The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Past The Christmas Party (part 2)

[TheMousefaceBeforeChristMouse]

Hello

I'm Mouse.

Welcome to the Brave Babes Bus - Gerald! Blame Silver for the name!

We are a group of MNers who post about our relationship with alcohol and how drinking it, or not, has an effect on our day to day lives.

Come and meet the other Brave Babes, say hi, take a seat or just read.

Here are the threads so far

Thurso

Age really doesn't come into it.

I came to AA when I was 27 and got sober when I was 28. I was one of the youngest people I knew in AA.

Then I moved to London and met people who had got sober when they were 20.

At first i couldn't believe it. Then I asked myself, "what was I doing at 20?"

Answer - spending time in Casualty because of drunken slips and trips; drinking on the street in the early morning (albeit on the way back from a night out); upsetting girlfriends and mates alike; picking fights I really didn't want ...

I was more than qualified for AA before I turned 20 and it took me 8 years to work it out.

The main thing is that eventually I did work it out before it killed me.

Glad to see that you are on your way to doing the same.

Also, it would only take me one drink to go from someone who was sober at 28 to someone who was drunk at 36 ...

wasindie

re: DT2,
when DS1 was 3 months old, I decided that I should try to look more like my old self, when Dh came home from work, so.... wore nice clothes!, and had my hair down... all very lovely until 5 minutes before Dh came in, when baby vomited down my back, without a muslin, and so Dh came home to hair matted with vomit..haven't cut it, but have worn it in a french pleat ever since:)

Feel v. of you at the mo.

Milflaw cross posted,

you can't imagine how much help you have been to me. I haven't always posted it, but, I do keep a lot of you words in my mind.

I haven't ever done the "outside" drinking and muck ups, but what I have done is sadder, and worse, I think.

You have read the books, it's almost great to do that thing in your twenties (not so much in 2010 maybe), and I feel a bit very sad that I should feel party girl when I am 50.

Thank you so much for replying to me, and I think that AA would probably help me, but not ready to go there yet (too ashamed).

The weird thing is that practically all of Dh's family were alcoholics, film stars the lot of them, and AA devotees, so maybe that's an excuse, but how can he have married his mother ?!!

hi guys. ok. have done the bath, drunk 3 glasses of sweet fizzy stuff - bleurgh - and its only 7pm.Heeeeellllpppp!
BTW that non-alcholic stuff is dangerous. Took the wire off, and the cork hurtled out, whizzing past my ear and battering off the ceiling! nearly took my bleeding eye out!!
Probably be safer pissed. Day 3 sucks

....and is it only in this house where one can come out with the line.." I need you guys up early tomorrow because..OH MY GOD who stuck that eyeball on the fireplace???"

"I haven't ever done the "outside" drinking and muck ups, but what I have done is sadder, and worse, I think."

Maybe not - but nor had I until I thought about it.

Example - when I did this drinking in the streets, I was 20 and in Russia. I used to carry a hip flask full of lemon vodka because it was bloody cold and it made me look like Pushkin. I drank beer on my way home from all nighters at the coolest places in St Petersburg because it was a hedonsitic thing to do.

Or, to put it another way, at 20 I was carrying a hip flask and drinking in the morning.

The facts have never changed; only the spin I put on it.

Ma - you nutter! That made me LOL! Eyeballs on the fireplace?? You have to explain that ont to me

wasindie maybe you could help your resolutions, just for tonight, by putting the bottle of wine away somewhere so it's not calling to you.

We have a house full of booze (lots of christmas gifts) and I have send dp to make something for tea so that I am not tempted. He is no doubt going to get some left-overs out of the freezer, and defrost them whereas I would have rustled up something delicious from whatever I could find, but I dare not go into the kitchen at the moment, or I'm sure to see something that winks at me from a bottle.

Come on, I think we can do this together. If demented can survive ion the sweet fizzy stuff, then I'm sure I can too. I've just asked dp to make me a fresh orange and soda - I know we've got a bottle of soda in the fridge.

Milflaw

yup, I have read too many books that make it seem ok.

Feeling like Blanch de Bois is not a great thing, after the event.
You are a bit great. Are you a writer?

Anyway, after all this thinking, am going up for a bath, with fizzy elderberry, and hopes for tomorrow.

Bless you. xxx

P.s Milflaw Dc2 has applied to do russian at top uni next year, is drinking a pre-requisite?

Venus, Wasindie - thanks for posting. Resolve was wavering but knowing others are on the juice - literally - has spurred me on a bit longer.
Mouse - eyeball is a horrible sticky thing which DS got in his stocking and when you throw it at a hard surface it slowly slithers down revoltingly.
DD1 and DS have just hurled it at DD2 and it has stuck to her hair! honestly, the teenagers are worse than the wee one. Scuse me while I go and remove eyeball from hair....

Milflaw really bad p.s I don't mean it at all, just trying to be funny , but DS is applying for Russian.

demented we had a squidgy brain that got chucked around (not a real one!). Eventually it got squeezed too hard and we had lurid pink brain juice on the wall paper, the carpet, and the white sofa.

thurso not drinking doesn't stop us from having a sense of humour

night night wasindie and congrats on Day 3! Looks like we day 3ers have made it...I've given up on fizzy drinks and am now on.....hot chocolate! ta da!
Tomorrow is day 4 for me - unbelievable

well done demented and whatever tomorrow brings, it will start well because you will wake up and know that you do not have a hangover, and that you made it through day 3. What an excellent start to the the last day of the year.

WHATEVER WORKS WASINDIE

That's the only way to do it, it has to work for YOU xxx

Well done Ma

Phew! Done it (unless I have a mad turn in the next 15 minutes). See you in the morning Babes.

HI everyone. sooo annoyed but will tell you more tomorrow or else I will say too much but basically my sister hates dislikes me so much my niece and nephew aren't allowed to stay at my house with my other niece's and nephew;s for a big sleepover. Even though my niece is very upset! ** annoyed

Morning all,

I'm not feeling so sorry for myself this morning .

Well done Wasindie, Venus and Ma.

Mouse I hope you got some sleep, and that Nemo is well this morning.

Zany I hope you got some sleep, too, or were you too wound up to shut your eyes?

Have lovely mornings everyone, speak later.xx

We normally spent a week away with a whole bunch of friends but we have decided not to go this year and we are off a for a few quiet days in a country hotel.

My dp and I have agreed that from 2nd January we are both going to have 50 days without alcohol (complicated story about why this got agreed last year) so at least I will feel that I have a fellow battler in the house with me (dp is not a problem drinker btw), and it's only today and tomorrow that I have to get through. Not an easy one in Scotland, but it can be done, it can be done.

So tonight bonnie babes, I will hopefully be raising a glass of something bright and clear, delicious and refreshing, healthy and juicy. I'll be looking back over our year together and from the depths of my heart I will be wishing for myself, and for all of us, a bright future filled with the calm that we crave, the fizz of excitement, the warmth of love, and the hope that comes from being on this journey together.

Have a good one. Jx