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Professor White and the line dancing surfers eat cold turkey

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serialtester · 09/02/2017 17:45

Welcome to the surfboard!

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ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 12/02/2017 13:26

Cleaning sending you strong positive vibes. Adopt a mantra today; when someone voices an opinion, it doesn't make it the truth. You don't have to engage with any of your db's comments.

Try to breathe and avoid putting a fork in his head if you can Wink

user1486723488 · 12/02/2017 13:59

Tomorrow is another day. This really is two steps forward, one back this path.

Try getting angry at the drug for what and how it is making you feel. It is hard to go from love to hate but imagine if this was a friend in your life - would you let anyone make you feel like this and keep them around to continue doing it to you?

Once it stops being fun, it stops. It's like the buzz of that first hit. No matter how much more you take that night, you can't quite get that back. You can keep trying but it is always elusive (and expensive).

Be good to yourself, love yourself a little more each day, and know you CAN do this. Cake

serialtester · 12/02/2017 14:05

Cleaning, good luck today.

Flat, don't beat yourself up. You did 2 weekends and a Friday. You've had a little blip that's all.

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user1486723488 · 12/02/2017 14:05

And I know this might not be for everyone, but the comedown is the best time to capture, on paper, just why you don't want to feel like this again and how you feel. Cos tomorrow you won't quite remember exactly, and by the weekend, you will have forgotten. I like that play it through to the end strategy - learnt that here - and I would use my comedown notes to do that. or I'd make up some fluffy happy ending

user1486723488 · 12/02/2017 14:07

and cleaning that granite fin is firmly fixed to the surfboard, right? No sticking it in DB!!

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 12/02/2017 14:16

Costa you alright today? Hope you've recovered from your Amsterdam revival in your front room experience of last night..

flat Hope you're shouting Fuck You Cocaine out the window today (check your mother in law or any sweet old ladies collecting for charity aren't at the door first.)

flatwhite45 · 12/02/2017 14:33

Oh you are all so lovely, your messages are just what I needed. Have barely left my bed today, just feel like such a weak person. Will be back on the surfboard tomorrow, I have no choice, this has just got to stop

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 12/02/2017 14:44

That was me last Saturday. It wasn't fun. Chin up, looking forwards. Smile

flatwhite45 · 12/02/2017 14:57

Thanks lost, well done on getting through the weekend, you must feel fab

CleaningLikeAMotherFucker · 12/02/2017 15:52

The impromptu family dinner has been cancelled wooohooo I'm literally dancing in my kitchen Grin Why do I want to celebrate by abusing my granite?Blush I won't though, knowing that I dodged that huge bullet has given me such a (genuine) rush Smile

user1486723488 · 12/02/2017 16:16

OT . I need to have a word with my washing machine. Why can't mine do this?

user1486723488 · 12/02/2017 16:16

Three cheers for cleaning's news!!!

CleaningLikeAMotherFucker · 12/02/2017 16:54

I just baked a celebratory cake Grin I should ice it Fuck You insert db name and Cocaine Shock

Ds might ask questions though so on second thoughts....

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 12/02/2017 17:25

Well there's nothing like a cancellation of an impromptu family dinner to lift your spirits.
I love the fact you've baked a cake to mark the occasion, but yes hold on the icing Grin

I don't feel that fab flat.I've got serial's cold and my throat seems to be full of brambles when I swallow. Bloody sods law; no comedown but ill anyway! Will be wearing my fluffy dressing gown and slippers on the surfboard tonight.

CleaningLikeAMotherFucker · 12/02/2017 17:32

I'm not sure what's come over me but I've just realised that I've only had one cig today... look out I'll be singing Ave Maria next 😃

serialtester · 12/02/2017 18:35

You baked AN ACTUAL CAKE on a,Sunday?? Am impressed!

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costababe · 12/02/2017 19:35

Evening all!
Present and almost correct today, really nice just lounging in PJ's watching movies, I have also climbed the ironing mountain and cooked a full on Roast dinner with all the trimmings, hope you days have progressed well.
And CAKE , hats off cleaning!

CleaningLikeAMotherFucker · 12/02/2017 20:10

When I baked the cake I clocked the state of the oven so I'm flopped on the sofa after scrubbing zzzzz

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 12/02/2017 20:27

Cleaning you're a cleaning machine!
Glad you're ok Costa sounds like a productive day. Everyone seems to have morphed into perfect housewives tonight Confused Grin

Sorted out kids' school stuff and other boring tasks. Now tucked up in bed like an old lady with a hot drink watching The 90s on channel 4 (twisting my melon man).

Hope you're feeling a bit like your old cheerful self now flat.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 12/02/2017 20:29

Jarvis Cocker hasn't aged well.

serialtester · 12/02/2017 20:43

Lost, you watching that thing? At least he hasn't turned into Alex James.

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ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 12/02/2017 21:03

True Grin They just played Unfinished Sympathy. What an amazing tune.

flatwhite45 · 12/02/2017 21:52

You all sound in great spirits! Am tucked up in bed with my softly snoring two year old, and can hear my DH and DC1 chit chatting away in her room. Feeling happier, onwards and upwards. BrewCake

flatwhite45 · 12/02/2017 21:55

I disagree Lost, Jarvis Cocker has aged very well, he still has it.

CleaningLikeAMotherFucker · 12/02/2017 22:45

Chilled out with a small glass of wine. V rare two nights in a row but I only have about 3 or 4 sips or I get a hangover Blush

I even cleaned out the washing machine drawer tonight... there were little white clumps flying around everywhere lol.

Dh and I are feeling very determined at the moment. Have a good week everyone Flowers