Hello Sunday Morning | David-M

10 weeks (by David-M)
23/01/11 • 1 Comment

So I think I might end my HSM thing at 3 months, just so I can enjoy a sense of achievement at having gone that long. In terms of the goals that I set for myself I don’t think that 6 months is an achievable time period to reach them. Too much stuff annoys me, life angers and upsets me a lot more than most people, and the last few months have been extremely difficult financially due to lack of work. All that is a complete other story I don’t fancy writing about on here, however until that stuff changes, and I am in a better position financially, and consequently mentally, I do not think that I can achieve the things I have wanted. However, I have found through this process that I do possess the willpower needed to stop myself from drinking, and can get through social times without [...]

Still going (by DAVID-M)
01/01/11 • 1 Comment

So my HSM has been going for however long its been and its no problem. I got asked last time to expand on what I said by why I drink, and why I think people drink. After seeing all this christmas season drinking going on, I think that a lot of people don’t give it a seconds notice, they just do it. I’m pretty sure I was like that as well. It seems that at all the social occasions I’ve been to since starting this thing alcohol has been a big part of, and you kinda have to go out of your way not to drink in a sense. That’s fucked up. What is wrong with people that they need to get drunk? I don’t think I ever actually liked being drunk, it just happened and I had to deal with it. I went to a chemist yesterday, and the [...]

ONE MONTH IN-(by david-m)
20/12/10 • 1 Comment

I haven’t written for a while cos i haven’t had much to write about I guess. Apart from being sickened by the amount of drinking/childish behaviour I’ve witnessed by people around the place under the guise of “the silly season” or the excuse of christmas drinks or whatever you want to call it. I live across the road from a bowling club and it seems this time of year it is doing a roaring trade with the type of people I hate being in there 4 or 5 afternoons a week. Then inevitably we hear glass smashing outside, yelling, crying etc etc The best thing about this HSM self pledge is the clarity it has given me to assess why people drink and why I did. I’ve read that a few other people have said that too. It seems it is a good time of year to have done it [...]

So what am I, 2 weeks or something into not drinking for 6 months? I think I said 6 months. Whatever it is, I knew i could do it easily, and seeing shit like this just affirms my idea of not wanting to be a part of it more and more. I was waiting for a bus, and I see this ad go past me that said three kings in this big bold “skate brand” type of font (I’m not a designer but I’m sure you’ll get what I mean), accompanied by some slightly out of focus pic of a kid on a skateboard in the sunset. As I didn’t really see it properly I thought it was weird that a skate company is so big that it is putting ads on buses. But I should have known, because a few days after I saw another ad, this time with [...]

So Saturday was the day a friend of mine was having a party at his house, with bands playing all afternoon. I actually played drums, something I haven’t done for 10 years. All things considered, it went well. People I hadn’t seen for a while, people I didn’t know, everyone else drinking, conversations about “what you’ve been up to”, talking about people that have died, etc etc It was the perfect environment to get drunk, and that is what would have normally happened. (If the fucked up shit that went down last weekend didn’t happen). Thing is I am determined as hell not to slip up, and deep down I think this is a piece of cake, you just need to give it a little more thought then just saying “nah I’m not drinking today”…well in my case I do, cos every other time I have ever said that, a [...]