Higher Power.
I don't know why, but this site kind of interested me. It's links to bloggers who are battling/have battled alcoholism. The funny thing is I found it through Ultragrrrl's website - I guess 'Namenlonsen Trinker' (unassuming pseudonym there, friend) googled the words 'stopped drinking' and found Ultra's music-obsessed NY hipster site. It seemed to confuse him/her (though probably not as much as this non-alcohol related google).Considering I've made a pact with myself to have two liquor-free days per week, and to also try and pare back the evenings involving three bottles of wine, no underpants and a shaved dog, it struck some kind of chord. Nothing overly empathic. More along the lines of 'boy, I'm glad I'm not as fucked up as THOSE folks! Now, who's for a brandy cruster?'
When I read websites where drinking is worn as a badge of pride it makes me want to drink more. But then I come into work with a soaked head and it makes me want to drink less. Curiously, the alcoholic blogs make me want to drink more. Maybe I've got a point to prove.
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> googled the words 'stopped drinking' and found Ultra's
> music-obsessed NY hipster site. It seemed to confuse him/her...
That's how I found it, alright -- something like that. As to whether it confused me or not, who knows? I don't feel confused, but then I'm not always the best judge of whether I'm confused or not. Perhpas you're right.
Namenlosen Trinker
You have no idea how glad I am right now that I didn't make more fun of that alcoholic blog website.
First-time reader here, Ms. Fits. Good stuff!
There's a name for what you're doing by planning liquor-free days and paring back otherwise: Harm Reduction. One of the groups which promotes it is Moderation Management.
What you're finding -- that 3-bottle nights are not conducive to productivity the next day, for example -- is not at all unusual. But, it's like many other things in that we go through periods of living large and find good reason to scale it back after a while.
If achieving the longest possible, most orderly life was our highest goal, we might do lot of things differently. But a lot of us find the best of life comes by taking risks sometimes. So, we don't completely abstain from drinking and smoking, we aren't necessarily keeping our bodies perfectly fit and toned with exercise and diet, and we don't limit ourselves to choosing the safest fork in every road.
Taking informed risks doesn't make us automatically careless or unconscious. As you demonstrate, we can choose to be conscious and thoughtful decision-makers by reducing harm.
maybe I can apply Moderation Management to my Big Brother intake...
Exactly!
Meanwhile, 18 months from now...
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