The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 4

yellowmonkey

jo1972 wrote: »

I'm loving the whirldwind YM!!!

So far today I've,

Got up
Made coffee
Made kids drinks and breakfast
Sat down
Pooter on
Still not tipped wine, will do so in a minute

Need to get up and get out, think I might take the kids to the park to wear them out a bit, then DS needs to start his holiday homework, needs to make a butterfly poster, so maybe we'll start that this arvo, might make some cakes :drool:

Oh, and....corned beef hash mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :drool:

xx

Dont you just love the Holiday Homework :rolleyes:

Corned Beef hash has to have brown sauce on it to taste "Proper" and cold beans....Yum

ym

jo1972

yellowmonkey wrote: »

Corned Beef hash has to have brown sauce on it to taste "Proper" and cold beans....Yum

ym

Please could I have the recipe and method when you have time....not sure if anyone else in this household will eat it though as last time I attempted to make it I gave OH and DD1 food poisoning :undecided

So they say anyway, it could've been anything :rolleyes:

yellowmonkey

jo1972 wrote: »

Please could I have the recipe and method when you have time....not sure if anyone else in this household will eat it though as last time I attempted to make it I gave OH and DD1 food poisoning :undecided

So they say anyway, it could've been anything :rolleyes:

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/recipes/baking/338803/

Use that for the basics and just really add whatever is to hand at the time ie peas, sweetcorn etc. Just a basic one today though

Just going to heat it up I think as it will soon be lunch and My DD's cannot eat the same as me or even each other so cafe time at Chez Monkey with 3 meals to prepare/open:D

ym

jo1972

OMG YM, that sounds amazing! Espesh with the cheese and worcester sauce would be my preference

Thanks xx

mollypolly

yellowmonkey wrote: »

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/recipes/baking/338803/

Use that for the basics and just really add whatever is to hand at the time ie peas, sweetcorn etc. Just a basic one today though

Just going to heat it up I think as it will soon be lunch and My DD's cannot eat the same as me or even each other so cafe time at Chez Monkey with 3 meals to prepare/open:D

ym

Tea sorted for tomorrow.Thanks YM.

(Takeaway Curry tonight...not very MSE but am working overtime and will earn more than price of curry):D:rolleyes:

yellowmonkey

mollypolly wrote: »

Tea sorted for tomorrow.Thanks YM.

(Takeaway Curry tonight...not very MSE but am working overtime and will earn more than price of curry):D:rolleyes:

Are you going to have a Rogan Dosh

ym

cazzasmazza

Hi all,

Thanks so much for your warm welcome

It was with a great deal of trepidation that I finally posted, I can tell you. It was difficult reading back what I had written. As you say, admitting things have become bad and out of control is not easy. Putting my drinking demons to the back of my mind, whilst pouring myself a quadruple measure of voddy is much easier! :rolleyes:

I will definitely join the August alcohol free days thing - an attainable goal to focus on, together with your support, it just what I need right now.

My "danger time" is evenings between 5.30pm - 8pm, when I get home from work - that's when I want a drink the most. Funnily enough, if it gets past 8pm and I haven't had a drink, I generally don't bother so much.

So I am going to plan one "fun" thing to do every evening when I get in, to distract me - whether that be going for a walk if the weather is nice, watching a film with some munchy snacks, playing a word game with my OH (we like doing things like that!) and so on. Hopefully that will help.

I do need to deal with my Saturday and Sunday booze fests, but as you have said, I should take things one step at a time!

Thanks for your help already. I am feeling positive :T and that's a good start.

Hugs
Caz
xxxx

jo1972

I think I might make the CB hash tonight, got tons of potatoes to use up.

Just tipped the wine, I'd drunk over half of it on top of 5 cans of stella, no wonder I wasn't feeling 100% this morning :rolleyes:

Popping down to Mr T's now to get some shopping in for my dear ole mum, she's not at all well, been ill for a week now, I think she's got swine flu but she insists that it's not, said she didn't have the temperature but then she caught herself out on Wednesday talking to a friend saying that it started with a high temperature :rolleyes: she knew she'd put her foot in it, so finally after a week of her taking 2 nurofen plus every 4 hours (she NEVER takes tablets, like ever!), I've told her if she doesn't get an appt for the doc then I'm going round there and taking her to the surgery. She rang me back 5 minutes later to say she's got an appt at 3.15pm

They say that swine flu is very dangerous in people over 65......she's 78 in a few weeks :eek:

So I'm off to Mr T's to pick up some bits and I'll get the kids to pick her something yummy for afters and a plant or summat

Orange squash is freezing up nicely in the freezer, I've took it out for a while till I get back, don't want a frozen jubbly but a bottle full of icy bits of squash

See ya later :wave:

jo1972

Before I go, thought I'd say well done to Caz, you have made a great start

Does your OH drink?

jo1972

Hmmm...before I go again....

I wonder what that CB Hash would be like with bacon lardons??

This thread is likely to be moved over to the OS board soon