An unextreme world
04/05/11 • 1 Comment

I think drinking makes me a tool. It really does, but I feel everything so much more then.  Fun things are so much more fun, sad things are so much more sad, funny things are hysterical. Without alcohol of mood-affecting drugs life feels like it\’s flatlining, it\’s not bad but the good things just seem ok.  I don\’t know how to get the excitement back.   If I was doing really cool things like seeing bands I love or travelling to new places I\’d be on a drunk level of excitement without being drunk but I don\’t have the money.   I know this is the question everyone is asking but what do all you HSMers do for fun? What makes you feel like you\’re having a break from the everyday and the mundane and refreshes you to deal with life again?   Bit emo this morning, need to learn [...]

My first HSM post
24/04/11 • 1 Comment

I discovered Hello Sunday Morning through the SMH article which I see led many people here.  I think it’s a brilliant idea and wish I was part of a culture where there was more to do for fun than wipe out brain cells.  I’ve pretty much always been a binge drinker,  I’m a single mother of a toddler so I don’t get to drink regularly but when I got a night off I would go out and drink much more than I could handle.  I used to have no real issues from it but as I got older (and I’m still pretty young) it started taking so much longer to recover, I’d feel sick for days and have the most horrible drinking shame even if I’d done nothing wrong.  I decided to stop drinking in November last year after spending a night spewing like a 15 year old while my [...]