The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Springing Into Spring Like Super Spingy Springs On A Springy Day!

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Hello everyone, I'm Mouse :)

Welcome to the Bus, Gerald. Of course it's an imaginary Bus, and we're all aware of that, but we've been on this Bus for a bloomin' long time now so this place kinda feels like home.

See, the thing is, we're a mix of drinkers, non drinkers, total abstainers, and also posters that are or have been, somewhere in between, around the block and back again!

There are no hard and fast rules here, just No judging, No bitching about others and most certainly No expectations of YOURSELF.

No-one can say what will or will not happen whilst you're posting here. You just have to take the ride, One Day At A Time.

There are two sayings that we have painted down either side of the Bus :-

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

You've started to read this thread for a reason, and you'll either carry on and maybe Name Change (or not) and post, walk away, or realise that this is all about YOU, cry for a bit, and then come and take a seat :)

For those who would like a bit of our almost 4 year history, have a read of THIS TRULY INSPIRING THREAD

- AND THIS IS OUR PREVIOUS THREAD TO THIS ONE

We're not a quiche or a clicky group, four years is a long time and longer when you're pissed for some of it, so whilst the threads may look 'clicky', I can promise you, it's just that we all 'know' one another because we've been here for a bit but you'll soon get to know us all, who loves what (CHEEEEEEEESE), but we were all 'new posters' at one time, weren't we? :)

the brigadier and I have invented it as a new outdoor activity. We had great fun inventing marketing slogans:
Roger on the ramparts
Do it in the dungeons
He has offered to use his contacts to recce any likely places! For a business dinner, it was one of the most entertaining evenings I have ever spent!
Maybe the crochet crew could make some,ERM,accoutrements we could sell to castlers to generate extra income?

Like crochet chain mail kits? Although alias likes to use cotton, so that probably wouldn't work...

BOING

Good Morning babes

Day 28

Today is actually day 29. So busy driving us through the remote Outback I lost count.

Blimey soc, that's a bit scary for a Sunday morning! 29 days is fanfuckingtastic babe, well done.

It is still Saturday night here but I have got day 1 done and just about to go to bed sober.

Spanna how was your night twinkle toes? Thinking of you dancing the night away inspired me to sort out my iTunes library. It has kept me busy and I have a load of new playlists to mumble along with. Nothing happening with the house yet, we are considering renting it but still unsure.

baby your GP sound lovely and very down to earth. You are also doing so amazingly well beating the WW into touch, hope the village 'day' went ok. X

Sorry not to nc, I am especially avoiding the high class dogging topic (but quietly )

Night babes xxx

soc that was the tune dh and I had as our first wedding dance- 27 years ago!
You are legend and rocking the bus in more ways than one right now.
Woke up hangover free but usual crap sleep still means I feel like shite. Onwards and upwards. What are we all doing today?/tonight?

That's a good song demented.

I'm about to go to a friends for dinner (early one with kids). Have my non alcoholic drink in the fridge ready to go. But mostly I'm finding it easier to deal with social situations now. It's more my own head space that is a challenge. Those lovely late night drinking sessions all on my own is what I miss.

But I've got a good page turner to read when I get home so that's something to look forward to. May have to wash and iron my sheets tomorrow to keep that bed inviting. It's a real pleasure, sober bed time.

Have an awesome Sunday babes
x

Morning babes, thanks for all your lovely posts yesterday, feeling better today in no small part down to you guys. It's very bah humbug of me but yesterday it was pouring all day and our local village do was cut short by the weather and everyone was so wet they had to head straight home...
Terrible to say but it helped me to day 14, who knew rain could be a good thing.... 2 whole weeks, who knew xxx

'It's more my own head space that is a challenge' Soc I so get this feeling. There is something within me at the moment that just wants to sit on a night, with my own company and a glass of wine.

If I don't drink tonight I will have had four af days this week which would have been impossible a year ago. Then it was an 'af' day if I was just finishing the dregs of a bottle...I can see I've made some progress but it doesn't feel like much. I don't know if it's because I'm more conscious now of how I drink, and how much, and how bad the wine is making me feel. I used to put my tiredness, lethargy, and bad temper down to shift patterns and general 'sickiness'. Anyway I suppose the less I drink the more I see the negative consequences when I do. I've spent another weekend not doing much with the dds - I have them by myself and they fight constantly, I know that half a bottle of wine does not put me in a good place to deal with them :( So, I need to drink less long term, and I will not be drinking tonight.

Glad your feeling better baby, who knew that sometimes a spot of rain could be a blessing!?

