NYD, Friends Who Relapse, & Alcathons

Today is Friday January First Two Thousand Ten. Goodbye to the fucking Oh's, woo woo ! Apologies for yesterday's post but its good to get stuff out once in a while and thats exactly why I started this blogomatic. Went to bed before midnight last nite, slept on the couch till five am or so. I really didn't want to hang out in Boston and see all the wasted people running around. I spent a sober NYE a few years ago at my friend's apartment in the South End and all I could here were people's drunken screaming. It totally sucked and I won't ever repeat that. Hanging in and just enjoying life is more my speed these days.

My friend Eric called me before midnight and I think I talked to him for a few, I think I remember him asking for my old drug dealer's phone number. I am sorry but thats a pretty lame thing to ask but I know its his disease talking to me. I would do the same thing to him if the roles were reversed. So I can't fault him for his actions but it does bum me out because he is a chronic relapser. The last time I spoke with him he told me that he was going to go and get a suboxone script and start his recovery program. He seems to go thru this deal about every six months or so and then after a month of not using he is back hustling and using dope.

I am going to my first alcathon today, I know it sounds like a drinking competition but its a series of AA meetings over a twelve or twenty four hour period on what are typically big drinking days. NYD, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Xmas. I have not been to a meeting in a few and I reckon it would be a good way to get some meetings in my day today. Should be interesting and I am trying to reach my sponsor to see if he wants to hang at the meetings or after them. Ed is a good sponsor but he really needs to learn to check his messages more than once every three or four days. If not listening to his messages is the only criticism I have of him then I think that I can deal with that.

I was just watching a commerical for 1800dentist and one of the questions the person had in the ad was "Who uses nitrous oxide ?" What kinda fucking question is that? Bizzare, anyway I am going to watch the rest of Springer ("Transsexual Takedown") and then go to Harvard Square. Update after that....

So there was a speaker that said "You Know" eight one times in fifteen minutes. I counted. Don't mean to be critical but jebus, I felt like jumping up and yelling, "YES ! WE KNOW DUDE, ALRIGHT ENOUGH WITH THE YOU KNOWS !" But I didn't because that wouldn't be polite and if I am anything I am polite. Well that and on time. I have a chronic issue with being anywhere from a half hour to ten minutes early to anything anywhere. I think it runs in my family because both my grandpa and pop are also chronically early. It totally stresses me out to be late and even tho I hate waiting around its just the way I am. If I ever meet a chick who is early to meeting me I will marry her on the spot. Well maybe not on the spot but after a carefully thought and signed pre nup. Thats something I will write about later, the whole pre nup thing and its something that I totally believe in.