The Brave Babes Carry On Past The Easter Booze Offers.

[NotTheMessiahJustMouseface]

Hello,

I'm Mouse, well, I am usually!

Welcome to the Brave Babes Bus.

This is a journey of sobriety, started almost a year ago by the wonderful jesuswhatnext. So why not come aboard and find a seat. There's heaps of support on here whether you are sober, drinking or somewhere in the middle.

And, for those of you who want a bit of history, here are the Previous Threads

golly I'm too embarassed to explain the kind of 'rabbit' I was thinking of [bublush] -suffice to say it was nothing to do with God, but might have to do with a 'higher -power' (if you include batteries in that description ).

Venus, I don't know what kind of rabbit you have, but mine doesn't have ears on the top! [bugrin]

Venus
A year or so ago, I had a big clear out of my wardrobe and threw away my (ahem) bunny ears! I did it up in two bin liners, but, you reminded me of the dread that the bag may have torn open for all the dustbinmen to see

No, they were at the bottom Golly

If you were worried about the binmen seeing your bunny, you'll love the story about my best friend's three year old telling her mummy (who was upstairs) that she was playing with a pink rocket whilst sat in full view of the sky tv bloke who was putting the cable telly in.

Golly

Just want to say that I am going to catch up with all the AA posts above and respond later . At present i have a 5 year to throw in the bath and a worried wait for an 11 year old to return from football training!! I want to join in....!!!

Well, babes,

what a difference an hour or so makes,

Venus I did think I was doing the right thing by "carrying on", and I think DH appreciates me handing over some responsibilty, after doing it all. You are right, he was glad that I spoke about my day last night, and the things I had been doing, in a "normal" way. But, he doesn't seem to reciprocate, in any way, at the moment.

And (I know I shouldn't start a sentence with and!)... Dc2 had a last minute invitation to go to dinner, and stay over, and I have just dropped him off at the station, only to come back to a message from DH, to say that he is going out with work friends to a quiz night, and "in view of what we discussed" he thinks it will be a good idea, to keep him busy.

I feel like a counsellor not a wife!, and I'd just, for the moment, like to feel like a girlfriend!

Oh, well, probably be on here lots tonight, to stop me from the shops!

So thurso a lovely evening to yourself - what a treat! What's the best way to spend it? Bake an Easter cake (if you can do it without going to the shops), be totally indulgent and read a book, or watch something completely girly on TV. Have a bath and paint your toe nails, or call a good friend on the phone for a chat. Write a letter to someone who'd really love to hear from you - an old person who doesn't get much mail, but who'd really love a long chatty letter. Or just realx on browse on here.

PS - pity you cleared out your wardrobe [buwink]

Venus you sweetheart ,

Have painted my toenails (fairy pink), earlier, half way through a book, and I am going to go up for an early bath.

I might, possibly have a bit of a fantasy about "Edinburgh man" whilst I'm in there. But only on a friends basis, you understand . Edinburgh man got me out out of, or made me forget, a horrible relationship, and seeing him, brought it all back.

Good bl**dy job he's in Edinburgh tonight!

What on earth is wolf school?

I had lunch out with my mother today which was actually not toooo much of an ordeal! She knows i have a 'bit of a problem with drink...' but has no idea i go to AA, as I'm sure she'd be horrified - she will insist on sat=ying things like 'well if you just have one, you'll be ok, it's after a few you get nasty...' and 'so what do you drink now when you're not driving?' ARGHHH! We're going on holiday with her and her 'chap' (they're in their 80's...) in the May half term and I am dreading it - I intend to find a meeting so i can get to at least one when I'm away! I was supposed to go to my 'Big Book' study tonight, but I just couldn't be bothered to be honest. That sounds bad doesn't it? I spend every day reading from it though, and am trying very hard to get my head around some of the stuff in it. My sponsor is quite a big book fan , although she doesn't push it really, I chose to do the study prior to the steps so am taking it at my own pace. Still struggling a bit the Higher Power thing too. It's all a bit overwhelming at times!

I hope everyone has a lovely evening.

