The Brave Babes Battle Bus - New Year? So, Let's Go Up A Gear!

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Hello, tis me, Mouse (normally Mouseface but I'm wearing my festive name )

Welcome to the Brave Babes Battle Bus, to a place of solace, support and sanctuary, if that's what you seek of course. It's also a Bus full of bloomin' chatterboxes, waffling on about life, love and all things from school reports to laundry!

The journey into 2013 is going to be an ass kicking one as we're moving up a gear to give the WineWitch a bloody good slapping, and the BoozeBeast a kick in the bollo.............

Some of us drink in moderation, some of us drink. Some of us are sober, some of us are trying so very, very hard to be.

Some of us have been dry for days, weeks, months and some of us years...... some of us are just starting out and are scared of what stopping drinking means. It's not forever, it's just for today if that's what you want.

We have a saying on the Bus One Day At A Time. Or ODAAT

Take each moment, each day and each blip as it comes. The support on this Bus has kept me from ruining my life time and time again. The experiences of others shared here has helped me to change the way I see alcohol, the way I see what it does to me.

Although some Babes have been here a while and kind of 'know' each other, we all have different lives, different roles to play, different places to sit on the Bus, but we ALL have or have had abusive relationships with alcohol and we're here because we want that to change; for the better.

Everyone is welcome here so don't be afraid to just jump right in and say hi. Post as much or as little as you like!

So, come say hi, grab a seat, an eggnog (non alcoholic of course ) and a mince pie, or chocolate chip cookie, and meet some lovely, genuine people who are just like YOU.

Also, HERE IS THE PREVIOUS THREAD with a link in the OP to the first ever thread, and the reason why after more than two and a half years, this thread is still here, supporting those in need.

mouse loved Hugh jackman but had to turn over after John bishop started... what is there on at New year suitable for children to watch?

Happy New Year lovely Babes!
Will lurk- but I guess I'm a little over zealous as I've found my solution. Keep it real- I'll pop up but can only be true to myself advising boring but very happy abstinence. I was a biatch yesterday- but it did lead to a busy day on the thread, which has to be good, I hope.
Sweet dreams and strength and love for 2013.

Ooh, dd2 will be on at ,midnight from Glasgow. Just texted to say there is a party afterwards for performers only.So her friend Molly who has gone over to Glasgow to support her can't get into the after show party. Mean. Molly was given a pass to be in the audience but can't go to the party. Dd wants to go ton the party as there are lots of influential musicians there, bit she won't live Molly sitting on her own. What to do?

Sorry for typos. Am tired. This is a late night for me

hello help I don't think you were a bitch, o guess we're all just enthusiastic about beating this addiction

hope you have a great new year!

First post on the bus in 2013 is mine!
Happy New Year all of you.

Happy new year babes, to the year of success, sobriety, weight loss, self esteem, perfect arms,, Botox and Brad Pitt and ultimately HAPPINESS x x x x

Happy New Year Babes!

For 2013 I wish for us all to find a healthy balance - both physically and mentally - and peace of mind and spirit (oh, and a few inches off the ol' waist line, too!)

May the phenomenon that is the Babes Bus (and sidecar and roof rack) continue to be a support to us all.

Thanks to all for the wonderful support in the last few weeks of 2012 - it's been invaluable to me.

2013? - bring it on! Onwards and upwards, Brave Babes!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Happy New Year babes xxxx Had an unbelievably moderate and happy NYE party with lovely friends and all our kids and off to bed now almost sober. Onwards and upwards lovely babes xxxx

Pinch, punch, first of the month!

Happy New Year babes and may it be one full of good health and goals achieved, be they large or small

Help good to see you will be lurking and popping in. I have an image in my head of the Land of Sobriety. It's a bit like Babeland actually, where all is calm and fresh. I have an image of drinking as a Land of Fog, a desolate wasteland full of fear, anxiety, manic happiness followed by depression, paranoia and regret.

In Land of Sobriety decisions are clear and easily made. Problems are faced head on with support. Each day is met with energy and enthusiasm. It's a clean, healthy, active land where busy people go about their business with a spring in their step (or a boing - but I couldn't call it BoingLand really could I )

In Land of Fog parts of the ground are knee deep in mud and wading through it is a daily struggle. There is relief but it comes at a price, the highest price possible, pride and self esteem. Most days are the same old drudgery of broken promises, false hope, crushing despair.

Now, these two lands are separated by a mountain and the only path between them is narrow mountain path next to a deep gully. It's a short path, but seeped in mist which only occasionally allows brief glimpses of life on the other side of the rock.

Sometimes the people in the Land of Fog will hear the cheerful early morning chatter and be curious as to why the people in the Land of Sobriety were not suffering like they were. Peeping around the giant rock all they can see is the path.

