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I messaged some person involved with the alc industry after seeing that packed drive-thru at the time people take their kids to school. They can call me Karen if they like.. I’m actually a woman who was scarily close to death at 35yo from two bouts of acute alcohol-induced pancreatitis. I came through it with Type 3c diabetes (arguably worse than Type 1 but at least I didn’t have it as a kid). Alcohol laws were pretty normal back then and I feel like I dodged a bullet. I’m seeing my GP...

This is actually a bit triggering for me. I never did the school run drunk but have a terrible memory of a Sunday morning in 2007.. I was down at the bottlo before it opened (10am) with my daughter. I bought some bottles of beer. She would have been about 7yo. I got her to hold them on her lap. On the way home she says, “Mummy one is broken..” I pulled over ASAP and sure enough she was sitting there with a broken beer bottle. She hadn’t cut herself but I feel so sad thinking about that :(...

I just drove into a new town. I needed a cup of tea so was looking for any servos or Macca’s or whatever. I couldn’t see what this was (was driving toward that corner), went to turn in and uhh wtf. I made a screenshot of the pic so y’all can see the time. (I found good old Macca’s and got my tea then *had* to document this.) That was the second car that went through as I was sitting there.

Great time to do this - alone in a different State with my car playing up. But I have no source. I’ve done it a few times cold turkey but at home and fuelled by anger.. At the moment I’m just scared. I’m tired, I’m sad and I’m weak. It was a security blanket - yet another being taken from me. I have to drive the van an hour south to see a mobile mechanic (so it doesn’t cost me so much). It’s around 1am and means I don’t have to fight traffic and die of embarrassment because of how bad the...

A lady gave me a can of beer last night. I've still got about three quarters of it and not because I passed out or used any willpower at all. That lady bothering to ask if I was ok (no, I wasn't), giving me one of her beers, and talking to me a bit was enough. The opposite of addiction is connection. --Johann Hari

Gabor Maté has been doing some fantastic stuff around this, including a new book: "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture" by Daniel Maté and Gabor Maté" I watched this the other night.. Talk about being made to work for love as a child. I was pretty much a straight A student because it was one of the few ways I could get my parents' approval/attention. I had a total phobia of not being able to sleep because I'm sure going to sleep when I was supposed to = good...

This is a bit of a place holder because I'm parked outside the General Store at the camp ground on my way out. I needed to book more nights (stress because school holidays starting this weekend and I was lucky to get one). I was going to go to Dad's tomorrow. He tested positive for Covid at some point and is in isolation or quarantine or whatever the f*** they call it. I'm having stuff sent there, including CGMs (Continuous Glucose Monitors for diabetes) which I really need but have been...

I like looking at pictures. It helps keep me sober :cool: So I spend hours on Pinterest. Then I see something that just makes me lol for realz. I like some of the Post-Apocalyptic clothes like.. That style borders on Punk, Gothic, Steampunk. Well I got on Pinterest just before and it showed me this.. Seriously, who in the fuck would wear that? Maybe to a costume party but nowhere on the ad does it mention that, even with Halloween "only" about six weeks away. Or is it meant to be a Covid...

I'm trying to make a journal because I can't keep using the music thread. I haven't been told to do this by admin, I'm just conscious of it. Is that enough characters? Apparently not... Here are more.. Enough? 41 to go.. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.