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

Isinde

Hmmmm...... what are we going to do with you my gorgeous lady?

You are on the train [tick]

You are drinking wine [tick]

You have been working and away from DP and the girls [tick]

You drank yesterday so feel pretty shabby - hair of the dog? [tick]

You feel that you have already let yourself down this week so fuck it? [tick]

Have I missed anything? xx

indi - dont you dare stop posting!! we need you! and we would miss you!

ha! just told dh i was described as a force of nature - he said 'yeah, a bloody hurricane'!

JWN - nice to see you over on the LIGHTer thread. I may 'steal' a few Brave Babes for a bit of healthy eating and exercise

Not that they need it

The best thing to do is put it (the LIGHTer) thread on you watch list then you don't have to trawl through the topics in General Health.

SAve you Googling something that you don't have but think you do for reading a gastly thread in there!

Silver - great to see you! You have been missed. I took Gerald for his yearly service and MOT earlier this week.

You'll be pleased to know that he passed with flying colours.

Keep posting when you get the chance lovely xx

ohh a watch list , that would help! , i go in and out of mumsnet like a fiddlers elbow!, honestly, im a luddite!

i may have fallen at the first fence this evening as after my very healthy omlette i had a syrup sponge and cream! hey ho, at least im perfect in every other way!

sorry, i have to go and deal with a nail emergency!, me gels need looking at!

Oh I do like a bit of Wensleydale.

JWN

Off to bed here. Been a long day of chasing cars with Nemo (not Snow Patrol) so my knees are shot!

Night night Brave Babes xxx

silver no need to worry, I've been quietly driving along, taking things nice and easy, looking out for new passengers, not rushing ahead so that everyone who pops off for a couple of days can catch up.

ok, so is Gerald a boy or a girl? I'm confused!
Wasindie - if you leave this thread i swear i will hunt you down. i can't be the only slackass struggler on here.
have lapsed a bit due to some shit going on, and disposed of the leftover Christmas wine which had been surviving untouched during my good spell.By disposed, I mean drank
DD has lent us some money to tide us over - i swore blind I wouldn't stoop to asking her as she is trying to save for university, but I cracked and ate humble pie.its very embarrassing but now DH and i have enough petrol to get to work this week....
DD2 got a letter today saying she didn't even get an audition for performing arts degree. She is gutted. life is hard sometimes, no?

...creeps on...wonder if anybody here remembers me... I remember you, especially (though not exclusively!) you, JWN. You saved my life to be melodramatic (or not). Thinking of you all especially today, though didn't think I'd post. First thing I did this morning at some godforsaken hour was log into my tesco account and cancel the bottle of whiskey I'd hidden in the shopping. I thought of you lot. It's been ages, but terrifying how easy it is to just slip back, I thought the hiding and lying moron behaviour was more or less beaten. That in spite of having gone the AA route.
Anyway. I'm afraid I found the threads too fast and busy that I just couldn't keep up, being the old bag that I am, but I have a peek often, and owe you all a debt of gratitude. Though I still really would love to be sitting here with a big glass of devil water in my hand (because I love hangovers, me), I'm not, and that's in no small part due to you lot on here.
Tootle pip!

hey algee - well done you!!

thanks... i bet there were loads of bottles on the van though, I really would have loved for some to be coming my way! I'm a struggler too, guess maybe that will always be as it is?

algee lovely to see you posting. And well done for cancelling that whiskey. It is just so easy to get that habit back. Still I suppose we're all still new at this (even if it's been months).

I was back on the stuff at Chrismas, but now dp and I are both off booze and I am finding it much easier than he is (and he doesn't have an alcohol problem), I have so many more tactics to try when I feel the urge so i find I can distract myself rather than wandering around the kitchen hankering after a beer (like he is at the moment).

Keep well and safe algee x

venus, lovely to see you. i have learned loads about me since i was on here properly, though the triggers still catch me out. perhaps like you though, i have many more diversion tactics up my sleeves these days than i did back in the summer...

Morning Babes! Hope everyone slept well and has wokrn bright and determined.

Good morning campers!

I have been up since 6, DH had to go out very early this morning, and I always see him off to work (dope icon!).

Hello algee, I remember you, I don't know if it's from when I started posting last October, or from what I read before, but welcome back .

You got me thinking last night (not always a good thing), and I was talking to DH about why this time, my choice to stop drinking has continued. I joked that this thread is AA lite. As I said it, I realised that there is nothing "lite" about it.

This thread literally saved me. I have said things on here that I have never, ever told anyone in RL, apart from DH, and some things that I haven't told him (about him usually!). It has been being able to come on here, and know that I won't be judged, or have to effect the "capable and stalwart face" that has, no two ways about it, been my blessing and often saviour.

When I think how in the earlier days I would write about things I felt guilty for, and ashamed of, there was no-one else I would have told that to in a million years.

Rambling a bit here, but just wanted to get across how valuable and what good friends you have all been to me.

So... Indie don't you dare please don't stop posting, it doesn't matter what you do, or when you do it, if you feel like a chat, whether you are drinking, or not, I would love, and do love to hear from you.

Ma my DC is waiting to get offers from UCAS too, it's a nightmare isn't it. This year no-one seems to know what the uni's are after. The grades that some of them are asking for .

Bit of a book here this morning, but just wanted to share my thoughts, hope thats ok.

Much love xxx

Also, meant to say..

Most of us have had our ups and downs, not just with drinking, drink doesn't define us, we all have tons of stuff going on in our lives.

It is amazing to see how, when one of us is in trouble, or low, or in a terrible situation, someone will always help. Maybe, the person who felt that way last week IYSWIM.
Anyway, here endeth the gab

JWN your new meeting sounds fab.
Venus morning to you, have a good day.
Mouse I hope Nemo had another good night.

algee HELLO!! I remember you very well. Have thought about you loads over the past few months. So good to see you about. Well done for cencelling the booze. That's such a big step. I am one of the bloody strugglers at the moment. Keep posting, we've missed you x

Morning venus and thurso too!

alllllllllgggggggeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Hello you!

So fab to see you and to see how well you are doing. Great news

Morning Babes.

How did I miss that Isinde was going to leave the bus?!?!?!

I don't think so my girl! We need you. We need to hear about your girls and you. We are all in this together, no matter what stage we are at.

You can do this. But you need support. We can give you that.

Please don't go.

Nope, thurso rubbish night with Nemo. He's still got this blardy cold and none us seem to be able to shift it, so I think we're just passing it back to one another.

Mainlining coffee here today. It's freezing but gloriously sunny and crisp. Makes me when I can see blue sky.

mouse morning lady. Sorry you had a crap night. Lovely day here too.

wasindie (I must have missed this bit too.) YOU WILL NOT LEAVE THE BUS YOUNG LADY. As mouse says we are in this together no matter whether we are still getting totally shitfaced or notching up x months of sobriety. We all need each other

Hey Red

Ma - sorry to hear about DD2. Yes indeed, life can be pretty shite at times and through no fault of your own.

Remember that.

Strange how we can all cope with our own disappointments but when it comes to our children we find it much more difficult!