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as Travis was um congratulations to Antonio for two years that's huge um to To the 90-day token takers, Brandy, Leo, and Mike, I believe.

90 days is huge. Like 90 days without a drink. My God, when I got here, it was like, why would anyone do that? Why would you want to do that? You know, but I was here.

My sobriety date is December 23, 2009. So I've got close to eight and a half years now.

And, you know, for anybody who's miserable, for anybody who thinks this sucks, all I can say is it gets better. It gets so much

better. Like, just, you know, not a straight uphill climb, you know, it kind of has its little

dips in valleys, but it's just amazing. My life today is, I mean, first of all, I am 180 degrees different person than I was when I walked in here. I know myself. I know what I like to do. I know what I don't like to do. I know, you know, I just know things about myself.

I think when I got here, you know, I didn't know what colors I liked.

I didn't know what seasons I liked.

I didn't know, you know, seasons passed, and I didn't even see them go by.

It was just, you know, it was a sad, colorless life at the end there.

In the beginning, it was awesome, you know.

But at the end there, it was just not awesome.

You know, kind of, I think that, kind of like what Travis said,

I think that I was an alcoholic from the very beginning because, I mean, from the very time I got drunk, it was, it was, I drank like an alcoholic.

I was about 13 years old and I was at a wedding with my friend, her mom's friend's wedding.

And we were outside and my friend brought out a bottle of, like half a bottle of champagne. And I don't know that the thought had ever crossed my mind to have a drink before, but out she came with this bottle of champagne, and she was like, here, let's drink this. I'm like, sure. And we drank that. And oh, my God, it was just, I loved it. I loved everything about it. And she said, come on, let's go back into the

wedding. I said, oh, no, no, no, let's get more of that. Let's get more booze. And we did. And we got

some red wine. And so you guys can only imagine how well the red wine and the champagne went together.

Oh, it was, no, it was terrible. Yeah. I threw up. I threw up in their car. It was

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