1st off, I
LOVE this!
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Originally Posted by jollyhumper
gOD
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Where did you pick that up from? Or is it something you came up with on your own?
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Still, I have to ask. Have you tried?
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Have I tried what? AA? If that's the question, no. I was never "addicted" to alcohol. I was a big fan of abusing it by binge-drinking, but I was never a daily drinker & was really only drinking 2 or 3 times a month in late 2004. When I did quit, it was a
SNAP in my head where I was just done with it. Done with pissing The Bitch off. Done with the 2 day hangovers
*, where I'd go to a Bills (football) game on a Sunday & not start to function until Tuesday afternoon. It was tough at 1st. I quit on a Monday after a good 16(?) hours of drinking at the Bills/Jets game the previous day, where I know I started pounding at 8AM, went into the game at 12:30, partied in the parking lot after, and then went home to find my oldest stepdaughter was having a party in the pool house
I vaguely remember midnight. I mention this because the following Sunday, Yell & I went to Boston for a Bills/Patriots night game with AdultLegalJim (if anyone remembers him). We got in late Friday, went bar hopping all day Saturday, and started tailgating around Noon on Sunday since it was a night game. All that was
really, really, really fucking hard, but I think that since it was a
SNAP that went off in my head & it wasn't being forced upon me by someone else or an outside party, that's the reason I was able to work thru it.
Now, I should throw in here that I was 1st prescribed pain meds in 2007 & that "helped" with the not drinking because I was buzzed on opiates thru 2014 when I got a
SNAP about my problem with them and due to my physical dependency on them with the withdrawls is another long story...
*After giving my liver a break for 12 or so years, I've only had 1 mildly bad hangover since I took drinking back up & I have gotten
fucking shitfaced a couple of times, so that's a pleasant unintended side effect that you can think about trying out in 2030
I do have another AA tie-in that I'll PM you about shortly.