I was sober for 13 days. This seems like I am accepting defeat, yes, I know. But, it wasn't a defeat. I wanted to take what my roommate calls a "tolerance break." I wanted to prove to myself that I could go to the bars and not drink and that I could make it through a weekend stone cold sober. I had no minimum number of days in mind going into my break, just a goal that I would stay sober for a bit.
I did. Veni, vidi, vici.
Okay, maybe my sobriety streak lasting one day short of two weeks isn't exactly conquering my "drinking problem"
Unlike Ted from Airplane! I can usually get the majority of my drink into my mouth, which is the issue here.
However, declaring my interim sobriety four days before Thanksgiving and three days before the biggest drinking night of the year was an interesting choice. I had to decide if I wanted to stay home on the Wednesday before thanksgiving or be a designated driver for once and hang out in my one of my hometown's bar full of people I went to high school with bone dry. But at the bar I flexed my self control as I sipped on water and caught up with people from high school that I haven't seen in years. People asked why I wasn't drinking and I unabashedly told them the truth. Although I wasn't holding a drink in my hand, I still had a decent time talking about the past and futures with old friends. Plus, I wasn't hungover for Thanksgiving, which was a huge benefit of staying sober when everyone else is getting smashed.
Once I was ready to drink again my roommates devised a plan for me: on one hand they marked how many beers I drank and on the other they marked how many waters I drank while at a kegger. I wont tell you the exact number of beers and water that they marked on my hands, but I will say that it was a great system. The next morning I woke up with multicolored lines on my face, but no hangover. Instead of non-stop beer consumption for my return to drinking I made sure to pace myself, drink water often and let my liver catch up.
Although the journalism class that this blog was intended for is ending in a week and a half, I still want to get back to writing reviews about craft beers, microbreweries and my own brewing experiences. This blog has been a ton of fun (sometimes too much), and I still have a lot to learn about the brewing world so I have to keep on keeping on.
I did. Veni, vidi, vici.
Okay, maybe my sobriety streak lasting one day short of two weeks isn't exactly conquering my "drinking problem"
Unlike Ted from Airplane! I can usually get the majority of my drink into my mouth, which is the issue here.
However, declaring my interim sobriety four days before Thanksgiving and three days before the biggest drinking night of the year was an interesting choice. I had to decide if I wanted to stay home on the Wednesday before thanksgiving or be a designated driver for once and hang out in my one of my hometown's bar full of people I went to high school with bone dry. But at the bar I flexed my self control as I sipped on water and caught up with people from high school that I haven't seen in years. People asked why I wasn't drinking and I unabashedly told them the truth. Although I wasn't holding a drink in my hand, I still had a decent time talking about the past and futures with old friends. Plus, I wasn't hungover for Thanksgiving, which was a huge benefit of staying sober when everyone else is getting smashed.
Once I was ready to drink again my roommates devised a plan for me: on one hand they marked how many beers I drank and on the other they marked how many waters I drank while at a kegger. I wont tell you the exact number of beers and water that they marked on my hands, but I will say that it was a great system. The next morning I woke up with multicolored lines on my face, but no hangover. Instead of non-stop beer consumption for my return to drinking I made sure to pace myself, drink water often and let my liver catch up.
Although the journalism class that this blog was intended for is ending in a week and a half, I still want to get back to writing reviews about craft beers, microbreweries and my own brewing experiences. This blog has been a ton of fun (sometimes too much), and I still have a lot to learn about the brewing world so I have to keep on keeping on.
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