brave battling babes get even better without the booze!

[jesuswhatnext]

10 weeks ago i started a thread asking for help - i was in a very desperate place, totally dependent on alchohol, unhappy, lonely and floundering around trying to make sense of it all. i was in danger of losing everything i hold dear.

in those few short weeks, i have got my life back and picked up a few computer friends along the way - we help each other, support each other, and laugh and cry together - if you would like to join us, please feel free - no judging, preaching, sermonising or moralising - we are simply ordinary people with a bloody awful illness!

Tell you what mouse, whatever the image is in your head, multiply it then add bells! Might end up cancelling anyway...chum used to be a 'moggul' back in the day...bleeding nora!

How long 'til ds usually drops off? Hope you get to bed soon... dd in my bed tonight, just because...

Sleep well!

PLEASE!!! tell me what a 'moggul' is??

oooh ovaltine!! wonder if i have any!

Music Moggul or movie??

Or am I way off base?

I used to love DD in my bed. DS will be asleep shortly looking at him.

you know, a moggul...model!

...think the burning is subsiding...all willl be well [hopeful emotion]

A MODEL!!! and your going there with immaced eyebrows!! (wanders off muttering about her nutter mate algee!!)

oh yes indeedie! ying and yang and all that...

i love you algee!!!!

i am off to bed in a mo, reading a very good book, its calling me!!

algee, have a good time, stay safe, see you in a few days. take care love!! xxxx

night all...need to pack then book and bed for me too!

algee you are brilliant!

Night JWN, sleep well. xxxx

Night algee.

Sleep well xxxx

feel better mouse see you in a few days.

Thank you.

Bed here too. Night all.

Stay strong Babes!!!!

Venus creeps in quietly hoping that her presence won't set off the hell unleashed again.

Lifts my spirits to see this near the top of active convo's when I log on :)

Chaotic night in the clear household, ds and dd1 still running riot whispering about secret plans (I am sure it involves a midnight feast!)

All is well though and you guys crack me up - you're all crazy! Have a good trip algee.

Thinking of those struggling - come back in the morning if tonight is too hard.

Venus - you were a godsend to me last night, thank you so much and am very sorry x

Ha I'm still here!!!!! how was your day venus? I'm putting off packing...

toclear...not crazy, just stupid!

Not stupid, just very,very funny :o

it worries me somtimes the things i do when i'm sober. can't imagine how i'm still in one piece to be honest!

Anyone heard from Trinity? Been thinking anout her, hope she's alright.

no, think she was here this morning, but certainly haven't seen her this evening.

No need to apologise clear-head. I am, like you , a drunk. I understand.

Algee, I'm glad you're still around tonight, before you 'disappear' for a while, and it is so, so nice to see you on here.

I spent all day driving people around. They are all very moderate drinkers, but they were grateful that I was the driver, and I was grateful that toasting MIL's bithday with sparkling mineral water was not noticed.

algee, I hear what you are saying about your friend. I had a similar thing last year (best-friend had had a stillborn baby) and all our 'healing' was done accompanied by huge quantities of booze. I didn't tell her that I was an alcoholic, but I did tell her that I had been drinking too much and that I wasnt drinking much 'at the moment'. In the end we had a really good time. She was happy to drink wine on her own, and after a few glasses I don't think she even noticed that I wasn't drinking. I have to say that not drinking that first glass with her was the toughest. But with every glass that she had, it got easier for me to stay sober. So if you are in a similar situation really focus your energy into the initial part of the process, have all the alternative drinks you can. Brush your teeth (toothpaste and wine taste vile), anything.

Mt biggest regret about that evening is that I didn;t manage to stay off the booze in the long term.