Giving Up/Cutting Down Alcohol Thread Part 17

cathybird

OK the MSE website is now apparently filtering out some sentences combining the words "every one", "welcome" and "join" ... Maybe it's a spam thing? I'll have to rephrase the end bit. 

sukeyboo

Morning all 😀

alt80 - hope you get your sleeping problem sorted soon - everything seems more difficult when you are not sleeping well so I think you are doing amazingly well.

xxlalxx - this Forum has been a great help to me too - it is such a friendly, non-judgemental place to post.

Declaring early for today on 5/10 please cathybird 

RobM99

Morning each, 6/24 for me please. Too cold'n'snowy to go out for beer! (I don't keep any at home).

marahouti

Good morning. Yesterday was 7/21 (and smiley day 😀) please cathybird. Thank you. X

lantanna

Morning 7/13 for me today please. Glad to say Feb is going better for me than January did

maggiem

Well done Marahouti and Lantanna for getting to a smiley. Sorry to read about problems posting Cathybird but very impressed with your problem solving skills. Think I would just have muttered and tried again later! 

Declaring early for today so 6/18 - one third there! Really struggling this month though. I think a combination of lockdownitis and also nothing in the diary to look forward to (although very much looking forward to getting vaccinated) is just making everything harder. 

Glad forum is helping xxlalxx (not sure that's correct but if I go back to check I will lose this post so 🤞)

alt80 hope sleep issues resolve soon, horrific and sleep deprivation is a known form of torture. You're doing very well staying AF too. 

maman

xxlalxx said:

I've never declared early morning before and a bit nervous in case jinx myself... 

Hope it works for you. For ages I posted last thing at night as I couldn't trust myself. Now, I find posting early helps. It's a decision made. While the thread isn't judgmental at all there is a sort of accountability which helps. 😊

Well done for fathoming out the IT glitches cathy. If it wasn't for how useful this thread is and the virtual friends I've made I'd have left mse when they migrated to the new platform, as many others did. I think they're quite contemptuous of users, making changes without explanation and ignoring requests/complaints about the retrograde steps they've taken. 🙁

6/10 AFDs please Cathy

Wanna_Bee_Free

I'd like to commit early for this evening at 5/13 please Cathy.
I know if I commit earlier in the day it sometimes helps if I waver later. Mind you it adds a big side order of guilt for occasions like last Thursday where I then don't keep my commitment. I figure it is worth it for the days it stops me wavering.

cathybird

February

7 days = 14 days = 21 days = 28 days = Target reached = Target beaten =
February targets
alt80 8/26 AnnieG 1/18 Arkers 4/TF Barny 9/25 cathybird 9/21 Coveredinbees 5/20 ditty1234 Dryjan 2/10 lantanna 7/13 leftatthetrafficlights 1/10 maggiem 6/18 maman 6/10 ManPants 1/TF marahouti 7/21 picnmix64 PriceySOS 4/22 RobM99 6/24 Season of Mist 25 Steameh 28 sukeyboo 5/10 WBF 5/13 xxlalxx 9/28
Newcomers welcome!

cathybird

maman said:

xxlalxx said:

I've never declared early morning before and a bit nervous in case jinx myself... 

Hope it works for you. For ages I posted last thing at night as I couldn't trust myself. Now, I find posting early helps. It's a decision made. While the thread isn't judgmental at all there is a sort of accountability which helps. 😊

Well done for fathoming out the IT glitches cathy. If it wasn't for how useful this thread is and the virtual friends I've made I'd have left mse when they migrated to the new platform, as many others did. I think they're quite contemptuous of users, making changes without explanation and ignoring requests/complaints about the retrograde steps they've taken. 🙁

6/10 AFDs please Cathy

Thanks maman, not meaning to bore people with the details, it was just such a weird error message, really hard to work out what was going on! Got it sorted out now anyway (I hope)