So I’ve got a theory (By Brooke Pye)
23/10/10 • 4 Comments

I’m going to call it, the ’Critical Mass of Inebriation’ theory. It works on the same basis as herd immunity. For those who don’t know about herd immunity, it’s a way of vaccinating the entire population, by vaccinating a certain amount. For each disease the threshold is different, but usually somewhere between 80 – 94% of the population need to be vaccinated in order to cover the entire population.  Because such a large proportion of the population has been vaccinated, the likely hood of a non-vaccinated person coming in contact with another non-vaccinated person is ridiculously low. This is how a disease such as Polio can be virtually eradicated. Anyway, enough of the public health lecture… So I formed my theory after another hilarious night where everyone else I was with was reasonably inebriated and I was not. No-one was over the top drunk but there were quite a few drinks had by everyone. It was [...]

Weekends are fun! (By Brooke Pye)
27/09/10 • 3 Comments

So I’ve got good and bad news… I think I’ll start with the good. I had such a brilliant weekend. Like, really awesome. On Friday night it was my boyfriend engineering ball and since he finishes uni in a few weeks he was keen to go. We ended up rounding up a whole bunch of  our friends and got ourselves our own table. Everyone looked so great dressed up and the boys loved that they could ‘suit up’!   There was an open bar which everyone took advantage of and it killed me to not have a glass of champagne. It’s just not the same cheers-ing with a glass of water. It ended up being such a great night though with everyone dancing and singing and generally having an awesome time. I have to say, I may have lived a bit vicariously through my friends and enjoyed how drunk they were and [...]

It’s about doing what you love (By Brooke Pye)
21/09/10 • 1 Comment

I think I’m just past the half way mark through my HSM and this whole no alcohol thing is actually starting to get to me. I don’t miss the big nights. I don’t miss going out and drinking to feel confident and dancey. And I have no desire to “drown my sorrows” or make the night more fun by doing shots. But I’m really missing the glass of wine with dinner. And I’m missing sharing a beer with the boys after moving house. I’m going to my partners engineering ball on Friday and I am paying my share of an open bar but won’t be using it. I would love a glass of wine to celebrate with him. I know that there is no need for alcohol at all and I am coping quite fine without it, but I am missing it in those few situations. On the flip side though, I’m not missing the wasted [...]

There’s got to be an answer (By Brooke Pye)
02/09/10 • 3 Comments

So since starting my HSM I’ve spent a fair amount of time reading other people’s journeys to get a sense of how doing this has impacted other people. And by the way there are some pretty amazing writers on here!! I haven’t come across any other blogs specifically about what I want to discuss but I’m sure it’s probably here somewhere… So I apologise if I’m repeating someone else. Last Saturday night I spent some time in the emergency ward at a hospital in the city. It wasn’t anything too serious but I still didn’t get out of there until a bit after 2am. We predicted it as we were walking out but 2am on a Saturday night made for a very busy emergency room. There were people with blood pouring out of their head, there was vomit on the floor, and girls in their tiny dresses with 50-inch heels were messy… [...]

Weekends aren’t easy (By Brooke Pye
18/08/10 • 2 Comments

So it’s my second week into my three month sobriety stint and the last weekend was spent with a mixture of loving and hating what I had signed myself up for. On Friday night I caught up with the girls for a wine and cheese night. All of us being students, we found it is cheaper then dinner and more relaxing in someones home. I drank mineral water all night and probably enjoyed it a bit more than the wine to be honest. As the night progressed and the girls all got a bit silly I started to feed off their energy and was pretty much as silly as them. It was wonderful! We were dancing and singing like complete idiots but I had so much fun and the best part was waking up in the morning, feeling awesome, and remembered everything from the night before. I had such a fun night [...]