Entry for 6th January, 2008

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40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends
is my goal in life.
And it must be done before 10th July.
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No. of QCTs to date: 2
I have now been without alcohol for 28 days. That's 4 whole weeks. Or one twelfth of a lifetime. I actually feel better for it, and I don't crave a drink. Apart from the odd night when I wake up in a cold sweat after a dream of a beautiful ice cold drink of lager, I have been absolutely fine. This is the longest I have been without a drink since I was a teenager, which is actually quite a scary thought. If celebrity chef and scarmonger were to cut me open, I suspect that he would find my liver to have the word Guinness running all the way through it, like a rather gory piece of Blackpool Rock.
Perhaps I am growing up? Perhaps Peter Pan has been ejected from Never Never Land by the lost boys, because he's started to read the broadsheets. Tinker Bell is waving sadly at him, as he flies off to university, and onwards to a job in the insurance industry.
I am pleased that I am not an alcoholic though. I mean, an alcoholic would never give up the booze for a month, just to prove that he could do it. That's the decision a perfectly well-balanced social drinker would adopt, isn't it?