The other night right before a meeting, I was reaching into the fridge to get a can of water. When I did this, I knocked out a glass of milk (we use glasses for creamers for our coffee sometimes when I'm too lazy to wash the creamer). The glass hit the floor and milk went everywhere--under the fridge, front of the fridge, as well as on the bottom area of my pants legs and my new shoes which I was wearing for the first time. We were already running later than usual leaving for our meeting and I let out a "sh**" and ran over to the counter to get paper towels. I was annoyed about my carelessness and not getting that milk out of the fridge sooner, because I had seen it in there for several days and was, again, too lazy to take care of it. I felt like surely it had gone bad. Well, I didn't feel like I had the time to change by the time I cleaned the mess up. If we are five or ten minutes later than usual leaving, we get caught in that five o'clock traffic jam and are late for meetings. That was fine to me earlier in my sobriety as we were always late getting there and right when the meeting was over, we were outta there! Now, I feel like I have to make the meetings on time. I want to talk to my family now when I tried my best to avoid them in the past. So I just wiped the milk off my pants and shoes (and actually out of the inside of one of my shoes--Ewww!) and hoped that the smell of sour milk wouldn't permeate the air around me during the meeting.

In the past, I would have let something like spilling that milk mess up my day. Amazing, this program.

(...and I just realized that when I got home, I didn't put those pants in the wash, and I also forgot to finish cleaning out the inside of that shoe that "got it"....ewwwww!)

BTY