Guessing it's not gonna get very busy in here  .

June.  My month off the grog.  Thirty days of alcohol abstinence.

Why?

Because I can  .

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.  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.

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 

Quote from: ducpainter on June 01, 2013, 04:28:43 AM
This will be my one and only visit to this thread.

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   

Quote from: Speeddog on May 31, 2013, 11:16:52 PM
considering the riffraff you're surrounded by, that's an astonishing achievement.

  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.

fastwin

1986

Quote from: somegirl on June 01, 2013, 07:12:23 AM
  it's all for the mini-riffraff.