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

budget_babe

Ok I am back

Just been catching up with the posts

Fay hope you have a lovely holiday? We shall all miss you so make sure when you return you have a happy holiday tale to tell. Please don't do a Budgie :eek: Hugs sweetheart and lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To our lovely Miss P and of course Dear Piglet, I have read back and I have got to say that my heart went out to you. You have such a lovely family and YOU KNOW that you need to give up the drink, you are such a lovely person so caring and so adorable but then when you drink you turn into someone you don't want to be. So I wish you all the luck in the world sweetheart for you to get to where you want to be. We will all be here to help if we can along the way :A Hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

69 Chick hi sweetheart and thankyou for your kind words :A I have got to say though you have been through such a nightmare, I do hope that things get sorted out for you? Take care and thankyou for all you do. Big hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bhb hugs to you and dear Mrs Bhb I have read how stressful it has been re: the dla. I can understand too how hard it is for Mrs Bhb to finally admit there is a problem. She has been very brave (you both have) So please try to move forward now and I hope that things will get a little easier for you both. Your children are very lucky to have you both and you should feel proud with all that you do. Hugs matey and take care. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

40sm thankyou sweetheart for your message :A and you have no idea when I was scoring I felt so stressed if I had missed anyone off or got their target wrong :eek: It may have looked easy but it wasn't Heavens I felt so responsible, its my worrying head you see. I did find it much easier I have to say when members put it on their signature. But you did a fab job in June so thankyou, and thanks to our darling Jo for doing July. Hugs and lots of love to you. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Maz hugs and go easy on the Winebox, talking of which WHERE ARE YOU WINEBOX? Btw I have read back and I am sorry if I have missed it but how did the exams go? I know you were waiting for the post which was late? I hope they went the way you wanted them too? Sorry to hear about the bad news you have had, Big Hugs and lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Avanother, hugs sweetheart thankyou for your kind words, I am sorry I have not been about whilst you have joined but I aim to be as much as I can now So good luck in what you want to achieve and take care. Lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Maman hugs to you and thankyou for your concern, good luck for climbing back onto the waggon on Monday. I hope you have had a lovely weekend. Hugs xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Jo darling I hope you are having a fab time:T Thanks for wondering where I was I hope all your internet probs are now sorted? Sorry to hear about the little ones in your school. Just make sure you look after yourself and your family, the slightest sniffle then off to the docs you MUST GO. I look forward to hearing how tonight is? Big hugs darling and take care. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Pricey glad to hear your London trip went well, just be aware that once they go to uni they become so different, (in a nice way). Its only a year since my Ds graduated but it seems so much longer. I miss those uni days and all the twoing and frowing. Now hes a city guy all confident and grown up. I mean where have the years gone :eek: Hugs and lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Stoppy and Bis nice to see you both back posting, Hugs xxxxxxxxxxxx Ra nice to see you about too :T xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Fluffy thankyou for your support and I hope that everything is getting sorted out for you too sweetheart? Big hugs and lots of love. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Fedup hope you are ok and feeling a little brighter? Are you still off work and how are you feeling? Big hugs and I am thinking of you. ((())) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dear Lurky thanks for the hugs matey ((())) here's some right back to you Lots of love and take care to you all in Lurkdom xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi to: Eselt, Mp, Gc, 115k, Wbf, Le, Dc, Nettie,Ym,Fh, Ttgu,GG, Sea I hope you are ok? Hugs to you all and to everyone else that I have not had time to mention :A xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ntc if you are lurking? Big hugs and thankyou :A xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To all the newbies good luck and take care of yourselves, welcome aboard. :T xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Ok must go now lots to do and I have been typing a while :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

She's down but not out
God Bless Budgie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

AvaNother

69chick - its nearly 9 o'clock - how about putting the kettle on and making yourself a hot treat. After you've consumed that you can think again about whether you still want the alcohol. Snuggle down on the sofa and I'm sure you'll find you don't really want to waste an AF day so late in the evening? Good luck and enjoy the film - time to relax now, time just for you, you'll be so pleased in the morning that you refrained.

