Good for you! That birthday meeting sounds both interesting and exhausting/overwhelming to me at 11 days sober. I've only been to one meeting so far (the last time I tried to quit, I went to some in the 9 months I stopped drinking in addition to an outpatient group twice a week...that was small, and better than AA for me). I completely understand about work, and how it can be both a blessing (distraction!) and a curse (tiring, and hard to re-adapt to). We are in this together. You have a lot of support here. You can do it!
