Sobriety Blog Thursday October 23, 2025

Weight: 336.4 lbs ( 152.6 kg)
BMI: 43.2
Waist: 55 in (139.7 cm)
WtHr: 74.3%

Breakfast: Bacon and Eggs
Lunch: Low Carb Jambalaya 
Dinner: Hamburger Helper Cheesy Italian Shells
Drinks: Salted Coffee, Kroger Seltzer, Low Carb Monster,

Sober Month 10 (Day 302)

Today is going to feel weird. I'm scheduled 10:30 to 7:30. But what is really strange is that they have me scheduled to work five and half hours and before lunch and then two and a half hours after lunch. It's nice to have a long first half, but coming back to work for basically the length of a feature film seems pointless.

Transferring Money into the savings accounts this morning because today is payday. I have to say that was kind of exciting. I did debate wither to go ahead and leave myself the weekly allowance this morning or wait until after work to transfer and just spend what I like today and just save the rest. But I figured it would be wiser to go ahead and do the transfer in the morning so I don't over spend today and end up blowing my entire plan because “whoopee I have extra spending money today!” And after the transfers today I only have about $5 to play with after the bills next week; outside of the weekly allowance that is. And the amount in the “Bills Savings” account will only grow as I round the Checking Account each day.

Wow the first half of work was LOUD. It went smoothly, it was just so VERY LOUD! I don't know why everybody was swarming the store today. It's not like it's a Friday, or close to a holiday, it is kind of late in the month, but I wouldn't imagine the end of month panic to start up until next week. I usually come home and watch videos on my lunch break. But when I came home Roommate was up in his room I'm assuming taking a nap and it was just nice to sit in the quiet after 5 1/2 hours of people screaming their heads off. Again, nobody was really panicking or anxious, it was just everybody yelling to yell over everybody else.

I was so very relieved to see that the Penny Rounding thing WAS set up to round up all of the coin change up to the 5¢. I was afraid that say your total was $19.98 if you handed over a $20 I was afraid that the coin rounding would make it so you just get a receipt and a “Have a nice day” But the way it looks it looks like you'll get a nickle instead of the 2 pennies that you would have gotten. Still willing to bet that there will be some idiot screeching because we “cheated” them because we gave out the “wrong change” even though it was more than it would have been without the penny rounding. 

The Low Carb Jambalaya was really flavorful at lunch. It did look like a small portion though so I did think about microwaving two servings together. But decided against it. And it was a satisfying serving. The recipe is a non dairy recipe, but it could use a bit of cheese in it though. 

Even though it was so short that second part of work was really “long” I was a carryout but it was a frustrating experience because I had to keep telling the guy being the Supervisor this evening to open up another register. As he just hung out by the customer service desk flirting with the girls working there.

 Spent the last 45 minutes gathering carts because the other carryout spent the entire time hanging out in the parking lot with a couple of his friends.

 It was a few minutes before I left when an elderly lady came through the line. It was time for me to leave, but I'm not going to walk away from a lady just as she needed help. The lady ringing her up is a really friendly and nice lady...who likes to chit chat. It took her TEN FREAKING MINUTES to ring up the ladies order. And it seemed to take another 10 minutes for her to figure out how the card reader worked because she was confused on how the "Other" button worked for getting an amount other than the $20 biased options on the card reader. And she kept pushing the "Cancel" button and then the "No" button on the cash back fee because she didn't like that there was a "fee now" to get cash off of her card. Even though it's been about seven or eight years since that's been a thing. And then she wanted her $30 back in $5 bills. It took the cashier several tries to count out $30 worth of fives. I was just kind of staggeringly stunned that she kept getting fives out of her drawer and putting them back in pulling them out and counting them one by one. She's a cashier, she's been a cashier for several years now. She works at a school. And she didn't realize that 6 $5 bills is $30. I was standing there biting my tongue because my feet were feeling like I had hot pokers being jammed up into the bottom of them. And this is the cashier that I had been called up to the office for being "rude" to.

 I helped the lady out to her car and she just stood by her car chatting about how her car really smells like gas. There was a strong odor of gasoline around her car. But my feet were on fire and I was really wanting to go home. I suggested that she drove with her windows down and really should get it checked out if she could. She started talking about politics and I just wanted to go home. 

Had to do a bit of dishes before I could cook dinner. And the Cheesy Italian Shells variant of Hamburger helper takes a surprisingly long time to cook. Most of the other flavors of Hamburger Helper tend to take 10 minutes or so, but this flavor takes 25 minutes. I'm not sure if it's because the shell pasta takes longer to cook than macaroni or what. It does have a good flavor though (not sponsored)

A bit of good news is that I was talking to Roommate about how I was excited about having the bills payed next week. And I did bring up the trepidation about if his share of the rent being delayed because of Government being idiots. And he said that his disability payments are funded through private insurance so there's no delay there. Which is exciting to me because that means that he's going to be paying his half of the rent the first week of the month, the week after I have the bills paid for the month.