I have one day into my 2nd year of sobriety, today. I can't believe a whole year has taken place since my first day into sobriety. I cringe a bit when I look back my volatile state during the first few months. But hey, that's where I had to start to get here. Right here, where I can forget I'm so different than I was a year ago. I am who I've become over the last year.
Yesterday I hosted a small book club on the book The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld. Great book for discussion, not related to sobriety. But all day I was cleaning and cooking, on my one year anniversary, and about 10 minutes before the door bell rang, I realized we didn't have any wine in the house or really anything to drink besides soda water and whisky. Oops, bad sober host move. I started some ice tea and the ladies seemed just fine. A-year-ago-me would have had piles of drinking options and had everyone with a bevie before they got their coats off. Now I forget about other people's drinking needs. A couple years ago I would have thought a dry book club would be the worse thing ever, actually, a dry baby shower is really the worst. But I've been that bitch who complained after a dry book club or shower about the lack of drinks and how awkward it was to just sit around talking. I find most of life less awkward and less boring now; drinking amplified my awkwardness and boredom. But I still mostly dred showers of any kind.
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Ginger Groundhog
1/18/2016 07:01:36 am
Wow, one year is awesome yet you seem so relaxed about it. That is an amazing achievement and I hope you are super proud of yourself. Sober congrats to you, I envy you and wish I had your strength (I fell off at 6 months and haven't got it back since) once again, great job and may you just get happier every day.
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Jeanette
1/21/2016 03:24:59 pm
Well done! What an AMAZING achievement! I am at 39 days and it feels like forever already. I can't even think about a whole year! Keep going :)
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