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Drunk uno, and being the only sober on is boring….. (by Lou V-W)
27/10/10 • 1 Comment

So here goes…..I drank on the week-end…beer…. I don’t even like beer, Paintball week-end……has passed and I have had a drink, just one, my bravo in trying to show my friends how easy it is to scull beer, stupid really, regretful, you bet. But perhaps the power of being able to say no, it would have been easy to just keep drinking after the first scull, but I just couldn’t do it. I have more to write, but it’s a beautiful day outside and I refuse to waste it!

sticky hands are FUN!… (by Lou Vickers-Willis)
13/10/10 • 1 Comment

I have been a slack blog writer….I have an excuse for that, getting over a guide camp has been like one big hangover for the past three weeks….no joke. Combine that with crazy work hours, and full on week-end in between, this is the first time I have been near a computer. I am 6 weeks in, and loving it! At first I was consumed by not being able to drink, and by the third week I would have happily sold my soul, grandma, for just one drink. However that feeling passed, and I have now entered this stage of being content with it all. I’d be lying if I said it want hard though, because it is. I have over the past three weeks had the chance to hangout with two good mates, and I have realized a few things. I am the one that peer pressures friends to [...]

A shift for the better…. (by Lou Vickers-Willis)
21/09/10 • 2 Comments

Three weeks in, and I could have easily killed for a drink last week, busily organizing a camp for Guides and it was all just a bit too much, but I got there in the end. However, after getting to camp, in the middle of the bush, it was like all of the outside problems, where swept away. I had bigger problems on my hands like scraped fingers, a few burns, a bump to the head (mine thank goodness) dealing with other leaders and organizing the girls. But really the week-end was full of laughter, watching the girls come out of their shells, cope with being away from home and a lot of memorable moments from the first camp as a Leader. It made me think: When do the weekends stop being like this and turn into a ritual of getting tanked, making silly regrettable choices and hungoverness the next [...]

A LADETTE NO MORE (by Lou Vickers-Willis)
12/09/10 • 4 Comments

So, just over a week into this, and it’s a lot harder than I expected. I had read a few people’s blogs when I first started and naively thought that it would be easy for me. It would seem that everywhere I went, everything I did in the past week or so, there was alcohol tempting me, on billboards, on tv, in the newspaper, and being around my friends. Last night, was the hardest, a going away party, and who knows when I will get to have drink with this friend again. I was drinking Ginger Beer, so it wasn’t obvious that I wasn’t drinking. But what did strike me, was had I been drinking, how disgusting my behaviour would have been, think ladette to lady, but worse. I was more aware of how my drinking behaviour, would have influenced my friends, and it makes me cringe. .. It has [...]

So it’s the First day of spring and the start of Prohibition in my life for 3 months. I am looking forward to challenge. The biggest question I have right now is, does lemon lime and BITTERS, count as an alcoholic drink??? The next few months are going to be an interesting game of snakes and ladders, or at least that’s the way I am going to be tackling it. The YES’s will be the ladders, and the snakes, are the ones I will be avoiding. Alcohol in animal form. No roll of the dice though, my own choices and wanting to do my best will dictate how this will play out. Drinking and I have not been friends in the past, and I know this isn’t about the past, but I need to explain why I don’t drink a lot already, as it has to be an aspect of [...]