thanks :) I just made it to a year and going strong! Although I just quit smoking 2 weeks ago and I think that’s been the hardest yet…

I had to break up with my drinking-buddy friends. Turns out that’s pretty much all they were. One of my friends’ husbands’ (?) made a pass at me last new years and my friend, the wife, refused to take the matter seriously,via coerced by the opinion of her husband -she didn’t witness the incident. No one else at the party took me seriously either. It was because of that night that I realized what dangerous mess my life was because of alcohol. It made me sick. So, yeah, about 4 months after last new years I got the courage up to confront my friend about what happened, over coffee, and she calmly and soberly told me to stay out of her life. None of my other friends in this group have so much as sent me a text message since last new years. some friends, huh?

I spend a lot of time by myself and with my partner. I talk to my bff on the phone a lot, other than that its just a lot of here-and-there casual correspondence with friends I’m not especially close to. I feel like I’ve lost all my friends sometimes, and its really lonely. But I have a pretty amazing family and a few really special people in my life, so I do consider myself very lucky to at least be rid of the riff-raff. Thanks for your comment and questions. :)