On the other side, they call and beckon. Come on over here, it's lovely. Everything is so much simpler. You don't have to wade through mud. We have much better health, we have more money to spend how we like, we don't hate ourselves anymore. Don't be afraid, we're right here, just around the corner.

But the people in the Land of Fog can't see past the mist. Now and again, an intrepid traveller will brave the journey. Buoyed up and cheered on by friends, the brave fellow makes those few first steps. Closer and closer into the mist, away from the fog, towards the Land of Sobriety.

Some do make it and they never come back. They call to their friends reassuringly. It's true, it's true, it's all true. All you have to do is leave the mud and fog behind. Everything you want is right here. It's a paradise. It's wonderful, there is nothing to fear. Once you have made it you will never even want to go back!

< and readjusts normality >

Well, that's my view and I can see you Help (or maybe just hear you) over there in that wonderful place, calling the rest of us x

Right, I've waffled on enough now, will be back later.

Ma I hope your dd had the most fabulous night. Shame about the party but hopefully this will just be the first. Where did she stay in the end?

Love to all, back later x

faire what a brilliant concept, that is a great way to present sobriety, I'm on that path today x x x

Bloody hell Faire that was beautiful, thank you. A sober one for me and DD, feasting on pizza and raspberry lemonade in front of the box. Happy new year to you my friends, let it be filled with peace and purpose. xx

Wow Faire that is brilliant, I will keep that in mind this January. You should write a book!

Ps I do like Boingland as a name though! Perhaps we can steer the bus there this year....

Fabulous post Faire.

Morning all
Happy New Year
I have had my third hangover free Christmas morning and New Years day,
and wanted to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone,because if I hadn't have joined this thread two and a bit years ago, I very much doubt that I would be saying that.

I haven't been totally abstemious during that time, by any means, but if I ever have reached for the bottle, even then, it has been in a different way than before, and not easy, because I hate myself before and afterwards, instead of just afterwards!!!! So much easier not to do it at all, although I don't always remember.

I haven't been posting much in the last six weeks or so, bit of a family problem, not my story to tell, but it has meant that I've been away most weekends. But, I read the thread the whenever I can, and it has really helped to remember where I want to be, and how I want to be.

Help bless you, you have found what works for you, and I totally understand that you want to share your experience, and show others how things can be. For me, the chattiness of the thread is a real, working tool, I know that I can be more honest on here, than maybe anywhere else, ever. I think that posting on here when we've slipped up, is not so much a post expecting others to read or comment or even help immediatly, it's a post to ourselves to remind us that we really don't want to be like this (that'll just be me, then ).

Anyway, I love you to pieces you Babies,
xxxxxxx
Ps Where are you Isinde my blossom!

Great post faire

Thurso good to hear from you. Wassup? PM me dear thing..
soba that does NOT sound like a bootcamp breakfast!!! Taps foot ...
I cooked banana pancakes with bacon and syrup for DS, then glumly chewed my way through a bowl of cardboard and string aka shredded wheat, sprinkled with bran for extra yumminess. this was followed by a calcium and zinc supplement and a flaxseed capsule.
On the road shortly to collect DDs from various dosshouses...

happy New year everyone

I love the sound of BoingLand ! I definitely want to be on the other side

Ha, good luck ma and babyjane and anyone else on that journey today. Glad you didn't all think I'm curley wurley cuckoo for sharing what it's like in my head some days

Not going to talk about what I'm eating today - still got some xmas goodies (baddies? ) to eat up so today I'm a bin . Tomorrow I will have more self respect and get on the Happy Health Drive with the rest of you.

< starts to think about what to pack in bag. Booze and crisps will only weigh me down >

Thurso great to hear from you!! Sorry you've had a difficult few weeks x

Good afternoon. I am returning - was here under a different name a while back and, whilst sort of being able to control my drinking, have actually realised I can't really :( I want to be free of it. I really do. I made a supreme effort to drink loads last night - just to feel shit this morning and remember why I need to stop (does that sound ridiculous???) Had bronchitis all over xmas but still managed to drink on several occasions ands missed it when I couldn't. Bloody idiot! I'm ready now I think. Haven't smoked for three months (this time...) am pretty fit generall, so ...need to complete the circle! Hello

Happy New Year babes. Faire I am in the desolate wasteland and it is exactly as you describe. Starting 2013 feeling wretched. I totally lost it last night downing shots and vodka till 4.30am. When I can rouse myself from my pit, I'll see you on the otherside babes. Onwards and upwards for us all x

welcome eastholly

Do you all like my name change?

I'm going to read the entire thread soon - just cooking bacon and eggs for me and the dcs!

Love it ma!

ma right here goes, I'm 5ft 8, 13st10 and bmi 29. Feeling positive about the New Year, we all start with an A, remember that babes. At this moment, on this day, we have an A in life, a new beginning, the promise of our own success, all we have to do is believe it!!!! Xxxx