I will admit it. I am addicted to sugar and to Diet Coke.
I stopped drinking diet soda, in fact almost all soda, a year ago, in April or May 2005. I thought the diet stuff was upsetting my tummy and I can’t stand the sweetness of the non-diet stuff. Corn syrup is a terrible thing in a beverage, it makes it almost unpalatable. All you taste is sweet.
I drank lots of water. Still I missed the fizz and the sweet, and that steady little stream of caffeine.
The past week or so I have been stressed. I have had tremendous cravings for a diet coke. Yesterday I gave in and my fate was sealed. Life is too short not to indulge a few minor vices.
I came home, bottle of contraband in hand. I put ice in a glass, poured the soda, put the bottle in the refrigerator, sat down and had a sip, then another, then another. Before I knew it the glass was empty. A huge sigh escaped my lips. I could feel myself beginning to relax, the tension slipping away with a million tiny little bubbles and sweet chaser. I know it must all be in my head; I am not sure that diet soda is truly addictive, but I felt more myself. I felt light and sparkly, bright and cheerful. I felt like a burden had just fizzled away in a carbonated haze.
After half an hour I picked up some knitting again. Nothing special. Nothing requiring thought. A ball of yarn meant to be a scarf previously knitted and unknitted. Simple garter stitch. Bright yarn running through the fingers. Happiness.
I like the colors of the yarn. I like the way it looks in garter stitch. I think it would be a lovely jacket, but it would have to be pieced in strips because I like the way the color changes form wide stripes on the scarf-width; they would be too narrow as a jacket front, much more so even if I knit it in the round. No matter. I don’t know the name of the yarn. I have no idea how to get more. If I see it, the jacket is planned in my mind. If I don’t it will hover in the mist like all dreams, providing endless entertainment.
The diet soda will remain in my life. I know a good thing when I see it (or drink it).
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8 responses to “Addiction”
I’m sorry to tell you that I’m convinced diet coke is addictive. I was clean for years, but just fell off the wagon again. I try to curb this habit by buying only one can at a time, but I really do know it’s no good. I’ve got to have it. The only way to stop is cold turkey.
It’s just like knitting.
I’m sorry to tell you that I’m convinced diet coke is addictive. I was clean for years, but just fell off the wagon again. I try to curb this habit by buying only one can at a time, but I really do know it’s no good. I’ve got to have it. The only way to stop is cold turkey.
It’s just like knitting.
I too was a Diet Coke addict, but one day I realized I had apparently already drunk up my lifetime allotment, and I moved on to (Ta Da!) Diet Sunkist Lemonade. It’s the perfect drink: no calories, plenty of caffeine, colorless so when you spill, it’s just like spilling water. NAYY, but I don’t know why they don’t advertise!
I LOVE that yarn, Mardel, and it would be an awesome jacket. Maybe as a scarf-width shawl collar and cuffs on a plain jacket from one of the colors. Beautiful garter stitch effect!
I too was a Diet Coke addict, but one day I realized I had apparently already drunk up my lifetime allotment, and I moved on to (Ta Da!) Diet Sunkist Lemonade. It’s the perfect drink: no calories, plenty of caffeine, colorless so when you spill, it’s just like spilling water. NAYY, but I don’t know why they don’t advertise!
I LOVE that yarn, Mardel, and it would be an awesome jacket. Maybe as a scarf-width shawl collar and cuffs on a plain jacket from one of the colors. Beautiful garter stitch effect!
Great to meet you last night — you were sparkling, although I doubt that it was just due to the Diet Coke. The yarn is Reynolds Smile.
Great to meet you last night — you were sparkling, although I doubt that it was just due to the Diet Coke. The yarn is Reynolds Smile.
Have you tried using novelty yarns to make thread lace?
http://www.amcdonough.com/musings/index.php?s=fiber+air+thread+solvy
Or maybe a triangular modular knit
http://www.amcdonough.com/musings/index.php?s=triangle+mambo
The stripes change from thin to thick as you go from the base to the top of the triangle. Tres cool.
Have you tried using novelty yarns to make thread lace?
http://www.amcdonough.com/musings/index.php?s=fiber+air+thread+solvy
Or maybe a triangular modular knit
http://www.amcdonough.com/musings/index.php?s=triangle+mambo
The stripes change from thin to thick as you go from the base to the top of the triangle. Tres cool.