The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Sweeping Into Autumn With A One Way Ticket To Sobriety.

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Phew, just in time!

I'm mouse and I love a few to drink. I love all things cheese and I love MrMouse

Welcome to the Bus. We are a collection of drinkers, non-drinkers, and those who are somewhere in between but we all have the same thing in common, we can't just have 1 drink and then stop.

Come say hi, we don't bite .

Here are the other threads to date, if you have a spare hour or seven to kill.

OUR HISTORY

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Morning everyone

Thurso thinking of you this morning, tears are fine, it is a big move for DC and for you, but what an exciting one. One of my DC lives in London as well, and has such a fantastic life. Has to work very hard, but has access to all the culture and pleasure of that big city on tap, I am quite at times.

I know what you mean about DH mine never SEEMS to worry about or miss said DC, but if he has a meeting in London they always meet up so he sees DC more than I do.
It is hard and I do really miss DC, but we have to let them move on - we don't want to be an overbearing DM being complained about in AIBU in years to come, do we?
Well done for a controlled friday evening Babes.
I think a roll call would be good, as you know I lurk and don't post much, but I NEED this thread for my sobriety, so it would be good to have a regular check in.
Hugs to Mouse and MsGee you both amaze and humble me.
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Hello all,
I am a bit of a lurker, but found your thread and was hoping I could join you.

I have always been a bit of a wine drinker, without really thinking, but recently I have been drinking too much (up to a bottle of wine over the course of the night!!!) - Not good for my health AND expensive! My DH is a drinker - he drinks even more than me and this concerns me. BUT I have decided that I need to concentrate on me and not drink anymore...!

I think that if I have people to check in with, then this will support my mission to remain sober.

Blimey, you lot are up early this morning. I am making sausage sandwiches for dd to lure her out of bed. Then she is going to rummage around the house, collecting pans and plates and cutlery and bedding ready for her move to university. I asked her yesterday if she thought she would come home much - answer: err no.

I'm with you thurso, but we'll get through, and we'll have a new phase of our lives to enjoy and explore.

Hello soberme welcome and post whatever you like whenever you like. Are you aiming to cut down, or have you stopped altogethr for a bit?

Hi sober. Im new here too, and I wanted to welcome and reassure you that the babes here are amazing. They GET it. That's what's so good. And they never judge. And they're here when the wine voices start tantalising you at 6pm after a busy day. I would advise you go back over the threads if you ever have the time. There are so many inspiring stories and lots of practical tips about how to cope in drinking situations.

Right. Off to the farmers' Market to buy organic sausages and have a cappuccino in the cafe with DS, DH and DM. How very middle class of me

Thank you for the welcomes.
I have been making an attempt to cut down, but failing dismally (some days I am good, others not!) - I drank wine last night and feeling a bit foggy this morning. I don't want to be feeling foggy anymore, because without wine I am a real 'Morning' person! So the answer is to try and stop completely.

It definately is the 6-7pm time that will be hard - so will try and log in at these times. :)

Morning all,
It's busy this morning! Thinking of you thurso and venus at these times of big change.
I'm rushing about a bit as I didn't get as much as I'd have liked done yesterday. So, those of you that have conquered drinking situations... am I missing anything on the plan of attack for tonight?
Make sure I've eaten and am not thirsty.
Plan what to drink. (Pineapple juice and lemonade - yum)
I have my aunt there who knows I won't be drinking.
Phone sponsor if wobbly
Escape plan - just head home - family would rather I did that and drank - especially as will have done cake and birthday presents this afternoon so this evening is kind of the icing on the cake as it were.
Only take the money I need, no extras.
Wear something I feel happy and confident in rather than starting the evening feeling not-quite-right.
Anything else? Planning on keeping so busy today I won't have time to project.

Welcome to soberme - there is lots of encouragement here.

Inde tell me to shut up if you like, but am not surprised you drank on Thursday. Do you think you were relieved to argue to have the excuse to drink? I've done that in the past (MIFLAW called me on it - I was defensive and angry with him but he was right as usual )

Love to all x

MORNING

I've been up since 8am. Sober and alert, regardless of having a terrible night with Nemo, he's just not right at the moment but his nurse is here next Thursday so hopefully, she'll give him the once over. Not that I doubt myself but still, and hopefully will put it down to his glue ear or teething. He has put weight on though so I'm not too concerned.

SoberMe - A HUGE welcome to you, nice to meet you

Tawdry - Well done on getting as far as you have, here, have a bacon buttie on me!

IsinDe - how is DT this morning? Any better?

MOP - I love the farmer's market. I would only buy my meat (OOOo-eer missus ) from there if I could get to ours more easily and had a bigger freezer!! It's a good half hour away. Have a lovely time

BB - hey you! Nice to see you here again. I think I'll do what I have in the past and update my list of posters. I'll ask if people want to remain off the list and then post it. I'll post about it separately later.

thurso - my darling lady. Please keep posting as much as you can today. Legal is in London I see so maybe you two can see if you are anywhere near each other when you go to visit DC?

HUGE HUGS to you today. You'll be in my thoughts. Sending much love xxx

Right, time for grilled pig! Yummy! I'm off to the gym for a few hours later too. Not to work out as such, more to relax, gentle swim, sauna, steam room and a nice read.

morning all. what a lot of wonderful posts last night and well done to Tawdry and Mouse and Mistress and all the others who beat the beast (doesn't that sound rude ) for one night.
i was at a ceilidh and drank about a bottle over the course of the evening but feel ok and managed a few dances with dashing chaps in kilts
mouse be kind to yourself my friend. Could you please not mention orgasms and mrmouse in the same post?
Thurso am thinking of you today. Apron strings can be very hard to saw through can't they? DD2 goes to Spain in 3 weeks - gulp.
venus love BraveBabes land - will there be an electric fence to keep twattish annoying DH's out?
indie you can do this!

oh and hi to soberme. Welcome!

