To just be very bored of Dry January

[Resurgam2016]

I do it every year. I've given up making 'fun' mocktails and just stick to tea and water. Pretending it is anything other than not drinking wine is a waste of time.

I don't have to do it but I do and having decided I stick to it. But it's sooooo boring. I actually like large glass of wine on a Friday me. I dance and make jokes. In Jan DH and I talk and do efficient things. It's all so....functional

AIBU to think that sober Resurgam is boring Resurgam?

Speaking personally I haven't rammed it down anyone's throat. If people have asked why am I not drinking then I've told them. I have said nothing about it on Fb/ Insta etc but I have mentioned it here.

I think it is equally interesting ( or not) as some MIL, parking or wedding threads and I continue to assert that I am bored by Dry January.
But will continue with it.

I agree that compared to Veganuary Dry January looks positively sane.

embarrassingbodies may I suggest that you have a No Social Media February, as you are clearly very bothered by the things people post about their lives. I myself don't do Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook or Twitter, and I consider those that set so much store by what is posted on such sites to be a little pathetic. ..

I too am bored by it, but will continue. Because DH is doing it and persuaded me to join him. And I refuse to give in first.

Having had my brother here for 2 weeks in December, I probably needed a few weeks without alcohol to rebalance the excess of that period.

I'm incredibly bored of everyone in the office going on about 'dry January' as if it's a thing. I'm enjoying the peace and quiet in the local wine bar at lunchtime.

I've been doing it and have actually been enjoying it - I drank a lot in December at social gatherings etc and oh god, my body was feeling it. But then I don't regularly drink. I am your "go out once in a blue moon and get totalled" kind of person.

But I feel a lot better, as in December I drank at home as well as out and I was really feeling it. My hangovers are horrendous nowadays. I was tired, put on weight etc...So I've liked the recovery period of January (not just drink - eating better, more exercise) and am looking to see if I can extend it.

I need to make changes. As I say I drink a lot when I do manage to go out and I feel the effects for ages after, as well as "The Fear". I also need to lose weight so not drinking is helping with that a lot.

But that's just me! I know loads of people doing Dry January who can't wait until Feb 1st and I don't blame them!

I haven't bothered this year.I had flu over the whole of the Christmas/new year so didn't want to drink for 3 weeks.This seems to have been enough to reset the habit of pouring a glass of wine and have discovered fever tree tonic which I'm quite happy to drink without gin.
Not doing so well with my resolution to go to bed at a sensible time though!

I never told anybody at work I was doing Dry January last year. I was too ashamed to admit I had a problem. I only told two close friends.

@Bluntness100 I have a great social life thanks, I just don't need to be pissed to enjoy it if it's necessary then I suggest better company

I've only mentioned it in the context of "why aren't you drinking?". I haven't said anything on social media about it, and I've seen very little about it on SM. I don't discuss it at work. I don't feel a need to and the people I work with wouldn't be very understanding anyway.

I'm kind of settled in it and don't find it a problem. What other people do is their own business.

www.facebook.com/BBCRadio4/videos/1431780620264435/

Sorry. Came across that on Facebook and it made me laugh given this thread.

@Bluntness100 I have a great social life thanks, I just don't need to be pissed to enjoy it smile if it's necessary then I suggest better company

Very concerning for you that you can't see a mid ground between stone cold sober and pissed, or that you can't understand how enjoying a few drinks on a social occasion doesn't mean you don't need to be pissed to enjoy being with your friends. Or that for some reason you can't comprehend the myriad of reasons that many people may chose to abstain during January.

Alternatively you may just be being goady for some reason. Weird thread to pick for it though.

It was goady of you to suggest that teetotalism equals a non existent social life.