Drink Drunk Distraction
by Danj
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Complaints, I've made a few
All the time now, it seems like I’m complaining. Walking miles with a screaming baby on my shoulder, doing laps of the lounge room. Getting up at 5am. Work is horrible. Wife is angry. Money is sh...
Things to do every day
Eat well Exercise Write every day Meditate Tell someone I love them
About a week
No booze for almost a week. Skin clearer. Head on forwards. Capable. Happier. Less tired. Good.
Cold War
The morning, where you’ve had a disagreement last night, and you give your partner a cheery ‘good morning’, but oh. It’s still going. Cold stare and the shuffling of a dressing gown. Last day of ...
Unfortunate
Here is a new day and it’s like smoke curling around my fingers. I started to see the complexity in something in the afternoon and it threw me. I thought ‘here’s something I haven’t tried’ then t...
Boring but short
Haven’t drunk anything for 2 days, which isn’t a massive win, but I definitely feel better escaping from being hungover for 48 hours. Not feeling anxious for the first time in a while helps. I’m ...
Beyond Anger
So my wife was telling me about a koan she’d read that I’d never heard of… it goes something like: “Beyond anger is grief Beyond grief is the clear blue sky” And that kind of resonated with me. E...
Better
Things are sort of better today. I had a good sit and a think about what’s been bothering me - it’s basically about going to mediation with my ex this Wednesday. Our daughter, G, my eldest and he...
The Worst Buddhist in the World
So I’m a little end of tether here. Just a little teensy bit towards the end of the rope. I got three kids asleep, my wife is wrecked from looking after an angry little ball of newborn, and I’m o...
Book Description
Probably some things about why I drink and what else I might be able to use to get around those things