The Brave Babes Carry On The Charabanc Trip - Leaving The Booze Behind!

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Hello and welcome!

This is thread number eight!

The Brave Babes are all at different stages of quitting the booze. Some have stopped, some are thinking about it and some are just cutting down.

They are full of support and wisdom for those of you wishing to climb aboard the Bus or Charabanc!!

The Babes aren't an exclusive club, they never judge and they don't charge for advice either!

So, come meet them. I'm Mouse, by the way, and I've been sober since August 2nd 2010, something I would never have even considered without the support of these threads.

Here are the first seven threads, if you want a bit of history.

JWN's original thread

Thread two

Thread three

Thread four

Thread five

Thread six

Thread seven

Christi

Do not apologise, we all have our problems and to each of us they matter enormously.

I am sorry that you didn't get the job and second what Red says.

Was this through an agency again or off your own bat?

This was the same job as before, they asked me back for a fourth interview, so like a divot I waited another seven weeks.

X posted Christi

Are you alone or is your DH/P there?

Why do you feel the need to drink? Will that get you the job?

Hi Christi, I don't know you very well but I was rooting for you, I'm sorry. Mouse is right everyone's own problems are the most important, someone keyed my car at the weekend and I cried like a baby - in the scheme of what some of you lovely ladies are dealing with, I managed to get it in perspective.
4 interviews tho, that really is tough x

Are you with anyone this evening? I don't do tough love as well as MIFLAW but drinking will make you feel so much worse, can you try and ride it out with us?

I'm sorry I am drinking

Thank you for all your kind wishes

I don't know where I go from here, I was 'notching down a level' here. Also, getting this job would have solved so many problems with DH being redundant. Life is shit it doesn't work out for me very often.

I'm hardly drinking doing more crying

I just need a break. I don't seem to be able to do anything right. I need a break. I just try hard and then it comes to nothing.

Hello.

Just popping back to say I have set the new thread up but can we fill this one first please?

Otherwise I'll be in trouble with the Unfinished Thread Police!

Here

Hope you are ok Christi, take what SAF says on board.

I know. I just feel so strung along four interviews over four months. And hardly any jobs come up like that. I have folloved up another opportunity but they say that it could be several weeks before they statr first interviews. So we are talking months and our Housing Benefit that we luckily managed to get ratchets down next week so we can't afford to stay here. I don't know what to do, it's not a nice situation. I just didn't think that I woul end up in a situation where I couldn't look after my children in the way I wanted to. Is it really so bad to expect that you would, with a degree and a postgraduate professional qualiification as a chartered financial analyst, maybe be able to one day have a wee house with a garden or something, intead of a little rented flat that you can't even afford now

And the guy who said 'no' to me - his daughter is also in P1 at my daughter's school so i have to see him every week

Yes he is but there's not a single architectural job being advertised at the moment... He is trying. But jobs in his profession are paid jack all at the moment. I read in Building Design that an architecture firm hired an architect to be a secretary as it was cheaper that way. So not a great profession.

EVERY SINGLE PERSON that i know has more stability than me. i don't achieve anything. I haven't for months. WHAT TO DO?

Christi, I feel for you, I really do. I have been turned down for every job I've applied for in the last three years - some of them on the grounds of being over-qualified. I live in a rented house and have fuck-all money.

People keep saying 'it'll get better' and all you want to do is scream YES, BUT WHEN?!

Sorry, I have no answers, and I can't make you feel better but I promise you're not the only one.

Babes

Tomorrow we are leaving early - the bus was in for a service and oil change yesterday and today so we have to catch up.

Dizzy many Happy Returns

Christi things have a way of working themselves out - be patient if you can - maybe it wasn't the right job for you.

Blue Stick with us -I have reserved a seat for you

Mouse - what is there to say that hasn't already been said

JWN I have a spare cagoule for you and leapord (sp?) print wellies

Tomorrow we shall be sampling the delights of the beautiful and serene beaches of Norfolk - the most calm and stunning scenery - we can eat our lunch while watching the tide go out - someone else can make the butties - I'm driving. We shall chill out, contemplate and absorb the atmosphere. And we shall be sober x

Bed for me - feels like it's been a long week and it's only Tuesday.

night night precious ladies . We are all worth so much more than we think we are.

Sweet dreams if you can

Silver xxxx

Thank you CJ. I just feel like the statistical outlier for whom things NEVER GET BETTER

When I'm down all I want to do is watch the West Wing maybe I shoul dgo and do that right now! one of my favourite moments - CJ doing the jackal - the other, toby asking how he did in the press room if CJ was rated as a 10 and a monkey as a 0

silver norfolk sound s lovely.

But sometimes for me really things don't have a way of working out. I have royally fucked up my life. I have been given many opportunities and not needed them and now when I do need them I WILL NOT get a break.

Brilliant CJ moment for Christi

Chocolate helps, too

Hope you feel better soon. Get a good night's sleep, and write a list of all the things you've done that you're proud of - I did this once and it made me feel so much better. I wish I could follow my own advice occasionally ...

Thanks Silver and everyone else for birthday greetings... if we're going to the beach can I wear my new zebra print wellies, I'm sooooo pleased with them.

I also have a mountain of goodies from hotel chocolate to share on the bus, I'm going to miss working round the corner from that shop when I leave the City next week.

Night night lovely ladies, hope for restful sleeps x