Alcohol twice a month

For a long time, I’ve had an unsaid rule that I’ll drink every Friday night. Plus, I’d pick another day arbitrarily every week, thereby bringing my average drinking rate to twice a week. (Usually, it’d be Thursday+Saturday or Friday+Sunday.)

We decided last week to bring down that rate to twice a month! We’d also decide those 2 days in advance for a given month, so that we don’t have fight temptation and test our will power at runtime. For e.g., our next drinking days are April 12 and 27th for now.

Last weekend was the first weekend where I didn’t drink at all. I suddenly found so much more time and, especially, energy at my disposal that it felt a welcome change.