2/22/2021 In celebration of my "100 Days Alcohol Free" milestone, I wanted to share 100 reasons why I am happy to be sober. The list is long, it is personal, and it is eye-opening. So without further adieu... My anxiety has almost all but disappeared.I am sleeping at night. At a conservative estimate of $10 …
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I’m A Little Teapot
I am a creature of habit. I thrive on order, organization, and schedules. I also am very susceptible to habits, good or bad. One my most "comforting" routines was to clock off work and pour a glass of wine. My excuse was that this glass of wine was to decompress, to celebrate, to soothe. Looking back, …
Cotton Candy Mock-a-Rita
You're staying #AFAF (alcohol free, as fuck), but every now and then you miss the cocktails and crave a fun little drink. Enter Cotton Candy Mock-a-Ritas! If you've given up sugar in addition to the alcohol, go ahead and exit out of this post and be on your merry way. This drink would make Wilford …
Poll Time: Repurposing a Home Bar
My husband and I bought our house back in 2012. It was a foreclosure with amazing potential. We scooped it up at a fraction of the price and used the money saved to repaint the entire upstairs, reline the pool, fix the retaining wall, and finish the walk-out basement. We finished the fourth bedroom downstairs …
Dream a Little Dream
I had my first dream about alcohol last night. On some of the sobriety pages and apps that I follow, I knew it was a thing. Over the course of the past year, I've had very vivid, sometimes prophetic dreams, but they never breached the subject of alcohol. I thought I was safe. I was …
Happy National Kombucha Day!
You didn't know National Kombucha Day was a thing? Yeah, me neither. That is, until my oldest daughter texted me this morning. And, it just so happens that during a text conversation with my sister last night she stated that she would actually read my blog if I posted about kombucha. Wait, what? Anyway... Kombucha …
Sugar How’d You Get So Fly?
Wow. Not just wow, but fucking WOW! The amount of supportive responses to me "coming out" about my sobriety yesterday were nothing short of amazing. My @flirting_with_sobriety Instagram account gained another 40-something followers overnight and this blog's stats hit so hard, I set all-time records on the page. So, first and foremost, thank you. Thank …
Flirting With Sobriety
I guess it is time to make it public knowledge. Over the course of the past year, I have been on a journey to sobriety. There is no tragic story to tell. No accident. No DUI. No medical diagnosis. No “holy shit” moment. It’s been more of a gradual “what am I doing to myself” …
