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Just found this picture from my birthday with my mom and sister. We were riding the cable car. Cute.

As you might have noticed through my blogs, tweets, or by knowing me, I drink and party a fuck ton. Recent occurrences of getting too shwasty, be it puking, blacking out, or just generally making mistakes has brought this to light for me.

When addiction becomes a problem is when your addiction affects your life in adverse ways. Social life, work life, or personal. This hasn’t been a problem until recently. I slept through work this morning at 9am because I stayed up drinking until 6am. Wow, that’s a problem. I work one day a week. Effectively I am a fuck up. I have just been using partying and drinking as a distraction from being an adult.

So I decided I needed a break. NO DRINK DECEMBER. It’s happening.

I didn’t mean to get super serious here and bring down the mood, but I feel I need to write about this. I am an alcoholic, and need to take a break before it gets bad. I don’t want you to think that I am raging alcoholic who has to drink everyday and before I do anything. That is really not the case. I just go to a lot of parties and have lost sight of my limits.

When I told my friends about this most of them were like “oh no! devin its the holidays, how could you not drink?”. But guys, I’m serious. I’m just taking a month off, I promise I’m still fun.

So who else wants to do no drink December? Ruth and John are doing it with me.