Everybody Dance

Finally!! My training classes are finished and I can get back to my team and back to my regular schedule. The older you get, the more you want stability and regularity in your life. I am not saying I disapprove of adventure and spur of the moment activities (I am a Gemini after all), it is just nice to get back to more familiar territories every now and then. In celebration of my final days of class (and the fact that one of the biggest gay holidays was this past week), I took myself out for some drinks. I am pleased to say I did it without having a cigarette, but there was a moment or two when the urge was there quite strongly (luckily I had some firm assistance who would not share his smoke). I am quite proud to say I haven't had a cigarette since January 5th of this year now which is the longest I have made it without one since I started smoking in college. I have noticed I tend to drink a little more now that I don't have a cigarette to distract me from my drink, but I only go out for the sole sake of drinking maybe once or twice a month so no one needs to worry that I will trade one addiction for another. Anyway, besides cigarettes, I have never had an addictive personality, whether it be to drugs, sex or anything (maybe I just need the right partner to develop a sex addiction!!). One would think that growing up in a small town, protected from all of the outside world and its evil influences, that I would have grown up to be a little more wild or just plain crazy, but that is not the case. I seem to have all of my senses about me and then some extra ones that keep me in line. We will have to talk about that in more depth later, however. For now, I have other things to do...