The Brave Babes Battle Bus - On Their Way To Giving Up The Booze For Lent (or just for today)

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Hello, I'm Mouse

Welcome to the Brave Babes Bus where you'll find a mix of drinker, non drinkers, those who has been sober for a long time, and those who are getting there One Day At A Time.

Come and say hi....... we won't bite

And if you want to know how this all got started, HERE is a link to the previous threads.

MsGee massive hugs and lots of love to you. xxx

Well lovely Babes, I've been drinking tonight and drank a little last night. I have (marital) stuff to deal with that I've been trying to drown with wine. It's not working - it never does - so I'm going to have to try and deal with it.

Much love to all on the bus and sidecar :)

Morning everyone

I was working last night so no tempation here. Thanks for the post SSSM. I am battling the anxiety at the moment. Not even sure what I am anxious about!

Big hugs to everyone else. MsGee- be kind to yourself. You had good reasons to have to say good bye to your baby and you should not beat yourself up. You are a mum and a good mum.

I am going into town this morning to get my free Starbucks latte and generally mouch around before the preschool pickup.

No booze here. Even my DH has got on board and has been saying how much better he has been feeling for less booze

Take care everyone and enjoy the ride. I think we should drive the bus around some countryside today (via Starbucks natch!) . I need to relax!

Afternoon - quite on here today ... I hope everyone is well.

I am panicking - too much work to do before I go on holiday and my internet has been down all morning. No drinking for me tonight then - am going to try and work from 7.30 - 12.30 to catch up!

Rain a drive round the countryside sounds great - I shall work and keep stopping for the starbucks!

quiet not quite.

Yes, it is quiet. I am sorry but I have nothing to contribute except to say I am enormously BORED with not drinking.

So that is of no interest/help to anyone. Sorry .

I will wait for someone more positive and constructive to come along ...

bibbity its ok to be bored with not drinking, its how you feel. I sometimes crave the 'highs' of drinking but whenever I drink I find that its much more boring than I remember, the fuzzy head, hangover, obsession with getting another glass...

All true, thank you MsGee. Am off outside now to enjoy the sunshine. And tonight I will be mostly drinking Orangina!

Thanks for the heads up on Mouse, concerned for her.

Bibbity just goes to show how much time was consumed by it. I used to loose days, suffice to say now I have no time at all and wonder how on earth I achieved anything before. What with the planning, the hiding, the thinking it all through, the actual drinking, and then the deathly hangover when I was just grateful if I had nothing to do whilst I nursed it. It's the dry plateau before you get weaving with other things, and you will. You have made a big lifestyle change, for the better all being well.

Would love to be driving to the seaside on the bus today, a lovely craggy Cornish coast, bliss....

hey! what happened to everyone? the thread was almost halfway down the page of posts.

Does that mean that everyone is drinking tea / gone to bed / engaging with family? Or are you hiding in a glass?

Sorry, been lurking! I did not manage to push it back last night. I had 3 glasses between 5 and 1030. I am pissed off.

OH is stressing over money tonight, he is the most laid back person ever, I am stressed (and finding excuses :()....

Lurking too.
Just cant talk. Half way thorough a bottle of red. :(
Last night was Day 7 to abstinence. :)
Horrible day with the DCs.

I didnt need to drink. I chose to drink.
But stress took me to that place.
Am thinking about you all and reading everything.
Want to say so much but so so so tired.
Big hugs to you all.
x

blanket - now what's that saying? oh yes - Tomorrow is Another Day. xx

Hey Babes

Checking in.

It's fantastic to see how well a lot of you are doing. It makes me jealous/angry/annoyed/pissed off/ fecked up/happy/hopeful/mindful - i could go on.............

Welcome to all new babes on here and sorry i haven't had the time to post or welcome anybody.

My Mum is on an even keel at the moment - still in hospital, and from there to a hospice, waiting for a bed...............

There was an article about naltrexone in the newspaper a few days ago - they hope to have it licensed for prescription in the next couple of years - I think that is fantastic.........but.............despite having taken a tablet every day for the last three months, I am still drinking the same amount...............

(DP just came down the stairs and shouted "Mumsnet!!!" - bless)

So - I don't know. The first time I took it, I had such an extreme reaction, but this time, nothing much...............gah

For any of you who want to know what I am talking about, google The Sinclair Method.

DD took Grade One violin on Monday - have to wait 4 weeks for the results but she was a star.

