Guessing it's not gonna get very busy in here [cheeky].
June. My month off the grog. Thirty days of alcohol abstinence.
Why?
Because I can ;D.
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Never a bad thing to take an occasional break from ANY drug. I say go for it, and good luck to you. I do the same often enough.
I've done it, so can you !!!
I do it in January. Starting the new year with a clear mind and all that! Good on ya and good luck!
I do this occasionally as well.
Might be only for a week or so sometimes, but still. [thumbsup] Keeps things in perspective....
since 2009 for me. probably 2-3 more years to go.
Quote from: somegirl on May 31, 2013, 10:19:21 PM
since 2009 for me. probably 2-3 more years to go.
considering the riffraff you're surrounded by, that's an astonishing achievement.
[laugh]
This will be my one and only visit to this thread. :-*
Quote from: ducpainter on June 01, 2013, 04:28:43 AM
This will be my one and only visit to this thread. :-*
Nah, you'll be keepin' an eye on us.... if we get too much red cordial into us things could get outa hand ;D
Quote from: ducpainter on June 01, 2013, 04:28:43 AM
This will be my one and only visit to this thread. :-*
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
i used to give up caffeine, sugar and alcohol at the same time
but only for 2 weeks - twice a year
good luck ung!
Thanks TiNi :)
The hardest thing I ever had to learn to live without was nicotine.... been done with that shit for ... 20 years or so.
So this'll be easy [thumbsup]
Quote from: Speeddog on May 31, 2013, 11:16:52 PM
considering the riffraff you're surrounded by, that's an astonishing achievement.
[laugh]
[laugh] it's all for the mini-riffraff. ;)
Nice thread topic.
Damn, I love to drink but it's going to kill me. I have major underlying health problems (liver...) and my constant, casual, "I don't go to bars" drink at home life style is having a HUGE crisis on my health... to say nothing of my loving wife's sanity.
For my Mother's Day gift to my wife I spent a week in a lock down, hospital de-tox unit. If you have ever seen seen "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" I was the one living out Jack Nicholson's role! I had no idea it was on the pysch ward floor. Crazy mother f##kers in every room! Just me and a couple of others were there for de-tox vs. booze and drugs. No drugs for me. The rest were crazier than a March hare. Geee... what fun that was!
Finally made my escape and got discharged. Thank God!!
Have stumped my toe a few times since then but I am now in a GREAT IOP (intensvie outpatient program)! Wonderful group of people, not 10 minutes from my home, three nights a week. Great mixed group of folks. Some drug and but mostly alcoholic addicts. I love and look forward to going every chance I get.
My wife's birthday was yesterday and I asked her what she might want. All she said was she wanted me to go to my meeting... that's the present she wanted. I did but we will go out to dinner tonight to celebrate her b-day. Minus the drinks. [thumbsup]
fastwin
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Quote from: somegirl on June 01, 2013, 07:12:23 AM
[laugh] it's all for the mini-riffraff. ;)
[thumbsup]
Quote from: fastwin on June 01, 2013, 07:58:41 AM
Nice thread topic.
Damn, I love to drink but it's going to kill me. I have major underlying health problems (liver...) and my constant, casual, "I don't go to bars" drink at home life style is having a HUGE crisis on my health... to say nothing of my loving wife's sanity.
For my Mother's Day gift to my wife I spent a week in a lock down, hospital de-tox unit. If you have ever seen seen "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" I was the one living out Jack Nicholson's role! I had no idea it was on the pysch ward floor. Crazy mother f##kers in every room! Just me and a couple of others were there for de-tox vs. booze and drugs. No drugs for me. The rest were crazier than a March hare. Geee... what fun that was!
Finally made my escape and got discharged. Thank God!!
Have stumped my toe a few times since then but I am now in a GREAT IOP (intensvie outpatient program)! Wonderful group of people, not 10 minutes from my home, three nights a week. Great mixed group of folks. Some drug and but mostly alcoholic addicts. I love and look forward to going every chance I get.
My wife's birthday was yesterday and I asked her what she might want. All she said was she wanted me to go to my meeting... that's the present she wanted. I did but we will go out to dinner tonight to celebrate her b-day. Minus the drinks. [thumbsup]
fastwin
Way to go brother! Proud of you. If you can't stop with known health issues, you've got a problem. Way to face it!
I've friends lose everything to "just alcohol," so I feel really strongly about it.
I have always found not having a drink is easy. Not having six once I have had one? Now that's a problem..... Good luck on your quest to stay off the evil crap. [bow_down]
problem solved. I have a little deal worked out with my wife that every time i go a month without alcohol (weekdays only) i get "the thing married women dont do " it kinda rhymes with PJ. It works for me most of the time
Quote from: brix821 on June 01, 2013, 01:36:58 PM
problem solved. I have a little deal worked out with my wife that every time i go a month without alcohol (weekdays only) i get "the thing married women dont do " it kinda rhymes with PJ. It works for me most of the time
Wait... so as part of the deal you
still get to consume alcohol on weekends?
(http://definitiveale.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/trois-mousquetaires-kellerbier-poured.jpg)
Gratuitous picture of beer with head.
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] Outstanding!
I thought that is why all brides walking down the aisle had smiles on their faces... they would never have to do "that" again! ;) [bacon] [beer]
Quote from: swampduc on June 01, 2013, 11:23:51 AM
Way to go brother! Proud of you. If you can't stop with known health issues, you've got a problem. Way to face it!
I've friends lose everything to "just alcohol," so I feel really strongly about it.
Same here. Lives completely destroyed and wasted in some cases by "just beer."
That's awesome, all of you! [clap]
In the past, when I've had jobs that lent to having expendable time, I had to take a break from drinking every so often.
The last 2 or 3 years though, it seems like work as consumed all of my time. I've been averaging probably 3 drinks a week.
Quote from: LowThudd on May 31, 2013, 07:41:59 PM
Never a bad thing to take an occasional break from ANY drug. I say go for it, and good luck to you. I do the same often enough.
I should take a break from insulin??
:P
I gave up alcohol. Was the longest 15 minutes of my life...my LIFE! Is this thing on? *thump thump thump*
But seriously, found myself with a fridge full of beer and absolutely no desire to drink it.
A cabinet full of fantastic whiskeys...not a drop one.
I go through spurts. I will have months at a time where having a single beer is very unusual for me. But then I will have months were almost every night after work involves a beer or a couple of fingers neat.
I never drink to the point of intoxication anymore. It just does nothing for me. I even tried to on Friday night at a birthday party but 3 beers in, I caught myself admiring the flavors and tried analyzing.
[thumbsup]
Good to fast occasionally.
Gotta show the grog who's boss (and the coffee, chocolate, lollies, food).
All things in moderation (except sex and motorcycles).
Quote from: ZILBERT on June 03, 2013, 12:40:54 PM
I gave up alcohol. Was the longest 15 minutes of my life...my LIFE! Is this thing on? *thump thump thump*
[laugh] [laugh] [laugh] Had to laugh at that one!
Had lunch last week with a life long friend who gave me the "I don't need to drink. I can go for days and not even think about it!" bullshit. And this is the guy that should have about 20 DWI arrests (somehow he doesn't!!) and at our dove hunts is so shit faced drunk at 9:30 in the morning we have had to hide all of his guns and not let him hunt with us... plus assign a watch dog to ride herd on him. [roll] I love that... the pot calling the kettle black and taking some BS high road. At least I have the sense to not drive after drinking (he doesn't) and I damn sure dont hunt or shoot after serious drinking. Maybe a cold beer.. that's it.
It's a tough haul but I am worth it and so is my family. Spare livers are hard to come by. ;)
Quote from: brix821 on June 01, 2013, 01:36:58 PM
problem solved. I have a little deal worked out with my wife that every time i go a month without alcohol (weekdays only) i get "the thing married women dont do " it kinda rhymes with PJ. It works for me most of the time
That's a sweet deal! [laugh] [thumbsup]
I don't drink Sun.-Thurs. anyway unless I'm on vacation. I always have to work the next day and drinking makes me sleep like crap. :'(
Motivation! [laugh]
Quote from: Skybarney on June 01, 2013, 12:52:16 PM
I have always found not having a drink is easy. Not having six once I have had one? Now that's a problem..... Good luck on your quest to stay off the evil crap. [bow_down]
This is me. I'm that country son "The More I Drink."
That said I do plan on staying dry for most of the month. Not gonna give it up on the cruise though.
JM
Quote from: ducpainter on June 01, 2013, 04:28:43 AM
This will be my one and only visit to this thread. :-*
Well put, & me too.
Things I learned during my abstinence:
It wasn't as easy as I imagined. I did what I set out to do, but there were a couple of times when I wanted a drink more than I really like to admit.
On Sunday evening's I like to cook. A bottle of wine is always involved in that activity... one glass for the pot... most of the rest of the bottle for me [laugh]. So it was this cooking routine which really brought home my..... attachment. I didn't enjoy the cooking nearly so much :-\.
On the flip side, there were a couple of June weekend mornings when I woke up feeling like crap..... if I had been drinking the night prior I woulda blamed that. Turns out sometimes you just wake up feeling like crap.
Anyway, I did prove to myself that I can go without, so FWIW I'm happy with that.
[thumbsup]
Mary is starting early [beer].
