Break out the Tiny Violins!

I've officially gone off the deep end

again.

First and foremost, I'd like to give my sincerest apologies for making a mockery of bloggers everywhere, I haven't posted to my blog in almost 3 weeks? Yeah, I've been slightly busy... drinking. Here it goes.

WEEK NUMERO UNO:

Mothers Day! so technically mothers day wasn't until sunday, who give's a shit I went out saturday and sunday! I never even spent mothers day with my child how's that for backwards thinking/doing. Here's what I should have been at...

kissing this cutie!

What I was actually at was the bar. 

friends posts, looking back I feel like a fraud

DOS!:

Week number two was an exciting one. Honestly I drank a lot! It was May 2-4 weekend! It's a time old tradition to go out to lomond river lodge and drink our socks off. This is one tradition that will be super hard to break. 

Friday Night

The Girls took off to the dance! It was amazeballs, we had a blast without the guys. Had some iffy looking bikers buying us shots all night, my friend Sam shes on the left, she attracts the weirdos, before the night began she was voted least likely to get shots paid for. PROVED US WRONG! She just stood there like a good "weirdo magnet" attracting people who would buy us booze. In all honesty tho, they were a great group of guys! Funny, nice, charming, the weird part was what they seen in us to actually buy us drinks. We're a bunch of freaks. LOL

Saturday Night

Again, this time with my man and his best friend, and one of my friends Marla! Also, a awesome time! not even sure what time we got back to my house. Honestly don't remember much, what I do remember was buying sandwiches at the bar and one going missing. Someone stole my f'ing sandwich! 

(haha) Good times tho!

TRES! ?

Hold up! I'm missing a weekend in my memory... I know last weekend I spent a lot of time at the bar a friend came home from alberta, blah blah blah... not even my friend it was my SO's friend. That was saturday night!

Friday night I was with this hot piece of gear

Me and Ashley WINOS! (lol) everyone needs Galliot in their life. Mmmm. Love ya bish!

CUATRO:

The fourth week which I actually thought was the third week, being this weekend as in what I did last night. As in make a bloody fool of myself again...

So out with my SO and his best friend drinking beers shooting shit you know the usual, starts getting slightly tipsy and what should me and the man start to argue about in front of his buddy but our marital issues. I won't go into too much detail but it's the same argument we always have even sober i know I'm right, everyone else know's I'm right, but my drunk ass only wants to argue about it when I'm drinking. He says "oh she must be drunk again, she's starting to talk stupid..." 

Well darling, I may sound stupid talking about it when I'm drunk but completely sober I realize he's a tool. Ugh, relationship problems!

Thank-you alcohol for being my worst enemy and best friend.

F*** YEA! BARBECUE!

and the Piece de Resistance!

fresh crab!!!!!!!!

I just had a successful NO DRINKING week! I went for a barbecue at a friends where everyone was drinking, stayed out until 4 in the morning and never had one ounce of alcohol! High Five to me.

I also spent my weekend going for walks and had more temptation to drink when I was offered wine at a friends house, I politely turned it down. I am doing good this week!

I did have a awkward run in with a friend though, I was at my besties babyshower and another friend asked me whether I was drinking this weekend or going to the bar. I said "No, I no longer go to the bar and I hardy ever drink." She gave me this look like, pssht, yea right, who are you trying to kid. She said, "I'm not stupid Talia." So, I said, "no seriously I'm cutting back drinking. When was the last time u seen me at the club?" she said, "Oh yeah good one, because I don't go out anymore and you know  haven't seen you at the bar in forever." and walks away. As if I couldn't cut back on drinking and quit going to the bar. Anyways she didn't believe me whatsoever. It was kind of funny.

If I succeed this week, I'm going to reward myself with something I'm not sure what yet not a drunk like I did last time but, I feel like I definitely deserve something when I finish my two weeks sober.

“It’s a great advantage not to drink

among hard drinking people.” 

