The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Spring Into Summer.

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Hello

Welcome to The Brave Babes Battle Bus.

This is a quest full of Babes, all fighting to remain sober, cut down or are somewhere in between right now.

You ticket to travel is free, it won't expire, and the Bus will always be here, even if there are days when you are not. So come say hi.

I'm Mouse. I have a thing for cheese and vodka, not together, well, not always!

Here is a LINK to the last thread, where you can read all of the previous threads and the journeys so far.

Ah but we know nothing about Purplebrick do we Babes? We never have. Other than the obvious that gets posted time and time and time again.

I for one am curious as to what your agenda is here Purple and, as I have said to you before, I think you are a name changer. It would be nice to know a little more about you.

Your random deposits on here make me feel uneasy. I can't talk for the other Babes but whilst this is a thread where anyone can post about anything that works or doesn't for them, and all else in between, your posts leave me cold.

Maybe tell us a bit more?

noteven - i'm sure that there are people out there who don't beleive in the afterlife, but I do. I know that your mum will 'see' you with your beautiful DD at her funeral and she will be so proud. So proud that you are getting your life into shape.

I know that things have been hard for you but your daughter is now, finally becoming the most important thing in your life, as she should be. Well done for getting this far.

Keep going xx

Evening, lovely babes and boybabe (I just love writing boybabe)

Not much to add on here, as I am on hols this week, and just doing nothing much.

I had a terrible day yesterday, when it all came down on me, that DC2 had left school, and was going away, and DC1 was not going to come home, after uni. What with all of those thoughts, and the Birthday, which always get's me, because people are so lovely, and I don't deserve it, really, I was ready to drink away!! I don't know why, but, I didn't. The Babe influence, I suspect .

Jolly glad I didn't, but, it did give me thought's this morning, and I have to say Miflaw that when I said to DH that I didn't, because of thought's like "see the film through to end" , "nothing is so bad that drink won't make it worse", etc, and the help that I had got on here, from a bloke, I thought he might have thought it strange, don't know why. Anyway, he didn't, and I thank you for those nuggets, which I keep with me.

Noteven I am with mousie on this one, and I think that your mum will know that you are both there. Love to you xx

Off to do dinner, back later, as Dh is (as you guessed) at bloody cricket.

purplebrickroad

What is your purpose? why are you trying to disrail people's recovery? do have an agenda or are you just pissing about?

Meh. You never answer these questions, so UP YOURS! Give me some kind of personal experience (by PM if necessary) or just fuck the fuck off. You are like a thorn in the side of someone who is trying their best.

I'm a bit cross right now

It's not worth it sweets, don't let one poster get to you. As I have said before, PBR 'reminds' me of a previous poster and was 'advised' to pretty much do the same; explain, share a bit more of your 'experiences' or stop upsetting posters, or words to that effect anyway.

How are you feeling today after last night Golly? How are things with DD?

thurso you little super star you! Not an easy thing to do, to not give in and get shit faced to bury the day from hell. And I should know!

Do we have obrigada around at the mo? How is your mum doing? Thinking of you xx

And Luci - not seen you for a few days? You okay? xx

When is that norty IsinDe back? Does anyone know? I'm missing her poetry.

JWN!! Are you all bronzed and buff my lovely?

GO Golly 1
and well done venus a time of great transition - which you will get through, I promise you.

Aaaaagh! complete keyboard/brain misfunction
!! not 1 and Thurso not venus

Erm, have you been drinking BB?

How very dare you Ms Mouseface

Just got off the phone from DM so Aaaaarg!! again. If you were being invited to a lovely lunch in a very nice city to celebrate your DDs BIG birthday would you complain about the restaurant choice, time of meal and cost of parking???

WELL WOULD YOU!!!

What, cross, moi?

Funnily enough it was purplebrickroad who tried to derail me right back when I was on my knees needing help. S/he pops up whenever s/he sees a chink in the armour. I can only imagine that s/he has an agenda. God knows what that agenda is, but it's toxic because it has no element of support whatsoever.

I'm perfectly capable of spotting when I'm being drawn into something unpleasant without the help of someone with an agenda, thank you very much, I'm not an idiot and I do have a brain of my own.

Golly I'm sure he/she just lurks until there is any difference of opinion re: AA. Just ignore, ignore, ignore, and do what suits YOU best.
The mood I'm in I could do with a good fight though...

Quite aside from the things that are making me cross tonight ...

I have reservations about the emergency phone thing. I'm reluctant to give out my number to people who I have never met face to face. I have AA numbers, and if I didn't want to let it out here I would call one of them. I haven't yet, but maybe one day!

For all I know you could be a bunch of cyberbots with a kind side

Why are you in the mood to fight, bb? Surely it can't be PMT at your age! hehehe.

