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    #46
    Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

    pingu1997;1202155 wrote: if anyone wants to friend me on Failbook, search Corinne Rees or click link here

    http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=783178572

    People on there know I don't drink but most don't know why and some are just plain bemused

    And I am full of funny things and comments and just general scattiness, which is just about me really

    LMAO at the letter P (actually it is a d...), yeah it was my crap attempt at trying to be artistic (or should that be autistic) with M and Ms.......
    Pincu - our kids are gorgeous. The picture of your son at half term 2007 reminds me of this little boy. I'll only leave his pic up for a couple of minutes. He's the son of a woman who was a regular poster here on the Army thread - LadyJan. Love that they both have missing teeth!!
    For every 60 seconds that you are angry, you lose a minute of happiness.
    AF since 10/10/2015:yay:

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      #47
      Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

      Sorry, where's my manners?

      Betty, so great to see you!! How is your house going anyway? Have you got it finished yet? Where did you go for your holiday?

      Jackie - let us know how your day went at work...

      :hallo: Sunnie-bean!!
      For every 60 seconds that you are angry, you lose a minute of happiness.
      AF since 10/10/2015:yay:

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        #48
        Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

        I had the best time. Not horribly busy. I've got the hang of the appointment system. Which phone is the entry phone and which one is the actual phone, so I'm getting there.

        Oh and I met some lovely people today all of them in recovery either from alcohol or drugs.

        Had a good natter with the girl who does the counselling. She looks about 35 ish. I nearly fainted when she said she has 8 children including a step daughter.

        I'm in tomorrow for an hour as there's some new training courses coming up and I get to pick which ones I want to have a bash at.
        It could be worse, I could be filing.
        AF since 7/7/2009

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          #49
          Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

          Hi Everyone! I have been MIA the past few days - horrible stomach virus that my poor eldest daughter has now (we like to share). How appropriate that I should wake up sick as a dog on my (supposed to be) one year anniversary FEELING hungover, but not BEING hungover. God's little joke I assume. Yep, yesterday would have been my one year anniversary of sobriety had I not screwed up in October. I am very disappointed in myself. Sure I got 11 months, but why the hell couldn't I have hung on for a few weeks more till the urge passed? I would have been a WHOLE YEAR! And the weird thing is, I never have real cravings - not a physical need with shakes, etc. It was there, and I drank it. WHAT A DAMN KNUCKLEHEAD! I just don't get the power this crap has over us. It didn't even make me feel better or anything but I did it anyway. Well, there is no looking back now. I know I cannot drink ever again. And I really really don't want to. Onward and upward. Today is All Saints Day and I am singing at mass tonight. I will thank God for every sober day I have and for having you guys in my life. X X O O Waggy
          February 27th, 2013. A New , Successful Start. :h

          When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top!!

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            #50
            Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

            JackieClaire;1202192 wrote:
            Had a good natter with the girl who does the counselling. She looks about 35 ish. I nearly fainted when she said she has 8 children including a step daughter.
            EIGHT children!!???? :egad: Shoot me now! :H

            Oh.. and Yooooo-hooooooo JC!
            Okay, WHO put a stop payment on my reality check?

            Winning since October 24th, 2013

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              #51
              Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

              Eight kids including a step-daughter? :shocked: O good grief. How can people manage that? I barely managed to raise my two? :upset: Good for her. She must be an amazingly understanding and yet disciplined woman to manage a family that size and a career and be a counsellor at that, dealing with other's psychological problems on an everyday basis and then going home to a family that large. Makes me shake just to think about it.
              For every 60 seconds that you are angry, you lose a minute of happiness.
              AF since 10/10/2015:yay:

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                #52
                Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                x-post hello Waggy!

                Don't beat yourself up, please! You did accomplish a heck of a lot and that's still very much valid. And, I hope you don't do any more sharing back and forth with that virus. :l

                I totally hear you on the non-physical cravings. I don't have them, either. Never did, in fact. It's nothing but a 'thought'. In fact, such thought appeared to me today. As soon as Mr. Wonderful announced that he was leaving at 5pm today for his staff meeting tomorrow that thought crept in. Force of habit? Well, I'm planning on sticking around here, instead.
                Okay, WHO put a stop payment on my reality check?

                Winning since October 24th, 2013

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                  #53
                  Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                  Yoooooooo hoooooooooo Waggers.

                  GG, she's also done a degree in counselling and addiction and having a year off before she does her Phd.

