The giving up/cutting down alcohol thread part VI

Pippilongstocking

fedupandskint wrote: »

It's not grim oop north - its beautiful!

Never a truer word said:j

Sitting infront of my fire with glass lime cordial and some 'rachels' coconut yoghurt for my late tea.

Just emptied the entire contents of all known supermarkets onto the hugs kitchen table in the new house.

Don't bother going shopping this week - all the food/groceries/etc in the universe in in my kitchen

(or it seems that way):rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

yellowmonkey wrote: »

Hey Ho Fay we have all been there and felt the same but dont beat yourself up about it. Its done. Chin up and always onwards

Thank you sir and all

Wierd to be home without everyone - I was on the A99 today driving northwards (towards John O Groats) NO traffic up there except little old me :rotfl::rotfl:

Sparkles - cottage gardens are my absolute favourite I love them. There's a great book = you probably have seen it - I think its old - Geoff Hamilton (I think) Cottage Gardener - Will ferret about my book shelves later and see what its called.

Am off to check banks/make bed and then collapse into sleepyness

AF tonight - finding this pretty hard at the mo - trigger central I suppose cos of short people being away.

Hugs chaps

shaggydoo

Morning all :hello:

Haven't had a chance to catch up. Hope you're all OK.

5 for me please WBF



Shaggy

Miss_Piggy_2

Morning all

How are we all today?

Fay - good to hear you are home safe and sound. Don't let the mulligan get to you. Pick yourself up and carry on. We are all here for you matie.

WBF - 5 for me please!

Been a hard weekend with regards to bells ringing. Everywhere I looked there seemed to be people drinking, drink on special offer, adverts for drink.

At one point I felt really p***ed that everyone else could drink and I couldn't. A friend put on facebook on Sunday that her and OH were having a lovely roast lamb dinner with a bottle of wine. I was SO jealous!!! But then I thought about it. They would share the bottle of wine and that would be that. They may even put part of it back in the fridge. They would then enjoy their Sunday afternoons, pootling about in garden etc. MY version would be....drink half of bottle before we start dinner, start worring that its nearly all gone, send OH up shop and be completely blotto by 4pm! So THATS why I can't drink, why MY drinking is different to other peoples. Any common sense I have disappears out of the window after that 1st glass.

I was also jealous of the fact they were having what I call a "proper" meat dinner which I think I can never afford. Thats a whole other story which I won't bore you with!:rotfl:(I DID do something about that particular jealousy and got myself pork for dinner yesterday!)

Have to say "living Sober" is really making me think about things...about how jealous and angry I get about things, and about how much alcohol has controlled my life (and OH's and Piglets by default) and my thinking. Its quite enlightening.

Anyway, enough deep stuff!:D Up nice and early thanks to Piglet so am going to have a go at sorting out kitchen cupboards in an attempt to ignore the ever increasing ironing pile!!:rotfl:

Catch u all later!

Miss P
xx

Pippilongstocking

Morning chaps - Miss P - loved your post



Yawning - back to work today - nice to wake up fuggy-headed from sleep - no regrets no nothing - didn't drink last night - always find the first night after drinking hard.

Anwyay - I also got to thinking when away - why ruin a completely good evening by an hour or so's drinking? Seems bonkers.

More coffee me thinks *yawns* - oh anyone looked at the birthday reminders in FB?

mollypolly

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

At one point I felt really p***ed that everyone else could drink . MY version would be....drink half of bottle before we start dinner, start worring that its nearly all gone, send OH up shop and be completely blotto by 4pm! So THATS why I can't drink, why MY drinking is different to other peoples. Any common sense I have disappears out of the window after that 1st glass.

Miss P
xx

Good morning everyone.

Miss Piggy.....this is me exactly and even now the thought flits through my mind...'.maybe just a glass with Sunday lunch'...but I know now that this just can't happen.
But this is really such a small thing to deny myself to protect my life and my marriage.
The anger has past now but I do get a little sad about the fact that I can never be a 'Normal' drinker.......but hey ho....life holds so much more than a bottle of wine.:)

Have a nice day....I too am off to avoid the ironing....must do some desk work.:(

Love Mollypollyxxxx

mollypolly

fayjmck wrote: »

*yawns* - oh anyone looked at the birthday reminders in FB?

Morning Fay :wave::wave:

Good to have you back safe and sound.....hope you arn't too lonely without the little peeps.
Good luck for the rest of April....alcohol free from now on:)

Yes....have noticed whose birthday it is tomorrow....how could I forget....look at my sig.;)

Have a nice day
Love Mollypollyxxxx

So_Sad_Angel

Miss_Piggy wrote: »

Have to say "living Sober" is really making me think about things...about how jealous and angry I get about things, and about how much alcohol has controlled my life (and OH's and Piglets by default) and my thinking. Its quite enlightening.

Anyway, enough deep stuff!:D Up nice and early thanks to Piglet so am going to have a go at sorting out kitchen cupboards in an attempt to ignore the ever increasing ironing pile!!:rotfl:

Catch u all later!

Miss P
xx

Morning All,

Hi Miss P.....well done Hun. I agree about the thinking thing.....once your head starts to clear you can see the drink for what it is & start to rationalise your thoughts.

I too did`nt realise how controlled I was by it until I stopped & could see how many of my emotions were being driven by the need for that glass of wine in front of me.

I too have noticed the adverts & special offers lately....also the amount of drinking on TV programmes....alcohol is a drug & very dangerous one too so why with all this `drink responsibly` do we see so much drinking on the TV?

Anyway Miss P...fabulous result for you.....& if all else fails attack the ironing pile:T:T:T

Fay - you sound like a busy lady at the mo....hope the little `uns are back soon then it will be mayhem:A

Shaggy....love your pictures in the morning they always make me smile:D

Off to sort paperwork, make phone calls & then make myself look like a normal person ( brush hair & bit of lippy should do it) before standing in a long post office queue for half an hour.

Have a great day everyone.

Angiexx

Miss_Piggy_2

fayjmck wrote: »

More coffee me thinks *yawns* - oh anyone looked at the birthday reminders in FB?

Mm......could it possibly be JO's birthday tomorrow????:D:D

Miss P
xx

So_Sad_Angel

Hiya Molly:wave:

Fantastic 2 years AF :j:j that is so brilliant.....you are a star well done:T