The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Past The New Year Wine Offers!

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Hello all.

We are the Brave Babes. We're on the Battle Bus, travelling around sobriety and going day by day, hour by hour, through the detox hell of not drinking, cutting down or sometimes even not.

Come say hi. We won't bite.

No doubt one of us has been where you are now......

It's fine. No judging, no nasty jibes, just us, the BBs.

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

Got and replied Jesus

Never thought I'd get a Personal Message from Jesus

mouse jesus wants you for a sunbeam

Fair enough Ma - I do most other things

frankly, i never thought i would be refered to as jesus!

How are you Mouse and Ma, and JWN what did you have at the restaurant? I had salmon tagliatelle tonight, and I'm hungry again!!!!

tonight thurso i had

hot smoked salmon with capers and soda bread

duck in green peppercorn sauce

sexy sticky pudding with posh vanilla ice cream (thats what its called on the menu!)

nearly a whole bottle of fizzy water

i am absolutly stuffed!

hi Thurso - I have lapsed and for the life of me can't think why as it was all going very well and i was feeling ok.
DH and i have both vowed to have a drink free week this week so we'll see if that gets me back on the wagon again. I'm annoyed at myself but it makes me realise that a few days does not mean you have the demon licked!

MMMMmmm! sounds lovely. I have just made myself some crackers and gruyere (here I do my Wallace impression Indie , and am going to watch some TV.

Poor DH gone to bed in a spare room, as he come down with flu like symptoms today.

xxxx

He has come down !!

I'm good. Finished my second glass so I'm off to bed.

Silver - You know where I am.

Please come back on here and talk to those lovely Babes on the bus.

Night Babes xxxxx

Ma You can start again tomorrow. I thought I had gone right back to square one after Thursday night, but I haven't had a drink since then, so I think we are going in the right direction. xx

Night Mouse sleep well. Fairy dust for Nemo xx

Silver

I will be here for a while. I hope you are ok. xxx

am OK babes xxxxx

Bum, pub last night just for (one - one glass? one bottle? crate??), woke up head on kitchen table, off to bed for 4 hours sleep now

Maud - it happened and it?s past. However hungover you are, do you think you could get to a meeting today? Even if you just say I had a drink and I can?t do this on my own. It has to get as bad as it has to get and you have to be ready, only you will know if you are there yet.

IsIndie - what started last night off? I can?t remember, are you still off work? How?s the foot? Has a break helped? How are the little ones?

ma don?t forget all those alcohol free days aren?t wasted, they have given your body and your liver especially a break, so don?t be beating yourself up, today?s another day.

Silver what happened lovely? Your head can?t get fixed overnight ? well, mine can?t! Hope you are doing ok today.

I have proven to myself I can survive my ex?s (DD's dad) crap without a drink. His text last night even had my lovely sponsor saying ?I don?t know what to say? ? and I don?t think that happens often. But I curled up on the sofa, put some music on, had a cry and phoned someone. Alcohol would make this worse, and this morning I am clear headed and able to try and navigate what?s best for my lovely DD in all of this. I am so grateful ? the last 9 days (ODAAT) have had me in the best place I?ve ever been in.

Although being awake since 4 with DD is not the best start to a Sunday (she's gone back to sleep now!) it is so so good to wake up sober.

Hi to all babes new and old.

I've been drinking 2 large glasses of wine a night since Wed. I've not been hammered but I can really notice the difference in the morning - yak.
Today I will not be drinking.

Noteven you sound so much better. Well done. What a strong lady you are. Just reading your posts makes me

Morning everyone

Silver are you ok?

Noteven you sound amazing

Where's Venus?

noteven well done to you, am seriously impressed.
another one climbing aboard with a hangover and a guilty face....
I will not beat myself up, today is another day. Fastens seatbelt grimly.
indie you ok?

Hello everyone,

I haven't been able to get onto the website until just now (seriously worried that I wouldn't get to speak to you).

Noteven you sound wonderful, well done for getting through without a drink.

Ma, Indie, Maude I hope you are feeling a bit better by now (mashed potato sandwich called for) .

I have to say that I when I saw you were all having a drink last night, I really wished it was me, as well . I couldn't face the thought of feeling like I did on Friday morning, though, and so I didn't. But, I don't feel much better for it this morning.

DC still asleep, and DH woke up, after being at deaths door last night with a hacking cough, etc, woke up bright as a button, and has gone to watch rugby.

I was sort of hoping that if he felt better we could have gone for a long walk, and come home to have a roast lunch, and an afternoon on the sofa. Me projecting again.

Has anyone ever read the short story "The lovely leave" by Dorothy Parker, different situation, but that's exactly what I do with the weekends, build them up, have them crash down, and Sunday night wish I could start over.

I do wonder if it was me, on Friday morning that brought on DH's symptoms yesterday, he always says not, but.....

Christian how are you? When is DH back?
Venus are you around yet, lovely?
Mouse How is Nemo not the best weather for him I imagine, warm, wet and generally yuk, well it is here anyway.

Hey, I was looking for holiday cottages yesterday, and saw one in Thurso

now come on ladies!!

i know its hard but it really can be done! i am actually a bit cross with you hungover babes!, what difference does it make just because it was saturday night? as an excuse its a pretty poor one! now, i know that life is not easy for a lot of you, but really, be honest, how exactly has a hangover helped? my mother has a very good saying 'never put your wishbone where your backbone ought to be'!! i know you have the 'desire' to stop drinking but you also need to find the strength inside! I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE IT!!, we have been together on this bus for sometime now and i feel like i have got to know you all, I KNOW YOU ARE ALL FANTASTIC WOMEN!!! SO GET A BLOODY GRIP!!

TODAY WE WILL NOT BE DRINKING!!!

dont let the fucker beat you!, you are all worth so much more!!!

Hey JWN well said!

thurso DH back Wednesday night. Thank God. I am exhausted.

Oh dear Babes.

noteven - well done you for managing to get through that without a drink! [smlie]

Ma - can you see my hair today? How much did you get through? What triggered it do you think or was it a case of sod it?

Maud - start again lovely. Just start again. Come and tell us all about it when you feel up to it.

Christi - venus is away I think, someone said when I asked after her.

Ruby - yep, 2 large glasses is massively different to 2 small ones. I really notice the difference too.

IsinDe - what are we going to do about this lovely? You are trapped in another cycle.

What's wrong? [worried emoticon] xx

Well I survived screetching girls and a sleepover. Had a lovely lie in too. DH is making breakfast, few jobs to do and then roast beef later.

All good in the Mouse house

Silver - come and talk to us xx