7 Months

Hey guys… it will be 7 months for me tomorrow. I figured I would write now because I have some spare time.

I’ve had a big victory the other night. The Crystal Method was coming to town and a friend asked if I wanted to go about a month or so ago. The night finally came, and some pre-drinking was going on at another guys house. I decided to go instead of meeting the group at the club. I never really realized how dumb pre-drinking is until watching it from a sober perspective. I sat watching the hockey game, while these 3 guys drank as much as they could before leaving. One guy was sick and vomited on the way to the club, and felt crappy at the club… good times. The three of them had a couple more beers while at the club, I had a coke, and was asked at least 3 times, if I was drinking a rum and coke.
“no…just coke…”
“Really?!”
“yup, just coke.”
Once The Crystal Method came on, I spent my time dancing and just enjoying the tunes. It was a lot of fun, and had been a long time since I had been to a club sober. In the past I would have drank up a storm, and if it was a really big party I would have dropped some XTC, or acid. It was actually more fun than I had expected it to be. The great thing about it, I woke up the next day… and felt fine. Usually I would have been paying for it dearly.

So it has now been 7 months without any alcohol. Last night my girlfriend and I were watching TV and Christmas stats of the RIDE program were on the news. Drunk driving was up from last year. While on the topic she said; It has been so long since I drank… I can’t remember the last time I had more than 1 or 2 drinks. (She is not a heavy drinker at all) I just said; “hmmm.” I didn’t know what to say, I didn’t want to say, “it has been 214 days for me…” full out knowing the last time I drank. For example, when her and I went on a boat cruise last year. I really tried to control my drinking that week. And I thought I did! lol But she mentioned that I had quite a bit to drink that week.. HAHA I just said that “I was on vacation!” That was “controlled” drinking. I think I ran a tab of about $200 that week.

I haven’t told anybody still that I quit drinking. I don’t want to get into it. People knew I drank, but a lot of people didn’t know the extent of it just cause I did a lot of my drinking alone. There are some things that are just better not known. I don’t want my girlfriend to start thinking that I may give in one day… or to worry about drinking around me cause I may feel left out or some nonsense.

Anyway things are going well… except I can’t walk right now. I injured my left foot in a soccer game on Friday night. I rolled my ankle, my foot is really bruised, the swelling is going down now at least. The whole top of my foot and ankle is a weird colour due to bruising. It’s kind of gross.

Well if I’m not back before Christmas, happy holidays everybody!

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