The Cutting Down / Giving Up Booze Thread (Part 14)

shaggydoo

Roll up, Roll up. A New Year, A New Challenge.

SET A

365 days up for grabs!

Everyone Welcome!!!

scatterbrain109

Hi Shaggydoo, can you please put me down for 21 in January. No point in going for 31 because if I slip then I'll just chuck in the towel and binge.
Aiming for managed drinking rather than zero tolerance.
Ta
Jo xxxx

Paspatur

13/24 for tonight please
8 in a row and I certainly see a difference in mood, energy level and tasks achieved
Which is quite handy in December since there are so many more tasks than other months!
Honey Bear I so agree about works Christmas parties and spending time with people you don't like
Before I retired (early) it was not that I did not like my workmates it was the fact that I was in the 15% over 50 bracket and 70% were under 30 so as you may imagine our ideas of what constituted a good night out varied massively!!!!

stepuptothepl8

4/5 for me please.. am daring to think I might actually hit my target

Mudbath

12/20 please. Hope everyone's had a good weekend

scatterbrain109

Hi everyone:santa2:
Just a quick check in from me.
I drank today but was so tempted to go out and get more in. Fortunately I resisted. It was the thought of spending money I don't have, as well as the prospect of feeling totally rough tomorrow.
I'm hoping for an AF week, or at least until Thursday when my Christmas house guest arrives. A very old friend and drinking buddy. She is however a fairly positive influence and insists on a dry day every 3rd day so we won't go completely overboard.
Back to work tomorrow but only for a half day as my son has his school Christingle service at St Albans Abbey in the afternoon.
Then we're off to Morrisons for some shopping. In lieu of a staff Christmas bash I've invited my team over for dinner on Tuesday . Parsnip soup followed by chicken curry then a choice of two Delia desserts - chocolate bread and butter pudding or bread and marmalade pudding. I'm hoping not to drink, especially as most of my team don't drink and those who do are driving.
DH is taking the kids to see Paddington 2 at Hatfield Galleria. £40.25 for 4 tickets - outrageous.

Back tomorrow

Jo x

Poor_Single_lady

Nice to see you back Scatterbrain Jo. I'm on my phone or would press the wave button.

10/14 please Shaggy
A bit of an indulgent weekend with family but like a lot of people are saying, rather drink with family than colleagues for sure.

Sorry about the football Maman hopefully will pick up. I've been to worse But doesn't get any easier.

cathybird

Morning all, 16/21 for me today please.

Barny1979

Calling early 16/21 AFDs today

Honey_Bear

scatterbrain109 wrote: »

.In lieu of a staff Christmas bash I've invited my team over for dinner on Tuesday . Parsnip soup followed by chicken curry then a choice of two Delia desserts - chocolate bread and butter pudding or bread and marmalade pudding. I'm hoping not to drink, especially as most of my team don't drink and those who do are driving.
DH is taking the kids to see Paddington 2 at Hatfield Galleria. £40.25 for 4 tickets - outrageous.

Sounds like an excellent meal, Scatterbrain. I hope everyone, including you, enjoys it. That menu sounds as though you can make all of it well ahead of time, too, so well done on the planning. Please let us know how it goes.

I paid just over £48 for four adults to see Paddington 2 last week for a friend's birthday. If I'd booked a local cinema rather than Vue it would have been £20 cheaper - lesson learned. Daylight robbery. Apparently because there is only one multiplex in Plymouth we're charged West End prices. A second one is currently being built on the site of the old bus station (that was a complete slum) which will provide competition which will bring prices down. Sometimes the city planners make the right decisions for the right reasons but the general public never hears about that. I only know it because a councillor told me. I have to say I'm beginning to think he's not a complete party-line, ego-driven idiot after all. Credit where credit's due.

Our neighbours who had invited us over for roast lamb last night cancelled as they both had stonking hangers. Apparently, completely unintentionally they'd both got incredibly drunk on whiskey macs (?) while watching the whole of Season 1 of Line of Duty on iplayer. By 11.00 am on Sunday when they texted to cancel they still couldn't keep liquids down. They're both intelligent people who normally have a very effective stop button and they still wrote themselves off. It's so, so easy to do and I don't miss it even one jot, although I'd also have to add that I never got so drunk that I couldn't keep liquids down the next morning. I should think they're still both hurting today and they both work, poor things.

I had two full-strength caffeine mugs of coffee this morning. Mistake. I am now flying. I've also lost 2 lbs despite tucking into as much chocolate as I wanted to eat last week (I felt a bit sick a couple of times after over-indulging) and a matchboxed-sized piece of cheese a few times - I'm trying to reduce my cholesterol this year following an age-related health screening. Maybe moderation does work in all things after all.

18/31 please, Shaggy.