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It is New Year's Eve. Oh my goodness, you have just made it through four to six weeks of festive mayhem, and it all gets capped off tonight with the boss level of the season, New Year's Eve. Are you ready for this? So, December has been a drinking gauntlet. And if you've made it through uh with any intention intact at all, whether your plans were to have a totally dry December, to drink more mindfully, to just take it easy, whether you wanted to be completely alcohol-free or just be more in control of the choices that you made around alcohol, then first and foremost, my hat's off to you. It doesn't matter what your December looked like in comparison to everybody else. It only matters what it looks like in comparison to what you intended it to be. You are the only person by whose standards you need to judge yourself. But it's important not to judge yourself too harshly. It is such an intense time for drinking that it's so hard to make a resolution, and we will be talking about New Year's resolutions uh next week when the show goes back to normal. Um, but it's so hard to make a resolution, whether that is for New Year's or for Christmas, and to see it through all the way without having a few sidetracks along the way. That is completely normal. So if that happened to you, then I don't want you to beat yourself up. And I also don't want you to go into New Year's Eve stressing about how it's going to go. Because this night has a certain mythology around it. It's the pressure to go big or go home. And sometimes I just want to go home, but that's fine. You might want to go big. But going big doesn't necessarily mean getting absolutely rat assed. It's up to you how tonight looks. I want you to make sure that tonight you don't let FOMO make decisions for you. It's not about the fear of missing out tonight, it's about the joy of participating in a celebration. There's a mythology that if you're not sort of clinking with champagne as the ball drops, if you're not having a shot after shot, um, if you're not walking down the street with a bottle in your hand, that somehow you're doing New Year's Eve wrong and you're dooming yourself to 365 days of cosmic misery. But I'm hoping that by now you've recognized that actually you get to decide what tonight looks like. And the only way to doom yourself to 365 days of cosmic misery is by doing things that don't truly resonate with who you are, and by letting other people and other circumstances make your choices for you. So tonight you choose you can drink, you can not drink. You can start off completely sober and decide that actually, oh, they've got your favourite wine and you'd like to have a glass. Or perhaps you plan that you do want to have a drink tonight, but you get to the venue and you say to yourself, Do you know what? Actually, I'm good and I don't fancy one. There is no right or wrong answer except for the one that means that you wake up on January the 1st feeling like you chose your night tonight, and you didn't let your night or other people or the circumstances choose for you. You have practice all month long, we've talked about different moderation techniques, we've talked about dealing with the peer pressure, we've talked about the mindsets that you need to have going into choosing to drink differently. So by now you've got a really good idea of what works for you and what doesn't. Um, but more importantly, you know how you want to feel tomorrow. So tonight I want you to honour that, whatever it is, and wake up in 2026, proud of the choice that you made and ready to make this new year your best one yet, no matter what that looks like for you. So have a wonderful night. Enjoy yourself. There isn't Advent Day for today. There's a little bonus day that I didn't tell you was coming. Um, so if you want to go and check that out, please do. If you don't, if you're too busy getting ready to have the night of your life, however that looks, then I want to wish you the happiest of New Year's celebrations. I myself will be going to my best friend's house with my husband and the kids because at 47 years old, sometimes a party means staying in at a mate's house with your friends and family and just chilling out. So whether you are dancing the night away, whether you're chilling out at home and watching the fireworks on the tell, whether you're doing something completely different, whatever it is, I want you to have the most wonderful new year. And I look forward to spending time with you in 2026 as we go on the rest of our journey together to a life less intoxicated. Happy New Year.