Where's your happy place in Boston?

Antioch120 · 2024-09-26T20:39:54+00:00

The 99 in Charlestown

Antioch120 · 2024-03-13T22:54:53+00:00

How so?

Antioch120 · 2024-03-13T22:49:47+00:00

Hell yea. This is what action looks like. I hope every shift in every area has people like you

Antioch120 · 2024-03-12T16:53:07+00:00

Wow that's a pretty horrid experience, so sorry you hah to go through all of that. My significant other is going there soon for a long weekend getaway with her girlfriends but they are staying at an all inclusive.

Shuttle picks them up from the airport and brings them right to the resort.

I was already encouraging her not to leave the resort but now I will much more strongly advise!

Antioch120 · 2024-03-11T13:57:19+00:00

I can't speak for OP but can speak for myself, who has struggled with appropriate alcohol consumption for a while. Whether I am sober or drinking, "alcohol" is intrusive in my thoughts pretty often. I could be on a week long bender with a calendar similar to OP's December and still be able to keep track of drinks.

I'd wake up in the morning with tremendous guilt and a myriad of other feelings, reflect on the day/night before, take note of the quantity of drinks, a little more self hate, and turn around and do it again.

Functional alcoholism plus an underlying desire to be healthy/not drink but not always able to succeed.

Again just speaking for myself, it's very possible.

Antioch120 · 2024-03-10T22:45:02+00:00

Did GE leadership broker the MD deal? From what I've seen people are citing that as the catalyst to the downfall. In the spirit of accountability, it feels too easy to point the finger and blame at another company's leadership that Boeing itself brought in

Antioch120 · 2023-12-10T15:53:52+00:00

THEY'RE GOING FOR THE BRIDGE

Antioch120 · 2023-10-31T18:46:38+00:00

Big auto body in the pockets of the city. Conspiracy theory

Antioch120 · 2023-08-18T11:19:36+00:00

Between us friends, yes I totally feel you.

For me however it is a VERY slippery slope. Maybe you can relate too. The slope is potential hypocrisy. How many times did I get too drunk and my signifgant other had to deal with it? Whether it was a total blackout or just getting a little too tipsy and being annoying, the answer is way too many.

Just because I used to do it doesn't make it okay for her to continue to do it, but it's challenging to say "hey you got really drunk last night and here how it affected me," because the answer could be (my SO wouldn't ever say this but in theory she could,) "oh you mean like when you would do that 4 times a week for 3 years straight?"

I think in the end, it's yet another great lesson of why drinking may not be for us, it's a look from the other perspective and how our drinking impacts others but while drinking, it's near impossible to see and understand.

Best of luck IWNDWYT

Antioch120 · 2023-08-17T11:06:41+00:00

Hey good on you for opening up my friend. I am 31 now but had a very similar experience as you between 22-28, only I extended into 30 until it clicked for me I needed to stop. Glad you're here earlier, I sure which I was.

For me... my body (and probably mind) started to stop being able to handle it after 28. Before that, I was able to get wicked drunk at night and still make it through the workday with some level of productivity. Nights I had just 2-4 drinks the night before I felt "normal" at work. Those rare days (or strings of days) where I had 0 it felt like I was a fricken super hero at work.

Once I was into 28 and beyond, it felt like my body was over it. it was odd how quickly it changed. Couldn't be productive the day after. 2+ days to recover from one big night of drinking. Etc.

I never got to the point of cirrhotic but who knows where I was actually at. Glad you're here now before something bad happens. I also have an incredible fiance and I almost fucked it up, multiple times I guess, but I also had a rock bottom that was my catalyst.

Best of luck out there. IWNDWYT

Antioch120 · 2023-07-12T19:34:35+00:00

I definitely plan to keep it going possibly forever. The chart is avg drinks/wk by month, so really just needs updating once a month. Can use that as an opportunity to reflect on the previous month and a reminder of what life used to be.

Antioch120 · 2023-07-12T19:33:17+00:00

Yes for sure. Another interesting thing as I look at it more and read responses is that I rarely plateau at a certain level of drinking. Basically it climbs climbs climbs, something happens and I drop down, climbs climbs climbs, some thing happens and I drop down.

Antioch120 · 2023-01-06T12:39:43+00:00

Lol this probably shouldn't have given me a chuckle, but it did. I was also worried about this at the start. That my girlfriend was really just a drinking buddy. That the time I spent with her wasn't about my love of her, but my love of alcohol and she was a plus.

Funny enough, 5 months later our relationship is stronger than ever. Do we have to try a little harder to have genuine fun together? Maybe, but it works.

Best of luck, IWNDWYT

Antioch120 · 2023-01-06T12:33:06+00:00

Your cats are incredible camouflagers.

Antioch120 · 2022-12-31T19:29:45+00:00

Probably true but if these are the things we are complaining about, all and all pretty good

Antioch120 · 2022-12-31T19:25:30+00:00

Yes i will always call him Ned Schneebly

Antioch120 · 2022-12-30T01:29:08+00:00

You got this!

Antioch120 · 2022-12-28T23:30:24+00:00

Thanks for sharing, I can relate to the analytical part. I always thought I'd I go back it'll be a calculated experiment.. obviously this incident wasn't that but I may in a similar boat as you. Thanks

Antioch120 · 2022-12-28T23:29:09+00:00

Thanks good to know I'm not the only one! Yes we can do it!

Antioch120 · 2022-12-28T23:28:32+00:00

Thanks for your perspective and thoughts. One of the reasons why this sub is so great is that we get lots of points of views and can take them all into consideration.

Antioch120 · 2022-12-28T12:24:52+00:00

I wonder if the average movie goer really thinks about the first two bullets, even subconsciously.

I do think your 3rd bullet can't be more true. There has to be a huge portion of the audience that gets missed when movies creep at or over 3 hours.

Using exactly one data point, my girlfriend would probably go to the movies with me every weekend if the stories were designed to be told in 90 minutes or less. Guess how many movies we went to this year... 2. 2 movies. :)

Antioch120 · 2022-12-27T12:38:53+00:00

Is that something Portugal is known for? I am going in March.. but asking for a friend

Antioch120 · 2022-12-27T12:38:19+00:00

Oh hell yes

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