Hello Sunday Morning | Alicia

Halfway
02/06/11 • 2 Comments

I realised I haven’t blogged in a while… the weeks have been flying by and I’d completely lost track of time… but tomorrow I hit the halfway month in my 3 month HelloSundayMorning adventure. I must admit I’m now starting to question the role of alcohol in my life and wondering whether I really want to drink at all anymore. I have really enjoyed the past month and a half. I wake up with a clear head, clear skin and without the angst and regrets of having wasted away my weekends hungover or worries about what I may have said the night before whilst boozed. I also had a pretty major epiphany about the whole process – It’s the first time in my life that I’ve actually made a concerted effort to take care of myself for the pure sake of valuing myself and my health. Most of my other health related [...]

Some reflections from my first two weeks of HSM
06/05/11 • 4 Comments

Refraining from boozing has not been as hard as I thought it would be. I’ve had a couple of moments of longing… spent a lovely day driving around Trentham, Castlemaine and Daylsford last weekend and the lovely Autumnal weather sparked a longing for a glass or two of red, but it didn’t last long, and it didn’t reduce my enjoyment of the day one bit. I had a lovely dinner out with hubby and enjoyed watching him sip on an espresso martini at St Judes Cellars and proclaim that I still made the best ones! I will continue to make fancy martinis for others… just wont indulge myself. My friends have been super supportive and encouraging. I have awesome mates. The only instance of pressure I’ve experienced from someone else to drink actually came from my mother in law who felt quite compelled to push me to drink on [...]

It was my best mates birthday yesterday. She’s been through a hell of a lot over the past few months so I decided to cheer her up with a poodle cake. She has a little dog (not a poodle) who likes to eat cat poo.. but sadly I could not find a recipe for a dog that eats cat poo cake… so I tried the next best thing… A woman’s weekly kids cake cookbook poodlecake. Quite chuffed with the outcome. Loving this new sense of productivity and desire to be crafty… I’m also loving the creepy little cheer squad in my head chanting ‘GO SOBER ALICIA GO… GO YOU GOOD THING!!’.

high five myself!
25/04/11 • 0 Comments

So… it\’s monday.. which is day 4 and I haven\’t been tempted yet! I managed to survive my first booze-less boozy lunch on saturday with a bunch of dear friends and then soldier on through an equally booze-present family lunch yesterday. Funnily enough, it wasn\’t my friends that attempted to pressure me into drinking… it was my in-laws!! When I explained that I wasn\’t drinking for three months my mother-in-law asked what was wrong with me (I think she feared I was pregnant Honestly – I haven\’t really felt like drinking the past few days – and I haven\’t noticed that I\’ve missed out on anything (apart from the hangover that my hubby suffered on sunday as a result of saturday\’s festivities). It will be interesting to see how I go in the coming weeks. I\’ve been a bit under the weather this weekend – and that could explain my [...]

The start of something new.
22/04/11 • 9 Comments

About a week ago my hubby sent me an article by Jill Stark that featured in the age about her experiences with sobriety. The article really resonated with me in it\’s discussion about the writer\’s misconceptions surrounding having to have booze to enjoy social situations and feel confident. A misconception I\’ve long held but been reluctant to admit to anyone else. The interesting thing is that lately I\’ve found that being drunk doesn\’t actually serve the purpose I want it to. I drink to be social, to fit in, to feel funny, entertaining, and confident. I drink to get drunk. In reality, after a few too many drinks I tend to withdraw into myself, feel a bit sickly and generally spend the rest of the night trying to maintain my sense of control (whilst continuing to drink… not an easy task — go figure..). What\’s more… I wake up with [...]