Day 1: Cleaning house

One of the things I want to do today is get rid of all of my alcohol in the house.  I do not mean to trash it, just to store it out of sight.  I have a hand full of beers in the fridge and a few bottles of liquor in the cabinet.  My wife drinks wine and an occasional Kahlua and Cream, so those will stay in the house.  I think I can box up all my beverages and stick them in and upstairs closet.  I hope that "out of sight/out of mind" works for me.  Not drinking at home is not really a big deal for me most of the time.  It's the social happy hours that are going to be tough.  I think I am going to have to find other projects to fill the time.  Between hanging out with my 2 young sons and trying to get some more exercise - I think I can do it.

Experiment of the Month: Stop the March Madness

Watching NCAA Basketball tournament and St. Patrick's day...it just seems right to have a beer and a shot on those days.  This months experiment will be to not drink any alcohol for the month of March.  For those of you that do not know me, this is a very difficult challenge for me.  I hope to document my challenges in completing this test here at LIAL.  I think the hardest thing is going to be particpating in social events and not tossing back a few.  I really want to break some habits I have formed when it comes to drinking.  I found an interesting article by Brad Bollenbach over at 30sleeps.com from back in 2007, check it out if you get a chance.  He is the one that gave me the idea for this test.  In fact, his site sort of inspired me to start this blog in the first place.   My thanks to Brad for his interesting points of view and pursuit of happiness.   So I am actually going to start tomorrow, Saturday Feb 28, 2009.  No more drinking alcohol.  That's it.  I mean it.  I am going to recuit one or two special friends to help keep me honest and I hope that before the month is over that I have some followers here that want to try to keep me honest as well.  The other thing I am going to challenge myself to do is to try to blog every day, no matter how little I have to say.

I am relatively new to blogging so please forgive my lack of creativity at times and, above all, my grammer.  My wife is an English major and has fits when I butcher the language.  Sorry baby. 

About

This site is to document my life experiments. I am always telling my wife that we need to "test more theories" on way of living. I believe that since everyone and every relationship is unique, we need to explore the ways to exist in order to find happiness. In addition, we can find ways to improve our selves, our lives, and the lives of the people around us. I will be glad to take suggestion on experiments. I do not have a strict rule on the durations of the projects, I am just picking one month intervals for now. I will add more to this "about" section once I figure out more about what this blog is about. In fact the blog itself is also part of the Life Laboratory.

Cheers.