The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Into 2011!

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Hello and a Happy New Year!

I'm Mouse, one of the passengers on this wonderful journey to sobriety!

We are a real mixed bunch of people, all trying to control or give up the booze - ONE DAY AT A TIME.

Come meet the others.........

And here are the previous threads, the journeys so far

Munky - really pleased that you had such a good talk with DH, sounds like he will be very supportive

Agree Red that some people just don't understand. I tried to talk to my drinking buddy one of my closet friends and she just said 'well don't drink as much then'. As if it were that easy.

May have another date lined up, he has 2 DD's and bakes with them so sounds promising

Just make sure he's got his own teeth Zany

Munky congratulations on getting rid of the elephant in the room, not an easy thing to do!

Venus like I said, he didn't seem shocked or horrified or anything like that but was absolutely gutted that I couldn't feel I could talk to him about it.

He is a worrier and very self-critical so automatically assumes that any 'issues' are due to hime and something he has done wrong! He honestly thought I wasn't interested in him or my family or my life in general and was even going through the planning in his head of how we could end things ammicably if that's what I wanted, made me so sad to hear it and how much I have been neglecting him .

What he basically can't understand is.....if you know it is damaging and harming you in some way, be it physically or mentally, why do you keep on doing it? Bloody good question!

To be fair Munky if we knew the answer to why we keep doing it we could make our fortune:)
Very very quiet on here this afternoon, WasIndie you around today?

I'm about desire. How are you this afternoon?

wasindie I hope that you are being kind to yourself today. Come and tell us how you are I was hungover yesterday and can still remember the pain so we can compare notes

Hi Red am feeling good today, was really tired earlier but bright weather seems to have lifted my energy levels, anything exciting planned for this evening?

Hellooo :)

back from work, hungry, tired and thirsty....what to do first?

Thirsty. Deal with that

Then make something light to eat if you plan to have dinner with the family later.

Sit down whislt you have a drink and snack. Take a few minutes to unwind x

Thanks Mouse,

I have just been up to get changed (can't bear to wear work clothes in the evening), and have a long glass of cranberry and lime fizzy, I've just discovered this drink at Tesco's, and it's lovely, pretty expensive though.
I think I will unwind for a few minutes before getting dinner ready, as my mind is mile a minute!!!!
I hope you and Nemo have had a good day.

Not bad thanks. He napped and we've played cars this afternoon!

I'm too bloody old to be on the cold floor but hey ho, lots of fun.

The cranberry drink? Is it ready made up then? Would it be cheaper to buy some cranberry cordial, lime cordial and some tonic, lemonade or soda and amke your own.

It would certainly last longer.

How was work?

hello!

thurso, i love that cranberry and lime, so refreshing! - i know what you mean about a 'mile a minuite mind', it drives me mad sometimes, i like to listen to classic fm on the car radio on the way home, that always helps (so long as its not the flight of the bumblebee or something )

Or the Sabre/er Dance JWN

Aah lovely sit down and a couple of cream crackers. I feel so much better now .

Work was lovely, as ever Mouse, it's the time before and afterwards thinking about it, that makes my mind race.

The cranberry drink is called "feelgood", and is fruit fizzy water, no added sugar. I have made something a bit like it with the ingredients you mention, and that's lovely too.

I'm off to prepare dinner now, just the two of us tonight, lemon sole stuffed with crab and prawns in a white sauce and veg (one I prepared earlier a la Blue Peter . I hope DH gets in on time, I'm starving!

Oh thurso both the drink and your dinner sound lush. I don't 'do' fish but that sounds really tasty

DD has just informed me that the school panto that they are off to on Thursday night ends at 10pm! She needs picking up from school at half past.

Bloody half ten! I want to be in bed by 10. And she has school on Friday.

Ho-hum. Poor DH will be off out to get her. He'll be pleased

Grrr! Dh just phoned to say he is going to be late, now I am not only really hungry, but want a glass of wine because I'm really hungry. I'm not going to though, and mustn't eat anything or I'll spoil dinner.

deep breaths ...

