The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Past The Christmas Party (part 1)

[TheMousefaceBeforeChristMouse]

Hello.

Welcome to The Brave Babes Bus. I'm Mouseface and I used to abuse alcohol and to be honest, there is always a risk that I'll do it again.

This is a bus journey for those who drink too much, or drink now and then, not at all, or actually aren't quite sure what their drinking means to them.

Come and meet the other Brave Babes, everyone is welcome.

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JWN's original thread

Thanks Forthe,

hasn't gone so well so far, but, here's hoping!

Good luck, Thurso.

I am drinking cups and cups of tea.. Seriously. I am going to be peeing all night!! I can't seem to get over the reflex to sip at a drink. Still, at least it's tea.

I actually feel worse today than when I was drinking. Sore throat, bad back, tummy ache. TThink this is the effects of the alcohol wearing off?

I've read all of this thread now (just this latest one... not the previous 15) and some of the thoughts are just inspirational.

I personally really like the idea of looking at this problem as an allergy, not saying it IS an allergy, but just having to modify your behaviour.

Like so many of you have said, as soon as I start drinking, I want another one. In fact, if I can't drink LOADS, I'd rather not bother. When I'm in public, I rarely drink as I find it impossible to not chug it down.

I can't remember who posted it, but I agree with whoever said that they have this belief that alcohol makes them witty and outgoing and bubbly, when in fact it makes them crude and mean.

Thanks for the seat. I'm determined to stay on board until we get to whereever it is we are going (who is driving????)

I woke up this morning after not drinking yesterday and thought "God, I wish I could bottle this feeling" - I am trying hard to remember the feeling.

Hi Witchety,

I'm here to chat? I'm not drinking tonight either.

Hi rachel I am here for a while - have just been taxiing DCs and will need to shoo them off to bed soon.
Drinking tea is good - though the caffeine may not help with sleep. One of the lovely things about stopping/cutting back on the booze is the lack of dehydration - my body seems to go into overdrive and crave liquid - somehow when I am drinking alcohol I am not only getting dehydrated but it seems to dull my awareness of it and I have not desire to drink anything else.
Is this your first or second evening not drinking?

hi all!! - ive had a nice evening, guess what ive had done?, go on!! bet you cant!! ive had a none surgical facelift!! !!, apparently i now look ten years younger,according to my beauty threapist, dh thought i'd had my hair done though, so im reserving judgement!

noteven, feel free to pm me, i dont mind at all!

thurso - good luck my love!!, hope it all works out!!

RM, you are doing what miflaw calls 'seeing the hangover to the end' - it seems we all felt really quite shitty for a few days, tired, spotty, achy, emotional - it really does get better though!, after about 6 or 7 days you start to feel the benefits, and should be able to sleep better too!

Hi,

this is evening no. 2 but the first one where I have actively not drunk (last night, I was going to drink - going backwards and forwards in my head - excuse after excuse after excuse and I just thought: What the HELL would I say if I was talking to anyone else who was saying 'I need this drink' so I poured it all down the sink.

Today is the first day where I have actually stopped myself buying wine. I have no alcohol in the house whatsoever

im off to the land of nod!, got a long day tomorrow!

see you in teh evening babes!!

be good everyone!!

L XXXXXXXXX

Sleep well, Jesus!

sorry rach, x-posted!!, well done you!!, if you are beginning to waver, why not have an early night?, i did for weeks, it all helped though, i avoided a trigger time and got some decent sleep!, win-win if you ask me!!

Hi all,

Gosh, so much tea last night did not make for a good nights sleep... Not when combined with a daughter who got up at 2:30 and a son who got up at 4:30 (and then woke his sister back up)

I'm feeling pretty grogy - bad nights sleep, too many thoughts (I know that this is one reason I started drinking was to aid sleep), bad back, cold like symptoms... but hopefully it will pass soon.

Though, I am feeling confident that I won't drink today. Having come to the dawning conclusion that I only drink for drinks sake makes all my old excuses seem hollow beyond belief.

Hope you all have good days too (Bianca especially. Hope you got things sorted?) and thanks again for welcoming me.

Morning - very bored of the snow now - 2 weeks of struggling to get around. Well done rachel stick with it, feeling rubbish physically for a while is normal, and obviously not helped byt sleep deprivation, but it does get better.
Day 3 for me (again!)
Today I will not be drinking.
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Rachel, you may actually be ill, you know. Noteven felt awful and the doctor said she had flu. But otherwise, you won't feel the benefits immediately. I feel absolutely awful; either bad cold, manflu or real flu.

Jesus, are you pleased with it? I used to go and have facials and the owner of the salon had had half a non-surgical facelift to demonstrate the benefits, compared to the other side of her face. Talk about devotion to duty; I thought she had had a stroke.

I feel awful so ignore me moaning. Woke up drenched in sweat, upside down in the double bed. Dp asked me what he could get for me. I have requested diet coke, anadin extra and some rohipnol.

And my screen keeps jumping down so I am looking at the very bottom of the display. Anyone know a magic solution?

forthe the only answer I know to your screen problem (and it works pretty much on every computer problem that I have ever come across) is to switch off the pc, go back to bed, take a good book, close your eyes and have a couple of hours sleep. Doesn't actually resolve the technical problem but for a couple of hours it's not bothering you

Well done to witchety and r-mummy on getting through the evening - isn't it madness how picking up a drink constantly can become a habit, that we're not even enjoying any more.

Hope you get through things OK at home *thurso, and that you get to where you need to be.

JWN how is your face this morStill looking wonderful? At least these days you know that the investment in a facial is worth it. It was another madness to pay money for something previously that you were just going to ruin with alcohol.

Off to brave the ice and snow to get to a meeting, and then to do the shopping for my parents. My Mum has not been out of the house for 12 days!

Oops, - I lost 'ning' off the end of morning.

Morning everyone, another cold morning:(

morning everyone. so DH was as nice as pie when he got home, couldn't remember how he spoke to me on the phone, had dinner and promptly fell asleep on the sofa while the au pair and I watched a movie. Asked me this morning if he was ok to me last night. So I recounted what he actually said to me and he apologised and it did for once sound genuine. He repeated again that he only seems to have issues like that when he drinks and yet again said he is going to do something about it. I can keep going with this as long as it starts to materialise - I'm not sure how long I can take the rollercoaster a few weeks good then a huge blowout.

Morning Biancab, have you read Venus's post to you yesterday evening? It is food for thought.

Thanks Venus.

Biancab, it is a rollercoaster. It sounds like one, and pretty tiring. I suppose he knows now that he is going to have to do something about his current pattern of behaviour. You sound to me as though you have the patience of a saint.

What is the weather like there? Even hearing about warm weather would be nice.

Dear God, just wrote a massive post and lost it. Don't have time to re-write!

Good morning everyone anyway!

Morning Red and Forthe:)

Hello desire! I name-checked loads of people in my original, lost post. So frustrating when it disappeared!!