Hi HFA,
42 days is fantastic!! It's still pretty early though. It took longer than 42 days for my AV to quiet down and for the obsession about how I wasn't drinking to go away. One thing that helped me was switching my attitude around, instead of feeling deprived I decided to feel excited about my new life without all that old baggage dragging me down. Attitude is a small thing that goes a long way and it is the one thing you always have 100% control over. You've got this thing coming up in Feb, how about planning something fun and indulgent that doesn't in any way involve alcohol? I think about quitting drinking as addition through subtraction. I took away that one thing and literally all kind of other things opened up for me. It's the AV that always brings everything back to drinking as the end all, be all, but that's rubbish.
Keep going! You are doing great!
Remember, no matter what, means exactly that. No matter where you are or what is going on internally or externally, drinking is never an option.