The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Next Stop Sobriety!

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Hello, welcome to thread number six!!

I'm Mouse and, thanks to these threads, I quit the booze on August 2nd 2010.

This truly is a fantastic source of support for anyone who wants it! Full of real, honest, everyday people who are all at different stages of quitting the booze, cutting down or being long term sober.

There are no judgmental 'know-it-alls' here, whatever your circumstances, you will be supported all the way.

Come and meet the rest of The Brave Babes........

And, as before, here are the previous five threads for those who would like to see how this all began.

JWN's original thread (the reason we are all here)

Thread two

Thread three

Thread four

Thread five

Off for a walk with DS. May try and see the horses and go to the castle to feed the ducks. An ice-cream may fall into my hand too, which I will have to eat you understand!

Back later.

Red if you are gone, have a lovely weekend and hen night! Dance the night away!!!

WWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

WELL DONE MSGEE'S DD!!!!!!

Right, really going now.

Well done LittleMsGee!!!! What a relief - for everyone

MsGee, I just find it diffcult being round people all the time that aren't normally there IYSWIM? Everyone can be totally lovely but in the end I need my own space! May be selfish of me, I suppose! And yes DD should be encouraged - in everything!

Love your name for DD as well!

It's a little more than that, maybe - back in the day I was more than ready to criticise anyone or anything, regardless of whether I actually knew what I was talking about or not, and certainly without bothering to suggest an alternative. (I had a slip during the 2002 world cup in Japan. Though there was not a chance in hell of me being awake to see any of the matches, I would nevertheless be in the pub, just after opening time, slating our team's performance to whoever would listen!)

Probably because it's so close to home, I now get quite irate about other people doing it. I hasten to add that no one on here has - but there are posters who keep cropping up on threads like these to nkock AA but with no apparent reason (there's one awful one who keeps banging on about a book called the Orange Papers but will never come out and say what it is she's got against AA.)

Forthe absolutely WASN'T doing this, I know - but I guess it's a particular set of circumstances where i am primed to fly off the handle even before anyone has said anything!

Sorry, Forthe, for picking a fight with you - and sorry to everyone else for getting heavy.

Thanks for that MIFLAW.

Thanks, DD very pleased with herself.

Red,oops, I wasn't going to post her name but yes, that is my DD name. I really have identified myself now as she is the only 2 year old called that in the country! Hmmn, possible post delete?

Mouse - your tips were great. I tried to make it 'fun', so we named the poo, and wave bye bye as we flushed it. She enjoyed it so much (she loves learning peoples names) so is now trying for another . I bet you never thought this post would be a poo support thread!!

Lovely name - get the post deleted if you want to though. Can understand your wariness.

I am loving the poo support subtext to the thread. Naming it and waving bye bye, genius!

Right, nearly DD tea time. Think I am going to join her and have a snackeroo.

I'll try to get online via phone on the weekend, but have a lovely bank holiday and thank you all so much for helping me be sober for a whole week. Yipppeeee!

Right it's about time to wrap it up for me lovely babes. Probably won't be able to catch up until Tuesday! Will have to get to work super-early to get through it all!

Have safe, sober, serene (if possible!) weekends! Will miss you!

xx

Bye for now MsGee!

well, i miised a bit here, didnt i?, now i sahll never know msgees dds name, doh!

lovely that she managed a poo though, god, dont they put you through it!

miflaw, i think i shall spend a few moments gently soothing your stinging wrists! i understand your passion totally!

everyone else have a super sober friday evening, back later!

Just did big post that disappeared. My computer hates me.

Mrs Gee, good luck with the ils. Will you be able to get online there? And congrats to Gee junior on the poo.

Read Jesus's post over the last THREE MONTHS, when you feel short of inspiration.

Apologies if I trod on your wrists miflaw, I was trying to scare Wasindie the way I scare myself with cigarettes. Playing the film to the end (an excellent concept) doesn't just lead to losing everything, it can kill you dead, just like, George Best, Peter Cook, the two blokes I mentioned. Jumping through the window may have been the better option for him because he would have been hospitalised.

One thing that I just remembered. In 1989 I gave up all alcohol for six months for no reason at all. I wasn't drinking too much at all. I spent a long vacation with very strict muslims and they asked me if I drank alcohol or ate pork. I wisely lied to both. Then when I went back to uni, I just didn't drink a thing and no one commented or noticed. I didn't eat pork for ages either, and rarely do now. Their disgust for both just seemed to rub off on me. I think that only my boyfriend noticed. It is not a big deal.

My dp never drinks with meals. I can't remember the exact health reason, but he has one. So when we go out to eat, we always have the conversation about not drinking with meals (I don't mean he doesn't drink alcohol with meals, I mean he drinks water an hour before a meal and doesn't take in any fluid while eating - he is a health freak). It is only awkward if you feel awkward.

Thanks for the cancer responses. I am sure that breast cancer is involved.

Cancer responses? What did I miss?

Hello Babes.

Just wanted to pop on to say have wonderful weekends, whatever you get up to.

Off to pack and then beautify a lot little! Hopefully, we can have some sunshine seeing as though it's the last BH Monday of the year?

Fingers crossed.

Bye for now, see you all Monday afternoon/evening.

Mouse out. xx

very quiet here for a friday night!, dd is at work, dh is laughing at qi, dinner in teh oven, alls well with my world! , so, another week is at an end and do you know what?, i am forgetting how many weeks i have been sober!! , i think its 13!, unlucky for some, but not for me right now!! woooo hooooo!, i am sober, best bloodly feeling in the world!!

JWN

It's 13. WELL DONE!!!! You are an inspiration to us all.

Thank you. xx

ahh mouse!! you are beautiful already!!

i do hope you get some sun, i have a load of towels on the line which havent dried AT ALL today! ggrr!

Urg, wet towels. Why do towels take so long to dry???

Have a fab weekend JWN. Hope DD has a date lined up for each night!

Just dropping by now that I've recovered from my afternoon with dd. I am sitting quietly to recover, and by comparison she is at work and then going out to party. I can vaguely remember having that much energy when I was her age.

Missed littlemsgee's name - bet it's a wonderful one. Also missed the other action this afternoon. Reading it through it's a bit like how I used to feel when I was at a dinner party with a few people engaged in a discussion that I could only join at the margins. Usually I retreated into a glass and saw only my own reactions, never noticed that others might be feeling like that too. Nice to know that even MIFLAW can get wound up - we're all humans after all .

Just wondering how Christi and Trinity are doing. Hope you are still around. Let us know what's going on.

Have a good weekend everyone else.

Hi prime. It feels good to be sober doesn't it? And it will feel marvellous on Saturday morning not to have a hangover.

venus

I'm not here, but Trinity was only ever not drinking up to Neil's anniversary. That was her short term plan. She wanted to get to that day and then who knows? Nothing was ever said about after 24th.

I've seen her, with her new name, on other threads so she's around.

Going again.

venus - i remember being able to work until 1am and then go off partying, it was great!!, now of course i need a horlicks by 10.30 or a become a little grumpy! , dd is working tonight, then off out clubbing, staying with girlfriend then working a lunchtime shift at the pub - i am a wee bit jealous of this youthful energy!

mouse, enjoy your weekend!!

I'm still trying not to drink but not managing very well
tough week
hope you are all well