Drinking from the Garden Hose

Thirty one trips around the sun! Today I turned thirty one years old. Last year when I turned thirty it felt like a significant milestone and I felt markedly older. This year, I feel more mature mostly because I kept forgetting my birthday was approaching and for the first time ever did not make everyone celebrate my birthday daily for all of April :). I forgot to take off work, so my day has been scattered with virtual video calls, but I still had time to go to my favorite coffee shop in town this morning, lay in the sun and take a long beach run. Since I quit caffeine, my go-to order is a Golden Turmeric latte - turmeric, coconut oil, whole milk and cinnamon - delicious! We also got croissants (I wrote in my gratitude journal this morning that I would celebrate with carbs and sugar). This will be my first booze-less birthday in over a decade! I have a cute photo my college roommate took of me holding my ID the day I turned 21 at a chic bar grown up bar (for a college town) that actua

I've been to Las Vegas AT LEAST fifteen times in the past ten years, primarily for tech conferences. I've left Vegas so hungover I've puked in the airport toilets, had panic attacks next to coworkers on flights back to Seattle, lost purses (Omnia night club once recovered and MAILED my Tory Burch bag to me, wow still shocked) and usually leave vowing never to drink again or return to Sin City. This time however, I was there for a bachelorette weekend nine and a half months into my new life sans booze. Going into the trip I was trepidatious about how I would feel being in such a mania inducing, stimulating, alcohol fueled environment... arguably THE MOST alcohol centric city on planet Earth... but I had the best time I've ever had in Las Vegas without a single sip of alcohol and no drugs! Sober in Sin City! Tackling milestones like this in sobriety give you a lot of confidence, and for me, reinforces that this is one of the best decisions I've ever made and I can con