Around 3 weeks now

Even though I told myself I would not count the time away from the booze I have been (roughly) of late.

This time round I have only hung around a few people for short periods whilst they were drinking and handled it well. don't get me wrong I do not start shaking and dribbling, but the cravings do get pretty overwhelming at times. The times I feel like a drink the most is when stress from work kicks in. But this weekend is going to be a fucking big test. I have 4 adults (all heavy drinkers) with their total of 5 kids coming over plus there is my wife and 2 kids. I know for a fact right now, the only one not being either/or loud, drunk, talking shit or running around like a nutter making a mess everywhere is going to be me. As a little side note, I think I had better mention that I was never a messy loud or obnoxious drunk. Even on big nights out partying I was the one who would keep their head (or at least be the most rationally thinking person at the time) despite the amount of consumption.

Us blokes are going to go take my boat out for a bit of a fishing trip for most of the night so I suppose that will keep the kids wrecking the house out of my mind sort of. Funny because I cant ever remember going fishing without having a beer first. Christ we used to scale down cliffs to go rock fishing before the break of dawn and still have a 6pack each to have a couple whilst we fished off the rocks. Believe it or not Rock Fishing on the ocean edge is actually Australia's second most deadly sport as that many people get killed from being washed off the rocks. I do remember one time I turned to go back to my tackle bag (and beer) to put a hook on my line and this freak wave came out of nowhere and nearly consumed us all 5 of us. Luckily enough we were on a large flat sort of ledge and everyone managed to find a hand hold and not get dragged into the ocean. Most people lost all their tackle bags except for me because for some reason I just wanted to keep mine right out of the way that day;) We all climbed back up the cliff face and went home after that. That was the day I realised rock fishing and drinking shouldn't mix. I don't think I have been rock fishing since. Pity, because I love it. Actually that is a good idea, next weekend if it is not blowing a gale like it is now I am going Rock fishing, about time I got out and did some of the shit I used to do. I'll be sure to post some pics of the catch!

Oh and Australia's deadliest sport is Lawn bowls. More people die on the green due to the typical age category of the sport. Mainly heart attacks.