Weird timing, but then why not avoid the seasonal excess by.... um.. not?
[popcorn]
I'll be taking a month off again next year. For 2014 I choose the month with the fewest days ;D.
good call. [laugh] [laugh] [laugh]
Quote from: ungeheuer on December 24, 2013, 05:23:56 AM
Mary is starting early [beer].
Weird timing, but then why not avoid the seasonal excess by.... um.. not?
[popcorn]
I'll be taking a month off again next year. For 2014 I choose the month with the fewest days ;D.
Mary got tired of waking up feeling like shit. When the 2 or 3 beers turned into 3 or 4 (or 5) and then a whiskey too, well the timing seems perfect. Plus, think of all the $$ I will save!
This whole not drinking this is boring...
Quote from: ducpainter on June 01, 2013, 04:28:43 AM
This will be my one and only visit to this thread. :-*
Lock it before anyone else gets infected. [leo]
This thread just made me think of a story.
It was told to me by a guy that works at a local tattoo joint and used to frequent a bar that I worked at.
So Rob was telling me about one time when he decided he wanted to quit drinking for a month or so.
He was saying that he found it interesting that when somebody quits smoking or doing drugs everybody is incredibly supportive and never asks things like "why?", but that that isn't the case if you decide to stop drinking.
So because people were constantly questioning him about his motivation for this endeavor, he started ordering a tonic on the rocks with a lime and a cocktail stir.
While hanging out one night at a bar he occasionally worked at, he noticed 3 girls sitting at a table nearby and he thought they might be checking him out.
After a while, he got a text from some friends and was getting ready to head out to go meet them when one of the girls approached him.
"Hey" she says with a grin. "My car's right outside, can I take you somewhere?"
"This's my lucky make the beast with two backsin' night" Rob thinks to himself. "Yeah, that sounds awesome. Where did you have in mind?"
"Oh, wherever you're headed. My friends and I couldn't help but notice you had 22 gin and tonics and thought maybe you shouldn't be driving."
[laugh] [laugh]
That's both so right and so wrong. [cheeky]
So I quit drinking in April of 2012.
I saved so much money in a year was able to take an MSF course and buy a Ducati. [Dolph]
True Story.
;D
:o
Quote from: pesto on January 02, 2014, 08:18:05 AM
So I quit drinking in April of 2012.
I saved so much money in a year was able to take an MSF course and buy a Ducati. [Dolph]
True Story.
;D
Awesome! Good for you.
I had to quit drinking (but I still cheat much to my wife's chagrin) due to health problems. Those are under control now (doing fine now thank you) but I too was amazed at how much $$ went for booze at dinner, etc... But damn I miss a good cold beer or a top shelf marg at dinner. Doh!... ala Homer Simpson. Probably shouldn't say that in this thread! [bang]
Still proud of you pesto whatever your reasons. [thumbsup] Trading beer/booze for MSF course and a Duc is a great trade. [clap]
I spend just under $1,000.00 a year on alcohol.
I did have one beer yesterday. Nothing on new years eve or day.
Since I cut back, I am sleeping better.
Quote from: fastwin on January 02, 2014, 04:34:05 PM
Awesome! Good for you.
I had to quit drinking (but I still cheat much to my wife's chagrin) due to health problems. Those are under control now (doing fine now thank you) but I too was amazed at how much $$ went for booze at dinner, etc... But damn I miss a good cold beer or a top shelf marg at dinner. Doh!... ala Homer Simpson. Probably shouldn't say that in this thread! [bang]
Still proud of you pesto whatever your reasons. [thumbsup] Trading beer/booze for MSF course and a Duc is a great trade. [clap]
Thanks man! Now to get in better shape for track days [Dolph]
Post christmas detox is on track, going without alcohol I can handle, going without coffee is a whole other kettle of herbal tea.
"going without coffee is a whole other kettle of herbal tea."
Yeah !! No caffeine ? I don't know if I could do that. Need to give up the smokes though.
6 x 365 = 2190. Thats a whole used bike
Quote from: bdub on January 16, 2014, 05:30:13 AM
Yeah !! No caffeine ? I don't know if I could do that. Need to give up the smokes though.
6 x 365 = 2190. Thats a whole used bike
Is that a pack a day? Here in Oz a pack is around $15.
one of the best things you could do is quit smoking that stuff.
Quote from: Mendo Dave on January 16, 2014, 06:08:18 PM
one of the best things you could do is quit smoking that stuff.
Or, as I did, don't start in the first place.
So here's February.
My 2014 month off the grog.
;D
Quote from: ungeheuer on February 02, 2014, 05:10:19 PM
So here's February.
My 2014 month off the grog.
;D
Only 26 days left!
I nominate July 2017 as my month off....