The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Into 2011!

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Hello and a Happy New Year!

I'm Mouse, one of the passengers on this wonderful journey to sobriety!

We are a real mixed bunch of people, all trying to control or give up the booze - ONE DAY AT A TIME.

Come meet the others.........

And here are the previous threads, the journeys so far

I'm JaquiChan and I want to sparkle.

Mouse, I remember the original thread that started this, I lurked but hell, I wish I had joined back then. I drank two bottles of wine last night, my insides actually hurt today.

Hi Jaqci

The last thread is still active at the moment so you'd be better on there as we will fill that one up before moving over here.

Welcome aboard x

Happy New Year Brave Babes!

It seems like I haven't been on here for months - not days. I had a great Christmas with family - only embarrassed myself once and this was being v v rubbish at pictionary .

I am off to read all your previous posts since Christmas Eve (hope you are all Ok and being kind to yourselves ) but just wanted to say I'm back and thank you again for support end of 2010.

Tes x

ps DH has decided to have a dry Jan so I may get some support after all!

well, im off to bed, my cough has come back with a vengence but i do have a tummy full of roast dinner and apple crumble so i may live to fight another day!

welcome jaq!, nice to meet you!

see you in the morning lovely babes!

Marking a place. Hope everyone's doing ok.

Me too
I can remember almost every part of the festive season, which is a start!

Happy New Year all.

x

p.s. drinking tonight but am going skiing () this Friday. Plan not to drink from tomorrow until we go so I have a fighting chance of staying upright!)

Good evening lovelies,

just back from a MAJORLY stressy day at my sister's. It didn't help that I was very tired when we went, and I drove (a very long way) so that Dh wouldn't get so tired, also drove back but that's another story! (not a drinking story, but I was so stressed that I wanted to punish myself . )

I haven't had a glass of wine for a while (still makes me smile when I think how pi**ed my Dr and his wife were on New Years Eve!), but do feel like one tonight, we'll see. I picked up Bridget Jones Mk 2, on the way home, and am planning to watch that after a bath.

Hello to all the babes that I haven't met before, I hope that you get as much from this thread as I have. I feel the luckiest person, to have found it.

Mouse how were your few days away? Is nemo ok? How is DD, and when does she go back to school?. Sending you all the best hopes for this new year, who knows what Nemo will achieve for himself in the coming year.

Venus much love babe.

Right, off for a bath, phone on silent, in case my Mother phones to apologise for my Dad making me cry (sigh) (only in the kitchen though, no-one saw). What it is to be the responsible and capable sister, who needs no help . xxx

JWN I hope your cough is better, forgot to ask!

Evening all

Hope everyone is good!
Had a lovely day today, DD, FIL and I went for a walk this afternoon, well - walk in the loosest sense of the term, more like a skate on ice!! The ground was very very icey, and my butt already hurts from when I fell on ice coming out of my meeting on Friday night!

But it was nice to be out in the cold fresh air, we then came home to nice hot cups of tea and watched Hot Fuzz on DVD - love that movie, really makes me smile. Followed by a curry. Very very pleasant day all in all.

Going to snuggle on the sofa with DD, and then an early night.

You know what - I really never thought it possible, but life is f&^*king fantastic without alcohol, and not worrying about it, or drinking it, and just living in the present.

Brave babes - I could not have done it without you inspirational lot. Thank you one and all.

Oh - and to make matters even better, my skin is absolutely luminous at the moment. It hasn't been so great since my early 20's, I wish that I could take this feeling and bottle it!

Love to all
xx

Hi everyone. Have kept seeing these threads and wondering whether to join. I've been trying to get sober for a while now and most of the time it's fine. I can go months without a drink. But every now and then, when people around me are drinking, I'll relapse. The guilt and shame afterwards is awful. I really really want to cut alcohol completely out of my life for good so would be nice to chat with others on a similar journey.

Bafana, glad to hear you're doing so well. For me, it's the not worrying about it aspect that's so freeing. No 'should I or shouldn't I?', no 'how much is too much?', no counting or calculating or dreading the results. I've had a fairly stressful few days but I just know they would have been so much worse with alcohol thrown into the mix.

At least I can feel and be shitty on my own terms!

Hello to all new arrivals. This is a great thread.

CJ
It's a bit late I know, but you are so right about just making the decision to not think about a decision any more!!

I have just watched Bridget Jones2, and am going to bed with a cup of sleepy (so the packet says) tea.

Dinner welcome, you are in a good place.

Bafanna You don't have to bottle it, it will be there tomorrow! Well done.

Lots of love. xx

Is there a Mouse in the house ?

Nighty, night, Babes. xx

morning all! - am still bloody coughing, i was in bed by 6 last night and i still feel rough! - having a quiet day here, taking the decs down and just getting the house a straight again, thats if my lungs hold out!

btw, nice to meet you makeyourown!

morning all. still battling the new year blues but go back to work on Wednesday so counting the hours down. Day 7 today but Day 2 really as Day 5 was a big collapse. it was new years day and I knew it was coming so I jumped before I was pushed IYSWIM.
However only one day's drinking in the last 7 days is pretty damn fine in my book, considering its been the holidays and have been cooped but with bloody kids and DH for days on end.
Still not managed to discover this elusive sleep everyone talks about. the only night I have slept well was the night I was drinking.
That's going to have to change soon - if I'm still waking up exhausted and headachy when I haven't been drinking then I'm beginning to wonder if its worth it.......
Ignore me - I'm still narky and blue

HI everyone

Drunk far too much recently and feel a bit like an emotional wreck at the moment

Hey Zany. Whats up Babe?
makeyerowndamndinner LOVE the name and welcome!

morning everyone....can I ask a question? This is Day 3 for me and the past two nights have been appalling...keep waking up and of course I feel terrible in the morning. Anyone else had this at the start and does it get better?

Morning Babes.

Hello to all of the new faces

Lovely to have you all abord the bus!

thurso - we had a wonderful time away. Lovely food, carefully monitored fizz and fab company.

Nemo wasn't sick once!!! We had a whole 48 hours puke free! What a releif. It's always so hard when we are anywhere other than here and he's sick.

Lots and lots of hospital appointments over the next few days! Very busy.

Hope you are all okay!

jacquichan - same here and i find it very frustrating to still be feeling crap when not drinking. Find the lack of sleep a real challenge. just hoping it will get better soon....