Disclaimer: I am 42, I have no idea if people who are almost 50 might still have PMT. Or periods. Or hot flushes.

Oh dear, I have started something here - sorry :(

I DID find orange papers very useful - it validated my own feelings about what was at that moment dominating my life - but women for sobriety helped me stay sober.

Golly - no sweets, you'd never have to give your number out

That's not the idea. The idea is for those who want to provide their number FOR EMERGENCIES ONLY, to do so. It only needs to be three or four Babes.

No-one needs to give out any details that they don't want to.

BB - I would never dare but you sounded like you needed a giggle which I posted.

What's up lovely? xx

Oh and Golly - I'm 36 and have hot flushes, night sweats and periods who make up their own mind whether to appear or not from one month to the next!

wanna fight? fight me!! my db does this brilliant impression of a japanese actor being dubbed into english, makes me roar, however i suspect you may have to 'be there'

so then golly, you think im some sort of stalking cyberbot do yer?, believe me, i have no time to stalk anyone! - im far too busy being wonderful all over the place! fwiw, i have spoken to mouse and bafana and im meeting isindi next month, so far they have turned out to be resonably normal! i still think the phone numbers for emergency could be a goer but i do also take your point!, after all, we have spent years telling our dcs not to 'meet people off the internet'!

well, i took my first AA meeting today, went ok but guess what? yep!, i got the nutter who took issue with me taking said meeting, loads of stuff was said that i dont and will never agree with and to be frank, i didnt get much out of the meeting today! HOWEVER, i do remember coming away from a PTA meeting with very much the same feeling, its certainly not exclusive to AA - i see you have fucked off again purplebrickroad, how about you stay fucked off until you have something constructive to say? - we have all introduced ourselves, told a bit of our history and shared things that we hope will help each other, we all have a common goal - to get and stay sober - you, on the other hand, have not, so sweetie, fuck the old fuck off and stay there, theres a dear!

btw bb - i find muttering helps when dealing with my dm! - i love her dearly but my god she is becoming hard work! as to complaining about restaurants, well, i asked her about a week ago if she would like to go out for dinner, just her and i, offered to pick her up etc, when told where i was thinking of taking us she said AND I QUOTE! 'oh, i cant be bothered to put myself out to go there'!!!! mutter mutter mutter!

There's a dear and fuck the fuck off!

JWN - you rock.

I have spoken to you on the phone, you sound lovely and FWIW, my kind of friend

I've spoken to Silver, Red and have bafana's number too. Also MsGee and I are fb mates. So I knew her very sad news before she told us on here

It's funny, life is full of freaks and weirdos but do you know, this place, this place feels safer that the real world some days.

BBwanna I so aspire to be like Venus (and I have met her), I go to bed with a smile, thinking you could have mixed us up .

Not going to bed just yet though, as Dh still not bloody in. Hope he's having a nice time having buggered up his week off just to play aforementioned cricket bloody match!!

Sorry for all the fighting talk, and you have all cheered me up. I am actually really cheery at the moment and looking forward to the weekend with a family gathering, a special lunch with just DH and a very long sponsored walk all planned as a way to distract me from my very great age. My DMum does have a habit of raining on any parade however.
BTW Golly everything, down below, is still functioning just fine thank you!

evening all - reasonably normal !!!! jwn
Have just caught up with all the comings and goings on the bus of late.

I am more than happy to be an emergency contact for people. Having spoken to several people including the reasonably normal JWN, I happy to speak to people in an emergency.

PRB need to echo all other sentiments that have been said on this bus, more than happy to have you here, but actually if all you want to do is post occasional links - do fuck the fuck off, and mind the door doesn't hit your arse on the way out.

My life could be going more smoothly at the moment, but it would be a hell of alot worse if I was drinking, and not thinking with a clear head.
I recently realised that my drinking didn't just affect my thinking when I was drunk/drinking, lots of bad judgements were made whilst sober, but my drinking affected all aspect of my life . I have made so many poor decisions, missed out on fun things because I would rather be holed up with a bottle of wine. Scary to be able see that so clearly now, but unable to see it whilst in the middle of it .

However I am blessed that I realised it, and have managed to get off of that horrendous rollercoaster, yes there were some incredible highs, where I was ecstatically happy and having a blast, but the lows were terrifying, and throughout the whole thing I was never really in control, alcohol always was.

Rambling now, love to all

Bafana

Golly just a thought, but, I don't think you need to worry re: cyberbot's.
I feel very safe here, maybe naive, as it's the only "chatline" I have ever been on in my life, but even so, I think everyone is very real.

My son told me the other day that there is a theory that on every chatline, there is one respondent, computer science 18 yr old talking, I think!!

Facebook, I say to him!!!

OMG 18

BB bit further along than you, and everything still working here