The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Giving Up Booze For Lent.

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Hello.

I'm Mouse.

We are a Bus load of posters with various relationships with the demon booze. Some are sober, some are not and some are inbetween.

So come say hi and meet the rest of The Babes, there's always plenty of room on the Bus, the doors are ALWAYS open.

No judgy pants are worn on this journey, pants yes and even the odd Tena Lady but always of the non judging variety.

Previous Threads

Hop on board Munky, were you on board before?

Is it a scottish name Isindie, thought it was Irish??

Morning Babes, glad to see you're all well!

Need to climb back aboard after a spectacular slide into oblivion. I can't quite believe how quickly (and with such vigour) I returned to destructive drinking patterns after 10weeks completely sober!!!

I thought I had it cracked....but how wrong was I . After a week or 2 thinking 'fuck it!1 and the weekend from hell, it's got to stop.....again!

Day 2 here and today I will not be drinking

Morning everyone. Nice to see you Cailin and Maz.

I'm feeling a bit wobbly today, not sure why, just nervy I guess as I'm coming up to two months and just hoping I won't slip.

Btw, does anyone else find they've replaced the alcohol with something else they now find hard not to do too much of? In my case it's work, which is quite positive but I'm a bit worried I don't seem to 'switch off'! Any tips?

Morning all - lots of posts today !

Welcome Cailin and munky, welcome back witchety and obrigada(de nada ). Ruby and Mouse, hope your poorly ones are better today, and I hope anyone else with ill/wakeful/troubled offspring are doing ok too.

Gentle hellos to qo and thornrose.

Well done Hammy

to everyone else (Isinde, keep your eyes on the road!), and sorry if I've missed anyone out - feels like an Oscar speech.

Day 11 here, the initial smugness and euphoria are wearing off, and it's turning into more of a one-minute-at-a-time thing, but today I will not be drinking. I had a meeting this morning which would have been hideous if hungover, and it was just so bloody nice not to be, but am feeling pretty far from complacent today.

Tris, for what it is worth to get you over a day 11 slump, at around day 14-21 you start feeling all healthy, too ...

(Or I did. Relatively. Still with the spare tyre, though. )

Hi LRD

Hang on in there with the wobbles, I guess it's probably the whole thing of not concentrating on the anniversary and not projecting into the future, but rather keeping on taking it one day at a time. You're doing fantastically!

I'm finding I'm slightly addicted to coming on here , but figure that's not necessarily a bad thing, given how much time and thought I would otherwise be devoting to drinking.

Thanks - I have noticed already that my eyes and skin (sleeplessness notwithstanding) are looking brighter. In fact, my internal monologue is quite often to be heard sounding like an advert for dogfood at the minute, although my coat isn't glossy)

Thanks trist

at the dogfood monologue! I know what you mean. It's actually fairly terrifying to realize how bad I looked before - I was covering it with the slap, but wow .... not good.

I come on here loads too but go through phases of not posting and just nodding along - it's great isn't it? Thanks bus people!

Morning everyone. Not been posting much but lurking as been really busy and I have now caught the kids cold. Managing to cut down still but still want to drink less and have more 'alcohol free' days. Just had flowers, a cake, baloons and chocolates delivered at work by my new DP as it's my birthday.

morning all. Can't say much I'm so tired - my brain not working!
Hope everyone is good.

cor!, busy on here today! how lovley!

Happy Birthday Zany:):)

Welcome to the thread Cailin. We're at about the same point in trying to give up as I'm on day 3. Good luck.
Trist you are doing so well, keep up the good work.

didn't drink last night and had a bugger of a job sleeping. That's not fair
Lovely to see new babes, and well done to the early days gals - Hammy you're doing well. rose how are you?

Think you'll have to come up here, on the roof, with me Ruby .

I, too find this thread pretty addictive (personality trait ), I find that it helps me so much to write down my thoughts and/or worries, it may be the annonyminity (not for long Ma, Venus, bafana , still working on it !), but whatever it is, it works for me, and many's the time I've come on here, to avoid opening, or going to buy, a bottle of wine. Makes me sound very weak, and a sad case, but there you go..... I am just so grateful to all of you.

I had a lovely telephone call from DC2 yesterday, crikey, when did he start being my parent! I am in awe of what a lovely young man he has turned out to be, kind, caring and sensitive, and with buckets of sense. He was very helpful re:DC2, and I realise that I may have over-reacted teeny bit .
I think DC2, with a side of DH, just made me feel I was failing to do anything right for anybody ever.

Proper perspective, back in force today, amazing how no hangover can do that!
xxx

Happy Birthday Zany.

Lots of positivity here today. Lovely to read.

Sympathies to those with challenging teens - we have that on the horizon. Thought Isindie had it right - unconditional love (even when it seems to be rejected). DH sees that in my family and is very envious.

Today I will not be drinking, and not drinking yesterday is making the meetings/preparation I have to do this afternoon much less daunting.

Hope to be back later.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Zany how lovely to get presents delivered to work and make everyone else , (tries to remember ..........)