The Brave Babes Battle Bus - In Search Of Sobriety, Sunshine & Survival!

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Hello, I'm Mouse :)

Welcome to the thread, or our mythical Bus called Gerald!

There is room for everyone. Always

There is help for everyone who wants it. Always

There is unconditional support and kindness. Always

We have two sentences that we believe in here -

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

No matter what it is that you drink, how much, how often, we've ALL been in your position at one point or another...... so most of us WILL know exactly what it's like to be YOU

If you'd like to read the last thread, it's below -

THIS IS THE PREVIOUS THREAD

And if you want to read a pretty sobering thread and the history behind these many, the reason why we are all here, fighting to stay/get sober is here -

FIRST EVER BRAVE BABES THREAD

Hope to see you soon :)

Mouse x

I want wine today (sniff sniff) had some anxiety causing work news (nothing terrible like losing my job) but I'm feeling anxious and want to go home and drink wine. First real test right here .

I knew I was feeling too good to be true. Sincere aqpologies for the moan as others are going through much worse.

Username this is a trigger. You have recognised that and now you need to deal with it in a different way than what you normally would.

That urge to head for the bottle is so strong, it seems impossible to resist but, guess what, when it's gone you will wonder what all the fuss was about. Honestly.

Ride it out and it will pass. What is the most dangerous time of day for you? Can you do something different. Don't go home, the same route, the same time, do what you usually do. Do something different today to break that trigger.

Go straight to a coffee shop and have cake or straight round to a friend's house and take cake with you. Or go to the cinema, or the library. You can do this babe, you will be so glad you did.

Sorry about the work problem, want to talk about it?

No it's ok, as I say it's nothing really in the grand scheme of things. Thanks so much for the post though, It helped me refocus and I avoided picking up wine for later and bought myself some lovely looking bath bombs instead. I'm going to de-stress the old fashioned way :-D

Well done Username

Wise Words Nuff

just back from Aldi (don't you just love Lidl and Aldi?) Now eating iceberg lettuce, beetroot and cold cooked salmon - who needs fags and wine When I'm AF (which I have to admit hasn't been much lately) I really notice the alcohol in the supermarkets, there's so much of the stuff.

The thing is username it's not always the big things that affect us.

Often, it's just the daily grind that gets to us and the old habit of reaching for a glass of something to 'de-stress' that causes the most problems.

Bath bombs sound ace

I can make bath bombs. Went to a mother and daughter class with Dd. (lays gift basket of home-made scented fizzers with rose petals at front of bus to thank all babes for their support this week). Luffs you all.

Look at you Hope you domestic Goddess. Tee Hee x

Thanks Faire (and everyone else). I'd love to make my own bath bombs, is it difficult looking?

Damn. Wish I'd seen the bathbombs before I had my bath!
Period of death here so doubled up with cramps and mainlining painkillers. God, I'm too old for this crap.
Babes, have a meeting with distracted chap on Thursday....but lovely boss will also be at it. How can I flirt with distracted chap without boss twigging? Dilemma....!

Ma sorry you're in so much pain, hope the pain killers kick in soon Yep get your dilemma on Thursday. Is there food involved in meeting? could you slip lovely boss the opposite of imodium?? Bit mean for lovely boss How about fainting at Distracted's feet? Or 'bug in the eye' syndrome? sorry none of those ideas were particularly creative x

Hi babes,

Can I join you please? I have n/c as I mean serious business. I was doing so well, had 23 af days in a row then had two nights of drinking wine (first night a bottle of wine and a can of lager, second night a bottle of red wine). So here I am, day 1 for the third and final time.

DH and I have noticed that everything on TV - adverts/shows - gives the impression that booze must be present to have a good time. Depressing.

I hope you don't mind, DH has a seat next to me on the bus.

So here goes.... play the tape to the end..... x

Hi Mrs T & Mr T welcome aboard totally agree with you - TV, advertising, supermarkets you just can't get away from alcohol. I successfully avoided 'said' aisles in Aldi today . You will get heaps of support on this lovely bus Just keep posting.

Welcome mrT and Mrs T
You can support each other and we can all support you.
spanna no food. Early morning meeting. Darent make eye contact with Distracted Chap's sexy interesting blue eyes for fear of losing train of thought and messing up presentation and lovely boss wondering what the bloody hell I'm playing at being off my game with important client.

Hey Mr&MrsT welcome aboard.

Anyone had trouble logging on this evening? Apparently they are having some technical difficulties.

Hang in there and post when you can.

Hello Mrs and Mr T

faire I had problems earlier but all seems to be fixed for me now.

Clean fresh sheets, teeth brushed, nursing my cuppa tea (think I've had about 25 today) And I have had no fags or wine. WW can fuck right off and so can Smokey Joe Gawd this is hard work

Nuff did you get dressed today?

Baby are you Ok honey? x

Beaches come out, come out where ever you are, check in please

Hope how was the rest of your day? x

Day 3 . Feel more myself the further away from the weekend I get. I too have knocked back tea all day today - addicted!

Too rainy for the Cotswolds. Is summer over now?

Hello everyone, yup, back on the vin. He's just spent the last 20 minutes shouting at me. He actually lost control, something he said he never does.

Car stuff, which always throws him into a flat spin. Everyone is 'at it'. The insurance company, the DVLA, etc etc. I know arse all about cars and not ashamed to admit it. If I can't stick my feet through the bottom like Fred Flintstone, I'm pretty much stuck.

Because I asked a question - is his insurance still valid - he's just gone nuclear. Because he lives in the arse of nowhere I'm taking refuge in the only building in the village that isn't a house while I wait for my taxi.

He says it's fine, but then said we need to go home on the back roads. Nothing is ever his fault. I am guessing he will have been sent a letter or an email but he denies all knowledge.

So I refused to get in the car until he can prove that it's safe for me to do so. Yup, probably being a drama llama, but I don't know the legalities of it all. If he gets pulled over taking me home, it would be all my fault, and you know what? I am so not going to be his shiting scapegoat.

My taxi will be here in a minute or two so it was just the one. Hate myself a bit for being a wankbadger's whipping boy and dialling up the WW to come out and play. I know fine I'm working tomorrow so can't throw caution to the wind. On the plus side, I am now shattered so should sleep.

I don't even have a bath. I do fancy a foot soak though. My little hooves are weeping. New work clogs. Like thumbscrews until they're bedded in. I'm walking like the Little Mermaid. Ow ow ow. ow. Ow ow. Ow.

ma do your presentation, as you're closing give him the look, point the girls right at him then.... bend. And snap. or summat.

I'm shuffling back on to the bus. Technically I am now in a taxi but I am back on the bus.

One of the bereaved visited today. To say thank you and to show us all a new baby. Smiles and laughter through tears.

Dolly got it spot on. It's my favourite emotion too.

im back and on the wagon....ive got a bloody fitness test tomorrow and im worried.....

wish me luck.
ive taken a 1/4 of a zopiclone cos the nerves me i wont sleep.

Good luck Vicar xx

Hey Spanna, I am ok flower but thankyou for checking on me . Move went well although the unpacking is still a work in progress. I am on day 3 but faultering. Well done you on battling smokey Joe AND the WW, that is a big achievement, hope you sleep soundly and wake up determined to do it again xx

Love to everyone else, wishing you all lots of strength and success and a LOT less hassle from the wankbadgers.

Oh, that should be faltering not faultering