I want to go get drunk!
 

I have been on the wagon for a while now, but I definitely feel like stepping off today. I guess its holiday depression and the fact that my ride to my AA meeting never showed, but I'm feeling like fuck this. I'm sitting in my apartment all alone and there's no one to care if I go buy a pint of peppermint schnapps. Its very hard not having a car and being disabled, and sometimes - like today, things get the best of me. Maybe I'll just go curl up on the bed with my cats and take a nap and I'll feel better when I wake up. I am really trying to do this sobriety thing, but I feel very near defeat today. :(

Grab a Harry Potter book, snuggle up under a blanket and forget the world for a bit. Might not make you feel better, but at least i won't be the only unproductive lump on this board..... and you never know, it might work....

It's not worth the money

Go out to the ice cream shop and get yourself something horrifically decadent, with lots of syrup and whipped cream.

Ice cream and chocolate always make me feel better. :D

Just don't have a drink today. Tomorrow...well, decide tomorrow what you'll do tomorrow.

Sometimes I want to get drunk too. I miss the buzz, the loss of some serious inhibitions, the way everything seemed so much less gloomy (after the 2nd drink but before the 6th).

Except for the times when I woke up with my head pounding not remembering how I got wherever I was, or a deeply buried anger and/or sorrow surfaced and fell down my face in the form of tears or my brain disconnected from my mouth and bridges were burned.

I don't miss that.

6 years, 3 months, 16 days sobriety here.

You can do it.

Hold on for a little longer, you never know what good things are around the corner....

I'm seriously thinking of going on that wagon myself, as a New Year's thing.

I quit smoking shortly after New Year's, 8 years ago.

I'm not an irresponsible drunk, I don't think -- but I do drink too much and too regularly and stay up too late and don't get enough accomplished.

I also think it might be the root of some of my recent health problems, like blood pressure. So maybe it's time.

sam, hang on. Think it through. are you hungry, angry, lonely, tired?

the sundae thing works for me - I never want to drink after I eat - esp. if it's all sugar.

you know what the ISM in alcoholism stands for - Incredibly Short Memory. Think - what happend to you the last time you drank? bet it wasn't good. do you have a sponsor?? someone to call??

WRONG!!!! We care. Today, choose ice-cream. Or Harry Potter. Or a nice hot cup of tea. Or the cats and the nap. Stormie is right - tomorrow is not today's issue. Right now, the cats and the nap sound good to me.

Ice cream! tea and a book!

I agree! Grab a book!

I am sorry your ride bailed....but we are usually right here on the cellar...(not that I am great company)

Thanks, everyone. I curled up with the cats and the book and they all helped. I need to find a more dependeble ride than the woman who's been picking me up lately. She got ticked off at me over something stupid and now picks me up when she feels like it.

Thank heavens for my two little fur faces who helped me through the day. Pets are wonderful!

Well done Sam. I'm with the dry crowd as well. This can be a tough season, lean on the Cellar.

I'm not with the dry crowd at all, but reading Harry Potter apparently slows down my beer consumption (as well as the rest of my life...)