I didn’t start this week with the intention to become caffeine free, it’s just happened that way.

I’m on vacation. Monday, I woke around 5:30 and puttered around the house until 8:30 when the strong desire to sleep returned, so I slept, until 11:30. Nice. Then, I just puttered some more until early evening when I headed off to the cat shelter for my evening of kitty service. I really felt the lack of caffeine, but by that time I figured I would just go without. The very surprising part is that while I felt really tired and I was dragging, I didn’t have a headache.  By 9pm I was totally beat and turned to bed as quickly as I could.

Tuesday wasn’t much better. I didn’t get a nap and with intergroup that evening, well, I was not all that enthusiastic. I got through it and back home awake. Again, early to bed.

Wednesday was better but not 100%. I had rehearsal in the evening. It was okay but I was not thrilled by my performance. I can’t blame caffeine. I can plan lack of experience. I hadn’t really thought through my 6 lines. I mean, what sort of detective was he? I got some direction and on Thursday I had a little private coaching. I feel like I have a better handle on the nature of the detective. How he should behave and respond. We’ll see how it plays out at the next rehearsal.

By Thursday, I think I was pretty much over the caffeine withdrawal. I went to a fabulous play in town, that featured one of our local OA worthies.

Today (Friday) I didn’t think about caffeine at all except when I accidentally grabbed a sip of my daughter’s Coke Zero instead of my caffeine free A&W Root Beer. I don’t think it has corrupted my caffeine free status.

I’ve been sleeping well. Not sure it’s the lack of caffeine. Might be but I never used to drink caffeine after about noon anyway.