Day 12- Feeling seedy...Oops

3:31am

Brain: Pssst. Wake up. WAKE UP...I think someone is trying to poison us!!! 
Me: Yeah. It was us, idiot.

I am accidently hung over, New Zealand.

And I think you might be. too.  If you're anything like me, that one too many glasses of wine (and switch to a G&T mid session) resulted in a very poor night's sleep. And a stupidly full blue bin for bottle recycling.

In my defense some of these bottles are from the houswarming I did in the week leading up to this Lockdown.

In my not defence (offense? Prosecution?), I am drinking a lot in lockdown.

Alcohol is not my friend.

I take that back. Not true. What is true? Alcohol is like the only friend you have during that shifting social landscape phase in high school when your group of friends ousts you from the inner circle with no warming and you need someone to hang with so you take what you can get.

Warning- this moody, insecure new placeholder friend is quite hard to hang out with. An adolescent me didn't understand why but, of course, 40 year old education-expert Adrienne can clearly see that alcohol is the kind of mate you can't really rely on because people can only like you as much as they like themseves. And alcohol is an arragant, self-loathing bitch. Toxic friendshp.

Ok- maybe I'm being a bit hard. We have fun, right? We laugh and dance and divulge a few too many secrets. The recipe for a good time.  When push comes to show though, this wee moody Spirit doesn't really want what's best for me and she'd kneecap me before letting me for for a 6am run. She's done it before.

Alcohol is as ubiquitous in kiwi hoseholds as Edmund's cookbooks and more so than wooden buzzy bees on pull-strings. The ultimate legal painkiller. 

According to Action Point NZ:

"From the domestic figures released by Statistics New Zealand, in the year 2020:

• 495 million litres of alcoholic drinks were available for domestic consumption:
  • 293 million litres of beer, 
  • 112 million litres of wine, 
  • 89 million litres of spirits and spirit-based drinks."

That's a lot of drink. I could go into it- the research, the reasons, the important conversations around this but I'm feeling a little seedy, so I'm rolling over and going back to sleep.

Peace out, peace in, homies. Meet you for a video drink later?

xAPB