Glug glug.
If you google yourself, you're most always going to find something slightly unpleasant. An ex-boyfriend calling you a shifty skank, some Christian forums suggesting you like to sleep with dogs (it was one fucking time), a prominent right-wing newspaper columnist who has a crush on you but likes to show it in funny ways. It comes with the territory, and more fool you for self-googling, you narcissistic cumrag.
But never ONCE did I expect to be OUTED AS A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC.
Sincerely Sober is indeed one. He is from Saint Paul Minnesota and is about 50 days sober now, and more power to him. Strength of the mind, twelve steps, that movie with Meg Ryan where she hides bottles, and so on and so forth.
He linked to a half-arsed post I wrote twelve hundred years ago about having a couple of liquor-free days a week, which is something that any fucking woman I know around my age says about once every month.
HOW DID I ALL OF A SUDDEN BECOME A RECOVERING ALCOHOLIC BLOGGER?
Is Sincerely Sober trying to tell me something? Is this a sign? Sure New Years was kind of large, but I ate some broccoli since then.
Honestly. Call me what you will, but 'recovering alcoholic' is surely at least seventeen years premature.
668 days til the next election.
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You are two links above me, which means I am two links less of a recovering alcoholic than you.
I'll binge drink to that.
you're in recovery?
I like his comment on a previous post: "How can I show a woman a romantic evening without liquor?"
I often ask myself that very same question, anonymous.
It's also harder to get to home base if you soda up.
Congratulations on taking the first step towards turning your life around! It's a long and lonely road (you must be esp. careful of the spiders) but I speak for everyone here when I say you will be in our prayers.
In America:
If you drink full-strength beer = alcoholic
If you want a burger = triple decker heart failure cheese fat stacker combo
If you pash a random in a club = cum guzzling whore-ho
If you look at them cross-eyed = invade your country!
They do it LARGE style!
$BDW$
Yeah, he also links to a blogger who calls himself a 'severe alcoholic' but as far as I can tell, drinks about four beers a night.
We breed 'em tougher down here, obviously. And more foolhardy.
Joseph - it's the support of people like you that make this journey so rewarding.
*Group Hug*
See you in church, sister.
Have you tried absinth? Do you recommend absinth to other recovering alcoholics? My friend says it 'lightens your load'. He's not making a barb at my sperm count is he?
Ms Fits, of Pandagate fame, Will Oldham says its okay to 'love' your sister. Is it really okay, or is this a Kentucky thing?
googling ones self..usually disappoints...I'll drink to that!
The worst thing is that you have skipped the funnest part of being a recovering alcoholic - the 'being an alcoholic' part.
Step 8 (of the 12 steps) sounds like fun 'make a list of those we harmed' but Step 9 looks like a real fucking downer 'make amends with all of them'.
Alcohol-free days are for wimps. Me, I prefer free alcohol days....hic!
fits,
the real life grapevine is just as bad as that big ol' cyberdoozy googly one
i once got accused of being a 'portuguese wife beater' by a member of the croatian ethnic community in my home town back west ...
1) i am not of portuguese extraction
2) i was not married to the croatian girl i was going out with at the time of this utterly random accusation
3) I have never hit a woman. thrown shit at one, sure ..
i mean, i'm part wog meself but *damn* those effnicks can fucking GOSSIP
r
ps. when i google myself, its about 11 pages of ISBNs before you get to anything good
The other night, an old alcoholic woman stumbled into the pub I work at yelling incoherently at us. We supressed smug laughs and sneers until all barstaff and regulars came to the simultaneous realisation that she was us in 20-30 years time and we all went home early and sober.
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