Only a week into November and I've got a good start on my Christmas shopping. It feels good to be in control rather than out of control. Four months off the booze...well done me. My mental health is as stable as I can make it. I secretly look forward to New Years Day so that a clean slate is a little more quantifiable. The test will perhaps come during the Christmas holiday as liquid fun is drank excessively in front of me. Hopefully having to drive to pick up my son will keep me sober. There's is always the worry that I will have too much spare time alone in the break and that's when I lose touch with reality (I have learnt to my cost).
I got in from work and watched more of a Tin Tin box set which I have borrowed. I watched the episode which Spielberg has just filmed and it made the movie seem much better. I don't feel I will ever be a real fan of the series because I don't like the lad but I have a new appreciation for the whole thing and can understand what others see in it.