I quit drinking on July 3, 2017. Over eight years ago. But I haven’t been totally sober since then. Over the last five years I started smoking weed on and off. In the last two years the off parts started getting shorter and the on parts started getting longer. I have a hard time with […]
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A Significant Observation From My Teenager
It has been almost two and a half years since I stopped drinking. I stopped for a bunch of reasons. My body was no longer tolerating it. To be honest, my body never really tolerated alcohol well to begin with. But I was forgetting things and portions of my night after just a couple drinks. […]
I Want A Crew Of Non-Drinking Mom Friends
It’s been 53 weeks since I quit drinking. Since it was my one year anniversary last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about this past year. About how I came to the decision to stop. About what has been difficult. About what wasn’t that difficult. About what I miss. And about what I don’t miss. […]
31,536,000 Seconds
It’s been 31,536,000 seconds. It’s been 525,600 minutes. It’s been 8,760 hours. It’s been 365 days. It’s been 52 weeks. And it’s been 1 whole year since I’ve had a drink. No alcohol for a year. NO ALCOHOL FOR A YEAR!!!! No Blue Moons, no Kirkland margaritas, no Franzia, and no fruity drinks in a […]
TEN MONTHS
You know what Wednesday was? It was ten months with no alcohol. TEN MONTHS. TEN MONTHS!!!!!! That’s a big deal for me. But what is even more of a big deal than no booze for over three hundred days is what I realized the day before. It was a pretty big a-ha moment for me. […]
Out Of The Fog
The day before yesterday, I shared on Facebook that I’m struggling with a bout of depression. It’s largely situational, and I know what has brought it on. Marital and financial struggles continue to challenge me, and so I’ve kind of been riding the depression fence. It wasn’t going to take much to cause me to […]