I am fucking winning.
Two and a half years ago, it was the first time took a swig from the remains of the previous nights Vodka before I went into work. It wasn't the last.

Two years ago, I found myself unemployed and three months behind on the rent, in debt and spending days in the park with cheap cider so I could pass out in the freezing cold, dark flat where the electricity had been cut off and I was about to be evicted.


Today I am one year and 79 days sober, in a good job, a long way towards being out of debt and just got back from 10 days holiday with the girlfriend that, by the skin of her teeth, managed to keep enough faith in me to not run away screaming as any sensible person should have done.


So yeah, I am fucking winning.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 3 May 2011, 15:39, 18 replies)

That calls for a double.
:D
Cheers.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 3 May 2011, 15:43, closed)

Good plan!
*chink*

Bugger.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 3 May 2011, 15:51, closed)

Keep trudging the road to happy destiny
no days off, no half days and no tea breaks ;-)
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Tue 3 May 2011, 16:10, closed)

I prefered you drunk

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 3 May 2011, 16:20, closed)

Are you still drink driving?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 3 May 2011, 16:41, closed)

Once, 20 years ago....you've got to let it go man.

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 3 May 2011, 18:19, closed)

Take it one day at a time

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 3 May 2011, 19:58, closed)

It's a good win.
keep up the good work.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Tue 3 May 2011, 17:20, closed)

Just interested...
Do you get a lot of 'go on, a half won't hurt...' and other such idiotic comments from people?

I often wondered if you pretended to be in recovery and went to pubs and told people this, the amount of 'go ons...' would enable you to never buy a drink again?
Needs some research.
(robneymcplum spiced up his life on, Tue 3 May 2011, 17:46, closed)

I don't really go to pubs at all at the moment
I got a little bit of that from my new colleagues when they took me out for welcome drinks. But from my friends who know why I don't drink now? never. Otherwise they wouldn't be my friends these days.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 3 May 2011, 17:50, closed)

Other drinkers are generally fucking shit at this.
I got everything from people buying me drinks "anyway", to being called anti-social, a killjoy and I was once told "that's stupid" when I politely refused a drink and explained why.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 4 May 2011, 8:35, closed)

Drinking spirits before work would be the clincher for me that things are getting out of hand, well I think it would, who knows.
did you realise at the time or did it take longer?
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Tue 3 May 2011, 18:07, closed)

Both, oddly
I mean, I knew it wasn't right, I'm not stupid, despite the evidence to the contrary. But also, I kept convincing myself it was OK, would get me past my hangover and then I'd stop, you know?

Then, one day, instead of telling myself I'd stop but never doing it, a friend I'd been talking to the night before while off my head took action for me, and from her home in NYC looked up AA meetings in my area and sent me a text the next day, at 10.30AM, half an hour before the meeting, telling me where it was and saying 'get to where you need to be' and I did.

And I've fucked up since then, but not for the aforementioned one year and 79 days now.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 3 May 2011, 20:14, closed)

Well done,
Really. I know nothing of the addiction, but I don't think I'd have the strength to quit in the same situation.
( Filthy narwhal titty titty tits tits tits, Tue 3 May 2011, 20:37, closed)

Whilst the wagon has sometimes been my preffered method of transport
& I may have @ time been friends with a bloke called Bill I've found that as a tee-total I am a boring, productive, polite, depressive, active, busy, unhappy, serious cunt. I haven't had a hairy dog in fucking years tho. Do miss 'em sometimes.
Anyway - goodonya.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Tue 3 May 2011, 22:54, closed)

good job that man
i swear b3ta is going to go down in history as the website for recovering alchoholics
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Wed 4 May 2011, 7:23, closed)

Nice work man.
It's good to have you back.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 4 May 2011, 8:35, closed)

Thanks
I like being back.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 4 May 2011, 8:39, closed)