The Brave Babes Battle Bus - Soaking Up The Warm Sunshine, Instead Of The Warm White Wine!

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Hi, I'm Mouse :)

Welcome to The Brave Babes Battle Bus.

A place for pouring out your heart without being judged, mostly because a lot of us have been exactly where you are right now, or somewhere similar.

We've been around for a while, so there's not much that we've not seen..... or heard.... or been through ourselves.

Some of the Babes are newer to the Bus, some of the Babes have been here on dear old "Gerald" (The name this Bus was given by one of the Babes, I forget who now!I suspect IsinDe or Silver) for a little while longer!

EVERYONE is welcome here. Drinkers, those who are complete non drinkers, and those who are somewhere in the middle of all of the above. :)

Some Babes are in control of their drinking, some not so much. It's dreadfully hard some days, days when there is nothing going around your head except thinking that you MUST have a drink and you sit there trying to work out when, what time you can have that first mouthful of ice cold poison.

Whatever your goal here, or why you're here, we'll all help you along the way, YOUR WAY.

There will be one of us on here that can relate to your life story as if it were a mirror they were looking at, someone to hold your hand if you want it, catch you if you fall, which you may or may not. Positive thinking, just One Day At A Time.

No one Babe is better than any other, we've all been addicts. We've all suffered, yes some more than others but it's not a competition (and no-one gets turned away) but if you rack up shed loads of sober days, you will be a winner on the thread!!

So, if you want somewhere safe to sit and enjoy the warming summer sun, come find a seat, have a chat or just sit and listen to the rest of us yakking on!!

Nice to meet you :) all.

Also, here is the latest thread -

THE LATEST THREAD WE'VE SHARED OUR STORIES AND EXPERIENCES ON

And this is the very first thread -

AND THIS THREAD, THIS THREAD IS EXTREMELY SPECIAL BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THE JOURNEY STARTED, AND HAS SINCE EVOLVED OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS

Hope to chat soon, Mousey x

The password thing has been driving me nuts. I had to change it 3 times, and then an extra time because I couldn't remember the secure set of letters and numbers I'd chosen. I've resorted to a sticker on my laptop with the password on it - as long as the hacker doesn't come to my house I'll be ok

To compound it two other things needed their passwords changed - one because they set up a new site, and one because I'd used the same password as one of my mumsnet ones. My poor old tired brain can't do this.

But thinking of nuts - here are my two favourite jokes... (pics attached)

Morning khalisi

khalisi welcome back babe.
Venus can relate to the second joke......

Yet another day 1. Bloated and tired. Wish I could find the magic thing which will help me to stop doing this to myself!

Have fun and make the most of every minute Venus .

X posted

Venus

Khaaaliiiisiiiiiii

Ma WW is a bitch.Good luck with day one, we'll all be here.

Pup and I are bloody soaking - he thinks the rain is ace, I think he may only get one walk today.

Morning babes, apologies for being AWOL but my mum died last Friday week and I am only getting back into some kind of routine now. Haven't had a chance to read back but hoping all babes are doing ok.

Oh, Obrigada, so sorry for your loss. Hope you have lots of RL support, lots of love xxx. Sending you big hugs, we are all here to support you xxx

More hugs here for you, Obrigada. Look after yourself.

Oh dear obrigada, darling babe.

Thank you, ma.

sweet How is Pup? I read DS now has a girlfriend?!

Khalisi, look back a couple of pages, there's a Pup and Puss pic! Today he is mostly smelling of wet dog

No, the GF belongs to DSS who is 22. DS would have to leave his room to find a girlfriend!!

How are you?

Thank goodness, we're back.

Everyone ok?

Yes, hello everyone. Is anyone else getting paranoid about this hacking lark? Keep worrying about having passwords stolen etc. What pathetic bitter weirdos they are, attacking a parenting site, ffs

obrigada and

wry are you still there? I was so excited to read about your new dog!

khalisi ! We missed you! How are you doing babe ?

I'm drinking again. It's been a strange couple of days, I applied for a new job and my application took a long time to do online, but I was really pleased with it. Even DH said it sounded great, I have trouble blowing my own trumpet but they wanted competency statements for several areas, and we worked on it for for ages. I finally got it done yesterday, then spent a few hours proofreading and updating CV, checking and doublechecking it before submitting.

