This topic is for anyone who wants to share what your life was like during drinking, what happened to cause you to stop, and what your life is like now.
Many feel this could be instrumental as hope to those who are struggling with alcohol as well as a tool to keep those with some sobriety time sober.
Be as detailed or brief as you like.
God Bless and Remember
ONE DAY AT A TIME
Trimmer
Hi ..I haven't been sober for long (6 weeks tomorrow) but there is already a huge difference in my life. I was either drunk or hungover. Just dragging through each day either in an alcoholic haze or dead tired from a hangover. Either way the days just passed me by while I was in a pit of remorse and guilt . I don't have to lie anymore to cover up my drinking habits or how much I drank.I sleep better at nights or most of them anyway.Now I wake up feeling good in the morning even if I don't sleep the night before, I am just tired, instead of hungover and tired.I can remember what I did the day before and the day before that and all the nights before. I don't have to wonder what I said or did. I don't feel so alone anymore and isolated because I am not hiding away to drink. I am beginning to feel free . I have a LONG way to go but I have also come a long way to what I was 6 weeks ago. One of the things that I feel good about now i is that I DON'T have to lie all the time. I used to be so consumed by guilt for all the lying I did to cover up my drinking.From THAT I am free.(now I have to deal with the other 999 issues lol) Take care all and Good luck to you all.
Ever tried cooking while your drunk?
Well I had this great idea about sauteing some lg. shrimp with fresh garlic, olive oil and a couple of spices. So, I ended up drinking a pint of vodka straight up in about an 1 hr maybe it was an 1hr and 1/2. Did I mention that I hadn't bothered to eat that day. Except the beers. You see after I ran out of beers I had to have more so I drove to the liqour store for some hard stuff. I thought I was being so creative. I ended up putting in mushrms, peppers, tomatoes, cheese, to much olive oil sesame oil all kinds of spices including curry and to many angel hair pasta noodles.
It turned out terrible a waste of money and time. Did I mention it tasted terrible. My husband was disgusted. Daugter left the house. Yet I thought I had concocted up something wonderful. Was to drunk to clean up the big mess that I made; slopped liquid everywhere. Had to go lay down on bed and pass out. Next morning looked around and thought here I go again.
Now I've made this very delicous dish sober. It's really tasty and the presentation looks like quality restaurant style. It could be in magazine photo receipe and all. My daughter didn't live the house. We sat down together and ate, had wonderful conversations with laughter. I received words of praise about my cooking. Oh the flavor and beautiful presentation of the dish. Dishes done that evening. Yes, and I made a homemade cheesecake for desert. Something I never would have done drunk.
I'm enjoying cooking edible food and cleaning up the kitchen the same night too. My family is apprecitaing paltable food and sober conversation. They usually clean up the kitchen to.
Good heavens I have many cooking horror stories do you have one to share. As this now is giving me a good laugh. I think it's important to be able to laugh a little, even though alcoholism is a serious situation.
Who's next?
Well I had this great idea about sauteing some lg. shrimp with fresh garlic, olive oil and a couple of spices. So, I ended up drinking a pint of vodka straight up in about an 1 hr maybe it was an 1hr and 1/2. Did I mention that I hadn't bothered to eat that day. Except the beers. You see after I ran out of beers I had to have more so I drove to the liqour store for some hard stuff. I thought I was being so creative. I ended up putting in mushrms, peppers, tomatoes, cheese, to much olive oil sesame oil all kinds of spices including curry and to many angel hair pasta noodles.
It turned out terrible a waste of money and time. Did I mention it tasted terrible. My husband was disgusted. Daugter left the house. Yet I thought I had concocted up something wonderful. Was to drunk to clean up the big mess that I made; slopped liquid everywhere. Had to go lay down on bed and pass out. Next morning looked around and thought here I go again.
Now I've made this very delicous dish sober. It's really tasty and the presentation looks like quality restaurant style. It could be in magazine photo receipe and all. My daughter didn't live the house. We sat down together and ate, had wonderful conversations with laughter. I received words of praise about my cooking. Oh the flavor and beautiful presentation of the dish. Dishes done that evening. Yes, and I made a homemade cheesecake for desert. Something I never would have done drunk.
I'm enjoying cooking edible food and cleaning up the kitchen the same night too. My family is apprecitaing paltable food and sober conversation. They usually clean up the kitchen to.
Good heavens I have many cooking horror stories do you have one to share. As this now is giving me a good laugh. I think it's important to be able to laugh a little, even though alcoholism is a serious situation.
Who's next?
Last yr. I tried to do my daughter's taxes. I did not take good notes from conversation with IRS, they were disorganized, hard to read. I couldn't concentrate reading the pamplet, actually I couldn't understand it either. So, I said sorry I know you wk, go to college. But, I can't.
This year I'm sober. I understood the Rep. from IRS I took good notes. I can understand what I'm reading I can concentrate. I can do the math.
Did I mention a wk later I remember most of what the IRS Rep. said.
My daughter's apprecitiate their MOM! WOO HOO!!!!
I Can.
This year I'm sober. I understood the Rep. from IRS I took good notes. I can understand what I'm reading I can concentrate. I can do the math.
Did I mention a wk later I remember most of what the IRS Rep. said.
My daughter's apprecitiate their MOM! WOO HOO!!!!
I Can.
Lookinup I can relate 110 % to your cooking story. Been there done that lol. Also isn't it the pits to wake up the next morning with all the mess you made the night before. "SHUDDER" . Did it many many times. The thing is hubby always used to help with the dishes and cleanup times I was sober but EVERY time I was drunk he ignored the whole mess. I guess it was a sort of punishment for me the next morning. That has all changed now. Hubby helps with the dishes and cleanup and I wake up to a clean kitchen in the mornings :)
Hi Pirate,
Yep, my husband would leave the mess for me to clean up the next morning to. Now he's always willing to help. Isn't being sober so much better for us all!!!
Then I couldn't get to sleep, or I would wake up several times a night and couldn't get back to sleep. Wake up tired, hung over. Wake up depressed.
Now I usually fall a sleep right away, sleep solid. Except for the couple of potty breaks, but then I go right back to sleep. I wake up more refreshed. Wake up happy. I really like being sober!!!
Yep, my husband would leave the mess for me to clean up the next morning to. Now he's always willing to help. Isn't being sober so much better for us all!!!
Then I couldn't get to sleep, or I would wake up several times a night and couldn't get back to sleep. Wake up tired, hung over. Wake up depressed.
Now I usually fall a sleep right away, sleep solid. Except for the couple of potty breaks, but then I go right back to sleep. I wake up more refreshed. Wake up happy. I really like being sober!!!
I just read the post about cooking while you're drunk. I put something in the oven late at night and passed out, (a few years ago now) I almost burnt the house down. If my mum and dad hadn't been in the house it would have gone up in flames. They showed me the charred remains of it and it shocked me enough to NEVER cook while drunk ever again. Surprisingly my dad was in quite good spirits about it, my mum was so shook up she was worried for weeks on end after.
Izzy
Izzy
