Hornman,
Hi and welcome. So glad to have you join the forum.
Yes, it's all too easy, and very predictable, to start feeling -- once some time passes from the last hangover -- that it wasn't THAT bad.. that it's "too extreme" to quit alcohol entirely. Well, that's a lie the addiction tells us. It was indeed THAT bad, and it absolutely will get worse. Who wants to live in an endless cycle of misery, shame, heartache, recover, then repeat, over and over: the alcoholic drinking treadmill. It isn't a blessing in your life, a "treat" or a "reward" .. it is the opposite: It's robbing you of energy, time, health, money, and the will, strength, imagination and heart to do things for yourself and others that really matter.
Read around here and you'll recognize many similar stories. We get it.
Great job on 5 days!