Day 468
Woah. What a week. Worked some crazy amount of hours this week. Don't even want to total it up, cause I would be depressed. I live an hour on the MO side of St. Louis and have been working about 30 mins on the Il side of the river. I stained epoxy'd a floor for a hair salon. Good folks, great to work for, made decent money.
But I've had a hard time with staying quit. All week long, I had terrible urges and craves just like I was back in the first 10 days. For fuck sake, shouldn't I be past all that? Can I not go into a c-store for a drink and not stare at the cancer cans behind the counter?
Guess what I'm saying is..... Fuck Illinois. Fuck, fuck fuck fuck Illinois. Fuck you and your shitty roads. Fuck everyone driving there, they don't know how to change lanes or signal properly. Fuck your ugly women who think they look good since the makeup is 3/4" thick and applied with a shotgun. Fuck all the BMW's. There must be more BMW's in Il than any other state. And they all drive like cunts.
Fuck Illinois people who work in stores and restaurants. I'm not looking for a hand job; just want to buy something off the shelf. Yeah, I do want to pay cash. Don't roll your eyes cause you can't do math without the cash register. You're not doing me a favor by pressing the magic buttons; I am helping fund your useless life by participating in commerce at the store that pays you.
That feels better
Now, I do know some wonderful people that live in the cesspool that is Illinois. One quitter (name deleted to show respect in this expetive filled rant) in particular is a fine man and his family and friends are great people. I'm sure there are other quitters from IL, and I'll give them a pass. They must be cool if they hang out here. The people I worked for- good people. The rest of the population needs an attitude adjustment.
But by and large- Illinois is a toilet. Any state that I can't carry a gun into because of your stupid reciprocity laws is gay.
IÂ’ve had a tough week staying quit. But I will. I cannot and will not break that promise I make here each day. I couldnÂ’t stand coming back here a caver. Or not coming here at all if I were a user.
If I failed I would be letting down so many. The other night when having a crave I pulled out my phone to call kbdavear, by the time I found his number the crave passed. Then I noticed how many fucking numbers were in my phone tagged with KTC. I would be letting all these folks down. Not to mention the guys in chat. Would I ever get to call someone ghey again? Not if I caved. That’s my ‘skin in the game’
IÂ’m not letting myself down or anyone else.
See you at roll in the morning