I thought I had a good chance of getting an interview at least. Anyway as soon as I submitted it then asked me to do an online test which took another 30 minutes and then just when it seemed like I could relax for a few days until the results came, a message popped up, saying my application had been unsuccessful.! I was really frustrated and disappointed! Why the hell don't they have that test at the beginning, so people don't waste days filling out the application?

The test questions were not specific to the role, organisation or even sector. They were quite managerial questions. DH thinks my answers were not decisive enough. I should have been more confident.

They were strange scenarios such as Viktor going on maternity leave, and Georgiana phoning him at home to ask for some reports. And I had to see whether the best option was to
a) tell Viktor he should have sorted out the reports before he went on leave, and he should come into the office or
b) give a formal warning to Georgiana for gross misconduct

And I kept thinking none of the options were right, and nobody should talk like that. And I couldn't believe my application was rejected instantly. Also I think many businesses are like that nowadays, so I'll probably never get another job!

Sorry to hear your news obrigada
Just managed to log back in - what a palaver!

Joey that sounds very stressful and, I agree, a waste of time if they just go by the online questions.

Obrigada so sorry about your mum, will be thinking of you x

oh fuck that bunch of losers!!!

It is so hard getting used to new passwords! Instantly forgot it yesterday and by pure luck remembered it right now after deciding to request another reset!Not to mention being completely unable to access mn the whole day!

Hello my darling Babes! Sorry for that outburst. Decided against deleting it because I'm really annoyed.

And while having a meltdown, WTF, joey! I mean, WTF! I wouldn't have been able to be 'decisive' with those two options either!
Sorry, babes.

I've been ok-ish. The romance is great. After DD vetted him and I decided to let go and enjoy. Ran my first half-marathon! And a couple of other races since. So on that front really ok.

Work is sooo stressful. I'm afraid there's no thinking of not drinking in the week. Not too much. Which is not ideal but God, I just can't face it right now.

I missed you guys so much. But also tried to keep on the straight because somehow I felt I would let you all down if ever I came back and am not running and drinking like a sailor on a German ship. Or should that be Norwegian?

OMG, sweet!!! How ADORABLE is that picture?!!!
So beautiful!

And OMG, so many new Babes! This bus is a rockin', gals!

And wry, I want to marry you when I grow up.

Hey babes. Not a great day today. Got some negative responses to my proposed master plan and need to decide whether to stick to my guns or give up. People think we can't do it and that it won't add any value. They are threatened because we can do it better and don't want to be part of a wider joined up project. Want to protect their own little empires I stead of sharing best practice. D'argh!

Joey, what a pain, as if competency based applications aren't hard enough.

Khalisi, a half marathon . And a happy romance . You deserve good things.

Ma stick it out, you've got the support of of your boss, haven't you. Get out there and kick ass.

Still AF here, and still stuffing my face, but I've moved on from sweet stuff so I should be able to get it under control soon. Spent the evening sorting out The Pit of Doom (aka DS's bedroom), it'll need another hour or so tomorrow, but wasn't as bad as I expected.

isinde ! Babe!

Morning.

Day three, is day three however you achieved it, Isinde. Onwards to day four .

It's a filthy morning here, dark windy, cold, it just feels like we've gone straight to winter, no Autumn in-between, it's enough to drive anyone too drink .

Maybe this will be TMI for first thing in the morning, but does anyone else find that Becks Blue upsets their stomach?

She posted about a week ago and then disappeared again.
Let's spam her with PM's... Messages, not hormones I mean.
Grey and wet here today and a catch up day at the office beckons as we battle on to save the company. Nary a soldier to be ogled....

Keep on at it Ma.

Day 14 for me today. Not quite sure how it happened. I know I needed to stop. I know I feel better. But bloody hell, that little voice in my head asking, how long is long enough? Saying, just one glass would be nice. Wondering, how I will get through the new academic year with out a drink, - when I should be thinking, how will I make it through if I drink? What is wrong with my thinking?