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Anyone with accomplishments of their own this week feel free to comment them so we can celebrate together! Every accomplishment should go noticed and be celebrated!

Whale worth the drive!

In my tiny town Trout River there is big news and when I say big I mean, a blue whale washed up on shore and its fricking huge! BIG. it dies underneath the ice 9 blue whales in total and we had the pleasure of one gigantic bloated creature visiting our beach.

Theres currently a big debate on what to do with the whale, keep it and get funding to foot the bill for a tourist museum, or give it away to a Ontario museum let them do all the work and foot the costs. Its hard to say.

My opinion... As a town population 600 with a council budget of $330,000 and the job to remove/preserve the bones of the blue whale coming in at $250,000 we obviously don't have the cash. when asked for help we got the reply that it was our problem deal with it... so no funding. I say we should give it away to the Royal Ontario Museum, but ask that we have a place in their museum dedicated to our town/park/UNESCO site, to attract tourism through them. We can still place in our own museum about the whale and where to find the bones. best of both worlds.

There are people all over the world coming to see this whale in our small town. Its being blown up over hundreds of news stations over the world. I have clips from england, edmonton, even the toronto star. Its quite fasinating!

Me and my friend Ashley decided to take a five minute walk down the boardwalk and see our famous new neighbor. Here are our pics ;)

Aren't we cool ! 

...And here are a few links to news articles on our blue whale/town, but if you need any information you can always comment below, Ill answer any and all questions.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/rotting-blue-whale-carcass-should-stay-says-trout-river-woman-1.2629554

http://globalnews.ca/news/1305767/newfoundlands-smelly-blue-whale-remains-heading-to-ontario/

http://www.thewesternstar.com/News/Local/2014-05-03/article-3709895/Lobbying-begins-to-turn-dead-blue-whales-into-tourist-attraction/1

http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/30/trout-river-fears-blue-whale-could-explode-in-canadian-town-4713625/

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/04/30/rotting-whale-carcass-worries-newfoundland-town

http://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/video?playlistId=1.1797151

EPIC FAILURES!

Sometimes all you can do after you've taken a epic fall is to get back up dust yourself off and start over again. Never give up is my motto!

So, as you may well know, yesterday I created a punishment. Accepted the punishment as a challenge, and then yesterday maybe four hours after making the post I failed miserably! Here I am again hungover strung out feeling like a complete idiot AGAIN! Omy here we go....

First mistake leading to my demise. 

So a few friends came in town with their boyfriends bugging me to come down, my first mistake was showering they couldn't have dragged me out of bed (where yes! I did spend all of yesterday until 7, sue me! I take breaks when I can get them and have no Internet all week)  

Second mistake.

Showering. They very well couldn't decide to drag me out of bed in my pjs looking like a hot mess. (And just so you know, yes I did spend all yesterday up until 7 pm in bed. I took a day off of life, sue me lol) so, yes I did agree to hanging out for a hour before they went to the bar.

Third mistake.

No explanation needed. Just one itty bitty shotty shot, they cooed. You'll be alright they said just one.

...and that's how I ended up half in the bag and out the door off to the bar. It's not easy. The peer pressure is not easy to deal with. I'm 22 and right now that's what the 22 year olds do, they drink they party and have a lot of drunken fun. They don't sit home blogging about quitting drinking at 22. I had a great time. Drank wayyyyyy too many shots of sauza gold and wayyyyyyy too many beer. My hangover is a killer. I ate a late night meal after getting home from the bar which doesn't go in line with my workout at all! oh my. 

Look at us! Ou la la! Tres beau haha pretty bitches ;)

Well since I FAILED my punishment MISERABLY! I have a new punishment. No alcohol for two weekends. So, here we go again....

Happy Resurrection Day ?!

P.S. sorry I missed last week I promise I have two very good reasons for not posting.

Reason #1. 

