Riding the wave
20/05/12 • 7 Comments

Hi everyone – just checking in quickly, I haven’t been posting much as I have uni exams in a couple of weeks which is keeping me very busy… as per usual, have left everything to last minute so am cramming furiously and trying to fit as much into my brain as I can! Today it has been 5 weeks of sobriety, as well as no weed and no ciggies. It is becoming intrinsic now… I can honestly say that 99% of the time I am not even thinking about alcohol anymore – I went to a brunch this morning where all the girls were drinking champagne and OJ, and I didn’t even feel like it! I would NEVER have thought of myself as not even thinking about it as I pass up booze – but there you go! Amazing! It hasn’t been completely smooth sailing though, I’ve had my moments… [...]

A list of injuries
14/05/12 • 9 Comments

This post is dedicated to the various injuries and accidents I have experienced due to either alcohol or drug use over the past 10 years… even writing this is serving as a reinforcement for why I am no longer engaging in these behaviours anymore!!! – The ‘Tram Incident’ – about 8 years ago I was drunk and walking to another pub across a main road in Melbourne’s CBD. I was texting someone and because I was out of it I completely forgot to look to see if any trams were coming. I had the warning ‘ding’, looked up to see a big green tram coming straight at me. It smashed into me and threw me into a car. I was extremely lucky that the side of it had hit me, causing me to richochet off the side, rather than being a step more in front and being flattened. I went [...]

Can I just say…
13/05/12 • 11 Comments

I am frigging LOVING not drinking/smoking/doing recreational drugs. It has been one month today, and I feel like a different person. If you asked me even a year ago if I could give up alcohol for a month, I would have laughed and said NO WAY! And I’ll admit, I’ve had my moments over the last month when it has been hard, and I have had to face my emotions head on, rather than my usual use of numbing agents in the form of various substances or alcoholic beverages. But seriously, life is SO much better overall, and I am beginning to think that I won’t drink again… I’ll at least go the 3 months, but probably more!  A few things that I love about my HSM: – Despite the fact I have been eating what I want, when I want (including some pretty epic chocolate binges) I have lost [...]

Did I end up drinking my sorrows away???
05/05/12 • 12 Comments

NO!!!!!!!!!! Despite getting absolutely horrible news from my scumbag ex-business partner and ex-friend that I was off the project that I had put my heart and soul into for a year, I did NOT drink. I cried my little eyes out (they are still ridiculously red and puffy this morning, sooo sexy!), I screamed, I grabbed the business cards we had printed out for me and turfed them into the bin with all my strenght, I hugged my partner, I punched pillows (the lady in the apartment below us must have wondered what on earth was going on!!!)  A group of my good friends then took me out for greasy thai food where we talked about what I would do. Despite there being wine at the table, and everyone getting quite tipsy, I drank green tea and gorged myself on duck curry. Turns out stupid business partner got rid of [...]

SOS – NEED SUPPORT
05/05/12 • 10 Comments

OK – feeling very close to picking up a drink and needing some support! About a year ago I started forming an idea of an events business with a friend. I have put in hundreds and hundreds of hours of work for no money (stupid me), thinking it would all pay off in the end… I even sat up late last night writing website content … and he just fired me. The whole conversation completely came out of left field – I called to ask him if he’d received the content… and he told me he had, and that he was having ‘concerns’ about us going forward. It was all such a crock of shit that I could barely believe it. People had told me in the past to draw up a contract, but because we were friends, I stupidly trusted him. I guess this is why they say business [...]