Third update on no booze 2026

It really hasn't been that long since my last update on not drinking alcohol this year, but this week I hit the six-month milestone and I wanted to reflect a bit on this achievement as I felt a lot more strongly than I had expected to, and these days, after blogging for a fair amount of time, it seems the only way I have left to do that is to put pen-to-paper/hand-to-keyboard. On Tuesday, after I had gotten home from work, I opened the I Am Sober app that is tracking the exact amount of time since I last drank, and watched as it counted down the last 20 minutes before hitting the six-month mark. About 30 seconds after opening the app, I burst into tears; like big, gulping, raw, scrunch-faced tears that I just couldn't stop. I stood in the kitchen, trying to eat my dinner of cold beetroot soup (it's meant to be that way, good for a warm day) and bread, and as it all mixed with the crying, horrendous sight that it was, I realised how much I've changed in the past six months. Trying to…