This has been a hell of a year. I have traveled to both coasts as well as to another country entirely, adopted a puppy while raising a toddler, I have stood next to my sister and witnessed her marry the only man I’ve met worthy of her love, then almost lost her to a random ass drive by shooting in Vegas. I’ve stood in the rain in the desert, been on 9 airplanes, rented 4 cars, crossed 100k miles on my old truck. I have also, for weeks at a time, been a single dad due to my wife’s job, had a minor surgery that wasn’t locally anesthetized properly so I felt the majority of the pain, and most recently witnessed six men lose their their lives in an airplane crash. I have had panic attacks, I’ve been forced to feel emotions that I would have drank away, I have been forced to reckon with my adult ADHD that I had been self-medicating with nicotine for 17 years. It has been a hard year, but it has also been an intensely beautiful year. Here are just a few moments from it.
TLDR; quitting alcohol has been an incredible blessing.
416 days sober from alcohol
288 days off nicotine.
I had to take an instagram vs reality series with the people on the bank haha. It wasn’t terribly busy that day though, probably because of the rainy weather.