Woohoo, 1 year for me! Feeling great! IWNDWYT!
this post was submitted on 19 May 2025
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Well done 👏
I bet that feels good!
Congratulations!
YOOOO CONGRATS hats off to you my friend cannot wait to join you in the lap around the sun club
139 days in and now I have to fly for a work trip. As we all know, flying and work trips are potent triggers. I feel resolute though. My world is just now starting to feel bigger and full of possibilities. If I drink, my world will shrink right back down. Screw that. IWNDWYT!
139 days in with you brother.
Soon it will be half of 300 💪
I had a long-distance train trip for a sporting event when I was not even a month sober. London to Amsterdam, a few days in Amsterdam, a trip to the cricket. My first sober holiday, my first sober cricket match.
I went in with the attitude of "got to learn how to do this sober, and there's no time like now."
I told the friend I was going to the cricket with that I was off the booze, so I wouldn't be making a decision on the spur of the moment, the decision was already made.
When the steward came down the train carriage with the drinks trolley, I said "Oh, I don't drink, but I could murder a coffee!" Fine, I got off the train vibrating from too much caffeine but I didn't have any alcohol.
I looked at restaurant menus in advance as far as I could, and made the decision of what to drink in advance, so I wasn't flustered and making the decision in a foreign language. Of course it was Amsterdam and everyone's English was perfect and the waiting staff were patient and kind, but it was one thing off the list of things I was worried about.
And, the one time a waiter made a mistake and brought me an alcoholic beer instead of the non-alcoholic version, I did the most un-English thing I've ever done and sent it back, rather than drinking it to avoid making a fuss 😁
“Got to learn how to do this sober” is exactly what I settled on too. And really, it seemed like the flight went quicker not being hyper aware of hunting down the flight attendants for another round.
The hardest part was my solo dinner ponied up to a bar, but NA Guinness has been working well. Thanks for the story!
hey howd it go? no turbulence haha
Wasn’t too bad! Tons of turbulence actually, hah.
I don't know but I been told drcatface is mighty cold it's winter down in sydney too may as well be in a fkn igloo
IWNDWYT 💯