I’m proud to report that I’ve made it another weekend alcohol free once again. This weekend compared to last weekend was a lot more challenging in terms of temptation/peer pressure. Friday, I had a some friends visit whom I hadn’t seen in a while. I told them about my “Sober Challenge” and once again I [...]
So this video was brought to my attention by a friend: The message my friend wrote was: “so how i can picture you in this video and yet somehow i’m surprised you haven’t made one yet.” The kid in the back dancing reminds me of Harry Potter. Who says you need alcohol to have a [...]
About a week has gone by since my last post and I’m proud to say I’m clean and sober. However, I feel like it’s kind of cheating since I wasn’t really in an environment with a lot of temptation to drink. Either way though I’ve noticed that not drinking on the weekends has made more [...]
Alright, so I’ve made it through the weekend alcohol free. I didn’t have that much of an inkling to drink, but definitely more so than I did on the 4th of July boat excursion. Part of it was probably due to the slight hangover from the Tuesday night and the other part to the continual [...]
So Tuesday, July 3rd, was my last day I could drink alcohol according to my sober year challenge. I ended up going out out and enjoying myself one last time with the devil’s drink. It was a fun time, though I can’t remember the last half of the night. I guess it’s good I didn’t [...]
“Why are you doing this?” “Why do you take things to the extreme?” “You just need to learn moderation” “You aren’t an alcoholic, you don’t need to stop…” These are some of the responses I’ve received after I tell friends that I’ve decided that I’m not going to drink for a year. They think I’m [...]
Hello. My name is Ben Tao. I have random thoughts throughout the day--some amusing, some ridiculous, most are lame. Rather than forget them I've decided to write them down like the other billion bloggers out there. Welcome.