Weclome Hendrix, well met! Congratulations on your choice, your decision to get sober, once and for all.
I hope you keep posting because it's truly inspiring.
For me the source of annoyance from the AV was the fear that I might fail. Once I realized that this fear was AV too, it didn't matter what AV thoughts came to me, they could never make me drink. And then the fear of these thoughts went away and so did the annoyance factor. Like someone saying BOO - after a few times, you go right to the rational response bypassing the startled response immediately. Then you just go, oh yeah, it's you again. Jerk. Phhhhhhht.