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The Corkscrew Broke

A few days ago, I woke up with a wine-induced headache and stomach ache.  I came out to the kitchen to make breakfast and when I opened the fridge to grabs some eggs, I was greeted with a strange sight -- a bottle of unopened white wine with a broken corkscrew in the cork.

While I wasn't the culprit for this particular oddity, I am sure I played a part.

I think we got that corkscrew about 10 years ago, and since then it's probably opened on the order of 5,500 or more bottles of wine.  That's right.  The math is 10 years * 365 days * 1.5 bottles of wine per night = 5,475.  Honestly it's probably more than that, but I'm certain a decent percentage of the wine bottles we've opened were screw tops, so probably didn't contribute to the demise of the corkscrew.

I drink a lot, way too much actually.  Every day. I recently took a survey on DrinkAware, and it said that 99% of people likely drink less than I do.  Ouch.  I think I've known I was a problem drinker on some level since I was about 25 or 26 (I'm now 37).  I have a vivid memory of waking up terribly hungover and looking up AA on my computer.  I obviously didn't follow through with it.  And then there was the time I tried self-hypnosis.  And then there was the time I tried the 30 day Sobriety Challenge.  And then there was the time that I considered ordering Antabuse from a sketchy online pharmacy but didn't.  And then there was the time... and on and on...

I'm not sure where this is going to go, but I'm hoping it leads me to a better place than I am now.  I will say my drinking habits have gotten less severe in the past year or so, but they're still worse than 99% of people according to that DrinkAware survey I took last week... things need to change.

So, my initial goals are to reduce my drinking, and even consider giving it up entirely. 

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