The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Carry On Into Spring - BOING!!

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So, this is The Brave Babes Battle Bus.

All are welcome, regardless of your background, stage of sobriety, or anything else.

I'm Mouse and have been here since June 2010, and in control of my drinking since August 2nd 2010.

You will find unconditional support here. Always.

Whatever you feel about drinking (or not), we've been in your shoes. Some more than once.

So, come say hi, come grab a seat. There is always an open door and a warm welcome on this Bus.

JWN - you have just made me laugh so hard with that image. Bless you. WELL DONE on winning the contract! You are bloody brilliant and I hope your DH realises just how good you are at this.

GO YOU!!!! xxx

Bah, you're lovely ladies, I'd like to be just like you when I grow up

Seriously: thank you. I know I'm moving to being ready to stop (wish I was now, but wanting to want to isn't the same) and donning my flasher's mac and popping up here now and then is definitely part of it.

As you were...

NO!!!!!!!!!!! Shampoo won't make a difference and H&S is really harsh on the hair shaft (oh-er, bit of Friday night smut). If you do wash it, something like baby shampoo would be better.

Let your hairdresser tone the purple out for you. Sounds like there is too much ash in the toner you are using. xx

Hello Jean

Nice mac

NEW THREAD HERE

Please fill up this one first you norty Babes

just a quick thought - this time last week i was climbing the walls - i wanted a 'rock and roll' weekend, i wanted to get smashed, wasted you name it - no way would one glass have done the trick, i would have drunk the pub dry -

thank god i managed not to pick up! believe me, it was about the hardest weekend ive ever had - im a week on from that feeling, it has faded, like i guessed it would, so, i suppose im trying to say to anyone struggling tonight, dont give up!!, it does get better!!

see you in a bit, off to watch new tricks!

trust you to mention shafts!! must be friday!

You can always count on me for some smut.

Night Babes. See you all tomorrow xxxx

Oops

Drat, have blown what I thought was an excellent new name to use on AIBU to rant about fashions in baby-raising (having a bit of a torrid time with DC3).

Will recede once more into the mac and shoot myself in the other foot. Serves me right for flirting with technology. I stand by what I said earlier, though.

Trist we won't tell anyone (but I think your other name is brilliant).

Fantastic news on the contract JWN, but even better that you've got over you're feelings from last weekend. I too had an excellent day workwise - not quite contract in the hand stuff but a very, very good and enthusiastic and lucrative prospect doing exactly the kind of work I love to do the best. So I'm a happy bunny here tonight.

Sleep well mouse

right, im off to bed!

night babes!

see you all on the shiny new thread tomorrow!

L XXXXXXX

Morning,

Crikey, it's a bit crashing early to be up on a Saturday!
Que sera, sera

Hope you all had a good night's sleep.

I had a dream that I bought you a plane ticket to Devonl last night Indie

Speak later

Much love
xxx

Morning! You're up even earlier than me Thurso, much earlier actually as we're an hour ahead of you. Which reminds me - clocks go forward tonight!

venus jwn and zany thanks so much for replying to my work rant yesterday morning, esp venus for your indepth questions (seem to remember you helping Christi out in her job hunt yonks ago). Sorry I didn't manage to get back on yesterday. I had coffee with a colleague yesterday who was also affected by the situation. Do you know what they said to her when she asked WTF was behind the decision?
"You and Maddogs have children, so you are family women, not career women"

I'm sorry, I didn't realised it was still 1953!

Anyway, all this is pushing me even more to become my own boss and work freelance (medical writer, editor initially). Not sure I have the confidence or the skills but other people do it who are much more rubbish than me (I know, because in my job now I have to edit their shit work). I'm meeing another friend next week who is working freelance here so can pick her brains.

It annoys me that my brain won't stop thinking about work while I am on mat leave. ENOUGH!

Great news though that my colleague is pregnant! She's been trying for her second for a while and had a miscarriage last year, so I'm so, so happy for her!

Enough about me!

mouse Hope the defcon3 situation is easing and you feel much better today. It must be so hard to cope with such levels of pain. Did you manage to sleep last night?

jwn congratulations on your contract! Wooo! I totally understand what you mean about a "rock and roll weekend" too. This spring weather makes me want to lie in a field with beer and a spliff (and no responsibilities)

Isinde That was brilliant leaving the wine on the train!

trist Love your alternative name - especially as I am a geneticist!

