I got sober, and I’ve been there ever since! 17 years- who would have guessed? Certainly no one who knew me when I was drinking and drugging, that’s for sure.
And since I forgot to post this yesterday on my actual birthday (March 4), I guess it’s really 6,211 days!
Mundane & pointless, but I really must share! 
Hearty congratulations! I bet I’m not the only Doper who would be interested to hear any details you want to share - how’d you do it? Are you ever tempted to backslide?
Wow, 17 years. Truly great.
Congratulations! 
She did it ‘One Day at a Time’ and sometimes one hour at a time and sometimes one minute at a time. I’m 70 some days behind her and I hope I never catch up.
You rock girl.
Congratulations! That is a huge achievement!
Win. salutes you happily
Congratulations. Oh, and Happy Birthday!
Woo HOO!
Congrats! That is awesome.
Slee
Awesome! Congratulations, and happy birfday to you.
Happy birthday! It does work if you work it.
twicks, another long-time friend of Bill’s
Double congratulations, EJsGirl!
Or should that be 6214xCongratulations? I’m not writing all that!
(it’s already the 6th as I write this, plus 1 for the birthday)
Congrats, serious congrats.
Congrats!
[obligatory]How’d you do that? [/obligatory]
Congratulations!! This is a great mileston and achievement.
Well done!
I hope you continue—one day at a time.
Thanks, y’all! How did I do it? By sheer grace, plus a boatload of hard work. I work the most well-known of the 12 step programs, the one that Craig Kilborn reminded everyone is “right at the beginning of the phone book.” 
I don’t drink or use, just for today. I also don’t lie, cheat or steal. I am utterly convinced that I am what I am and that there is a way to change how I live. I trust in others, I thoroughly examine myself and my behavior. I admit my faults and then forgive myself for them. I make amends for my bad behavior and try not to repeat it. I work with others to pass on what has been so freely given to me. And although it’s “just for today,” I do NOT reserve the right to drink at some future date- in my experience, people who do that, eventually do it. I am truly done.
I think that’s it in a nutshell.
I used to be a very bad girl. I constantly found myself in dangerous places, with dangerous people, doing dangerous shit. I don’t seem to have that problem anymore…
You’re all that and a Craig Kilborn reference.
:: swoon ::
My short version: Go to meetings, listen to my sponsor, and change my whole f**king life.
Happy Birthday! (Late, as usual…)
Wow, you even counted the leap days.
Congratulations AND Happy Birthday.