My first reason is this girl right here! This is my girl! Her name is Aaliyah-Rose she's my baby! So, Sunday morning when I woke up and should've been Easter egg hunting or even writing my post I was instead rushing to the hospital with this girl. A regular flu all week, then bam! Temperature rises to a shocking 104 degrees F. It was not pretty its just over a hour drive to the nearest hospital, I was worried sick. Turns out she had a lung infection coming on so I'm very glad I went with her. It's a week later and her meds are all taken and she's still out there coughing up a lung. It's a bad flu.

Reason #2.

Today was also my beautiful little nieces first Easter and her christening day! The church service started at three I made it back from the hospital and was in the church by 3:04 so I never did too bad considering. I was her 'godmother' or as they now call us 'sponsors'. I was pretty proud to be part of her big day! 

I just want to mention a few things now about the whole church thing. For all you who aren't Christians, Easter is celebrated because its when Jesus died on the cross he was buried in the tomb and then came back to life, ergo my title happy resurrection day. It's a joke I like to say it when I go to my dads, he's really religious, I'm not as religious. Thank you Jesus for dying for our sins.

Another thing I'd like to mention, the reverend at the church service! He was hilarious. Honestly I haven't been to church all that often you'd think I'd have been more because of my dad being really religious but I haven't. Then I went on Easter Sunday, oh man, he was up talking about bad governments and how modern day governments are the same I was roaring with laughter. Great guy! I'd probably go to a few more of his services just saying. Not bad at all. 

Down to the drinking portion of my week!

This week (actually last week) yes I did drink, I actually drank on a Thursday night. I was at my friends house and drank one beer while watching our show TVD, the vampire diaries, I'm obsessed. But, shame on me. And Friday night I was drinking, pretty sure I got hammered off of a small bottle of wine and two beer. Not even sure what happened there, because I know I can handle my booze, obviously my body made a joke of me last week. Then on Saturday night I can't remember what I did, I'm pretty sure I had a glass of brew with the old fellers, me and the man was down to the shed with all of his family aka the old fellers. Then I went to a friends house played skip-bo and had two beer and some wine. Still went home early, lucky I did, because my mom in law phoned, she was watching my kid, who started crying and asking for me. I went over the for the night, Easter sunday was the next morning. Sunday night, my SO and his best friend were out and about I decided to go home early, not my kind if company that's all. So early night in with my sick girly. Loves that girl.

Punishment !

So, the system I have is based on reward and punishment. I rewarded myself for good behaviour last week and damn it this week I didn't do well at all so I'm due for a punishment. 

Here's how I feel tho!

   

No drinking this weekend! None, zip, nada, zilch, zero! No matter what no alcohol! Even if the president comes and asks me to get wasted with him, NO! Even if I get invited to a super awesome weekend in Vegas with none other then Alice cooper, NO. Maybe the Jonas brothers, Miley Cyrus and the beibz show up at my house with a case of cold ones, NOPE no booze.

Challenge accepted!

Sorry

Oh! Wasn't that a PARTY!

First, I'd like to say my reward system is deffinetly flawed.
It goes like this, recognition, reasonable expectations, follow through and if accomplished you get a reward. My reward for not drinking any this week even tho pressured to do so, was a night at the bar. (Something I haven't done in a while.) Now here's where the reward system is completely FUCKED UP, my reward is to have a hangover? This morning, after a awesome dance last night, I find myself lying on the floor with the worse case of 'blender brain' I've ever experienced. So, if my thoughts are messy today, please, forgive me.

Heres how I went from here...

The ladies ! <3 Haven't seen them in a while due to no drinking.

To here...

Notice the two pimples that materialized In 4 hours.

Let me just start by saying I've never felt more missed or loved then I did last night. Honestly I walked in the bar and I had so many people actually come up to me and say they haven't seen me in a while, and that they missed seeing me around. Even people saying I was doing a great job with cutting back. Now, here's the thing I'm not broadcasting the fact that I'm cutting out drinking, so for people to actually notice that I have been, without me having to say that's what I'm doing is amazing/weird. People were smiling at me dragging me up for dances, buying me beer. It was as if they hadn't seen me in years. It made me feel great that others have noticed. Also, not one person asked me if I was pregnant LOL usually in small towns if your not drinking or quitting drinking, you must infact be pregnant. Don't you just love gossip!

