AF Daily Thursday January 1 2009!!!
Happy new year everyone, just caught up on the thread - first opportunity I have had to get on line all day, but then of course one of my new yr resolutions was to spend less time on the internet!!
Well I had a very pleasant and sober New Year - first one since I was about 15 I think - at home with Mr Sausage - he had a G&T, some wine (I think - to be honest, i'm less aware of what he drinks now which is a great thing) and champagne around midnight. I had some AF beer, then AF wine and at midnight a great AF bucks fizz which was excellent - must get some more of the same stuff. The kids were in bed, we watched a movie on TV which took us til 11pm and then watched the New Year in in London from the River Thames, London Eye etc (Marshy - excellent that you were actually there - I was there for the millenium as I had a flat in London in those days, and I remember it was very cold, and the smell of the smoke in the air, and we had to get there so early to get a decent place to watch) The fireworks really were spectacular weren't they.
Today it was fabulous to wake up refereshed and sober and i've even fitted in a 40 mintute cross country run in the cold (wearing woolly hat and gloves) -something i'd never have been able to do on NY Day before as I would have been too hungover. Couldn't go to the gym or swim as leisure centre closed being Jan 1st - but that's no excuse not to exercise now is it!!!
Last new year I made the resolution from midnight on Jan 1st 08 to"drastically cut down my drinking - just keep it to Fri and Sat and special occasions" but I justified drinking later that same day (a tues)- because well Jan 1st is a public holiday so a special occasion isn't it, then I justified drinking on the 2nd (wed) because Jan 2nd is a public holiday in Scotland - Mr sausage is scottish!!! and then on Thurs - I did go AF, but then drank Fri and Sat and Sun and Monday and...... it just goes on, and that's when I was really motivated as well , at the start of a new year - pathetic isn't it.
2008 has been a good yr for me in lots of ways, and it was the yr I discovered MWO for which I am trully grateful.
Regarding your debate earlier about whether social events "fun" without alcohol - I now agree, they are so much more pleasant, memorable and enjoyable without alcohol - drinking for me was more an alone thing anyway - however the way I look at it is, those that have to drink and drink to have a social time must be really boring sad people anyway incapable of enjoying themselves without some chemical substance to change their mind / behaviour. However there is nothing more boring than being sober and out with a load of drunks acting really stupidly and laughing over nothing and talking incoherently.
Have a great new year everyone - am feeling really positive about 2009 thanks to MWO!
Take care everyone
sausage xx
Happy new year everyone, just caught up on the thread - first opportunity I have had to get on line all day, but then of course one of my new yr resolutions was to spend less time on the internet!!
Well I had a very pleasant and sober New Year - first one since I was about 15 I think - at home with Mr Sausage - he had a G&T, some wine (I think - to be honest, i'm less aware of what he drinks now which is a great thing) and champagne around midnight. I had some AF beer, then AF wine and at midnight a great AF bucks fizz which was excellent - must get some more of the same stuff. The kids were in bed, we watched a movie on TV which took us til 11pm and then watched the New Year in in London from the River Thames, London Eye etc (Marshy - excellent that you were actually there - I was there for the millenium as I had a flat in London in those days, and I remember it was very cold, and the smell of the smoke in the air, and we had to get there so early to get a decent place to watch) The fireworks really were spectacular weren't they.
Today it was fabulous to wake up refereshed and sober and i've even fitted in a 40 mintute cross country run in the cold (wearing woolly hat and gloves) -something i'd never have been able to do on NY Day before as I would have been too hungover. Couldn't go to the gym or swim as leisure centre closed being Jan 1st - but that's no excuse not to exercise now is it!!!
Last new year I made the resolution from midnight on Jan 1st 08 to"drastically cut down my drinking - just keep it to Fri and Sat and special occasions" but I justified drinking later that same day (a tues)- because well Jan 1st is a public holiday so a special occasion isn't it, then I justified drinking on the 2nd (wed) because Jan 2nd is a public holiday in Scotland - Mr sausage is scottish!!! and then on Thurs - I did go AF, but then drank Fri and Sat and Sun and Monday and...... it just goes on, and that's when I was really motivated as well , at the start of a new year - pathetic isn't it.
2008 has been a good yr for me in lots of ways, and it was the yr I discovered MWO for which I am trully grateful.
Regarding your debate earlier about whether social events "fun" without alcohol - I now agree, they are so much more pleasant, memorable and enjoyable without alcohol - drinking for me was more an alone thing anyway - however the way I look at it is, those that have to drink and drink to have a social time must be really boring sad people anyway incapable of enjoying themselves without some chemical substance to change their mind / behaviour. However there is nothing more boring than being sober and out with a load of drunks acting really stupidly and laughing over nothing and talking incoherently.
Have a great new year everyone - am feeling really positive about 2009 thanks to MWO!
Take care everyone
sausage xx
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