Puppy training Golly

5 weeks of intensive training to make sure that the wolfcub is a good wolf!

DH said that there were lots of tiny dogs there, about the size of rats compared to the wolf! I'm amazed he didn't eat them!

IsinDe - that's the kind of dog he is too!

Has anyone heard from Tortoise at all?

If you are lurking lovely, come let us know you are around x

Sorry mouse, I would go to many lengths to help people on this thread, but cleaning ??? sorry, not interested. Chatting about cleaning - I can do, empathising with builders in your house - I can do, looking afer your kids while you clean - I can do. But please don't ask me to get off this nice warm chatty bus to actually clean

changeling when I told my Mum and Dad that I had a friend coming to stay with me for a couple of days and that she didn't drink, my Dad said "you've got some strange friends". Very helpful (not).

How is your evening going thurso? dp and I were having a lovely deep and meaningful conversation about love and life and then he suddenly jumped up all excited - apparently there's a programme on tv about birds and bees (and not in an exciting sense) oh ... and now bats.

Ohhh, puppy training! I did a bit of a that a couple of years ago. We found a class in Clifton (posh bit of bristol) and when we got there, we were the only (terribly behaved) rescue dog amongst a sea of pedigree posh totty dogs [bugrin]

Changeling - it's interesting that you're doing study rather than steps first. I've been advised to pick a steps meeting as a home group (still not picked one!) to begin with, and that parts of the book relate to the different steps, but at the same time you should apply whatever you read to the step you're at. Confused yet? [bugrin] At the moment I go to any meeting going (including a bloody NA one accidentally last night [bublush] ) so I'm getting a good mix of what different meetings are like. I think I've covered most of the angles now, and been to most of the local evening meetings at least once. I like speaker meetings, but I don't think it's a good idea to stick to them exclusively as there's no opportunity to share back and it's far too easy to hide at the back with no interaction.

hi all - goodness all this talk of rabbits. Am I the only person who doesn't have on/hasn't had one?
Thurso yay to getting rid of DH. You absolutely MUST have a fantasy evening with Edinburgh man....preferably while in the bath
mouse sorry the house is like a bomb site. Ours is like that all the time and we don't even have the builders in!!
Guess what I did tonight??? I jogged for 2 whole miles, 24 minutes non-stop. I am very very proud of myself.

Well done Ma! I think I'd probably collapse and have a heart attack if I tried to jog somewhere. I did the Great North Run when I was 14 (have to be 18 to do it now), I don't think I've run anywhere since!

ma well done! I used to run a bit with a friend of mine - we started each year when the clocks changed, and did a similar thing to what you what you're doing. We were both equally unfit but somehow she ended the exercise looking mildly out of breath, while I was puce coloured within 2 minutes EVERY time - even in October when we'd been doing it for 6 months. And I never, ever managed the talking while jogging thing. Ever. Now I just don't run. If we didn't have a great big bloody bit of North Sea between us, I could be tempted to join you - maybe next year?

PS I don't have a rabbit, but I did once have a guinea-pig [buconfused]

[bugrin], oh you norty norty girls!! [bugrin]

well, while you lost have been talking rude stuff i have been doing the important pondering about what consitutes a higher power (while watching eastenders and trying on my new dress! [bugrin]) i have come up with this!, i have a small quiet faith, it dosnet involve a church or ritual or denomination and tbh, im not even sure it involves 'god' - my higher power, in my minds eye, is a kind of benelvelent (sp?[bugrin] force of nature, something that wants my mind and body to feel as well as i can make it - its a kind of spirit i suppose that stands with me when the shit hits the fan and im floundering, something that i can just say 'ok!, im fucked, help me' to and give me some breathing space and some calm 'vibes', its just a method i guess, something that while im thinking of 'it', im not thinking of drinking - often all it takes is a couple of minutes of peace and quiet to ward off the drinking demon, to re-evaluate why i 'want' to drink and why i 'dont want' to drink iyswim?

something else though, i dont 'overthink' too much, tbh, i dont care what it is, if it helps me to stay sober, that fine! [bugrin]