I really love my town and all the people in it tho, they really know how to make a girl smile. Population of 2000 (maybe) and about half of those I genuinely care for even when they're being nosey bastards! (Lol)

I'm not sure how much I drank last night, I'm guessing four or five beer before the bar at Sams house waiting for the sitter and doing our hair. Then, as soon as I got to the bar I headed for the dance floor, after being stopped for hugs and chats about a dozen times. You can't have beer on the dance floor and I was on the dance floor just about the whole night, well either there or in the washroom peeing. So, I don't think I went too overboard. Also, I stuck to beer. Overall not bad maybe 10 beer all night until 3am.

As with every drunk night the walk from the bar to home is a pain in the ass. Especially when your drunk boyfriend who outweighs you by double has to be practically carried home. Even worse when the drunk boyfriend starts throwing dirty drunken slurs about things in the past, then you both start a foolish argument slurring at each other looking like idiots, and the next day you remember nothing about it. That was fun.

After around four hours sleep, two glasses of water, one cup of tea, a tylenol and some dinner, I'm still laid here on the floor constructing a messy blog of thoughts. Sorting through blender brain is not a easy task. I have shit to do today, I do not have time for hangovers. But boy did I have a good time last night.

Was it worth it?

Yes.

Next goal?

Dancing at the bar, with one beer, the whole night. Not a simple task folks. But we shall see how it goes. 

With that said this post is officially done. Ill leave u now with this cute video of how I picture myself dancing at the bar. 

http://youtu.be/043z1sCnS6I

My Awesome List of PROS vs. CONS of Drinking!

Want some cheese with that whine!

What's that saying, something about crying rivers and building bridges, Get Over It! That's me this weekend. I literally did nothing, Friday I went on skidoo to a few cabins had a Bacardi breezer, I woke up Saturday with all the muscles pulled in my back. In extreme pain. However, I don't want to talk about how I sat around for two days in bed crying, on pain meds. So...

Pros vs. Cons of drinking :

Con: Alcoholism! ...Obviously

Pro: Studies have shown it protects your heart. I won't begin to argue with scientists.

Pro: Increased confidence! Hey we can all use a little bit of that!

Con: Too much CONFIDENCE! We all see those people, sometimes we've been those embarrassing people.

Con: Hangovers! Bleh, no thanks. I've spent far too many sunny Sundays hiding in bed.

Pro: Can indeed help improve your social life! 

Pro: You get drunk and act like a idiot!

Con: You get drunk and act like and idiot...? 

Con: Its hard on the wallet!

Pro: It's easy on the soul! Helps you relax...

PRO: Drunk Sex ;) you know what I'm talking about !

CON: Too drunk to have sex -_-

Con: Way too many calories!

Con: Dehydrates your body resulting in bad skin etc...

Con: Increased memory loss!
Con: Drunk texting, messaging, calling people.
Con: Embarrassing Photos tagged on Facebook! 

I think I could continue with this one but obviously we see where it's going. I no longer see the light in drinking. If anyone thinks of some to add feel free to comment it!

My very own photographic, Facebook shared, reasons drinking and cameras don't mix!

Oh gosh, the advice I'd give myself five years ago.

NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!

Exactly what it looks like.. lol 

ughhhh... 

My wonderful SO

Kissing other girls.. I could've done a full page of these photos.

again... 

HAHAHA not as embarrassing for me.

I should mention these are photos I'm currently tagged in. I have no idea why I'm still tagged in them, they must have made it through my careful screening. There are plenty worse I've since deleted, un-tagged and reported. Even more that I was just simply too embarrassed to share here. Hope you Enjoyed!