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The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Past The Brewery!

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Mouseface · 28/09/2010 19:33

Hello.

I'm Mouse and I've been on the bus for 2 months now and not fallen off it as yet. It's much more comfortable than The Wagon! Grin

Anyway, this is thread number nine!

Everyone is welcome to join at any point of the journey, drinking or not, wanting to stop or just to cut down.

Jump on board, you won't be judged, just supported whatever you decide. Smile

Here is the history of The Brave Babes if you want to have a read.

JWN's original thread

Thread two

Thread three

Thread four

Thread five

Thread six

Thread seven

Thread eight

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RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 09:22

Yes, I am second! Plenty of seats to choose from!

Can't wait to see old and new faces alike onboard!

I have been sober for 8 days (yet a-bloody-gain!) and I am already feeling the benefit. Most of you will know that I have really been struggling in recent months but I keep picking myself up and getting back on this bus. It really is a lifesaver.

lucilastic · 29/09/2010 09:35

Can I sit next to SAF? Just read your previous post. I too used to be a professional, earning a good salary, thought nothing of treating myself to whatever I liked.
I met DP (divorced, two kids and hopelessly bad with money), wanted a family myself and it all went wrong financially.
Perhaps we can take comfort in the fact that we are surviving it and for today we're not drinking.
Morning babes. X

hippychicky · 29/09/2010 09:50

I got soaked running between the 2 buses!
I also never expected to be struggling so much financially - Everyone around me seems to have savings, mortgages paid off etc.and I can't see any end in sight to counting the pennies every day but after paying off my ex's debts and taking on the house on my own, which I really can't afford that's what I am stuck with. I do know that drinking doesn't help me to balance on the tightrope that my life is though - so today I will not be drinking.
x

Dizzydollybird · 29/09/2010 09:59

Ooh, swanky new bus, I want to sit at the back today, I'm feeling naughty Wink

I too can say I comprehensively trashed my life and didn't give a toss. I nearly killed myself through drink and lost everything I ever had - material, emotional and physical. I went through a long hard process of recovery, my health is still questionable, my finances ar still in tatters - I will never own my own my house and only just have a kiddies bank account. But you know what, in comparison to 4 years ago its a blessing, I have a lovely relationship with my closest family and I have my boys, the rest will come good eventually, or not, but I'm still standing and the fundamentals make me happy.

WasIndie I felt worse for a couple of weeks while the toxins exited but pretty quickly after that I looked and felt great, shiny hair, clear skin, white eyes and that horrible greasy shiny 'oozing alcohol' skin went away.

Mouse Sorry for your rough night and poorly teeth, antibots ob not kicking in yet - hope they do soon. Wish me luck for my 'extraction' tomorrow, is it wrong to be looking forward to it, the pain is unbearable x

RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 10:05

Hello lucil, hippy and dizzy! Nice to see you all this morning. Chucking it down with rain here too. But at least I am not drunk or hungover. Everything's better if I am sober!

MsGee · 29/09/2010 10:07

Rushes onto bus...

Christi, I am so sorry about the job. I really hope that things turn a corner for you soon. Can you ask them to pass your CV onto other organisations and reccomend you or is that not how it works in your field? I just ask because sometimes when I recruited people I asked other organsiations for people who scored highly in interviews recently and took on a couple of people that way.

Admission time (of thoughts more than deeds)... decided to drink yesterday and got as far as putting wine in the fridge. I made a clear decision to drink. I was sick of the house stuff, arguing with DH, crying, worrying about DD, anxious about work, so I thought fuck it. Why the fuckety not?

Told DH that I would have a glass of wine. Then I said, its quite low alcohol, so I could probably have two really. As I was working out if three would be ok, I realised what I was doing and that I hadn't changed. Wine remains in fridge but I didn't drink last night. I don't know about tonight.

Everyone on here is having such a tough time to be honest I feel like a fraud for struggling. I have a lovely family. We are moving to an lovely house (well, it will be...) in a lovely area. I am healthy. I have my own business and am in demand (although taken on more than I can cope with). Money is a worry but we have identified how to cut back once we move. DH is lovely and supportive (he has now banned me from dealing with house stuff and taken over everything). So why am I anxious and worried all the time? Why do I still feel crappy?

In the meantime I shall slump near the back of the bus. Slight air of the teenage self pitying strops about me but once we set off I shall soon snap out of it.

RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 10:08

Good morning MsGee I am so proud of you for not drinking. That is bloody brilliant. all our worries and fears are relative. Your worries and struggles are no less valid than anyone else's.

MsGee · 29/09/2010 10:16

Thanks Red

For some reason your post has made me quite teary. I think I must just be a hormonal wreck!

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RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 10:19

I think the best word to describe it is hormental! We all feel that. You are probably also feeling a sense of relief for a disaster averted last night!

RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 10:19

Good morning SAF how are you doing today?

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lucilastic · 29/09/2010 10:26

What a fucking idiot I am! Just swigged the remains of DP's beer can from last night!
Did it automatically - didn't give myself a chance to think of NOT doing it.

lucilastic · 29/09/2010 10:30

It was a quarter of a can. I have no intention of drinking anything else.
It is behaviour like this which sets me apart from "normal" drinkers.
I am an alcoholic. Sad

RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 10:38

SAF - he is definitely thawing but we shall have to see what happens. Thank you for asking - much appreciated.

lucil - well done for admitting what you are. I cannot remember whether you have used the word 'alcoholic' before. But well done anyway! It takes a while for the habits we have picked up to stop being our 'natural' response. You are doing really well.

RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 10:39

PS. My name's RedMoomin and I'm an alcoholic.

MsGee · 29/09/2010 10:52

Oh Red. well done for writing that. I know its hard to put in print isn't it. Pleased that your DH is thawing.

Lucil, echoing what Red said. I know its a big step to write / say it the first time

desiretochange · 29/09/2010 10:56

Morning everyone:)

RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 10:59

Morning desire!

MsGee - I have no problem saying that on here or in AA meetings. Not something I would mention in every day life Grin

Mouseface · 29/09/2010 11:00

Dizzy - God love you for being in the same pain I am!! How awful!! Hope it goes ok at the dentist tomorrow. xx

Luci - CONGRATUALTIONS!! You said it. You said it out loud.

Well done. Now what?

Red - I hope that you and DH can get your marriage back on track. xx

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RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 11:06

mouse thank you for your thoughts. The thing is at the moment that I am just not 100% sure it's what I want Sad I do totally love him but I am not sure that we are all that good a combination - he's a big boozer and I am trying not to be! He is also very different as a husband compared to how he was as a boyfriend/ fiance... Ah well! What will be will be.

lucilastic · 29/09/2010 11:08

I know. Have never said it, typed it.
I have asked myself many times if I might be....guess I don't have to anymore. Sad

desiretochange · 29/09/2010 11:10

Hi Luci, you don't plan on having any more today do you?

RedMoomin · 29/09/2010 11:14

lucil I have said it many times before - mainly in meetings but also to some friends and family too. It's very weird to begin with but it's only a word. There's just so much stigma about it I suppose.

Well done lucil you are just part of the alky family now Wink!

lucilastic · 29/09/2010 11:14

No, I don't intend on having anymore.
Just for today. I can't cope with forever.

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