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

Zany, I really think you need some time out, and definitely some space and distance from your XP, are you seriously considering his proposal?

Morning all

JWN if you are not feeling better this morning, please take on the advice of everyone and get thee to a doctor!!

Red welcome back

Well have loads to do today, so keep well all BB's. Chat this evening.

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Thank you for the welcome. This is the first day of posting and also the first time of publicly acknowledging that my drinking is a problem.

RedMoomin - I'm ten years older and my life still does a good impression of being a rollercoaster!

zany hello. Sorry that you have got so much crap going on. Try not to focus on your neighbour not getting back to you. Sounds like he has a hell of a lot going on too. I am on Day 1 too today. Ugh.

morning all! - still feel dreadful so wont be about much today, im pretty sure ive had flu and now getting over it - there is a permanent sign on our surgery door saying if we have it 'please stay away', so im dosing myself with all sorts of stuff and generally feeling very sorry for myself - my lastest worry is the old parentals, they were quite rough yesterday and now not answering the phone - they live in the middle of bloody nowhere so now dh is going to have to and see if they are ok.

anyway, welcome to all our 'new girls' (feels like the start of a new term, dosnet it?) its lovley to have you all here and i hope you all get as much strength from the thread as i do!

laters babes, have to go and cough up a lung! (and ive found them so useful over the years! )

Happy Birthday Gnome

You are strong and will do this, think it is great that you are getting support from your DH. Best thing for me is knowing that I won't be making a complete fool of myself and upsetting people plus no more hideous hangovers!

Have great birthday.

Hi Zany sounds like you have a lot going on which makes it a whole lot harder to not drink. If I can remember back in the days when I was single, men could be pretty rubbish at responding to texts. Hope things become clearer soon and XP sorts out his head. Good luck for today with not drinking.

bafana hello to you too!

gnome I don't think the rollercoaster ever actually stops does it?! What has made you decide that the drinking is getting out of hand? (You don't need to answer my question of course but sometimes it helps...)

JWN Morning!!! Hope that everything is OK with your parents. Hope you feel better very soon my lovely.

thanks red, finally spoke to df, they are feeling ill but mananging ok! (he said he was 'making breakfast', i can only imagine the state of the kitchen and my dms reaction when she sees it! )

I hope that this cold & flu season is soon over. MiL was here yesterday coughing away like an old train.

Red - I saw the bin man grimace when he lifted our recycled glass box - and we didnt have a party! No, our drinking has gone up and up. When I was stressed about my job before we found we were drinking every day and not just the odd glass. This time I want to feel in control. I hope day 1 is good and kind to you!

Day 1 is always a bugger gnome but never mind I will get through it!

JWN glad to see that your parents are OK x

Phew!

Very slapdash clean of the house, but all done, and bathrooms and toilets, so my back aches now!

Jwn I hope you feel better soon, and I'm glad your parents are ok. My parents are a 40 minute drive away, and I do worry what would happen if they were ill.

Now I am off to make a casserole for tonight. DC1 is coming home for a couple of weeks to finish off dissertation for finals. Said they needed peace and quiet, how boring does that make this house .

Actually just re-read that, and thought how incredibly privileged I am, that this is where they want to be [sob icon].

Hello to everyone I haven't met before, this is a wonderful place to be

Red I find day 3 is always the killer for me, that's the day I seem to feel terribly hungover again, but previousy people have said that this is seeing the hangover through to the end.

Sorry, Cra**y phrasing, in a rush!

Afternoon all

Back to day bloody one again, but hey ho, have dusted myself down, taken some milk thistle and today I will not be drinking!

Need to go shopping and having just checked my online back account after the festive excess it's safe to say that there won't be any money for booze anyway!

Hope you shift your 'flu soon, JWN

noteven hope you get some advice and support from your GP, try not to be unkind for yourself, you can beat this x

Bugger, meant to wave to everyone else!

Hi all.
Still doing well despite crisis of taking DD to A&E last night into the wee small hours with suspected appendicitis! just heading back up there shortly to see what's what.
But you know what - I could drive to the hospital last night and handle it all becuase i was SOBER!!!
Day 8 here with only two blips.

hi all. It's been very busy on here since my last posting.
Hi to all the babes I've not met before.
Ma sorry your dd's not well. Hope she's ok. Fantastic that you were sober to drive too.
I've stopped drinking for Jan and it's day 2.
I need to change my name back to it's pre-christmas name.

chuss and ruby nice to meet you. Don't think I have done so before. Hi ma, it's nice to see you again. How are you? Hope your DD is feeling better x

Hope your DD is OK Ma I often worry think about what I would do if either of my DC's were ill in the night as I would be over the limit.

NO desire I'm not thinking of accepting (although a tiny part of me does), although he is being lovely now I know for a fact how horrible, downgrading etc he really is.

Hi Red nice to 'meet' you too.
Zany it sounds like you're having a tough time there. Why has xp decided to propose now?

Aw demented you poor thing, how is your daughter?
Hi Ruby:)