A victory against booze

I've been 'heroic' tonight, and I've not gotten drunk. If you check the information about me, it'll mention that I'm a bit of an alcoholic. I beat the habit tonight by following a nifty plan...

I go to the gym at 9pm, and when I get back, I just wait a little (enjoying my exercise induced endorphins) until it's 11pm, and hence impossible for me to actually buy any alcoholic drink. Before I buggered this plan up, I actually was pretty stressed out in the day and decided to start getting drunk at 6pm.

You see, I'm alone in my flat and I get bored, so indulging in drink is kind of what I end up doing. I believe tomorrow I'm going to check-out some advice on-line, about beating alcoholism. My cognitive behavioural therapist told me today that it could be a clever idea to put aside the money that I'm not spending on alcohol and save it (to be spent on something nice later), and in so that hopefully may motivate me to stop getting drunk so often. I suppose little cognitive tricks like that may actually really help; because DAMN, it's so nasty to just rely on willpower.

Well anyway, today I broke the chain of about 20 nights in a row getting drunk. There was this one 'black sheep' of a night where I only got a bit tipsy, but I won't let that break the chain. I doubt my liver is worrying about this technicality. It's probably thanking the lord for this day of rest.

Yes so... I've only just started the blog and at the moment I'm just trying to get a first post done, so look at the full stop after this last word.