Mouse that is quite late for a school night, the teachers must be wanting a quiet day on Friday . What panto is it? Is DD coming home from school first, or staying there all day, that will be really tiring.

DC2 does tons of stuff at school, and stays all hours, we are always trekking to get them at odd hours! Still at least I know where they are, and what they are doing, unlike DC1 .

Do you not eat any fish Mouse ? Dh isn't keen on strong fish, but will eat the white sort. We have been watching Hugh F W's programmes about fish, the last few nights, and they have been very interesting. Of course every few minutes the TV gets flicked over to the cricket!!!

thurso - get a very big glass of water and sip it slowly.

They are off to see Aladdin. With a 'Rock 'n' Roll' twist

DD is coming home first, she has to be back at school by 5.15. Just done a deal with one of the other mums, we'll take her DD is she brings both DDs home

Job done!

I like tuna, monk fish, sword fish and the more meater fishes. Prawns too. I'm just not a fan of strong or boney fish.

DH cooked me rainbow trout and left all the bones in, and the skin on.

Hmmmm, that went down well

thurso - is your DH my DH?

Cricket mad. He records it too.

mouse you will get used to picking your dd up later and later as she gets older . I used to get so frustrated about sitting up on a Saturday evening till after midnight, without a drink, so I could go a pick up dd from a party, where she had undoubtedly been drinking.

thurso thanks for you lovely thoughts earlier - I'm not at all offended. I think on here that we understand so much about each other. I'm not sure what I will do.

DTC I saw your comments from earlier and I am dead proud of you! it can be really hard to face social situations sober but you have done really well.
I have been in a couple of situations recently where I have got cross and impatient with some people and even after all these weeks I still had the urge for a drink, but I did resist...

Hey Campers

I'm still around - haven't had time to read back on the thread, let alone have a s**t in peace since Christmas - AA meetings, work, brother, daughter, DP, cat, decking......................

God sorry to be so boring but I just want you all to know that I'm OK. I hope you all are too - will read back after posting.

Somebody crank up Gerald or his battery will go flat.

I will be back in the drivers seat soon - lets just say I am going through some pretty intensive therapy at the moment.

To anyone new, welcome aboard and here are your open tickets, however, you will have to sort out a driver to cover my absence.

FFS DD just started violin practice - going into the garden for a fag. Love her to bits but why oh why couldn't she have chosen the triangle, maybe, or even piano................. xxx

I shouldn't project but I am dreading the social situations. I am out next friday with a group of men friends who I have know since I was 18, its lovely to get together, especially as some of our children are now at school together, but I do have a tendency to have a half bottle-- glass of wine before I go out as I'm nervous and then we end up moving from pub to pub very quickly so I get drunk (as in make an idiot of myself) by the end of the night.

One of the guys in unbeliebably hot and he said last time 'you were pretty drunk last time, I bet you don't remember what you said'. I have an awful feeling I told him he was hot but that he knew it

Am arming myself with tactice this time

Glad to see your doing OK Silver was wondering how you were doing. Hope the AA meetings are going well. I'll start Gerald up and fill her with petrol so she's ready when you are.

oh, dont talk to me about cricket!, we just get past the football season, muddy boots, muddy kit and its 'have you seen my whites?', no!, i hid them! where do they think we keep stuff?

anyway, i meant to tell you all about last night - we have thrashed out the way we all want the meetings to go, have organised some baby sitting amoungst us so that everyone that wants to gets to go at least once a month (nothing like girl power is there? ), the meetings will also be for women with eating disorders, they often seem to go hand in hand with alchohol problems - i think it will be quite successful, the plan is to start slowly and hopefully get enough of us to hire a room - i pleased and amazed to be part of something like this!

i have also begun to lurk on the 'lighter thread', need to be careful though, as its in general health i find that some of the thread titles draw me in and being the drama queen i am i instantly believe i have some awful disease!

anyway, off to feed dh, see you all later!

silver!! lovely to see you!!! , sooo glad you are doing ok!