Day 17!!!!!

I have just completed day 17 without any alcohol. That's pretty remarkable for me and is the second longest I've gone without the creature in 12 years. I'm having lots of sleep problems and anxiety at work, but I feel much clearer and much more happy. My pattern is to get falling down drunk on weekends and then to recover all week. Usually that's just in time to get sickeningly drunk Friday and Saturday. On New Year's Eve, I said "ENOUGH!" for the last time. It's been 2 and 1/2 weeks and I'm still going.

I hate alcohol. I hate what it does to me. I hate suffering for 7 days for one night of something that stops being fun shortly after it starts. I hope my sobriety continues on for a very, very long time. A lifetime would be a start.