hey Rift
The weekends were hard for me too - I'd spent 20 years with the weekend being equated with fun and fun being equated with getting smashed.
I felt like I was missing something too.
But when I thought about it, there wasn't much fun to be had for me - not for many years, and there wasn't anything much good to miss...just a long list of catastrophes than started with me talking that first drink.
There's a million things to do on a weekend, and a million ways to have fun - drinking is very much in the minority
I'd spent years just sitting in a bar or sitting at home watching TV getting wasted though- I really had to re-learn how to be social again without alcohol being involved and I had to re-learn how to have fun sober - it takes some time and effort but it really is worth it
Think about the things you like to do, or would like to do - you're only limited by your imagination, rift
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