One week down - smashing it!
Ok, so one week into my sobriety and I have to say the past 24 hours have been somewhat testing. I dropped my dinner after having prepped and cooked it taking around two hours in total yesterday evening. I managed to drop a large piece of fish on the inside of the oven door. It had a tomato based layer of sauce which added to the squishy mess, some of which splashed over the adjacent kitchen cupboards and floor. Just to make sure I’d done a good job of it, a large amount of the fish/tomato/herbs slid down the inside of the glass door and found its way into the gap/frame. At this point, I was trying to keep calm and philosophical but this is usually only attainable with the aid of a large glass of red. So swearing had to suffice.
This morning whilst vacuuming, I moved a large coffee table and put my back out. It felt like an electric shock. I’d honestly never felt anything quite like it before. I fell on the sofa, too scared to move for a while. I had to go to work to present my ‘Ride On The Rhythm’ radio show, clock start midday! This was going on while I had an engineer on my roof sorting out my satellite dish. After a while, I tried to get up. Painful, but I was relieved that I could move, albeit slowly and hunched over like a man of 90 years old!
To add to this, just before I went to work the heavens opened. When it rains in Spain, it doesn’t mess about, particularly this time of year. So, Floyd and I had to make a dash for the car. From the front door to the car is probably only 50mtrs but we were soaked through. We both sat in the studio and gradually dried out as I presented the show.
All this was almost enough to crack open a bottle. Instead, after work I went to the local supermarket and purchased some non-alcoholic cider style beverage and some of those San Miguel 0′0 which taste a bit like beer I guess, but beer that has had tap water poured into it. I also headed for the nearest Farmacia and the nice lady there helped me with some heated gel pads (which are great) and some of the strongest painkillers available ‘sin receta’. You can get some pretty strong stuff ‘over the counter’ here, which is jolly handy.
The rest of my weekend will be spent on my back, sipping fizzy non-fermented apple based beverages.
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