BOING!!! blimey! you lot are up with the larks this morning!

welcome soberme! nice to have you aboard!

its so bloody fantastic to see so many babes doing so well!, i love love the way we are all so differant and still 'get' each other! - i like to picture us as a band of fierce women who stand in line together when that bastard booze monster appears who wave our fruit teabags at it in diffiance all yelling madly 'fuck the fuck off'! (nothing so scary as a bunch of women protecting their own!)

i had a nice if mixed evening - dm passed me the wine list and asked me to recommend a wine for her lamb dish! df put his head in his hands, dh got cross with her and snatched the menu from my hands, she then realised what she had done and stuttered about something to the wine waiter, i proudly told him not to worry, that i was in recovery and that i would leave the choosing to someone else! ohhhh she hates me telling anyone but until she gets a grip and stops doing daft things like that i will continue to embarass her! (i went of to the loo and did a bit of muttering! )

then we got home to find a drunk lad asleep on our garden path!, i woke him up to make sure he was alright, he told me he was 'relaxing' so, i put a sleeping bag over him and gave him a cup of tea this morning - there but for the grace of god or whatever go i! he was so young, dirty, smelly and someones son, he went of this morning after his tea to get 'better' - i think he was rattling! dont where im going with this, its just upset me to see such a young guy in such a miserable fucking state!

soberme, meet you back here at 6! And y'all can stop me from falling back into the habit of pouring myself a nice cold glass of wine to sip while getting ready to go out (for the record, the remnants of last night's bottle are already in an ice cube tray in the freezer).

thurso I'm in zone 2 (and studying in central London some days) so I can get pretty much anywhere for a meet up. Make sure you buy DC a big bottle of descaler for the kettle and iron or they will last about five minutes. One of those Brita jugs with descaling cartridges also a good idea assuming that students drink tap water! You can practically see the chalk in the water here.

noteven your plan sounds great apart from the pineapple juice - can't stand the stuff (and don't even get me started on the subject of Hawaiian pizza). Apparently it's chock full of antihistimines though.

and well done to everyone else who was good last night.

jesus I have a six year old. I am up with the larks every morning . And if that's not an incentive not to drink the night before I don't know what is.....

noteven

Can you take a pack of breath mints too? So that if you're tempted, you can stick a mint in the same as brushing your teeth?

Other than that, you sound more than ready. I hope you have a lovely time

JWN - you are so nice. I'd have done the same. Poor lad. I hope he's okay. Sounds like you had a fab night though, your DM made me laugh, sorry!

Right, I'm off to the Country Club darling.

Be back later xx

Hello people, welcome to newbies

I'm feeling a bit meh today, so I'd better concentrate on being sober because I think I'm at risk of drinking if I don't keep my eye on the ball. I did my supermarket shop this morning and when I came out of the store I found that someone bloody arsehole has scraped a long scratch down the side of my car. I went back into the shop to see if they had cctv in the carpark, and when I got to the front of the customer service queue a woman was convinced that she'd been there longer than me (she hadn't) and tried to start a big row with me about it I'm afraid I don't think I handled it very well by turning my back on her and talking to the woman behind the counter. Arguing lady nearly blew a gasket, her children looked horrified, so I gave her by best single eyebrow raised look as I walked off. I don't really know how else I could have handled it, but she clearly thought she was in the right so perhaps I shouldn't have just barged in to talk to the customer service woman? Anyway, no cctv in the car park so there's pretty much sod all I can do about it

It's not the end of the world but I am cross about it.

Today I will mostly be altering school trousers which are too big

Hello babes. Am about to go to bed because it's late here, but thought I'd check in to say I had my first sober dinner party and it was fun. Dh hated it, and has sloped off to bed in a sulk, but I had a nice time with my friends. Happy days.

Glad to hear it TBoM! The witching hour approaches here but think I'll be OK from now until we go to dinner. Have been drinking (water, herbal tea) copiously all day.

It's great that you enjoyed your friends' company but I do wonder whether becoming sober is liable to cause a bit of a re-evaluation of who you socialise with. As I posted on about Day 2, dinner parties with noticeably drunk people get very boring very quickly if you're stone cold sober.

Faire, forgot to say that "Young, Dumb..." is my secret Sunday night junk viewing. I can't believe there are 18/19 year olds who are so lacking in independent living skills.

Bafana - just saw your post about wantto, glad to hear she's doing OK.

Well done TheBoss Don't worry about DH, your not drinking will put his smack bang into the middle of the limelight and he might not like what he sees.

You are doing great xx

Legal - Have a little snack before you go out. Have a shower maybe, take that little bit longer to get yourself ready, (without that glass of wine to help you along your way) and take it a minute at a time if you need to.

Have a lovely evening.

Golly - mwah, simply mwah xx

Well, the pool was delightful. I had a menthol sauna in the steam room, a jacuzi and swam 250 meters with the aid of three floats so that I was fully supported. Then I had a nice relaxing read by the pool until it got really busy.

Homemade Tapas tonight for dinner, yum. Now this would have previously consited of a nice red wine to go with. BUT NOT TONIGHT!! I have some Becks Blue should I get the urge to taste some beer.

I plan to watch X Factor with DD and eat sweets!

What else are we up to today?

venus and thurso I'm sending you both love xx

Hi, just checking in quickly.

Feeling peeved as my parents still haven't called to see how my appt with consultant went yesterday. Bah.

That said ive had a lovely day with DH, DD and PILs. Went to safari park and had a picnic, was great.

Am taking this one hour at a time today. First drink will be non alcoholic beer.

Promise to post in response to others soon. Sorry I'm all me, me, me.