Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hey Kate. Hey, Jess. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Have you been as far as your sobriety's gone? Pretty good. I am celebrating a thousand days coming up and in about a week.

That's amazing.

Are you going to do anything for it?

I haven't decided yet.

I'm not very good at planning parties for myself or celebrating special occasions.

So I haven't decided, but I feel like I want to treat myself and get like a massage or a facial.

I think that's perfect.

I don't know.

You should definitely do that. You should have a party so I can come over and eat food.

I know. Should I have a pizza party? Yes, absolutely. I was thinking, should we go bowling?

I don't know. Anyway. We can's great. I think I'm something like

62 or 64 days sober. I'm not really sure. But I did something different. Halloween. I actually

went to a bar for the first time since quitting. It was fine. It was very quick and short-winded. I just went to pet shop to go see

my ex-boyfriend's band with some friends. I was there. I saw the band. I left. I did not stay.

I said hi some people, but for the most part, it was time to go. And it was nice to actually

leave it in a normal time, not, you know, 4 a.m.

And I was really nervous.

I had a lot of anxiety going into it, but it was fine.

I just, I said, hi, who I wanted to, and I kind of hid from who I didn't want to say hi to.

Did you go alone or did you meet friends?

I was with friends.

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