Tag: Sobriety
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2021 In Closing
A quick little recap of 2021.
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Long Term Sobriety Sucks
Six months of sobriety doesn’t seem to be fixing anything…
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Tips for Surviving the First Week Sober
Some (hopefully) useful tips on surviving your first week sober.
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Vacation Sucks (2021 Edition)
Trying to stay busy in 2021.
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Vacation, Drinking, and Not Drinking
I guess I’m doing this again. 2:30 a.m. tired but unable to sleep. Might as well write. I’m back to sober life and today is day four. I fell of the wagon or whatever it is a few weeks ago…maybe? It’s amazing how I’ve lost track of all time and structure since I started boozing…
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Sober January? Sober 2021?
Well let’s give this a try again: sobriety. Despite the wonderful success of Sober September I took up drinking again in October and I’ve drank every day since. Part of this was justified (in the grasping-for-straws way us alcoholics are exceedingly good at); as a UPS worker dealing with the holidays I did whatever I…
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Adderall Sucks
Lessons from taking Adderall at work
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Lessons from Substance-Free September: Don’t be too Hard on Yourself
Lessons from September
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Alcoholism Sucks: The Slow Descent
So it’s 3:20 a.m. and I’m pounding my seventh beer. I feel slightly better about life but not quite okay with it. It’s a struggle to drink enough to feel okay with life but not drink too much to lose your mind to the drunken haze. And with every drunken day that passes that line…