Sober Paddy

How to make money in a recession

December 12, 2011 By Sober Paddy 2 Comments

I know that a lot of you out there are looking for ways to make money. Everyone wants to know how to get rich. Well, The Sober Paddy knows the answer. I have been studying the global situation and have been analysing trends and what is going to happen. There is one piece of advice I have for anyone who has any money saved up anywhere in the world and wants to know what to do with it – BUY GOLD! This may not seem like the most revolutionary thought. But there is no money in Real Estate. Stocks are a no go as the economies of the world collapse. Once the South Americans and Australians finish digging up and selling their resources to the Chinese, then the world is going to grindingly crunch [Read more...]

Filed Under: Waffles Tagged With: Abuse of alcohol, alcohol effects, alcohol problem

How to find Inner Peace.

November 8, 2011 By Sober Paddy 6 Comments

I’ve been sober for nearly two years now. To the dog on the street that doesn’t mean much. Every day you wake up feeling pretty good and go to sleep feeling pretty good but tired. This existence is like a retirement home for recovering crack heads – Nice and easy in the middle. ..soft pastel colours and nice people saying nice things. Your condition is solid and you suffer no paranoia and no early morning pangs of regret. There is nothing to fear. There is an abundance [Read more...]

Filed Under: Waffles Tagged With: Abuse of alcohol, alcohol effects, alcohol problem, inner peace

How to grow old gracefully

October 22, 2011 By Sober Paddy 8 Comments

They reckon that turning 18 is a milestone. They believe that hitting 21 is another. Stumbling over 30 years is meant to be the beginning of the end. But I have just hit the weirdest age of them all – 35.Thirty five years old…my God. I don’t want to sound like a boring old twat, but where did the years go? I still feel like my teen years are just behind me. I still act as though my twenties are still to be lived. But I am now closer to my forties than any other decade. I have reached middle age territory. I have lived for more years than Jesus did. Or Kurt Cobain. Or Jim Morrison [Read more...]

Filed Under: Waffles Tagged With: Abuse of alcohol, alcohol effects, alcohol problem, growing old

Viva La Revolution

October 12, 2011 By Sober Paddy 2 Comments

268610_230891140266855_230741656948470_716757_5371153_s

Where do I begin? My absence from blogging has been caused by number of reasons. I have been searching for some information on the interweb. I have been disseminating. I have been scouring the globe for news about the revolution. You see, there are many hands and feet getting involved now. They are all walking together and they are going in the same direction. I am part of this revolution in a very [Read more...]

Filed Under: Waffles Tagged With: Abuse of alcohol, alcohol effects, alcohol problem, revolution

How I feel after the Dubs brought home Sam

September 21, 2011 By Sober Paddy 8 Comments

Filed Under: Video Blog Tagged With: Abuse of alcohol, alcohol effects, alcohol problem, dublin winning sam maguire

Interview with The Sober Paddy

August 31, 2011 By Sober Paddy 5 Comments

I have been struggling lately to write anything for Sober Paddy. There is no electric prose blasting from the page. I am a field mouse hiding in a field of burnt corn on the cob. I am the head of a hiding turtle when the sharks are shooming by. I am a Donegal forward, trapped by the masochistic restrictions of a system that works insofar as it stops others from working. I am Prometheus with the rain pishing down on him in Connemara with no flint, no matches and not even a glint in my eye. I am a forty something woman messed up with years of IV treatment and not a kid to be seen. I am an alcoholic whose head is being turned by the saucy satin panties worn by the svelte bottle of Pinot Noir in the kitchen. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Interviews, Waffles