First Sober NYE since I started drinking...
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Great White North
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me too! first one in ten years! just got home from my sisters house. even though there was booze there, i had no want or urge to drink at all! also i was kinda hoping to get pulled over on my drive home just so i could say 'no i havent been drinking' and really mean it. LOL
Snarf Snarf
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: ATL
Posts: 835
I'm with ya, Atman. My goal for most NYE parties has been to get as hammered as possible. Especially if it's open bar, 'cause you gotta make the cover charge worth it.
Sure can't remember when my last sober NYE was. At least this is one year I won't have difficulty remember what I did!
Sure can't remember when my last sober NYE was. At least this is one year I won't have difficulty remember what I did!
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Overseas... on the shore of an uncharted desert isle.
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I'm stationed out in the Far East where, although there are certainly loud parties if you are so inclined, the traditional approach to NYE is to spend it quietly with family and maybe visiting the neighborhood shrine around midnight or in the early morning; it's a lot like Christmas Eve is supposed to be back home.
It made me realize how back home (stateside) the social expectations or pressures were often to 'get out there & celebrate'.
It helps to know there is an alternative.
It made me realize how back home (stateside) the social expectations or pressures were often to 'get out there & celebrate'.
It helps to know there is an alternative.
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: I come in Peaces
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My family and I celebrated the early part of the night with another family with small kids. I was the only totally sober adult. I noticed again though that the nights actually do NOT revolve around alcohol like I thought they did 
Just my nights used to, I guess. And the other woman who was there had maybe... 4 drinks in as many hours and then pushed her mostly-full glass away and declared herself 'done' for the night. (I don't think I'll ever understand that 
but I admire it!)
Really nice to wake up in the middle of the night with one of my kids. Tired but clear headed. Not gulping back juice/advil and hoping against hope that I still had hours to sleep.
Now awake, content, snuggling with my little girl on the couch. Life is good
Just my nights used to, I guess. And the other woman who was there had maybe... 4 drinks in as many hours and then pushed her mostly-full glass away and declared herself 'done' for the night. (I don't think I'll ever understand that but I admire it!)Really nice to wake up in the middle of the night with one of my kids. Tired but clear headed. Not gulping back juice/advil and hoping against hope that I still had hours to sleep.
Now awake, content, snuggling with my little girl on the couch. Life is good
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: New York City
Posts: 221
Last night and this morning feel like a miracle! No hang over. No regrets. No hundreds of bucks down the toilet (literally!)
I'm here sipping Jo at 8.30am on NYD! Really an impressive fete for me. I haven't felt like this on NYD since I was 18. And that was a couple decades ago... ugh, NOW I'm depressed!
I'm here sipping Jo at 8.30am on NYD! Really an impressive fete for me. I haven't felt like this on NYD since I was 18. And that was a couple decades ago... ugh, NOW I'm depressed!
Living on a prayer
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: NC
Posts: 234
I'm beyond happy... I stayed home, sober, with my kids last night (the hubby is away with work) and we made home made pizza and played cards. After that I hung around online here and facebook, watched the ball drop with the kids and then went to bed shortly after. Slept in a bit this morning and I'm up with no hangover, no shakes, no throwing up, no regrets, I'm loving it! Happy New Year everyone, I know I'm not on here a whole lot but it was nice to hang out last night with the other posters and just 'belong'.
Avenger of my liver
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 101
Originally Posted by north 
I'm stationed out in the Far East where, although there are certainly loud parties if you are so inclined, the traditional approach to NYE is to spend it quietly with family and maybe visiting the neighborhood shrine around midnight or in the early morning; it's a lot like Christmas Eve is supposed to be back home.
It made me realize how back home (stateside) the social expectations or pressures were often to 'get out there & celebrate'.
It helps to know there is an alternative.
It made me realize how back home (stateside) the social expectations or pressures were often to 'get out there & celebrate'.
It helps to know there is an alternative.
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