One Month Sober-ish Update
Well, 30 days have passed since I made my little pledge to try and kick the booze for a month and whilst I can’t say I’ve been 100% sober this month I’m well chuffed with how much I’ve cut back on drinking at home! Which, if you remember, was the main reason I decided to do this and make it a TWO month challenge instead of just for October.
Beavertown Lazer Crush : One of my FAVE AF beers 💛
I’ve been sharing updates every 10 days over on Instagram, which felt like a more manageable way to keep tabs on what I’ve been drinking and share new AF finds with you all. If you’ve been following along on there, I hope you’ve enjoyed the updates and found the lists of drinkypoos handy!
TRIP Peach and Ginger : Refreshing, tasty and although I’m not sure the CBD had any affect on me, it’s nice to believe a drink can calm you the fuck down!
I promised to do a full round up for September on here so it’s all in one place. I think it’s nice to look back and it gives me a chance to highlight some of my favourite finds this last month too. So, here’s the list of tasty beverages I’ve enjoyed - including the times I slipped up because it’s important to remember them too in this process!
Because tea by the sea is ALWAYS a winner!
🧃 Fizzy-Make-Feel-Good (Lucozade) 🧃
🍸 AF G&T 🍸
🥂 Nozeco 🥂
🧃 Can O’Water (Sparkling ✨) 🧃
🍺 No Worries Grapefruit AF Beer 🍺
🥂 Freixenet AF Fizz 🥂
🧃 Rhubarb Cawston Press 🧃
🍷 FAIL : Wine in a tin cup 🍷
🍺 Good Karma Beer Co 🍺
🍺 Beavertown Lazer Crush 🍺
Thirsty in Cambridge have an EXCELLENT selection of tasty AF beers, this Nirvana IPA was great!
🩸 All the cranberry things 🩸
🍺 Brooklyn Special Effects 🍺
🍺 Happy Pils - Good Karma Beer Co 🍺
🥭 No Worries Mango AF Beer 🥭
🍷 FAIL : Jam Shed wine 🍷
🍋 San Pellegrino Lemon & Mint 🍋
🍺 Nirvana Brewery IPA 🍺
🎫 Golden Ticket : wine with friends 🎫
🍑 Peach Ginger TRIP 🍑
🍺 Tool Implosion 🍺
I ordered myself a selection box from Square Root Soda and everything has been spot on! This Negroni Spritz maybe my fave so far though.
🍊 Square Roots Negroni Spritz 🍊
🍺 BrewDog Punk AF 🍺
🎫 Golden Ticket : Espresson Martini 🎫
🍺 + 🍷 Holiday Mode 🙃
💦 H2O and lots of it! 💦
☕️ Brews a plenty ☕️
🍊 Orangina 🍊
🍺 Pohjala Tundra IPA 🍺
🧡 Square Roots Ginger Beer 🧡
🍺 Omnipollo Konx AF Pale 🍺
Another corker from Thirsty and TO ØL are one of my fave breweries in general so I was well chuffed to find they had a delicious AF beer too!
So, here we are, September is done and I'm pretty much half way through my Sober challenge... well, SOBER-ISH Challenge! I mean, as I mentioned there were some slip ups and the last week of Sept was a bit of a shocker with golden tickets and being on holiday (more social drinking than I care to admit to!)
BUT the most important thing for me right now, is that I am feeling much more confident about kicking those bad, home-drinking habits! I don’t feel the ‘fuck it, I’m having wine tonight’ urge as often when I’ve had a stressful day and that’s AWESOME!
Anyway, I hope you’ve enjoyed looking over the list of the AF beverages I've enjoyed, the ear worm playlist I created on Spotify is also up to date and #SOBEROCTOBER - I'm ready for you!
Thank you all again for your cheerleading, drink suggestions and donations over the last four weeks! I hope the next four weeks whizz by just as successfully and you enjoy riding this little sober-curious rollercoaster with me!
If you’d like to donate the cost of a pint or whatever you can afford to help me further on my way to my fundraising target, you can do so via the link below:
https://www.gosober.org.uk/users/jo-want-2
THANK YOU ALL AGAIN!
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