the Christmas Cards Mom was doing for Grace.   So Mom and I didn't leave Grace's again until 3:30pm.   

So we stopped at Little Caesar in our town and called Dad to pick us up and we ordered Pizza at LC.   I went home and found out Dad hadn't been his "helpful" self and empty the diswasher for me and all I wanted to do after supper was get too my computer which I hadn't been at since 10:55am yesterday.

I also didn't have any of my 2 "big drinks" until after 5pm last night.  So I'm was kind of grumpy about everything and I couldn't go to a store (Doller Store near Grace's hair dress OR the grocery store near Grace's home) to get Pop/soda/Cola 

Today (Dec 11th) I had to go to my volunteer job at my church so that's another day I'm not sleeping in.  Heck I even got up early (8:00am instead of 8:15am) and I left early (8:35am instead of 8:45am) and good thing too since  a Montessori School was going to be rehearsing around the time I was normally done-something I didn't know when I got there. 


Tomorrow Mom and I have dentist appointments at 1pm so we have to be leaving at 12:30pm I guess so I have to hurry eat my lunch tomorrow.


Friday Mom and I are going out to Toronto to do "Stuff"  aka it's an Adventure or as we call it, thanks to the play The Matchmaker a "Pudding".  So I have 0 ideas of what to expect.


Jumping into what I want to say.

Because I'm having a bad week- I brought a bottle of Cola at the drug store (I was in there anyway to reload my Transit Card).  But here's the problem -My Dad has a habit of  being a bit overbearing in what I or my sister (Luna) drinks or doesn't drink.   My sister's a major fan of Diet Pepsi and the one time she didn't have diet Pepsi but got some kind of drink  I think was called "Fresh" and Dad still considered that to be "pop" and last time I 'drank an entire small bottle" of pop - Dad would have rather I had half off it for lunch and half of it later.   

I'm 34 year  woman -i'm allowed to make my own choices about how much pop I drink.  I only brought this pop today due to the fact I need to take the pain away of my busy and annoying week. 

Also in a sense I'm trying to do a sort of "catch-up" on pop with my drinking Pop on days that's not Fridays that I didn't get to do as a Teenager due to the lack of money (it was all in the bank). 


My Thoughts:

I think of two evils-Pop vs. other addictions (Smoking-Weed or non-weed, drugs, or booze)  that Pop is the least evil for me to use as a coping method -sure it's not healthy but it's not as dagerous as the other.  So I think I deserve at least this self-care for myself since I can't go get fast-food meal this month due to other reasons? 



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User Profile: PineTreeTree
PineTreeTree December 12th

@Disneywoman Yeah enjoy a soft drink for sure!