Longtime green LA girl readers know I give myself a sticker for every day I limit myself to 2 or fewer drinks. The results for 2008:
Jan: 19
Feb: 19
Mar: 12
Apr: 14
May: 11
June: 19
July: 9
Aug: 11
Sept: 8
Oct: 12
Nov: 13
Dec: 8Total: 155
This beats out last year’s 127 days — yay! I also achieved my resolution for 2008, which was to get at least 11 stickers a month. My average ended up being almost 13 stickers a month (12.92)
My goal for next year: To get a sticker for more than half the days of the year, which comes out to at least 183 stickers.
To achieve this: I’m not drinking this month — with a one-day exception for Obama’s Inauguration. That way I’ll have some wiggle room if I fuck up later on in the year.
As you can see from the photo, I’m totally on top of it so far.
Wow! Interesting idea. You drink every day? I wonder how many stickers I’d get.
Comment by Caroline on Crack — January 2, 2009 @ 1:37 pm
No — Some days when I got a sticker, I didn’t drink at all. But I don’t distinguish between the days when I have 2 or fewer drinks and the days I have no drinks at all — at least not sticker-wise.
But this month I’m really not going to drink at all except that one day –
Comment by Siel — January 2, 2009 @ 1:39 pm
The semester before I dropped out of college (the first time), I don’t think I would have gotten any stickers. Now I’m on meds where drinking is discouraged so the last time I had a drink was when I had a beer along with you at writers’ group.
Comment by Don Hosek — January 2, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
Nice job man! Well now that you’re on the wagon in Jan. we can concoct some preggatinis and mocktails. Ha.
Comment by Summer — January 2, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
So far, so good. Only a beer (albeit not organic) and a whole lot of fair trade coffee to keep up with you.
Comment by Dan — January 3, 2009 @ 9:31 am
All meds seem to discourage drinking but most don’t really seem to have negative synergistic effects….
Thanks for the encouragement, Summer :)
Dan — My coffee habit’s going strong too. I’ve noticed that drinking less is making it harder both to stay away and to fall asleep….
Comment by Siel — January 3, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Ha. My first look at that list had me seeing the month and number as a single date and I was thinking you must be a little sloshed to get 155 days out of the 12 I was seeing.
Comment by Will Campbell — January 5, 2009 @ 11:58 am