The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Players and Supporters Bus

[venusandmars]

Hi I am venus and I am an alcoholic.

Thanks to the first thread by Jesuswhatnow I have not had a drink for a long time.

There are lots of us on here, please lurk, post, whatever does it for you. If you are worried about how much you drink and your inability to stop when you want to, then someone on here can probably understand.

He definately wants to meet up this weekend and do something with the DC's and has asked if I am out locally the friday after seen as he is out then. I don't have the DC's then so I am frantically trying to get a girlie friend to go out with me!!!!

Will be just my luck that my friends won't be able to make it.

Ohh all excited now

Zany - Yay!!! Oh I'm All excited for you!!

I bet you are nowhere near me otherwise I'd be your wing woman!

He so likes you! And it's great that you have been friends. Stay friends for a while BTW, but I see green lights for a furure with him!

My little whiskers are rarely wrong when they get a feeling about things!

I'm so giddy I can't type!

Yaaaay Zany, trust Mouse and her whiskers .:):) She obviously can smell a romance a mile off!!

You make me laugh Mouse

Any of you in East Midlands, bewarned I might try and round you up.

Off out now but will check in when I get back

Hopr your all OK

Zany - I am East Midlands !!!!!!!!

Oh my days I might just faint with excitement!!!!

Hey desire - how are you tonight lovely?

Silver - are you out there? xx

noteven - how are you tonight?

'DFH' - not sure who he is but DH says we are near to East Mids!!

Feeling like death warmed up and off to bed Mouse - thank you all for your support today babes xxxxxxx

Silver be kind to yourself. Yesterday was just one day. Sleep well lovely.

Zany how exciting!

I am still full of thought - positive thought - about my AA meeting. I cried a fair bit and a few people made massive assumptions about me because of it but that's ok. Tehy were so kind and caring - are alcoholics in recovery the most wonderful people in the world?
I am going again tomorrow afternoon too. Some of them were so very different from me and I from them but we had got to that same point. Someone shared something about being glad of that rock bottom day because that was keeping him from being there again. I don't ever want to lose the bits of my account of the terror of Saturday and Sunday.

I am a bit worried that it will be so much harder once the detox stuff stops. But then, it isn't stopping cravings, it's just stopping the shakes/ sweats/ panic attacks I guess (I'm projecting, aren't I, stop it).

"DP" brought tonight and the morning's medicine and listened for half an hour. I am happy to have him and so confused and it takes little to push it into worry. I guess I am on serious probation here. But I have to just keep doing it for me. One day at a time.

Been up early, busy emotional day, so off for bath and bed.

Sleep well BBs, "see" you all in the morning, and thank you for being so truly utterly amazing when I needed you.

I'm off here too. Hopefully those who have had a really tough day will wake rested and feeling better tomorrow.

Night all xxxx

night noteven, night mouse sleep well

Goodnight everyone. Noteven you've come such a long way since the weekend, it's fantastic. Silver just think you won't have a hangover tomorrow. Zany very excited for you and "date" with your neighbour.

As for me, didn't miss having a drink tonight one bit. Have fully engaged with my lovely daughter and her eyes were shining just now when I put her to bed. That's what it's all about :)

That's what it's all about indeed Dipso well done.

Only 10 messages left before we move onto our shiny new thread, anyone else still up and about?

yes BB I'm still around. How has your day been?

HERE is the next thread

Hi Venus it's been mixed, fine for me, but I am worried about a friend who has a lot of troubles. How about you?

would help if I put the link in

just a cynical move to use up a message methinks

I had one of those 'aha' moments today...

People post about having had a glass of wine, or 2 glasses of wine, and I think 'no, not tempted by that'. Then today poor Silver posted about have drunk a shed-load, and I thought 'ooh, quite fancy that'.

I didn't think it with any seriousness, but it was a startling jolt about my mental approach to drinking. When I started on all of this, I posted about hoping that I would like to be able to have a drink, and to drink normally but today's revelation reinforced for me that fact that I never really want to just have ONE drink, and that's been part of the problem.

For me - a good reminder in the run-up to the festive season.

evening Venus and BB just catching up on today's events. Have concluded that this is a great bus to be on.

Hi whitey shall we sneak over to the new thread a couple of posts early?

venus it's good to have those reminders. I had an odd one yesterday when I felt ill and had to leave work - I actually felt pleased to be ill because I felt that I was 'genuinely' ill not hungover. I think i was so self hating before that I couldn't even justify hving flu or whatever. I think this was part of what Noteven was experiencing as well when she was obviously suffering with flu this weekend.

Race you!