More ramblings about alcoholism, basically.
Tag: Stop Drinking

Six months of sobriety doesn’t seem to be fixing anything…
Tips for Surviving the First Week Sober

Some (hopefully) useful tips on surviving your first week sober.
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 […]
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 […]

Lessons from September

Stop drinking and you stop sleeping.
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 […]
My Sobriety is…Meh

I go on a three-week drinking binge and quit caffeine/sleeping pills.

How I failed nearly all my New Year’s Resolutions.