The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 3

Pippilongstocking

Morning all - chalk me up 12 days please -

Household restored to calm and peace, I thought hey I can celebrate with a bottle of wine - um no - cup of tea please - funny how our heads associate any need to celebrate, commiserate or deal with stress with alcohol eh//

Working away report in on Monday

sparky0107

Morning everyone,
Sorry I don't "report in" every day, but I do lurk, just to report I'm on 4/10 days now.

Well done to everyone else

budget_babe

I have done it again :eek:

Just lost the longest post and I am at work :eek:

Oh bunnies.

So will need to catch you all later so lots of love and Dear 40sm I am on 11/12 as I had some red wine last night. Will confess all, I just had but I've lost it all :eek:

Hugs to everyone and I will have to sit and type it all again now, its so frustrating. I had to end the progaramme as it was not responding. Thats what you get for being naughty and doing something you shouldn't.

Jo hope you are better today sweetheart? Hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ok gotta fly
Budgie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

jo1972

Morning all,

Miss P, I hope you're accident pains have gone away now, sorry but had to laugh about the wasp story, you know you must never run away from wasps, it's like a red rag to a bull!! Stay still and they won't hurt you!

WB, hope you're feeling better today hun, loved the joke yesterday.

GG, I am a TOTAL wuss when it comes to anything dental. I've had a hole in my tooth for over a year now and kept making dentist appts then cancelling at the last minute cos I was 'ill' or summat. My colleagues used to have a bet on wheter I'd actually go or not! I finally went in the Easter Holidays and got 2 temporary fillings, he told me to come back as soon as possible to have the proper fillings put in, but, I've, uh, not got round to it yet :whistle: Yesterday though, I woke up in such terrific pain that I was begging them to see me and was in the doors within half hour of it opening! Though you know what, it's lucky I didn't go back to have the rest of the work done because that meant that I didn't get charged for yesterday's visit as I was already having ongoing treatment :beer:

Stroppy, your plane story made me laugh, I can just imagine you zonked out staring out of the window of the plane :rotfl: I don't take things like that, but I will say they do take away any emotion, good or bad, you just sort of 'exist'. I've been constantly ill since I took the school job 18 months ago, poxy kids harbouring disease :rolleyes:

Eselt, congratulations again on the job, although it's not the job you went for, I think it sounds like they are moving you in gently to gain skills to help you go for the position you want. You will be a perfect substance misuse keyworker in my opinion, but, and this is just a presumption as I've been thinking about it....although you (and I) have had counselling and treatment through these sorts of services, we only see it from one angle and so to get a general idea about people with problems like depression etc you are getting a broader view. Plus the people you are going to be helping will be prime targets for alcoholism/drug use so I think you are seeing the problems from the beginning rather than when they take hold. Once you've worked in the 'general' field for a while, I reckon then they will help you to channel yourself into the substance misuse world, but in a positive way this time Good luck, please let us know what happens and get us lots of tips. When do you start?

40SM, did you manage to video your DS doing his song yesterday, I remember when my DD1 (who's now 17!) used to belong to a dancing and tap dancing group and when she was first on stage, I cried

Netttie, congrats on the AF days so far this month. Re. the demotivation, have you tried taking a supplement like Berocca, they make you dance you know

Fay, glad to hear normality has resumed sorry to hear you're working away though, you work too much!! You need some you-time mate

Morning Sparky, good to see you lurking and notching the AF days up

Budgie, oh what a pain in the bum can't you find it like you did last time? xx

:wave: to everyone else, hope you are all okay?

I had a bad nights sleep cos of the gum pain, remembered to take some nurofen and a glass of water in to bed with me though so I took them quick and tried to get back to sleep quick. Woke up this morning and my face is even bigger than yesterday :eek: :eek:

The kids are hyper today too, especially DS as the RAF will be doing their fly past for the Queen's birthday today at 1pm, we will be going over the woods behind us and watching it from there as they fly directly over my house we can only either watch them coming or going (unless we watch them coming from the kitchen then run into the lounge to watch them going from there :rotfl:), so I thought as there is a big open space over the back we can watch the whole thing right over our heads! DS want's to be a policeman that flies a helicopter or in the army so that's why the fly past excites him. Just gotta time it right, they'll probably fly past about 4 or 5 minutes before they reach the Queen so about 12.55pm.

That's all I have planned, apart from that I shall be sat in my chair popping pills and feeling sorry for myself

xx

40somethingmum

sparky0107 wrote: »

Morning everyone,
Sorry I don't "report in" every day, but I do lurk, just to report I'm on 4/10 days now.

Well done to everyone else

Thanks Sparky . Scores now updated . How are doing?

40SM

40somethingmum

:santa2:Morning all ( that confused you!)

Jo,

I hope you feel better soon. I must say that your posts are turning into Budgie posts .... lovely, thoughtful & caring:T . If giving up turns you into an angel like darling BB and yourself then ...... BRING IT ON.

I didn't manage to video DS1 as the school is a bit funny about that :mad: but I am sure it will be a memory that will be etched in my brain forever:o.

Have a lovely weekend

40SM

jo1972

40somethingmum wrote: »

I must say that your posts are turning into Budgie posts .... lovely, thoughtful & caring:T . If giving up turns you into an angel like darling BB and yourself then ...... BRING IT ON.

I like to do a personal message when I get time, usually OH is here asking me who I'm talking to, so I have to be quick then

Just waiting for Lurky to do a personals post now

xx

Lurkio

jo1972 wrote: »

Just waiting for Lurky to do a personals post now

xx

you're not supposed to remember that!!

jo1972

You do live up to your name don't you Lurks

Edited to add: since I've quit the drink, I'm remembering a lot more stuff :rotfl:

40somethingmum

jo1972 wrote: »

I like to do a personal message when I get time, usually OH is here asking me who I'm talking to, so I have to be quick then




xx

I know exactly what you mean . I currently have 2 little boys queueing up behind my chair to get on . Mum , Mum , When can I get on the computer ??:rolleyes: . I go to make a coffee and they are then on CBeebies website.:rotfl::rotfl:

Catch you later as they are now asking me who I am writing to about CBeebies. No privacy in this house . It was certainly easier before they could read:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

40SM