I survived.
25/09/11 • 2 Comments

Today I said Hello Sunday Morning to a jump out of a plane at 12,000ft and my first beer in nearly four months. The skydiving pic is way funnier though, so here it is…   As for the few beers afterwards; yeah, it was fun, but I think I’m still on too much of a natural high from skydiving. I’ll put up a HSM wrap up blog once I can think straight and can get the grin off my face. Thanks for your support over the past few months everyone, it’s been awesome.

A leap of faith…
15/09/11 • 2 Comments

Today is it. I’ve officially completed my three month HSM. I went three months without drinking on September 6, but decided to wait until I reached today, given I didn’t actually sign up until June 16. Anyway, it seems a bit stupid to just have a beer today for the sake of it so here’s what I’m going to do: That is what I’m going to be saying Hello Sunday Morning to next weekend. With the money I’ve saved from not drinking, I’m going to jump out of a plane at 12,000ft and land on the beach. My mates keeps asking me when I’m going to drink again, so this seems as good a time as any. I’ll land on the beach, then walk over to the pub across the road and have a beer. It will be a leap of faith in more ways than one, but most importantly to [...]

The race after the finish line…
26/08/11 • 3 Comments

When an athlete crosses the finish line, he stops running.He may collapse out of sheer exhaustion, but even if he could keep tearing up the track he stops, knowing he has achieved his goal and there is no more race to run.But, as I near my HSM finish line, I’m not sure that I will want to stop and leave the track. In about a week, I would have been off the sauce for three months and, in about three weeks, I will have completed my HSM (I signed up about two weeks after a mammoth binge left me with a horror hangover).I’ve spent most of my HSM encountering hurdles that present themselves along the way, which would be normal occassions where I would drink, so I haven’t thought too much about actually finishing while I’ve been focused on those.I figure a normal response to finishing a HSM would be [...]

Don’t dream it’s over…
25/07/11 • 4 Comments

Last night I had a vodka and lemonade. The night before that I had a beer. And the night before that? A can of rum. In fact, every night this week I’ve had a drink and every morning I’ve woken up feeling guilty as hell. The only problem is, I haven’t broken my HSM at all because I haven’t actually consumed the alcohol. I have only been dreaming that I have. For about a week now, I have been dreaming that I have broken my HSM by only having a couple of drinks but have immediately woken up feeling extremely guilty about it. I guess nightmares could be a lot worse, but I guess it also shows that worrying about not going through with my HSM is really playing on my mind. I haven’t had a drink for 50 days and because I didn’t start my HSM until a couple [...]

What Alanis Morissette said…
17/07/11 • 1 Comment

Why is it that the only time I have been approached by a market researcher to be paid to taste test beer I am on a three-month drinking ban? But worse still, it happened twice. The first time I was on my way back from the gym and the second time I was on my way to the shop to buy some salad.  Both are things I’ve added to my new no-drinking lifestyle, but both led me to the offer of being paid to drink beer. And then when I told both guys I wouldn’t participate because I am not drinking for three months, both tried to convince me that I would only be drinking a small amount of beer and it wouldn’t matter. Anyway, after a while I think they both got the picture that I wouldn’t be drinking. Any other time and I would have been first in line to be [...]