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Patrick Harris




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exercise regularly
getting there 7 months ago

If you had told me one year ago that I would be so very delighted to get back to the gym after a week of schedule conflicts, I would have laughed in your face. And yet.

I’m not willing to call this ‘done’, at least not until I see that this is a permanent change, but I think I’m going to be pretty comfortable checking it off in a month or two.

Mar 27, 12:53PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


fuck Sarah Palin
Untitled 14 months ago

Don’t get me wrong, I hate her as a politician and I’m not entirely convinced she’s worth a damn as a human being either. But I’d still give it to her.

Sep 12, 2008, 04:34PM PDT | 0 comments


abstain from alcohol for one full year (read all 11 entries…)
I did it? I did it! 16 months ago

This almost comes as a surprise to me, but I did it. I really did spend an entire year sober. More than a year, because it’s the end of the 17th now, and my anniversary was some unspecified time on the 15th. (I think my last drink was actually in the early hours of the 14th, but I declared in the middle of the hangover later that night that I would go the extra day just to be sure.)

I have been told that some people assumed this project to be a well-intentioned improbability. (Less charitable language has been used, but that was the gist.) I can’t say that was an entirely inappropriate assumption, at the time. I have also been told that I make it look easy. Though flattering, I don’t know how I feel about that – I think it might even be true, but I assure you that ‘easy’ is not a word I would use to describe this.

As for the future, my decision for now is to continue not drinking. I think that is the wisest decision. I don’t predict I will stay quit for my entire life; a relapse at some point down the road is almost an inevitability. Or maybe not? But accepting that it might happen, thus preparing myself for the possibility of dealing with it, seems a healthier attitude than denying the possibility.

And I still want a beer. :p

Jun 17, 2008, 08:58PM PDT | 3 cheers | 3 comments


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See New Moon! own more anime. make love in the rain learn fencing witness the end of IE MorningThunderstorm wants to redecorate my living room Have my first kiss Believe in myself WATCH THE WHOLE NARUTO SERIES go skiing again love and be loved get a meaningful tattoo Be fluent in Italian ugogrl wants to Read more Learn to play tabla Read all of the books from Rory Gilmore's bookclub scrapbook my life sing in a band design clothes Take a cooking class find myself change my life bench press 250 pounds find new authors to read learn to swing dance Make new friends Gertie wants to Visit a foreign city for every letter of the alphabet Be happy and make others happy too
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