The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Walking In A Winter Sober Land!

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Hello Brave Babes, I'm Mouse :)

Welcome to the 'Bus Of Fun' (now you've come of age!)

This is a thread for those who want to give up drink completely, or are maybe thinking about doing controlled drinking, or cutting down slowly, with a view to quitting or not... it's up to you.

You know your limits, you know what is required, it's in your hands. And only you can make it happen.

Whatever your goal, you'll find support here. Always.

There will be talk of drinking and those who fall off the Bus (arse over tit) will post about it, so if that is going to jeopardise your chances of complete sobriety, then maybe the DRY thread would suit you better, as they are complete abstainers. :)

That said, this Bus is happy to have you no matter what, as long as you can cope with chat of drinking, nights out/in, failures, cyclical drinkers, etc......

Everyone has always been welcome here and shall remain to be.

No-one is ever turned away. EVER.

There are no hard and fast rules, other than the support here is unconditional, it may be in the form of tough love at times, but it's always meant with the very best of intentions.

There are two sayings that we like here -

1. • The Vulnerable Need Our Support, Not Our Judgement
2. • Alcohol Fosters Inertia

The rest kind of happens as the posts appear.

I hope that's okay with you all.

You'll find the last thread HERE, THAT WILL LEAD TO THREADS BEFORE IT, SOME HISTORY

And the original and real, truly heartfelt reason that we are here in the first place is HERE. A VERY SOBERING READ

The Bus may be 'mythical', but the support is real, honest and will help you to achieve what it is that you seek, as long as you are honest with us, but mostly, YOURSELF

See you soon. x

What do we want ... Clear headed .. Focused positive mental attitude... When do want it now

OMG I'm morphing into Bruce Forsyth and a witch Beaches help me........

I'm can we have banners??

Good evening babes

Hello sweet - it’s fabulous not suffer ‘drinkers dawn’ anymore. I wake up around 2-3 am when I’m drinking and lie there feeling disgusting with myself etc. etc. And then do it all again the next day.

Great to hear you’re feeling better I’m. We are all so much stronger each day, it makes me wonder why I would ever drink again…. Wish I could just be confident that I would never drink again. Was lying in the bath earlier thinking about guggs (he he he) and how nice it must feel to be a whole year sober. I love your posts guggs. They are such an inspiration to me.

spanna I think I drive everyone mad too, but actually I love it when people post and update. Doesn’t matter how mundane it is, I find I get loads of strength from other people’s success and/or not. Just hearing from all the babes is awesome, not matter how trivial.

why love that city. And I love your posts too . God I’m so full of love tonight. And I’m sober. Imagine the lurve if I’d being drinking. You have all had a narrow escape.

And where is indie? And ma you need to post some more too because no one else lowers the tone quite as well as you do.

Hellobeaches and baby and everyone else and big hugs to mouse who I hope is ok.

And all the new luscious babes, just post all day every day. You have a captive audience in at least me

I’m off to bed. 8.30pm, full of chocolate. Tomorrow is Monday and Day 5. A bloody perfect combination because I’ll make it through to Friday now. Take that WW.

Good night. Safe driving please…who is at the wheel? xx

Sweet
WE DON'T WANT THAT........

Hands out banners and ties one to gerold .... why drive slowly and press the horn were coming through ......

What is in the air on the bus this morning??

Sleep well Socfish

What I really, really want right now,Spanna is for DH to let me take the bloody Christmas decorations down, guess I'll just have to make do with positive mental attitude instead!

Morning babes quick check in before work :( I got about nine hours sleep last night but I'm exhausted today. Was fine yesterday morning, got on with housework, took the dds out but then slumped at about 3pm. Did nothing but watch tv and prat about on the pc I'm having some issues with H - who isn't!! - but I feel determined not to drink. Not for the time being, a glass of wine would really only make me feel worse

Socfor me it's WW and housework avoidance Sleep well babe x

Sweet I'll tell you what I want what I really really want, I wanna......kick saggy tits and bring her down. For good

Don't drink Annie....makes everything worse and you'll wake up feeling crap and angry with yourself. When I first stop drinking, I feel exhausted for days, regardless of how many hours sleep I have. The first few decades are apparently really hard.

I'm with you on bringing down saggy tits spanna. She's ruining many, many lives and has such a hold on us. We need to kill the bitch.

Morning Anne you're doing really well babe. You will stop feeling so tired (you know this) dive into work and at lunch get yourself a yummy piece of cake to eat later on when you get home. Men all prats at times we all know that Keep going you are doing so well. Think of the clear head, focused mind, the healthy skin, hair, etc etc The benefits weigh up Try and be gentle on yourself and have a good day x

Wave, the Copella Elderflower at her, Spanna, she'll hiss like a gremlin in bright light!

Right, brief respite in the rain, might just have time to sieve my worn compost (rock'n' roll ehh?)

'Worm'

Bloody hell spanna thought for one minuet you were singing us a tune from the spice girls ,
Wonders off humming tell you what I want ... What I really really want

what a lot of cheery posts this morning - love the 5 day parade and Gerald looks great with his new DJB banner.
Lower the tone? Moi? Well, tits, bum, fart to you!

I'm with crotch though on the feeling crap and wanting this mythical boingyness to appear. Freaking day 5 and I'm still waking up groggy and grumpy - or maybe that's just my natural state?

Ah well. will take down the Christmas tree today and get organised for school/work tomorrow. that should fill me with cheer....

I want to say that if any ones reading or lurking its ok to just post when ever we are not always this silly, we are here for everything its just being daft passes our time and keeps us entertained.

Yes demented, the mythical boingyness is yet to appear here
I am knackered, absolutely shattered. I couldn't sleep till about 4am which didn't help
DH and DS are currently playing hockey in the sitting room which has doubled in size with the removal of the Christmas tree and I was treated earlier to a heartrending rendition of Ode To Joy by DS on the guitar (not convinced that was how Beethoven intended it to sound :o)
I am about to take the dogs out after a bacon sandwich (when DH has abandoned the hockey- they're arguing about the score ATM so it's only a matter of time)
Off to the pub this afternoon too

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Crotch I'm knackered, grumpy and generally feeling like shite. 11.35 and that saggy titted bitch is already whispering urgh

Sweet I've drunk all the Copella - but like that idea of melting WW - just like on the Wizard of Oz

spanna me too and because I was sorting out the fridge and found s bottle , not I'm having a bloody meltdown because I know its there its only a mini thing x
Come on lovely we can do this stay strong together

Bury it I'm in the garden or open and throw down the sink, or give to a neighbour? You can do it get rid of it x

Good Afternoon boingy babes

And a more hushed and sedate 'good afternoon' to the not so boingy babes

Ma add me to the list of DJBs please. Officially starting tomorrow as that's Day 1 of back on the diet for me but not had a drink this weekend so might as well join you all now.

It's early days and we have a long road ahead of us so we need to keep this lovely positivity up. We are choosing not to drink right? No-one is forcing us, this is something that want so we are going to celebrate and embrace our sobriety!

Anyone feeling grumpy about it gets a slap round the chops by Barrie ok?

Anyone genuinely struggling will, of course, get cake and tea and support by the bucketloads, so keep posting one and all.

Onwards...

Day 3 here, going out with family for a nice long walk though have eaten 2 snowballs with my coffee, least I never drank 2!!! Love this bus and all who ride on her (yikes) love to all and very very happy to be sober today xxxx