Hello everybody! I will not drink with you today! And if I don’t see everyone for a couple weeks, I’m okay, I’ve just been kicking around the idea of getting rid of/taking a break from all forms of social media and doom scrolling and returning to my books and video games for a bit.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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The Daily Check-in for 7 November 2024 - just for today, we are not drinking!
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kindling is real, jittery and restless thinking about drinking. the plan is to take my guitar outside a shopping ctr, hopefully make $7.50 for a longneck and repeat until i cant play, hopefully i smoke too much weed beforehand and get stagefright. still under a week
Wow, in half an hour I'll hit my 3rd anniversary of sobriety!
hell yeah 🤘
Nice! Good job.
I've quit a couple of times; 1.5 years, 10 months, and a few shorter stints. A few days ago I decided it was time again. 2 days sober now and it's rough, especially with the election results (terrible time to quit LOL).
I'm not sure how long I can make it this time but I'm taking the 24 hour pledge to not drink. Wish me luck.
2 days sober now and it's rough, especially with the election results (terrible time to quit LOL).
Flipping the narrative: if you can get a solid stint of sobriety now, you'll be in good shape come January and whatever comes after that.
There will never be the perfect time to quit, it's why my sobriety anniversary is a random day in May, I decided "if not now, when?"
Flipping the narrative: if you can get a solid stint of sobriety now, you'll be in good shape come January and whatever comes after that.
Good point. Thanks for giving me at least one positive thing to think about for January 2025.
just worked it out, it's 74 days to inauguration day. 70+ days sober is a really solid base.
The longest I went before this was 4 months. I feel like this is for good now.
Even if I had a lapse, which I don't expect, I wouldn't return to habitual drinking.
Progress is non-linear. All those previous times contributed to learning and developing skills and coping without substance! Every day you don't drink is good for you on many levels.
IWNDWYT!
Congratulations!