actually, from what i have read and studied alcohol can be found in the tissues of the brain a year after abstinence. kind of scary,huh? why are you so bored? because your life has revolved around drinking. we know nothing else and so we feel deprived, lost,too much tome on our hands, lack of excitement (chaos) etc.and, it is going to be a little time in which you replace those behaviors.because, before alcohol turned on me- the bastard-i had some wildly fun with it. i had to let it go because my last days were peeing the bed, seizures, d.t.s, a filthy home, the loss of respect from everybody including family, losing my child,driving privileges and respect for myself.i believe alcohol may have saved my life for awhile-given the circumstances i was born into, but it did not last. i tried for years. it did not last. and so, goodbye.hang on. ask around. try to remember what you liked before alcohol entered the picture. it is a simple program but easy-no f'n way. not for me, anyway.good luck. devonh

I drank round the clock and it took me three days just to feel human enough to think.
I never realized how much time is involved with drinking, all the planning, the getting, the drinking itself and the hangover after.
I know when I first stopped there where a lot of hours in the day to fill. There aren't meetings here that I can get to from here. If there are in your area, not only does that kill time but you can talk to others after the meeting and find out how they keep occupied. It's important to find thing to occupy your time as well as your mind. Meetings to me cover both!
Me, I'm moving to where I can go to meetings. In the meantime I find projects to do.
Hang in there!

Wish I could stick around but I've been stuck in the house all day....bored....I hear you...but now it's time to go to a meeting and I'm all excited! Do you have a meeting you can get to tonight? Sometimes I have to drive an hour to get to one but they save my sorry ass and I feel so much better. Hang in there. You can do it!

The sad thing is that I do have tons of things I could do...homework....exercise....study....read.....I just don't want to do them. That all seems so boring to me.

you might be bored because you just lost your best friend.
But, it was a best friend that treated you like shit.
It is ok to be sad about this loss, but you will get over it and be better in the long run. Hang in there.

i get bored too. mostly because i have put some distance between myself and my party friends. but, my house is cleaner i spend more time with my kids, my husband is happy. i just stated having a group of women come over from work 2 times a week to work out together and i haven't been hungover or thrown up in over a month. i'll take a little boredom in exchange for my life back.

unh1995-you are so right, thank you.

Nessa-thank you, I can't agree more!

talking about losing your best friend one thing you can do to kill some time is write a good bye letter to the SOB! Be as mean as you want to the alcohol. Like dear alcohol you worthless SOB you have ruled my life for long enough i have given and given to you you worthless basta#@ and now we are done. Get the picture. Then burn it tear it up do what ever with it. It just helps as a release. they had us do this in recovery and man it feltr good.

Don't worry about going 3 days without.Just try and get one.Then try for another,and another.Just one day-today.The alcohol may leave your system in a few days,but the alcoholic won't.

Hi, New things are always exciting and outside of my comfort zone..it is highly reccomended by me that we don't linger in our comfort zone. Try and get one day together, one day at a time, the rest will follow.All the best never give up and remember your never alone.

I finally stopped isolating and I've changed a number of things this time.

It is damned important to me to keep off of the booze and I'll do anything necessary.

I look forward to AA and church. I'm doing so much more around my house because I have more energy and I just plain have more interest in actually living life. Drinking was not living, it was avoiding real life.

Tonight I went for a brisk 3 mile walk with the husband.

When a person is sick of what alcohol has done to them, they try different things to stay sober and I'm doing a bunch of them.

I have never been this happy in my life that I can remember and I believe God has a lot to do with my frame of mind this time around.

Good luck.

You will discover a whole new life outside of drinking. Things you thought were not for you will become of interest. Like the religious folk say you are born again ! Take advantage of it do something that your peers frowned on but you always thought you might enjoy !!! Its your new life NO ONE ELSES...Shoot I even watch Oprah !!

lol find something to do, just don't sit there expecting miracles, it takes work to stay sober.

I read your profile and I'm amazed that you had quite a number of years sober. How quickly we forget what we read and hear in the rooms when we stop going. Thinking that you could drink again after 11 years is insane. Maybe you should read the first 164 pages of the Big Book again.

You are bored probably because you still want to drink. Drinking takes away boredom....it also takes away families and jobs and freedom and on and on.

They say the only requirement for membership is a desire to stay sober. When the traditions were first written that tradition said that the only requirement for AA membership is an honest desire to stop drinking. Honest....big word for us and even bigger to do. I have a huge and honest desire to stay sober. Do you?? I've seen people in the the rooms for years go back out and try to get sober again only to struggle because they lost that desire. Grab ahold of that desire and get that sobriety you know you can achieve. My prayers....