Welcome Hippychick and I'm glad you posted. I sometimes feel boring without a drink also. I also wondered how I would live without alcohol in my life. I'm 42 years old and its been a part of my life for 25 plus years. How do you change that? Baby steps as you said. The first one was I went 24 hours without a drink and then I did a week and my first weekend! Wow I can do this and now 7 months later I'm still sober. Some days I go back to the 24 hour pledge and this was my first Christmas and I definitely did the 24 hours and it worked. Yup! Still sober and very proud. You can do it and I'll enjoy watching your days add up.
By the way, I am sitting here with my MP3 player plugged into my ears typing away and enjoying my music once again. My husband bought me this for Christmas and its amazing how music can soothe the soul and energize the spirit. Go ahead plug in some Van Morrison and escape through music instead of a bottle. I dare ya!
