I’m back!
Well it is official now, i’m clean & sober one year a half a day so far! Thanks to one and all for your kind words. And in answer to some specific replies:
Mr. Blue Sky: I actually quit drinking & started going to a.a. meetings in late October of '02. I slipped three times, the last being Thanksgiving night of '02 (which was 10/29 that year) before hitting my stride. I can’t think of any specific instances I wanted to use, but rather had the nagging urge just about every day, which eventually subsided.
I did stop seeing several people who, unfortunately, turned out to be more drinking cronies instead of true friends. After I stopped showing up at the bars I frequented, my friends there made no attempt to contact me. One “friend” I did speak actually accused a.a. of being a cult and got belligerent at the fact that I had joined it. I ran into another drinking buddy at a barnes & noble about six months after I quit drinking. He called me by the wrong name and by the way he spoke, he didn’t seem to notice I had been “gone” for months.
the_stranger : congrats on quitting yourself! Hang in there, it does get better.
Antiochus: I quit smoking several years ago, and I remember it being a hellish experience. I think that might have been worse, if only because I felt like I was going through withdrawal all alone. At least, with the sauce, there was a support group for me to fall back on.
Scott evil: I’ll email you as soon as I get another free moment.
In the meantime, thanks again, and let me just extend congrats myself to everyone else whose quitting or having an anniversary about now.
Yerz troolee
“Art Vandelay”
