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Why do we do it? (by Carl Blunck)
05/09/10 • 4 Comments

Six months of not drinking – check First weekend back and regretting it – check Debt coming down – check Fitness improving – check New mind set – CHECK I’m not sure about others who have done this, but for me… I’ve spent the past 6 months trying to answer the question of why I drink and what does it mean to me? In short – I drink because it’s a quick and easy way to be care-free and it means that I get to be equal with others. Being care-free isn’t something I unfortunately get to experience very often. Reason – life isn’t. Life is about taking charge, being a man, facing your demons, being responsible and grabbing it by the horns and wrestling it into submission until you’ve won. Now peoples view will no doubt be different on this but we are all different people at the end [...]

Time is an annoying thing. Time to do things and time to give things the respect and meticulous attention that they need. So I think I have to mentioned what I do for work before but I feel I need to justify my slackness with my posts. Not for your sake, but for mine :p I’m currently a HR Advisor and Senior Project Officer working within the corporate HR office of Queensland Health. Now if your a Queenslander actually an Australian and you haven’t heard of the MASSIVE payroll issues we have been having, well I am really wondering where you have been hiding because I am uber jealous! At the moment my job consist mainly of dealing with the really really really pissed off employees who haven’t been paid properly due to the recent implementation of our new payroll system. Which they have full right to be pissed off [...]

I am… (By Carl Blunck)
26/04/10 • 2 Comments

This is a question that has been playing on my mind for the last few weeks when ever I reflect on this. Reflect on the reasons why I have chosen to do this, and chosen to not drink. When I started this I was excited, pumped up at what I knew was going to be a really interesting 6 month period. Discovering who I am by finally facing a lot of inner demons and making what I like to call ‘a pure happiness’ one that is being constructed by my own hands and not being influenced by the affects of alcohol, because a lot of my fondest memories have been when a drink is in hand. I don’t regret any of those moments though. They really have been amazing. However re-creating those moments and laughing at the things I used to, just isn’t the same. And figuring out who I [...]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WHAT WAS I THINKING!?!?!?! So this blog will be a rant of why I am such an idiot. And thats not suger coating anything, its just being honest. I’ve said before a bit about what I want to get out of this HSM, and when I have spoke about it to other people. But that has only ever been what I want to achieve out of choosing not to drink. Never about what I hope to get out of this as on-going benefits. So my problem all started my thought it would an amazing and fantastic idea to buy a Jet-Ski : ) not because I liked riding them, or was a motor rev head. But because I though, ‘hey I am earning some decent coin hear, I’m spending it crap, how cool would it be to have a jet-ski!’ After little research, a quick trip to the bank [...]

Its been just over a week of my HSM. And even though I have gone longer than this before without drinking, its a weird feeling being out and knowing that I have made the direct choice to say NO to any form of alcoholic substance. Even just to taste something new. Which is one of the hardest parts about doing this. Saying NO to this, for me, is becoming alot more then just giving up alcohol. Its me saying NO to alot of the crap that comes along with it. This blog has developed from what I am witnessing, from what I know, and what I want out of this experience. The title of this blog has been taken from one of my closest mates shirts, and when your on the ‘other side’ of the fence and not surrounded by the drinking culture, it sounds stupid. Put yourself in that [...]