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Yay, my sister finally emailed me the pictures from my 22nd birthday. My family and I went to San Francisco for lovefest. We got a hotel. Partied.  The usual. Sean Kinsey, Max Miller, Paul Telford, Terri Brindisi, and Chris Carlson all partied with us. It was ten shades of amazing. We went to lovefest during the day, got some good seafood in the wharf, partied in our hotel, and then walked around the city being drunken fools and ending up at nok nok in the Haight. Dancing my face off. Then the next day we all went to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in Golden Gate park.

Enjoy ^_^

peace

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.

DevinRitchie.com is back!!!

I apologize for the time when the site was down. The truth is I couldn’t pay my hosting fee, and quite frankly I needed a break from blogging. So I let it go for a couple months, lost all my momentum, my base, and over 100 blog posts. But here is to new beginnings! Cheers!

Now to catch you up on the last few months, first of all. I cut off all my hair.

That’s how long it was. And this is what it looks like now…

and that is my buddy and hair stylist Sean. I cut it for my birthday, I turned 22 on October 3rd. And yes, I did donate my hair to Locks Of Love. On my actual birthday; me, my family, and friends went into San Francisco and us kids went to LovEvolution or Lovefest. We got a hotel, got real real shwasty and it was amazing! Went out and bar hopped in the city and danced my face off. The next day we went to the Hardly Strictly bluegrass festival in Golden Gate park, drank some champagne and had a real nice picnic, also amazing.

I am taking a break from most theatre right now in efforts to refocus my life, and it has been going well. I am taking a full load of units at school with classes like statatistics, screenwriting, ceramics, and a design class for our literary magazine I am really enjoying this semester as different as it is.

I did a readers theatre productions of our lit mag at school and it went awesome!

It went great, there will be videos from it soon.

For the past couple months I have just been going to school, hanging out with friends, drinking, partying, dating, trying not to care. I am on a different path, but it’s fun, and seems to be leading somewhere alright.

I am still doing improv and Comedy Sportz, which is going real well. But other than that, I am now on a break from theatre mostly. Which is good and well needed.

I will update the blog just like I used to and I will continue to redesign the format. Check back for updates. I have a lot of stories to tell from over the last few months. Silly, ridiculous, drunken shenanagans.

I am sure that I am forgetting a bunch of things, but there will be plenty of time to go over them.

as always thanks for checking out DevinRitchie.com, and check back real soon! I really appreciate all the hits I get.

Here’s to new directions. (hehe, glee joke)

Peace

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