The Braves Babes Battle Bus - NOT stopping at the pub!!

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Hello

I'm Mouse. I've been sober for over a month now, thanks to the support of posters on this and previous threads.

No matter where you are up to with your sobriety, you'll find someone here who has been in your shoes!

Come and meet the other Brave Babes........

And here are the other threads for those who want to read them.

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

Thread two

Thread three

Thread four

Thread five

Thread six

Red - I would but I'd have to have the sound off!

Far too much bleating.

I love it! It's on Sky on Monday nights for 2 hours at the moment so I watch it when I get in from AA! (Normally while eating something like a Double Decker or crackers and cheese ) I do confess though that as it's been Sky plus-ed I like to skip through a lot of the bleating!

"occasions that are "about" drinking to excess normally involve three or more teenagers, a field or a bus shelter, and the maximum ABV:cash ration achievable with £10 and a fake ID.

OR they involve three or more rough sleepers, a bench and a recently cashed giro."

lightbulb glad you are enjoying the MIFLAW humour!

MIFLAW should do a battle bus calender with an apposite saying for each day!!

saf - why do you think you are 'little miss dull pants' because you decide to go out and not drink?, do you really need a drink to be witty, funny and entertaining? will you stop drinking when you have reached that point or will you carry on drinking until you are staggering, puking, aggressive and frankly, boring? i dread to think how fucking boring a drunk i must have been - yeah, there were some fun nights, cant deny that, but blimey, the majority of the time i just turned into a boring old misery who looked a bloody sorry mess at the end of the night and lost the next day through feeling so bloody awful, cor, what fun!

Hi, quickly checking in. As of today I've been sober for three weeks.

Feeling shit today. I'm fat, hormonal, spotty,tired and generally feeling out of kilter. I'm behind in my work to the extent I don't think I can get back on track this month and this afternoon I went back to crap parenting ways ie tv on and wishing I could just sleep. I've just yelled at a perfectly nice solicitor secretary because I can't cope with the move upheaval and lack of control I have over it - noone can confirm a move date and it makes me want to cry. And I have to go to a neighbours wedding tmrw where neither DH or I will know anyone and I really don't want to go. It's all feeling a bit much and I want to run away.

Ok. Pity party over. Going to make some hot chocolate and pick my spots. Like a sulky teenager.

MsGee - you have done so well to get to 3 weeks! Celebrate your achievement (but not with a drink ) I know it's not a huge consolation at this point but think how much worse/ stressful things would be if you were still drinking. Try and break down tricky jobs into little pieces and get through bit by bit.

I am also fat, hormental, spotty and tired. Which is fabulous.

Ah, but neither of you are as fat, hormental or spotty as me!!! So ner!!

MsGee

I fully empathise with your situation. When we moved almost 2 years ago, I was expecting Nemo. DH had a client meeting THE DAY WE MOVED!! We moved to a brand new area so I had to drive, in the snow, removal men behind following me, DD in the front of the car with a goldfish on her lap, swishing water everywhere, not sure where I was going and to cap it all, I nearly got taken out on the motorway by a giant Spar lorry!!!

So, I get just how you feel!!! Plus, I did my fair share of shouting due to stress!! Solicitors, estate agents, DH, DD, at myself!!

The great thing was, being pregnant meant I didn't drink.

That night, I got in the bath, one we'd fired up the boiler, and had a bloody good cry!!!

Worry about the wedding tomorrow ok? Just get through the next hour.

Thanks lovely Red and lovely Mouse.

DH promised to come home early and get me a takeaway for tea. Won't help the fat or the spots though. It just feels as if my life is as shitty as 3 weeks ago so what have I actually acheived? Fuck all. I'm still useless at work with DD and there is still no fecking food in the house.

Have also asked DH to lick pavement in london and get illl to get us out of wedding!

Mmm, enjoy the takeaway!

You are not useless MsGee! (Don't make me come round and sort you out! Not that I have any idea where you are...) You have achieved LOADS these past 3 weeks. Not least you have provided support and friendship to everyone on this thread.

Laughing at the idea of your DH licking a London pavement! Bleurgh!

MsGee you still have your sense of humour though and you have more money to buy takeaway ('cos I bet you've been saving loads on booze. It is just NOT POSSIBLE to spend that much on chocolate and elderflower cordial).

And you know what, yes, this is real life. Sometimes it is fab, and sometimes it sucks, but by god it is REAL. And that is how we are meant to be. Real life, real emotions, real women. And the more I accept it, the more I love it - crap and all.

The big difference, the big, BIG difference is that tomorrow morning (whether you are going to the wedding or not) you will not wake up full of guilt and remorse and shame because you have drunk away another day of your precious dd's life. So what if she has been in front of the TV for 3 hours. You will be sober to cuddle her and put her to bed, and you will not be hungover in the morning when she wakes with a lovely smile all fresh and snuggly.

Who said we all had to be perfect? Bollocks to them. We are good enough as we are. In fact we are damn fine.

Ah thanks Red! I live outside London (herts) but worked in London for years till I had DD. Am I right I thinking you are in London? Anyway too far for you to kick my ass .

Mouse I can't stop thinking about your move and sloshing fishbowl. Was fishie ok?

I used to live in London but have been back oop north (Yorkshire) for quite some time now. A little bit too far for ass-kicking!

Loved your post too venus!

Thanks Venus, very wise words. Tmrw might be crap but won't be wasted through hangover! DD now asleep on sofa after refusing nap. The last thing she told me was that she was not tired!!

And I always have a sense of humour. I'd have been making sarky quips as the titanic sank. Although it winds DH up no end.

You're right being damn fine is pretty awesome. I've Just never been impressed with real life. An adjustment methinks.

MsGee - the fish was fine!!! It's still alive! I think we've had him for 6+ years now........

venus - very wise words and so true!! I don't miss losing days, not one bit.

Red - it's nearly that time of day again!!

Ah that does ring a bell Red. I used to live in Leeds but really am a Lancashire lass.

Re pavement, I did consider licking changing mat to get ill myself but couldn't do it. Weird thought. When drunk I used to make myself do horrid jobs like clean plugholes with cotton buds. My plgholes are now very grubby.

mouse - I know However, I am really going to try to get on over the weekend (too much to catch up with on a Monday and I miss you all too much!)

As long as you're a northerner MsGee

'Ive just never been impressed with real life. An adjustment me thinks'...........

You mean life through sober eyes.

Cleaning the plug holes with cotton buds?! Were you mental?!?!? (No? Just drunk? God, life's better without the demon isn't it?)

Northern lass here too!

Allreet?