First and foremost - THANK YOU to everyone who takes the time to read my thoughts. Especially those of you who have reached out with positive comments and words of encouragement. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
January was an interesting month for me. If you've spent any time with me in the past 10 years, you know I love a glass of wine! I indulge rather often. Over-indulge from time to time, if you will. Especially during the holiday season, I was drinking more often than not.
I made a pact with a good friend of mine that we would go the month of January without booze. It SOUNDED like a good idea at the time. And in some ways it was. But I love drinking. I love the social aspect of grabbing a drink after work, or recapping the day over a glass of wine. I won't be challenging myself to abstain for this long for quite a while... if ever.
What I did realize is that I can still have fun without drinking. I would say I had just as much fun sober as I do when I'm drinking. I had wonderful conversations, laughed a lot, fully participated in nights out. I will add the disclaimer that January tends to be a slow month socially. I noticed a huge difference in my sleep. Slept soundly through the night and woke up feeling GREAT. And I probably bit my tongue a bit more effectively than had I been drinking... :)
To re-cap, I'm going to drink when I want to, but hope to drink less than before - both in frequency and volume.
Other exciting announcements from January are to come, but I'm not quite yet to put them out on the interwebs yet. Stay tuned ;)
