Yeah baby! Stoked to have another contributor. Grateful for this blog, for the opportunity to maintain an ongoing gratitude meeting online.
Hope that folks will continue to contribute. Would love to hear from all of you. I will try to post once a week. If you have not been posting, please consider putting one up from time to time. Even once a month would be valuable.
Sure is nice to have the New Year behind us. My last relapse was Thanksgiving night, 1999, when I drank a couple shots of Frangelico from a coffee cup and smoked a cigarette. Didn't get drunk. Didn't have to experience every kind of alcohol under the sun before coming back. Didn't die. Did debate for awhile whether or not I had actually relapsed. Really didn't want to reset my sobriety date--I already had seventeen or eighteen days!!!
At my next meeting I picked up a white chip. Hopefully my last. But then New Year's loomed on the not-so-distant horizon. "Tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999." Prince just wouldn't stay out of my head. How could I miss the party of the millenium?
HP intervened in the form of two dogs and two cats and a great couple who were going away for the weekend. They needed a sitter. I watched the ball drop on their 13" black and white TV and felt sorry for myself.
The next morning, I had no hang over. I had stayed sober. It was a new year, one in which I would enter a new decade by turning thirty. My roaring twenties were closing down along with the 90s. And good riddance. My life was going on, despite the raging party indulged in by the rest of the world. Nobody had missed me, just as nobody missed me at this New Year's celebration.
Today I'm sober. If I want to wake up at 6 am to go skiing or for whatever other reason, I have no fear. I don't have to worry about still being drunk as I teach my morning classes. Grumpy, yes. Irritated? Frequently. Drunk. Stinking. Hungover. Suicidal? Good riddance.
Thanks again for this fellowship, for the HP, for ODAAT living, and for sobriety. It's a good day to be alive.
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right on brotha. crazy how good it was to put the 20s behind us. For me, the 30's kept getting better and i have high hopes for the 40's
thirties have been pretty dang fine. gotta say.
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