the dark master

Let me just say this, there are days that only a diet coke makes me feel better. Judge me if you will, but I figure it's a lot better than the many illegals out there to choose from right? We all have our vices, and I of course, have many vices, but diet coke ranks up there in the top two, second only to ice cream. Diet coke is of course a lot more portable than ice cream and less calories obviously so I turn to it more often than I should. But in my defense (now this is the part of the confessional where I start to justify my nasty little habit) I don't drink it as often as other people out there. Infact, I only drink it from the fountain, no cans or bottles because those could be stored at home and let's just say that I know my limitations. So, it ends up being when we go out to lunch or dinner (ok, once I had with breakfast), and so that's only really a few times a week. Not bad right? Like I said, it could be worse, my kids could have a crack mom right? Anyway, back to my opening line of "there are days that only a diet cok makes me feel better..." these are times that I am in the drive through of Dairy Queen just to get a diet coke. Now, if you've ever been through the Centerville DQ drive through, you know that this experience alone could make you need a diet coke, so it's only on rare occasions that a day is stressful enough to actually make me sit through it. Once I was talking to Rich on the mobile phone, he called to see how my day was going. Our conversation went like this: Rich-"Hi hon, where are you?" Me-"I'm sitting in the DQ drive through line to get a coke." Rich-"oh, why what happened today?" True story. You may wonder why it is I don't go through a speedier drive through to find relief, and sometimes I do, but Dairy Queen has the best diet coke with the best ice, so special days are for the DQ coke only, no other coke, speedier as it may be, will do. So, today, no really, this month hasn't been as stressful necessarily as I just feel like I'm in a bit of funk, like a little flat I guess. I'm sure part of it is due to the kids being back in school and feeling lonely all day, but this particular bout of funk has been a little harder to shake. So, today I caved and sat in the DQ line (today it was only for about ten minutes, not bad!) and got my self a little pick me up, well actually an extra large pick me up. Let's cross our fingers shall we?