Ma, Beaches well done on a sober saturday night :)

Ma forgot to say 'congrats to your DD' that is really good news that she's on track for another year

Beaches I was Olivia Newtron Bomb for the night. Lovely 'do' and I kicked arse on the dance floor. My brother was there, so we had a good old bop to some cheesy tunes, with demented drunken grins on our faces. Fitful sleep, as I was in my camper with my dog who kept wanting to join me in my sleeping bag (she is a lurcher, so boney and not small)

Baby glad you're feeling better lovely x

Soc Day 29 is awesome I am also one of those that enjoys to drink alone

I'm how's it going babe?

Hello to all the Brave Babes on the bus xxx

Thank you spanna
She is in Belgium on holiday and whatsapped me to say that a massage as a congrats for her good results would be nice (she has a bad back)
I replied to say let's chat about your mobile phone bill this month first shall we? That shut her up!

Exhausting day looking after niece and nephew aged 2 & 4. Forgot how bouncy they are at that age. Respect to you all with toddlers! Still chuckling at joey's image of crocheting in a work meeting (though mine make me want to smoke crack!). Have found a crochet class next month and may join.

Congrats to all you AF babes out there - lots of you doing so well.
Off to feed the camel now, which suddenly seems to have become my responsibility, Beaches . Oh, and,to take the fuses out of all the tv plugs before the effing world cup starts

Have a good week babes xxx

I have been watching Dirty Dancing......nuff said!

Day one done, feel like I now have a head start on next week

Spanna newtron bomb no less! I have physical on one of my cheesy playlists (should I be admitting to that?!). Oh, a lovely leggy lurcher, perhaps not as a sleeping bag buddy but generally I love them .

anne great start to the week, well done!

Day 2 and a fresh bed ready. I am having an af beer as a treat after a very sunny day. It seemed to go from brass monkey's to super hot here without much in between. Not complaining, snow shovelling I don't miss!

hope did you know the Canadian version of camel toe is Moose's hoof?!! Hope your job isn't too gruelling this week xx

Love to all babes out there xx

Where the fuck does this WW sneak up from? I'm DAY 30(!!!!) today and I'm not going to drink, but I truly am not appreciating this huge, enormous urge to get shitfaced that has just come from nowhere.

Think I'm going to have to listen to some more classy, inspired 80's songs.

stand by......

sober great tune, very appropriate, just performed an embarrassing mum dance, way too much juggling flesh for a Monday morning, neighbours traumatised for life....

annie well done on a positive start to the week, ODAAT my lovely...

Day 15, focussing on weight loss this week, slimming world tomorrow and hitting the gym, I will be fabulous, even if it kills me, have a super day y'all xxx

baby i think my neighbours too are quivering wrecks after the past few days. They must think they've stepped into some nauseating time warp.

Well done on day 15.

sober thanks babe I'm hot in your heels...

I'm delighted t make it this far but I don't want to gain any more weight, food is the new black!!! Xxx

Soc Day 30 is AMAZING Great tune a true classic

Baby Day 15 is awesome. Mummy dance sounds fab

Day 2 here! WW is tapping me on the shoulder and whispering in my ear already God damn her! I'm going to try not to have a drink until Friday, when I'm off camping (without DDs) meeting my oldest friend who also has a camper. We're going to a small campsite with firepits, in the middle of nowhere in Sussex. Pubs in walking distance, lovely green fields around us, sounds like heaven, hoping for a rain free weekend

Hope wishing you a low level stress week Have you started looking for another job yet? or are you going to wait and see what happens? x

Anneis wishing you strength to get through an AF week x

Beaches oh yes, Let's get Physical, I remember it well, what else have you got on your cheesy play list, please tell Day 3 for you today, keep going pumpkin

Quick Hello to Isinde Mouse Nuff Venus Joey Why Rural I'm Ma and all you lovely Brave Babes have a good week y'all xxx

Spanna I'd love to have an af week but I'm just trying to take it day by day. If I start planning I seem to set myself up for failure. I couldn't sleep last night and was working out how many days to my birthday. It's just over a hundred and I was wondering if I could ever be af tgat long then quickly realised if I set that as a goal I'd not get past day three...

Well done on two weeks baby, and one month soc :) its so inspiring to read your posts

Checking in. Stomach twisted in knots from I don't know what. Want a drink to take away anxiety.

Joey have you got anything yummy in to eat? Something AF to drink? Sorry you're feeling anxious. Try and take your mind off the WW, it will pass. Play some music, have a hot bubbly bath. I'm on Day 2 and it took all of my willpower not to stop at the coop on the way home to buy wine. I've eaten and am currently smoking like a chimney, drinking tea (what I really want to do is sprint down to my corner shop and buy cider - because that isn't wine and it's easier to have 2 of those)
I hope the feelings pass x

Thanks spanna I'm not going to drink, ideally until Friday (but at least til Wednesday) I just wish I could stop thinking about work.

Well done you on not stopping to buy anything!