Right, this post has gone on long enough...off to give my baby a cuddle.

Hi all. I drank too much last night and was obnoxious. I feel terrible and want to cry .

Oh ruby . I do feel for you. There have been countless mornings when I have woken up feeling like that.

Nothing you can do today will change what happened last night, but you can stop it from happening tonight (and tomorrow too, if you choose to...). best advice for today is lots of liquids, some pain killers and take it easy. Maybe use this time to plan for tonight. Get some nice non-alcoholic drinks in - lime juice and soda, elderflower and grape juice?

maddogs - you are sounding really positive and motivated. Having had a baby can be really good time for thinking about your work options, it gives you a different perspective on what is important to you and what you want from life.

Going freelance is a risk of course, but so many people sit in jobs they hate for an illusion of security that isn't within their control. You will meet many pessimists who will tell you that this is a bad, bad time to go freelance and will recount dire tales of people reducing their prices, and work drying up.... Of course this IS true - for them, but the brilliance of freelance work is that you can be flexible, quick to respond to change, spot new opportunities and develop niche markets. Anyway you can tell that I'm on one of my favourite subjects now...... If you ever want to know more or talk it over, then I'm more than happy to do so.

just checking in.
have a stinking cold, sore throat, snot factory etc so will be pottering about, once the shopping is done.
So disgustingly snotty that DH has foregone the morning grope - the wonders of germ warfare!

Ma every cloud has a silver lining, then
hope you feel better soon.
xxx

morning!

maddogs - GO FOR IT!! the fact that you are even thinking about tells me you have the right skills!

ma, you just made me laugh! , i have just been rejected!, appearntly its 'england v srilanka' and its 'a cruical' match! , oh dear!, this will come back to haunt him on soooo many occasions!

venus and thurso, nice to see you!

RUBY!! have a [[hug]]]] - can you go back to bed for a while?, drink the fluids and try and sleep - it will be alright you know? before the hangover ends, make a list of the pros and cons about your drinking, i still have mine, written the night i posted, it has helped me many times since!

So sorry, dashed on here, and then out without reading.

Ruby you poor old stick, are you feeling a bit better now?
If at all possible (hard I know) try not to think about what you said, or might have said last night. It will all seem so much worse at the moment. Do a Scarlett O'Hara, and think about it tomorrow! For today, as Venus says, look after yourself.

Maddogs you are sounding incredibly positive. Go for it!, you can't put your life and career on hold, just because DH wants to be a teenager!

JWN Methinks Dh will be owing you one (in a manner of speaking )

How are you Mousie, the Mouseface today?, back any better? I hope you had a lovely looooong sleep last night.

I am fairly "up and at 'em" this morning. I have lots of work to do, so DH has just hung out the washing, and is now cleaning the bathrooms! He does prefer to keep busy when he feels like this, even so, it's a big help to me. Now, if I can just get him to iron .

Lots of love
xxxx

Morning Babes.

Well, I passed out through pain meds and sleepers last night on the sofa, DH put me to bed. I woke up at 3am (my bladder's not what it was ) and then slept through until 6.30 when DH got up so I got into bed with a sleeping Nemo and snuggled until 9am. It was lovely.

I FEEL AMAZING!!!! A bit hung over, but that's the meds. My pain is still as bad today, usually takes 2 - 3 days to go completly.

Anyway, how are we all this morning? Who's got plans for the weekend?

Ruby - sorry you are feeling hungover and shitty about last night. I remember nights like that too. Not nice.

How are things between you now? How are YOU? xx

thurso - very productive list! Go you. xx

Right, more washing here. Off to town with DD later to shop. Well, I say shop...... I'm going to hobble round after her.

I managed to get back to sleep, my DH is being all annoyed at me because I was obnoxious to him last night.
The thing is he's a moody sod most of the time and part of me feels I've given him an opportunity to use against me. Not sure if i'm thinking like this cos i'm hungover or whether it's true.
He can see i'm rough but is insisting on doing his college stuff whilst I look after the kids .
I know it's my own fault for drinking too much but wish I didn't have to suffer

Ruby - erm, that's a bit petulant of him. Obnoxious or not, you are clearly suffering physically and emotionally from last night.

Have you tried talking to him to apologise?