Brave Babes - reconvene here!!!

[dementedma]

Hi all
We seem to have finished the last thread but no-one has done a new one. Don't get lost! Gather here until we can sort it out.

I am off to have a bath with Simon Mayo 😀😀😀😀

Elba I have a tried and tested technique of pulling all the crap from under bad/wardrobe and dumping it on the bed then there's actually no way I can get back into the cosiness without sorting it unless you decide to move everything to one side and cosy down on the free side

Dave I feel your pain, I just had to do the pick up as dh was working late so a 5 and 4 year old playing well for 5 mins then 25 mins of peeking and cliping. Dd then wanting fed (like she hasn't been eating every hour and a half anyway) then my eldest decides he needs juice while I'm trying to wrangle the abnormally strong newborn while his brother cries about biting

Give us strength

Good, A shower, Elba Barrie the squid will feel more comfortable in water . Treat the underneath of your bed as an archeological dig - then consign it to history!

If it works for you Dave

Those associations are tough, Margie - I can't imagine visiting my parents with out a drink. But I can and am doing Friday night meal tomorrow - it's easier because its an Indian restaurant - which has always been lime and soda for me because the flavour is so good (as a vegetarian, over the years, I have had so many so, so meals out that wine is often the only reason for going).

Anyway, day six for me. I need to get aa grip of my sugar intake, but I think that can be next weeks project.

My back hurts, I have spent too long today hunched over a computer. I would love to help it relax with a soothing glass of wine, but - big BUT - I am also acutely aware that I feel very 'present' at the moment, and I don't want to lose that. Not quite sure I am making sense, but I suppose I am very aware of being here, and being awake (although not for much longer!), instead of numb and distant.

So, I'm thinking about wine, but I don't want or crave it. Just mulling I suppose. Anyway, I'm going to leave you babes now, might be back before bedtime. Look after the orang-utans for me.

Limps back onto bus.

Where the fuck did all these baby orang utans come from?

We can keep them ma ?
How are the knees?

Oh I suppose so....
Sigh as long as they don't bother Barrie

Is Barrie a squid? How did a squid get on the bus?

Well, now grumpy...
You know how sometimes someone needs a slap round the chops with a wet fish to bring them to their senses? Especially when they are being self-pitying?
Erm, that's about it. Except Barrie is a squid,not a fish. Easier for swinging round ones head before delivering aforementioned slap.
We also have Spirit the dog who rides in the sidecar, a Camel, and Horrid Baby Doll who is mostly shut in a trunk but escapes occasionally to frighten the living daylights out of people.
Oh, and we now have a wheelbarrow full of baby orang utans.

ma funnily enough, I would never have guessed that!

The dog I can understand, but the camel? Something to do with someone getting the hump???
Blimey, crowded in here.

How is your knee?

Not quite sure I have the energy to explain the squid 😀😀
flowery The Girl On The Train movie is not a patch on the book. I stuck with it so that I could report back to you so I hope that you appreciate it 😀😀
Anyway if I hadn't read the book I don't think that I would have been able to follow it.....it seemed very disjointed.
However Emily Blunt is an excellent drunk so much so that it was a bit uncomfortable in places.
Flushed skin , glazed eyes , slurred speech and trying to pretend that you are more sober than you really are and fooling no one. Also not remembering everything from the night before
Also losing respect of people around you cos you are just a drunk......as I said a bit uncomfortable in places.
Anyway off to bed and see you all tomorrow.

Ps ma how's the knee
elba are you okay ?

My knee now looks like this.

Just calling byou to say goodnight. I'm having a bitch of a period, the joys of peri menopause. Need painkillers and sleep.

Will catch up properly tomorrow. Sweet dreams. (I will have nightmares about Horrid Baby Doll)

Lux hope you're ok. Please don't mention the 'm' word (it gives me the fear.....I am 47 so it can't be all that far away......)

ma it looks like you've dropped a paint palette! Does it feel relatively ok?

Elba how are you?

Tonight, for the first time since the first week of DJ I've got significant wine cravings. Out of the blue - they started while I was still at work and that never happens! I am currently sipping on a peppermint tea and hoping they pass - think I might just have to have an early night to get past it. Weird though, and not nice.

Hugs to all.

Bloody hell ma that looks serious. Did you just trip over a chair ?

Night luxe 😁😁😁

lux hope your tucked up with a hot water bottle. Sleep well.

Hope you're back is feeling better sweet, back pain is horrible- I can definitely empathise with that one!

sober I watched that film with a friend who has challenged me on my drinking on more than one occasion. Definitely felt very uncomfortable!

ma that knee is impressive! Looks like it took the full brunt of the fall.

Had a semi productive few hours- managed to cook/eat/move a bit of crap from bedroom to living room. Back in bed now, reluctantly AF. Not holding out much hope of sleep as not actually done anything today!

Realised -and this is going to sound horrendously self pitying- I've not actually spoken to anyone since Tuesday night. It's entirely my own fault as I shut myself away, but I'm actually really quite lonely.

Anyway going to try and sleep, and stop moaning as I've been doing far too much of that. Night all xxx

Night elba hope you manage some sleep.
Not quite the same but my DH is away this week and boy is it lonely......probably why I am on here 😰
I like to listen to the radio.....anything does.....and I generally fall asleep dreaming of squid , camels and now Uran otangs

Wtf ??? Ignore me I am tired 😂

Tisme did it not stress you reading the book when she was talking about the blackouts

I've had a wonderful fall out with dh. I'll hold my hands up and say there was a bad point where I did things I wasn't proud of in the relationship, and me getting stressed that he might do the same to me out of spite (that's not like him at all). I've made a massive mess of things tonight and I can't stop crying, I have no idea why I started saying those things. Anyway, night all, it'll all look better in the rising sun as they say

Anyway all you babes are my heroes and reading all your posts day after day gives me so much hope. There's ups and downs in all our lives but we're on this thread cause we know how to go forward. Night everyone, hope I can make it up to dh in the morning

Morning All.

I have read back, but don't have time to NC this morning.

So , it's Friday - time to evaluate the week and plan for the weekend. I am on day 7, and starting to feel the benefit, definitely less bloated, less red in the face, sweeter breath, and though I am tired because work is tiring and busy, but it's not the debilitating exhaustion I get from drinking.

Tonight we are going out to eat - visit from DH's oldest (can't call him DSS because we are almost the same age ), and I get at least one day this weekend when I won't need to work. YAH!

Have a good day Babes.

Morning all
flowery yes the blackouts did make me uncomfortable. There were bits about the book I was less keen on but I did wonder if the author had a drink problem at one stage because she was spot on about the effects of heavy drinking.
I hope that you are able to make your peace with your DH this morning. We have all done things of which we are ashamed of in the past but you have to let go or the damage will seep into your future as well. Give me a big hug say sorry......and MOVE ON !!
It sounds like you have a good DH.
Today my self care involves getting my eyebrows threaded........that's how rock and roll my life is 😀
Catch up with you all later

Feck I really have to read back before I post .
flowery don't give me a big hug ( unless you want to 😀😀)
give your DH a big hug😀😀

floweryhope things are better today. This week did Mon,Tues,Wed AF so naturally then necked a bottle last night and feel like boiled shite this morning. Why do I do this?
It's snowing here this morning and has been quite a lot overnight by the look of things. Getting eyebrows and moustache done today too. Look like Chewbacca.