Made it to 1 MONTH!!!
25/07/11 • 7 Comments

So this weekend was my first real milestone achievement! On Sunday I reached my 1 month mark and to be honest it has gone really fast! I haven’t been staying away from alcohol situations either….kind of throwing myself in head first and going pretty well. Had an end of financial year staff party on Friday night which was a fully catered event with open bar for 4 hours! I was the only person at my table not drinking alcohol…probably the only one in the whole place haha! I stayed strong, and even went out to a club after and watched my friends do lines of shots while I took photos of them. I have to say I was tempted at dinner, but when I was driving home at 1am through the city and seeing drunk people everywhere, I was sooo happy that wasn’t me! Saturday I went to my friends house and went [...]

The weekend from hell
17/07/11 • 5 Comments

So my weekend wasn’t that fantastic (was awful actually) but I managed to get through it without drinking which is quite a shock to me. I am so happy that I had restraint!  Saturday I got a call from my dad who could barely talk as he was so upset. He told me that his father had died….it was very hard to listen to your father crying, especially when he caught me in the blood donation waiting room at the Red Cross in the city. Not quite the place to have a meltdown. He was devastated and this upset me a lot. I had lived with my grandfather when I was 18 so I was also close to him. I was very upset… I drifted through my day still doing the things I already had planned, I needed to keep busy; but all I wanted to do was have a drink. That is what I [...]

Getting harder but getting through it :)
06/07/11 • 2 Comments

Last night was the hardest drinking situation I have faced yet. I went to a “State of Origin” party at my friends house and EVERYONE was drinking/getting drunk apart from me. My friends friend didn’t know I wasn’t drinking and had brought all this alcohol to share with me, and was quite offended when I refused to share it with her. She kept asking and asking me if I wanted a drink, and was really starting to push it on me. I kept saying ‘no thanks’ but I could tell she just couldn’t understand why someone would choose not to drink. I got through it. Its was hard. But this morning getting up for work at 5.30am I felt soooo relieved that I didn’t drink! I am just imagining all the people around Australia right now with a massive hangover and just thanking myself that its no me!

Easy As….
04/07/11 • 0 Comments

So……I just got through my first weekend of HSM and it was surprisingly very easy! I didn’t even avoid situations with alcohol and got through it with no troubles Went out to dinner on Friday with a friend who was drinking and planning on getting smashed. She was very supportive of me though which was great. I managed to stay out until about 11pm, and left her there to party on with all the other drinkers. It was a bit of an eye opener watching people getting drunk in front of you, and it got to a point where it was a bit hard to handle. I woke up early the next day and went to the markets and a photography exhibition which was so nice to do without a hangover! Went out again on Sat night to dinner in Darlighurst with my friend who was drinking. He was pretty [...]

Day 4 :)
29/06/11 • 5 Comments

So it’s day 4. Feeling good! I went out to dinner last night with my grandma who drinks a lot. She offered me wine quite a few times and I refused. I was tempted at one stage, but that quickly passed. I woke up this morning feeling fantastic and thanked myself for not drinking. I told one of my friends yesterday about my plan to not drink for 3 months and she got angry at me. She turned it into something that was greatly going to affect her life in a negative way, and told me I was stupid for doing that. That was hard. Having non-supportive friends is going to be the hardest thing I am going to have to deal with.  I am determined to get through this…