Tolerance And Lack There Of

Today is 5 months sober, and the day I am officially a Specialist.
I won't be pinned until next Friday, but today is my 2 years time in service, and I am a SPC no matter what I'm wearing.
It's not a day anyone will be able to drag me down. I think I made that point early on today- a certain occifer made a point again this morning, and I took the lickin n kept on tickin because there's just no wayI'm letting him get to me again.
I got an email from an e5 colleague of mine in response to one I had sent him saying 'PFC- what happened?' He, like several others, thought I was higher ranking than I have been. It's happened probably 6 or 7 times now, but I will always take it as a compliment. A retired 1sg patient called me Ssg one day, after not looking closely at the rank, and noticing only a rocker. I smiled when he said it and politely corrected him, mostly to see the reaction. He was confused and surprised. I was thrilled.
I'm trying my butt off. After the events of the last few days, it's no wonder I'm a little tired. However, my outgoing 1sg, as well as incoming 1sg, came down to my clinic yesterday, and we had our counseling session. While I still suspect much of it had to do with my conversation with the sergeant major (it was by no fault of my NCO's that the conversation was neccesary, mind you), they were surprisingly supportive and genuinely, well, proud of me. I can't say I expected that, but it was something they made a point of.
This company is home, and, if I didn't already have a deafening loyalty to it, I do now.
I'm finally with a group of people that isn't going to throw me to the wolves when I become a hassle. Holy crap.
I feel strong today. I hope this feeling echoes through me for a while- this is a pretty intense sensation. I've made it five months without a drop of alcohol- I can genuinely say not one slip up. Not one sip. I thought it'd be the 6 month mark that would hit me hard- and maybe it will- but today it's hitting home how big a deal this is, and how much I have achieved to have achieved this one thing.
My life is peaceful. I have an amazing fiance who understands me and who I can talk to about literally anything- and this has been tested already. Plenty of people doubt this relationship, but he and I are not among them. The people closest to us see it, they see how happy we are, how close, and how strong. They see that this has changed both of our lives, and both of us, for the better. It's not typical, it didn't happen the way most people expect these things to, but if it had, it wouldn't be ours.
Peaceful, hm....
Is this what stability feels like?!
Why didn't anyone tell me this?!!!
Life is good.