This Christmas is special to me.

Christmas Day 06 I spent in the ER going through extreme withdrawls - almost died.

Christmas 07 was better, but I was just coming out of a relapse so I was feeling **** about myself, and I was stressed about being unemployed.

This year I'm sober. I have a job. I'm spending Christmas day with really good friends who are also sober. I've bought the sparkly grape juice. And best of all I had 3 different invites to do stuff on Christmas day with buddies from AA. A far cry from when I was alone drinking myself into oblivion. I went to a great Christmas concert Mon. night put on by a harpist friend of mine with a friend from AA.

I've set a goal for myself. And that's to learn enough harp music to play for an hour from memory, so that I can volunteer to provide live music at next year's AA intergroup Christmas day event.

--splitimage