Vlad Mazek

Drinking addiction..

No, not the kind of drinking addiction you may think, Bacardi and I are just fine.

Over the last few days I have given up a little drug I had become quite dependant on – caffeine. It’s your usual case of replacing one problem with another. First, I gave up coke for diet coke because I was a fatass. What I didn’t give up is the unusually high consumption of diet coke, probably to the tune of 5-6 cans a day.

Anyhow, I figured I’d kill that habit before it kills me, and frankly, its been pretty ugly. I’ve had a headache-migrane for the past three days. It’s not getting any better either..

After we decided to have kids earlier last year I went through a pretty self-destructive phase. I hate to break out into a full Michael Jackson moment here of missing childhood and all, but I didn’t have the kind of experience most people have when they go to college. I pulled two full time gigs, an engineering degree and a business degree, and a daytrading hobby/lifestyle to boot. So when we decided to grow up, get married, have kids (in a nutshell, past 14 months) I knew I had to grow up, and in that process, try every drink available. Sadly, the alcoholism thing never took and now I have hundreds of dollars of liquor I’m never going to drink (my drunkass friend is always shocked when she comes over and sees full bottles of alcohol)

Anyhoo… I’m going to be 30 this year, I’m also going to be a father, and I’m happy to kick a few of the bad habits. Thank god I’m healthy, not too fat and don’t have a drinking/smoking problem.. and now I’m kicking caffeine. I’m happy, I just wish it didn’t hurt this much.