Feeling tempted, but I'm proud of what I'm leaning on to stay sober this weekend

Friday night, nice weather, finally starting to cool down from the worst of summer (still waging war each night with mosquitoes though). Old me would probably be enjoying a glass of scotch, or maybe some ciders. I absolutely can't.

I booked in yesterday to donate plasma on Tuesday. You can only do every 2 weeks in Australia, and that'll be 2 weeks to the day since my last. It'll be hot and humid so an hour and a half in the nice cool airconditioned centre, with free snacks will be a godsend. If I were to drink at any point before then, I'm pretty damn sure my blood pressure would still be spiking too high for them to let me donate. So instead, I'm drinking crazy amounts of water, and making sure to have decent amounts of iron so everything can go smoothly. Kind of funny to think how getting sober was done just for me. My mental and physical health are so much better when I don't drink. But one of my motivations now for *staying* sober is the chance to keep other people healthy.