69chick

Thanks AvaNother, I will take note, kettle is on and a bag of minstrels is at the ready gonna get my pj's on too as think that I will feel less like drinking if I am ready for bed...

Off to watch the film...ghosttown with Ricky Gervails....catch you all tomorrow xx

and wow what a post Budgie love the colours!

Miss_Piggy_2

Budgie - its so lovely to have you back! I'm really sorry to hear about your awful experience on your holiday. I know the solictor thing can seem very serious but it may only take a solicitors letter to the hotel to make them compensate you properly. Like you say, you don't want to ruin anyone. But they DO have a responsibilty to make recompense. Lots of ((hugs)). And thank-you for your support. I know what needs to be done and I know I can count on all the lovely people on here to help.

69Chick - Avanother is spot on....make yourself a hot drink. Get out the chocklit and enjoy! I know from experience that days when little ones are poorly seem VERY long and stressful!

I've had a lovely evening. OH had a splitting headache (too long in the sun and not enough hair to protect his head from the sun:rotfl:) so I decided to let him have some peace and quiet. The heat had made Piglet have a late afternoon nap so he was very lively after tea. So I packed him into the car and went off down to my Mum and Dads. Cue a couple of hours of football in the back garden, cups of tea and lots of chatting. It was fab. I was talking to my Mum about the drinking and told her I've got to give it up. She was very happy about it (shes quite anti-drinking) so I know she'll support me all the way. She did ask me how the diet was going this week........:eek:.......I sort of changed the subject at that point!:rotfl:

Hope everyone is having a nice evening - bet Jo is having a fabulous time watching Madonna!

Miss P
xx

PRICE_IS_RIGHT_2

Hi everybody

Budgie - great to have you back!!! Thanks for your lovely post as usual. Don't worry about all this - I think the idea of talking to the hotel is a good one, too, perhaps you can get your full reimbursement without bringing the nasty solicitors in? And your DS doesn't want you getting stressed with it all either ...

69Chick - great film, isn't it? I've just watched Breakfast At Tiffany's with DD2 - really did me good to sit there with her for a few hours.

Jo - hope Madonna is brilliant. Your friend must really value you to be so generous to you - enjoy it. You certainly deserve it.

I had my allowed drinking evening last night. But unfortunately went overboard. Went for a couple of spritzers with Mr PIR, and then for a lovely meal with wine. And then of course we had to go and have just one more drink before rolling home. DD2 and DD3 aware that mother drunk again. Perhaps it affected me more because I have really cut down drastically? But at the time we really enjoyed ourselves, just being out and away from the house, where there is often so much stress, and we haven't been out for ages. I know what you are going to say, Graeme. I've been very proud of myself over the past couple of weeks, even on my alcohol allowed days I haven't had much, but I don't know how I could have avoided it last night, Mr PIR had his drinking hat on, and I'm as bad. I've felt hung over all day, and my thinking hasn't been as clear as it has been over the past few weeks, and I've felt more paranoid

Back firmly on the wagon again now. I'll make sure it doesn't happen again next Sat.

Better go and prepare the lunches for tomorrow. DD2 doing work experience at a local hairdressers' this week, so that's going to be a bit different for her. DD1 is becoming slightly more sensible now, but DD3 is slipping into her teenager-from-hell place quite quickly.

Night night xx

nettttie

Evening All; Jo can you put me down for 3/20 please. Am not well so off for an early night. goodnite X

budget_babe

Thanks guys and hugs ((())) btw Miss P loving the new avvie :T

Just thought I'd send our Darling Jo a big hug ((())) I have just read on Sky News that tonights concert is dedicated to: Michael Jackson.

Apparently they have show a huge picture of MJ when he was a child and played extracts from a couple of his songs then someone has moon walked on the stage.

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I bet our Darling Jo is in floods by now. Hugs sweetheart and all of our love. Though we are not there we can feel the emotion of it all.

