Mid Week Drinkies – No Problemo!
03/08/11 • 0 Comments

Day 3, Week 1: So it’s a fairly typical week so far other than my little one starting kindy. Prior to HSM I would have already been forming my excuse as to why I ‘deserve’ a drink at the end of the week. This weeks one would have been ‘My baby is in Kindy now’….but really woooooo fricken hoooo…do I really deserve a drink for acquiring a couple of extra hours to myself in a day?! That should be a reward in itself huh! You see drinking mid week isn’t a problem for me. In the past it was but now with getting to the gym most nights it’s filled that void. However come the weekend…that’s a different story! Mid week I start formulating my strategy as to how to get away from the family to have a couple (or few) sneaky ones. It’s not always a huge blow out [...]

Day 1, Week 1…The Journey Officially Begins
01/08/11 • 2 Comments

I wanted to start  the day on a good  note.  So I got up before the kiddies were up and went for an early morning walk…dawn of a new day and a new me! The birds were starting to chirp and the air had that crisp smell you only get that early in the morning, I\’m looking forward to my first \”Hello Sunday Morning\” this Sunday so that I can have my early morning walk and reinforce to myself how much better it feels compared being in bed till mid day!

Ahhhhhhhhhh what have I got my self into?
30/07/11 • 11 Comments

Ahhhhhhhhhh what have I got my self into? Commiting to no alcohol for three months with my birthday and an overseas vacation around the corner!!!! Absolutely bonkers a couple of my friends will be thinking. But this time round I’m determind to kick some sobriety procrastination in the rear end. My best friend told me to read the HSM article in the Dominion Post this morning….after a night out with a group of friends last night (Irony much??!!). I’ve been wanting to ditch the alcohol pretty much completely for ages now but there’s always some major event…a close friends birthday party or leaving do that needs to be attended. And for some reason we can’t simply attend and be present in the moment without a glass of alcohol in hand! I was supposed to catch up with my friends and be sober driver last night. But no that little voice [...]