Your family might not show it all the time, but they’re no doubt ecstatic. So keep your wonderful streak going - just one day at a time!
(If my math is right, Qadgop and I stopped around the same time.
Date of my last drink: 3/12/90. Never ever thought I’d be so lucky.)
Ya got about 100 days on me, antiochus. 1st day alcohol and drug free: 6/21/90
Congratulations!
Congratulations, and keep on drying. Dec 22 will be 23 years for me. You can do it too!
Art, if you come to the NYC Megadopefest in January, you’ll have me as a sober buddy to hang out with.
Email me anyway! scottevil@ca.inter.net
You poor basta… I mean congratulations!
You all give me hope.
Last drink- April, 2003
That’s when I admitted to myself that binge drinking IS alcoholism.
Prior to that it was: “problem? I don’t have no stinking problem!”
Well done Art !! I wish I had the guts and willpower to be able to say the same. Keep it up and keep up the self-pride that you must certainly be feeling.
You folks who have quit just ROCK!!! Congratulations!
<hoists a glass of juice in your honor>
Congratulations, Art!! My husband has 8 years now, and some of it has not been easy. I have great respect for anyone who can admit their powerlessness (is that a word?)
It’s been 3 years for me as of Monday so I know where your coming from. Good luck and keep up the fantastic work. Your liver thanks you!! 
Congratulations! You’ll never regret it!
-Dry since October '86
Congrats Art, and The_Stranger too. Hang on to that hope.
Congratulations and my utmost respect to Art, Scott Evil, Qadgop, and all the rest of you. Addiction is one curse I’ve been spared, but I know those who haven’t, and I’m proud of you for overcoming it and continuing to do so.
CJ
Seige, for me, it’s pretty simple, especially since I was sober for about three years (after bottoming out while in university) before going off on a hellish three-year slip, bottoming out even lower than I could have imagined, and getting sober again:
I drink. Bad things happen to me, my life deteriorates, my sanity goes down the toilet, and I no longer want to live. (And it all starts with one drink; my slip did.)
I stay sober. Good things happen to me, my life gets better each day, I regain my sanity and then some, and I can look forward to a happy life. 
Yup, pretty simple. It’s really sad that so many people who need to “get it” just don’t, either because of (false) pride, ego, fear (to admit you can’t handle alcohol, period), or just plain stubbornness. 
Oh, and Art, I’m sure you’ll be checking this thread once you get back to a computer. Email me! 
Did anyone find that quitting smoking was many times harder than kicking booze?
Well done, guy. I quit for a while last year but, being the moron I am, started again. They were the happiest, most productive weeks I’ve had since I was sixteen. So, serious attempt no. 2 starts very soon (he said, procrastinating like a bastard.)
And yes, Antiochus, quitting drinking is irritating. Quitting smoking is like losing a loved one. Jeez, I wish I’d behaved when I was younger.
Congrats to all of you who are celebrating milestones in your quest to stay clean and sober. May you have many, many more.
Not to be cheeky, but how else could it start? Two drinks?