cold turkey

It's official! I am no longer drinking. I decided this on the car ride back from Dad's. I only drink:

1) When I am in a bad mood, or depressed. This is not a good pattern.

2) When I am trying to get along with people I'm not comfortable around. Henceforth I'll just avoid these people, or use actual social skills to deal with the situation.

3) As courage for dancing. This is the only useful scenario I can really think of. It's a slippery slope though. Too much and the dancing gets quite awful.

I may catch hell if I don't have a glass of wine at my going-away dinner, though, so I may make an exception. Considering the plan is "dinner and pub crawl".