Whatever has happened over the years, he was such a beautifull little boy and how sad it has all ended as it has.

Though all the allegations really did put me off him in a very big way. But I look at the adorable little boy who sang: Rockin Robin and think how sad his life became ..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4VCUbL7jsc

I remember reading somewhere that as a child he only wanted to go out and play over in the park, but instead he was forced to rehearse in the recording studios over the road, and he watched the children playng from a distance .................

Hugs Jo and I hope tonight has been awesome for you Angel? Big, Big hugs and lots of Budgie T love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

fedupandskint

Thanks Budgie!

I am feeling better now. I have had a week to keep mega busy and stop focussing on my mind as much. Back to work tomorrow and then next session is in a week's time to no doubt mess my mind up again into pieces. Found keeping myself busy all day doing jobs that distract the mind worked very well and not focussing on other's people problems when my mind did not have enough room for this.

Keeping very busy meant I wasn't sat on this thread as much all day as before. Have focussed on decluttering and flying which has worked an absolute treat and will be keeping myself mega busy next week to to carry it all on and see the benefits it brings and makes me feel happier.

When I drank a bottle of wine over 2 nights guess how it made me feel - rubbish as usual. Even 2 glasses of wine makes me feel rubbish the next day.

Hope you feel better soon Budgie my dear as you sound less bright than before. You take care x

AFD 3 now

Good news is I have an interview in just a week or so for a new job finger's crossed for this and hope for a new employer

budget_babe

fedupandskint wrote: »

Thanks Budgie!

I am feeling better now. I have had a week to keep mega busy and stop focussing on my mind as much. Back to work tomorrow and then next session is in a week's time to no doubt mess my mind up again into pieces. Found keeping myself busy all day doing jobs that distract the mind worked very well and not focussing on other's people problems when my mind did not have enough room for this.

Keeping very busy meant I wasn't sat on this thread as much all day as before. Have focussed on decluttering and flying which has worked an absolute treat and will be keeping myself mega busy next week to to carry it all on and see the benefits it brings and makes me feel happier.

When I drank a bottle of wine over 2 nights guess how it made me feel - rubbish as usual. Even 2 glasses of wine makes me feel rubbish the next day.

Hope you feel better soon Budgie my dear as you sound less bright than before. You take care x

AFD 3 now

Good news is I have an interview in just a week or so for a new job finger's crossed for this and hope for a new employer

Good luck with the interview sweetheart, I am sure that a new position would help you greatly. I do understand what you mean about keeping busy and not being on the thread so much.

I have found that my meditation class has helped me, though due to circumstances I have not been for 2 wks. I hope to get back on track soon.

I hope that whatever the next sessions that you have will help you and that you are able to stay positive and move forward?

Sometimes in life we feel worse umtil we move forward and get better?

Yes my light is dimmed a little but not totally out I am a flickering ember along the way

Big hugs sweetheart, you certainly have alot to deal with at the moment, but clearing the way is a very positive step, get rid of the old and make way for the new.

Big hugs and lots of love
Budgie xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

69chick

Hi all, well I managed to avoid drinking tonight :j although I did eat the minstrels followed by some peanuts and diet coke and I now feel a bit sick but really pleased to say 3/20 af now.

Jo, hope you had a fab time tonight and what a great friend you have there who obviously thinks the world of you

FUAS you sound really positive and keeping busy is definitely the key for me around wine o clock all the best for your interview x

PIR try not to beat yourself up about last, sounds like you and Mr PIR had a great night out and enjoyed yourselves, at least you know you can jump back on the wagon with ease and I did enjoy ghost town (had a little cry too! just like I always do when I watch ghost whisperer )


Miss Piggy - You too sound really positive and it sounds like you have had a fab weekend, I love it when I find pleasure in things non alcohol related - anyway you know we are all here for you hun xx

Right off to bed now, little one is still coughing in her sleep so it might be a long night