Just found this subforum! Needs more activity tho!

[Northern-Lights]

My mini story. My parents lost custody of me when I was 16 and I was put into foster care, then I was sent to treatment shortly after dropping out of high school. I got sober at 17 and now have 1 and a half years clean, Ive since got my GED, started back to college, and work 2 lucrative jobs. All thanks to the program.

 

[zoiDman]

Right on Northern-Lights.

When I first got involved in the Program, I would listen to the "Promises" and think how Cool it would be if they Really were True.

768 Days Later I know that they Are. Because I have seen them in My Life. And in Countless Others who have Worked the Steps.

 

[r77r7r]

Congrats NL. 1-1/2yrs is great! I only took afew years longer than you, but it'd been great to get sober and clean so young.

It's been quite awhile since then, and I can say that I've been rewarded many times over for making that choice.

You have a great future ahead of you!!

 

[Northern-Lights]

Thanks guys! Yea the promises have definitely starting coming true for me, I'm regarded as a genuinely nice and honest person when I used to pride myself on being a "bad person". Service work was the real kicker for me, got me in with sober Young peoples that have tons of fun.

 

[Rat2chat2]

Be very proud of yourself for already accomplishing what many others took so much longer to achieve. We all have potential.......it is our choice to make dreams come true. Continued success to you.

 

[Kr3wsk8er]

I as well just found this forum, grateful to see there are more of us on here =] I know I am responding to a month old thread but to the OP congratulations on your year + sober!

 

[Northern-Lights]

Has it really been a month? Lol

 

[Kr3wsk8er]

Has it really been a month? Lol

1 week shy of month* I rounded up haha

 

[jumphour]

Hi there. I have been looking for alcohol-related DIY hints and suggestions. I had 11 years on June 12th, and I don't wanna mess it up. LOL I see a lot of the DIY flavors are alcohol based, but I see some that don't have it, or some that I can get alcohol free that you can mix with distilled water to thin, so that's a good thing. One thing I was always mournful about after being sober was absinthe....I never had it, and was never gonna! So I got some absinthe flavor to vape, which is awesome. (I just like the anise flavor, really, so it's like anise candy....doesn't give me the urge to drink or anything). I found a flavoring concentrate, but have to figure out how to make it work for me. I do put my bottles of juice in hot-water baths in my little ultrasonic cleaner, so I'm sure that helps to get most of the alcohol out of my juices, if there is any.

 

[zoiDman]

Hi there. I have been looking for alcohol-related DIY hints and suggestions. I had 11 years on June 12th, and I don't wanna mess it up. LOL I see a lot of the DIY flavors are alcohol based, but I see some that don't have it, or some that I can get alcohol free that you can mix with distilled water to thin, so that's a good thing. One thing I was always mournful about after being sober was absinthe....I never had it, and was never gonna! So I got some absinthe flavor to vape, which is awesome. (I just like the anise flavor, really, so it's like anise candy....doesn't give me the urge to drink or anything). I found a flavoring concentrate, but have to figure out how to make it work for me. I do put my bottles of juice in hot-water baths in my little ultrasonic cleaner, so I'm sure that helps to get most of the alcohol out of my juices, if there is any.

Not sure how much Help I can be on the Flavorings.

But a Big Right on for 11 Years!

 

[Mowgli]

Hi there. I have been looking for alcohol-related DIY hints and suggestions. I had 11 years on June 12th, and I don't wanna mess it up. LOL I see a lot of the DIY flavors are alcohol based, but I see some that don't have it, or some that I can get alcohol free that you can mix with distilled water to thin, so that's a good thing. One thing I was always mournful about after being sober was absinthe....I never had it, and was never gonna! So I got some absinthe flavor to vape, which is awesome. (I just like the anise flavor, really, so it's like anise candy....doesn't give me the urge to drink or anything). I found a flavoring concentrate, but have to figure out how to make it work for me. I do put my bottles of juice in hot-water baths in my little ultrasonic cleaner, so I'm sure that helps to get most of the alcohol out of my juices, if there is any.

Congrats on 11 years. That's over 4000 miracles

26 years here.
I don't mourn the stuff I didn't take/drink.
I had enough of what I did to beat me into a state of reasonableness.

MBV and Flavor West Absinthe are tasty @ 12.5% in 70/30 or 18% in 40/60 PG/VG.

I've been DIYing for over a year and never was concerned with alc-free flavors.
I use an UC to speed steep.
I give my juices 4-5 hours there with the caps on and 12+ hours caps off to aerate the alc out.
Juice tastes plain nasty to me unless it's aerated but good.

 

[zoiDman]

Wow...

26 Years is Outstanding!

 

[r77r7r]

Hi there. I have been looking for alcohol-related DIY hints and suggestions. I had 11 years on June 12th, and I don't wanna mess it up. LOL I see a lot of the DIY flavors are alcohol based, but I see some that don't have it, or some that I can get alcohol free that you can mix with distilled water to thin, so that's a good thing. One thing I was always mournful about after being sober was absinthe....I never had it, and was never gonna! So I got some absinthe flavor to vape, which is awesome. (I just like the anise flavor, really, so it's like anise candy....doesn't give me the urge to drink or anything). I found a flavoring concentrate, but have to figure out how to make it work for me. I do put my bottles of juice in hot-water baths in my little ultrasonic cleaner, so I'm sure that helps to get most of the alcohol out of my juices, if there is any.

Best way I found to not jeopardize your sobriety is to bounce your challenges off another sober person. They can usually see thru it if you're just trying to convince yourself.
I usually just ask myself, is it worth it?? It's easy to get over-confident about things the longer you're sober.
ODAT...

Same here with the missing out on something thought, I got sober around when they were coming out with wine coolers and I was sad that I never got to try one.
Reality would be more like 1 cooler followed my 10 beers and 10 shots., lol.

 

[zoiDman]

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Reality would be more like 1 cooler followed my 10 beers and 10 shots., lol.

I hear you.

I like to tell people that it Wasn't the 18 Beers I Drank that got me in Trouble. Or the all the Bottles of Schnapps or Rum that I drank.

It was that 1st Drink of the Day. Because after that, it seems that All Bets were Off.

I would be Fine until I took the 1st Drink. But after that, everything kinda went Out the Window.

 

[Mowgli]

I would be Fine until I took the 1st Drink. But after that, everything kinda went Out the Window.

Sometimes literally

 

[zoiDman]

Sometimes literally

Yeah... I'd rather Not Talk about that Particular Evening.

LOL

 

[McCoys]

09-27-90 here.

 

[zoiDman]

09-27-90 here.

That a Lot of Consecutive Days.

Right On McCoys!

 

[McCoys]

The first days were the hardest. Shakes weren't very nice.

 

[r77r7r]

Welcome, McCoys! Pleased to meet you.