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Sobriety Is The New Cool.

I've given some pretty deep thought to this post, and for several weeks I have been toying with what I am about to write. Mainly due to the fact that if I were to proclaim something in this type of forum and not go through with it I might look like a douche. Or even worse that my word would lose legitimacy.

Today I have given up drinking alcoholic beverages for the next month cold turkey, and it is my goal to stop for the rest of 2009, and perhaps a longer period of time. 

Now I understand that this is a pretty drastic change, as I have been quite a shit show in my day, but I have my reasons: health concerns, budgetary realizations, and general stupid and clouted decision making. In all honesty my main push for this initiative is because I feel that my life is speeding by far too quickly. I am trying to remind myself that I only have one shot at this, and that I should be maximizing every breathe of it. I think that for me, at least, alcoholism is one of the things in my life that is compromising my efficiency, and overall life productivity.

So to my friends - please understand that I can be equally offending and hilarious without booze, and that this is kind of my way of resetting some very important defaults in my life.

To my haters a.k.a doubters - I will not fail, and I will take this seriously. This is going to be 6 months of fun, and true realization of what I can do with what I have. Please respect that I am doing this for me, and that it may be just be a small combination of acts. Although someone famous once said - "I wish to do something great and wonderful. But i must start by doing the little things like they were great and wonderful. " So hear goes with the first step.