what happened on tour …
Monday, January 4th, 2010, 1:02 amdue to my inability to control my own alcohol intake and the resultant embarrassing situations i find myself in, i have declared 2010 a booze free year for me.
i prefer not to think of it as a NY resolution per se, just coincidental and convenient timing.
i drank too much at the family gathering for Christmas- resulted in much crying (me) and screaming over the coffee table (my brother and me) about things we can’t change.
i drank too much on NYE - most of the evening’s gone, and bits i do remember i either wish i didn’t, or they’re so vague it’s like they happened to someone else. being violently ill, yep, that’s one of the former.
my mum asked me surely at 29, i’m a bit old for binge drinking? and i thought it strange, because most people i know binge drink. it’s a cultural thing.
and i don’t imagine it will feel awesome when i’m in one of those situations where i always relied on drinking to get through in the past. but nevertheless, i gave up chocolate - i can give up alcohol.
January 11th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Completely giving it up? Well that’s a step I’m not sure I really want to be going to but I can understand the desire to cut back. Especially if you’ve had a few unpleasantly indulgent evenings…
Good luck, hope we don’t all turn out to be boring…
January 11th, 2010 at 11:56 am
unfortunately, the “few” has started to become the “many”.
but it’s a delibrate decision to find the fun without being smashed. one can rely too much on alcohol to ease social situations. so they say, anyway :)
Good luck, hope we don’t all turn out to be boring…
it’s funny you say that, coz i’ve always wondered if people would like *me* if i didn’t drink so much.
January 20th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
When I moved to Brisbane years ago (yeah, you know when) - I gave up alcohol completely for the two years I lived there. Nothing to do with Brisbane, as such… Just that I had an increasing number of negative experiences with alcohol, similar to yours.
Increasingly often and with less and less alcohol, I was blacking out completely. I would continue to drink and party, and chat and whatever else, as though nothing had changed. Not even my friends could tell that I was out of it. But for me, the last thing I could remember and waking up the next morning, were like two subsequent moments in time. No gap in between. I used to have to call around all my mates and ask what I had gotten up to the night before… Invariably it was like “Whaaaat??? Maaaaan… Don’t you remember when you…” etc. You get the point.
I drink again now, and you could term it binge drinking. I don’t do it very often though (last time was the work Christmas party… Not a good scene. Glad i don’t remember it.) And I rarely black out now.
January 21st, 2010 at 10:03 am
I remember. You told me once that you’d driven your motorbike home from somewhere - maybe that party we were both at that time? - and you couldn’t remember it.
Interestingly enough, that same party, I woke up in the morning on the floor snuggled up to one of my friend’s girlfriends, sharing a blanket, with no memory of moving there from the couch we’d been sitting on.
Rarely? That’s still more than I’d want :)