On the whole things are OK for now.

Big hugs to ALL xxxxxx

I am here! I have just stopped working and still not finished everything i need to do before hols. I am so tired. I have a glass of wine but too tired to get drunk.

I will post tmrw but it's been quite a day. I visited a friend who's just had a baby and had a lovely cuddle with the baby.

And I've worked harder than I have in a while.

Night lovely babes x

Sorry Silver x posted

((( )))

blanket 6 days is fantastic. You have done so well. If you need to drink once a week, so be it. But don't let it mess up all your plans, my lovely. You can drink today and tomorrow you will stop again. That, after all, is what 'normal' drinkers do isn't it. Just because you drank today does not mean that you have to do so every day.

When you stop (hopefully sooner rather than later) have a big glass of water, then another one, clean your teeth and get into bed. Come back tomorrow and tell us how you're feeling. It's all a big learning curve. Don't give up .

Right back atcha MsGee ((())))) sounds like you need it my love.

Hey faire how you doing lovely?

so so sorry to be absent

Evening all, sorry about the couple of slips into the sidecar, but hey it happens, see it most days, you're grown ups, so no point me banging on about sobriety to you tonight!

Silver, I have spoken with my American amigos about Naltrexone over the years, seems a little hit and miss. There is another drug out too, works for about six months to a year at a time supposedly, and it supposed to make you forget to drink. Cambridge Uni are doing research with it, haven't got the name handy will have to look in the office if I remember tomorrow. And of course the corker of an idea that one session taking LSD and tripping will stop you drinking, God knows how that works, but is being touted by some of the good and the great. I just work on the old remit that replacing one drug with another just isn't an option for my type, think if I take anything that is opiate based I would be Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds within a month

MsGee so glad you had a cuddle with a baby. You will have a fine holiday, I am sure of that.

Silver it's lovely to hear from you again . I'm glad your mum is stable at the moment, gives you a bit of breathing space.

Re the tablets, are you 100% certain they are coming from a reputable source? I'm only asking because it is possible (although probably not likely) that they are in fact some sort of placebo type drug in as much as you are not getting the medication you think you are iyswim? It does seem strange that you do not have the same reaction this time. Are they from a different supplier and is there any way of checking what you're actually taking?

I'm probably talking nonsense (or as dh would say 'out of my arse'), can you tell I'm a bit clueless where drugs are concerned . Told you I was a good girl really .

Sarah are you pushing drugs?

LSD on our lovely bus!

I've seen it all now . . .

Silver remembered the name, it's a type of beta blocker, propranolol, bit weird really in the past they have said you shouldn't drink with beta blockers. Mind you they said that red wine was good for you, didn't do me much good

Faire lol. I'll meet round the back of the bus shelter.

Tomorrow, lovely Babes..........

We shall board Gerald

And we will take a lovely slow and relaxing drive to Lythm St Annes (near Blackpool for all you southerners - JWN take note>

We will walk on the beautiful unspoilt unending sands and contemplate, reflect, and just be.

Bus leaves at nine sharp

Mouse will be providing hot tea/coffee/bacon rolls/egg rolls

See you all in the morning

That's an interesting theory re. LSD.

It does give you the most amazing moments of absolute mental clarity, when you suddenly get it you know, the meaning of life, your place in the Universe, that sorta thing. But ... how can that last forever?

I started reading something linked to from a thread on here the other night and the proposition was that alcoholics are on the same spectrum as your common or garden sugar addict. I had never considered that before but its interesting to me because I famously do not have a sweet tooth, but as soon as I stop drinking wine I start reaching for the biscuits and icecream. Unfortunately I didn't bookmark the link and I can't find it again .

Hello, hello to everyone by the way. Glad to hear your Mum is relatively ok atm Silver. Has she ever been in to the Hospice in all this time she's been ill? It seems she's been waiting for weeks poor lady!

Yep Faire

Private prescription from Dr Jonathan Chick - based in Edinburgh, on the Board of various medical alcohol teams and AA - not bogus in the slightest - get my prescription from Boots

Although always feel a bit shame faced when getting it because only licenced for heroin addiction in this country - in my head when talking to chemist I want to SHOUT " I AM NOT A SMACK HEAD"

But - you know what - it's all addiction at the end of the day.

I am no better than anyone else

Off to bed Babes

Sweet ones xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx