Day 2: Rediscovering life before Seinfeld

A boring picture of a boring corn field on my boring drive home from work.

I discovered something last night. That might be a little over-stated. Perhaps I rediscovered something last night.

Usually Elizabeth and I slip a random disc from one of the nine seasons of Seinfeld sitcoms into the DVD player and snicker at the same jokes and one-liners that we've heard a hundred times before.

We love and hate the characters on that show, but always find that it's just kind of nice cheerful noise to fall asleep to at night. We've been doing this for years. We have so many Seinfeld-oriented inside jokes that even we think that we might have a problem.

Since I started this detox, that's one of the things that I've eliminated. And guess what happened? We talked! We had a deep and long conversation. It was wonderful! I think I might talk to her again tonight! And maybe again tomorrow night! We will see how things go.

On another front, it is ridiculously difficult to find stuff without sugar in it. I had to have caffeine at one point today after about 6 straight hours in the OR and there was no freshly brewed coffee. So I stopped in the cafeteria to find something, hoping to pick-up a sugar free solution to my mid afternoon doldrums.

Nope. Every-stinking-thing contains sugar. I chose the beverage with the lowest amount, a lite Starbucks Doubleshot that had only 5gms of sugar.

It didn't help, so what a waste.

Haven't run across a single advertisement yet today. So far so good.

We are going to do dinner as a family again tonight. It will probably be pretty tame. I'm exhausted. I need some sugar...