One year Anniversary

So its one year since I started this blog. Might be time for a little reflection and assessment of where we are at.

In the past year I have

1. Gone sober for a week around September 2010, then crashed on the Saturday afternoon, and found myself lining up at a bottleshop on the Sunday.

2. Just basically drunk even crazier than normal all summer, so I was drinking from like waking up when I didn't have any other commitments (read - work).

3. Hit crisis point or rock bottom again and stopped drinking on April 20th. For the final time. That's 44 days ago! Quite a tally and honestly the longest I have gone without alcohol for twenty years or since I was in school, or since I was under the legal age.

4. The Sadness of Beer this storyis where I have come from - thinking buying cheap beer was saving money! What the? Buying beer is never saving money. On that note, at my drinking levels I have not spent about $500 on alcohol by going sober for 44 days.

5. I feel calmer, more motivated (have finally finished the chicken coop) and am going to bed at 8pm and waking up around 5 or 6 am. It is how other people live - and it makes me wonder whether I should regret all the years I wasted being hungover... But that was my decision and hey it wasn't as if I was in a prison or anything.

6. Just writing on my other blog I am learning to be grateful and appreciate that things are what they are and I could be in a whole lot worse shape but for some very lucky bits of providence.

7. So here's to celebrate the sober blog and how it works even if it did take a year to get finally sorted for me. Oh, that's another thing, sobriety has taught me to recognise and just appreciate it for what it is - patience.