How did I go from Free-Alcohol to Alcohol-Free? Anyway, onto my 4^th weekend and here’s a few lessons learnt over the past few weeks:

• On the first weekend, I highly recommend locking yourself in and as far away as possible from the drinking spots.
• Don’t make the mistake I made and tell people that you’ve quit drinking for the next 3 months; everyone will make it their personal mission to get you drunk by any means possible.
• Get your own water…
• Replacing drinks with water can be a great solution but be prepared for a lot of bathroom trips… A LOT of bathroom trips
• Don’t go out as early as you normally do. If your set starts at 2am, don’t head out at 11 because those 3 hours will be the slowest 3 hours of your life. It’s not because you’re not having fun, but when you’re drunk, you seem to wander off and lose track of time more often.
• Be warned that some acquaintances that you thought were the funniest people to be around aren’t so funny when you’re sober.
• Some girls wear a lot of make up (and really can’t walk in those shoes)
• The food that you normally eat at 5am isn’t as delicious as you thought it was. In fact, it’s quite nasty!
• You don’t seem to make those stupid drunk decisions when you’re sober. If you still do, you can’t blame the stupid decision on the drink anymore… damn!

I don’t know why but it sounds like I’m in an online Alcoholic Anonymous meeting. Hi my name is Zach and I’m an alcoholic (waits for crowd to say Hi Zach). I’m not really an alcoholic but since the age of 15-16 I’ve been consistently getting smashed and when I say that, I really have to emphasise the smashed bit. SMASHED!

I’m 26 years old; I work as a Quality Assurance Consultant on weekdays and DJ at various venues on weekends. Reading through these blogs, I’m going to take a different approach with my first post. I’m not going to tell you why I’m taking a 3-month hiatus from alcohol nor am I going to tell you what I hope to achieve from this challenge… not yet anyway.

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