The giving up/cutting down alcohol support thread! Part 5

jo1972

My laptop internet access is not working :-(

barshamhillbilly

jo1972 wrote: »

My laptop internet access is not working :-(

Would you like to borrow my hammer?

honeybear_2

:eek:

We were all the way back on page 3!

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I didn't think we were that kind of that kind :rotfl:

I'm away this weekend & have loads to do!

*running around panicking*

edit:does anyone know why HysterSisters smilies aren't shoing on here anymore?

115K

Bluddy hell, confession time. I'm not AF again today. I've changed my signature back to 10 days.:rolleyes:

jo1972

Everyone is off enjoying themselves and I still not got internet access cept on the phone. Drunk a litre of orange squash so far this evening and am about to finish the marian keyes book!

honeybear_2

jo1972 wrote: »

am about to finish the marian keyes book!

Well done Jo! :T :rotfl:

jo1972

Took a good while but Ive finished it! Onto the next one now!

IcelandicMaiden

Hi

Not been on for a while, I've been busy xmas shopping and entering lots of competitions. Hope everyone is okay. Wow we are at the end of October already, the big C is looming ever closer.

Fay, my numbers are as follows, 44/100 of my challenge,:eek: almost half way, I never thought I would manage that:j:j and for October, 29/31:D
Been tempted last few days, but sticking to my resolve, lost over 1stone to boot!

Thanks to all the encouragement,GreyPilgrim and SoSadAngel, hope your both okay on the challenge, and to all those others with their own challenges, keep up the good work.:j:j:j

glasgowgirl

Hi all,

Run up to Christmas so lots of magazines will be doing the drinking/how to survive a hangover etc features, but just read the Dec issue of Easy Living and had to say something.

In it a GP (the guy who's the chief medical advisor to Drinkaware) writes 'Common patterns of drinking more than you think occur if you're often at dinner parties where the wine is flowing, or if you don't have a stimulating personal life and drink at home.'

This has really hit me hard and to be honest I'm not sure why. The drinking at home bit resonates as to why I was putting it away on my own on a nightly basis - as I live alone I do often feel lonely, but just the tone of his comments somehow has really p***ed me off - 'if you don't have a stimulating personal life'. It makes me feel so lacking somehow for not being in a 'stimulating' relationship etc.

Grrrrrrrrr! Sorry, probably over-reacting but this comment just somehow seems condescending and unhelpful to me.

Interested to hear what other folks think. It's obviously touched a nerve with me (prob cos I know I don't have a stimulating personal life but for us shy, hermit-like types that's quite a hard thing to achieve!).

xx

PRICE_IS_RIGHT_2

Hi everybody :hello:

I agree with you GG - condescending person, writing stupid things like that. I'd like to ask him how does he define 'stimulating personal life'?

It was Mr PIR's birthday today, and I'm on holiday from work and I managed to have an AF day. Amazing. However, we're all going out for a pizza tomorrow with the 3 DDs, and I know he wants me to join him in having a couple of drinks, so I'll make sure it is only a few. I do not want a hangover on Saturday, I just cannot stand them any more. But it is the first time I have not had a drink on his birthday, so my self-control is improving, thanks to this thread.

Weather beautiful at the moment, but I think it's due to go cold again next week.

Maman mentioned the 'cheery' wine bars - I am certainly aware of them, walk past all the 'happy' people every evening on my way home from work. I just keep myself on the straight and narrow by telling myself that a lot of these people will wake up with foul hangovers the next day.

I went to Boots (am I allowed to say that?) tonight and bought lots of C presents so I could get my extra £12 in points and lots of 3 for 2's - oh I love a bargain ...

Have a good evening everybody

Night night

xx