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Been dry, as as that bottle was gone. Trying not to buy any or stop were it would be freely given.

Tomorrow, I will be sober 50 days! I'm not really impressed to be truthfull about it. I need two years clean for me to be truely proud of myself

Hey still a great start, well done! Today is my 18th day.

So I guess my liver or something does hate me, puked from drinking too much earlier but I couldn't get my meds and went out with friends so I drank a bit much just to keep my anxiety down and stay in a better mood. But yeah got the taste of blood in my throat now so once again FML, in retrospect I guess I don't really care but I suppose I feel I should be upset about it hence the reason I am posting about it.......but less time to live? so what?

I could be mistaking though after all I did mix up the flavor of red bull with jager earlier.

Today is my sixth day of sobriety from alcohol and my other addictions.

I found that I had to take my evening medications a few hours early the last couple of days, for the sole purpose of knocking me out and sending me to bed, so that I would not engage in my addictions.

This is what my life has become. Heh.

Mm I agree I think its definitely easier for me to stay clean as well. This week as each day has gone by I've noticed that I'm thinking less and less about drinking or lighting up some Sativa, course I'm sure I'll always have off days but still.

Very nice my favourites are Still Life, My Arms, Your Hearse, Blackwater Park & Morningrise. I'm a sucker for concept albums so SL & MAYH are probably my top 2. I need to check out Dark Roots sometime, never gotten around to it. Been so many great albums released this year imo.

What ever works for each person, keep up the good work!

Are victims of other family members who abuse drugs able to post here? My parents are addicted to opiates and regularly take all my prescribed meds and I found out recently my sister has been working out a deal with my parents where she supplies small amounts of heroin to them! Hurrah! I applied for SSI a couple of months ago (unable to work, tried different stuff) and I'm waiting for that and trying to look into some way to leave.

I don't see why not, you're surrounded by it & it obviously effects you soooo. I hope you get SSI, sounds like a damn awful situation, the sooner you get out of there the better. I recently moved out (from home) & things have been so much better.

Yesterday was my Sister's Wedding, it was extremely hard with everyone drinking around me but I got through it for her and myself. First time I've been around others who were drinking, today was my 36th day.

It may be a reminder to ones whom are trying to quit why they are. Just try to keep it constructive.

I really want one tonight but will fight it out.

I started a new habit about three weeks ago. When I have cash in my wallet, and the urge to dance with Jim Beam comes again, I avoid the liquor store and purchase movie tickets instead. Usually after two or three movies in a row (with a large Coke Zero and a couple of smuggled chocolate bars), the urge to consume liquor becomes less overwhelming, and then I go home, write about what I just watched, and call it a night.

Strange how the only movie currently playing in the multiplex nearby that I have not seen yet is "Twilight". I think I probably would need Jim Beam to sit through that.

The new job is helping, as well as hitting five 12-step meetings a week, as well as being honest with my friends in the fellowship. I've started work on steps 2 & 3. I can't handle my addictions by myself, and I can't rely on external accountability to keep me sober for the rest of my life. The first time I worked the steps, I was trying to please my sponsor. Now, I know that my recovery should come first - and I should not put what others think of me before that.

21 days without whiskey! Woo-hoo! (Well, I should add, "without any other kind of alcohol," but whiskey was pretty much all that I drank.)

Not drinking tonight but drugging my self hoping for sleep 1800mg gabapentin and 8mg lorazepan turning me in to a zombie but no sleep.

Tomorrow is 90 days since my last fit with alcohol. I did have a couple of close calls about a week and a half two weeks ago, I wanted to get wasted so bad but instead I just rememberd the awful pain, mentally and physically I was in when I was a alcoholic and that stopped me. The voice that I use to hear to tell me drink is getting farther and father away from me each time I have an encounter with it and I cant wait until its gone all together!

Overall I'm alot healthier now, and happy I quit drinking. It was hell on earth for me,