"Last year I went and got blasted and blacked out."
How do you know what you are even missing if you blacked out anyway???
Sounds like you are better off now doing what you are doing than then! And not a loser at all. Although I do understand what you mean. And I think society makes us sometimes feel like that is what we all should be doing on a Saturday night. What else is there right??? Wrong! I can watch television, a movie, read, cuddle with my dogs, go out to dinner, visit SR
, bake cookies, sleep and JUST PLAIN RELAX. And while all those others are waking up with a hangover and ruining the rest of their weekend, I am A-OK and ready for another wonderful sober day!