                  Oh and she's a recovering addict, don't know what addiction, yet.
                  It could be worse, I could be filing.
                  AF since 7/7/2009

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                    #54
                    Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                    JackieClaire;1202199 wrote: Yoooooooo hoooooooooo Waggers.

                    GG, she's also done a degree in counselling and addiction and having a year off before she does her Phd.

                    Oh and she's a recovering addict, don't know what addiction, yet.
                    I want what she's on :H
                    Okay, WHO put a stop payment on my reality check?

                    Winning since October 24th, 2013

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                      #55
                      Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                      an hour with the kids before the crazy meeting with lashings of hot chocolate and cake to take the boringness away

                      last time I held the meeting here I put Baileys in my hot chocolate and vodka in my coke because I refused to wait until they went home before I could have a drink


                      I look back now and think WTF?!?
                      I have a drink problem, I have been AF since 15 March 2011 and I am working hard to stay that way

                      They don't call me Pingu Purple Pants for nothing....

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                        #56
                        Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                        Crikey I should have mentioned that she's a volunteer as well. Dawg I'll bet her ears are burning at the moment.


                        Pingu, can I relate to wanting everyone buggering off home so I could get down to some proper drinking. I must have held the record for the quickest Tupperware parties in the whole of England.
                        It could be worse, I could be filing.
                        AF since 7/7/2009

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                          #57
                          Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                          Wagoneer;1202194 wrote: Hi Everyone! I have been MIA the past few days - horrible stomach virus that my poor eldest daughter has now (we like to share). How appropriate that I should wake up sick as a dog on my (supposed to be) one year anniversary FEELING hungover, but not BEING hungover. God's little joke I assume. Yep, yesterday would have been my one year anniversary of sobriety had I not screwed up in October. I am very disappointed in myself. Sure I got 11 months, but why the hell couldn't I have hung on for a few weeks more till the urge passed? I would have been a WHOLE YEAR! And the weird thing is, I never have real cravings - not a physical need with shakes, etc. It was there, and I drank it. WHAT A DAMN KNUCKLEHEAD! I just don't get the power this crap has over us. It didn't even make me feel better or anything but I did it anyway. Well, there is no looking back now. I know I cannot drink ever again. And I really really don't want to. Onward and upward. Today is All Saints Day and I am singing at mass tonight. I will thank God for every sober day I have and for having you guys in my life. X X O O Waggy
                          Hiya Waggy!!

                          Just have this to say about the part I highlighted above. Recently I have seen a few posts by people who were 4 or 5 and 6 years sober and thought they could handle having one drink once in a while because they thought that after all that time, AL wouldn't be able to pull them down again. They were wrong and ended up here at MWO to start over again and get support from the members here. In order to stay sober, we will have to be on guard for the rest of our lives, whether it be from nagging little thoughts that tell us that it's okay to have just one or from thinking that after such a long time sober, we're cured. Or, if something bad suddenly happens in our life, that AL will "help us" to get over it - it will bring us some comfort. That is wrong thinking, too. Many years ago, I had clocked up almost 2-1/2 years stone cold sober. I had been wanting to quit and looking for a way and after talking to a friend of mine who is also an alkie but had been sober for 3 months, just decided that if he could do it, so could I. I didn't have any cravings or thoughts of drinking at all. It was like a door had closed on my past and AL had disappeared from my life. There was still the full liquor cabinet in our house and my husband had a glass of wine or beer every day at lunch - poured by me. Then I found out that my best friend had breast cancer. I left her house after visiting with her and went straight to the supermarket and bought a bottle of ouzo - my favourite drink. Went home and drank over half the bottle. After 2-1/2 years without even a drop of AL passing my lips, it still took that much to get me to the point of drunkenness that I wanted to get to. It was only that one night but it showed me that old habits do indeed die hard. In fact, I don't think they die at all. They just go into hiding for a while. Unfortunately, a few months later, due to personal problems, I turned to AL to "help me" get through it all. Luckily, I finally found MWO. AL will always be there and we will always have to be on guard, no matter how long we've been sober. Don't be angry with yourself that you had that drink and didn't make it to a full year. Be proud that you had 364 sober days out of the 365 and that's something you have every right to be pretty damn proud of. You earned them, they are all your very own sober days and proof that you can certainly achieve your goal of never drinking again.
                          For every 60 seconds that you are angry, you lose a minute of happiness.
                          AF since 10/10/2015:yay:

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                            #58
                            Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                            Brilliant post, Stirls. Do you know I would never have put you down as an ouzo girl.


                            Zens, never had smoke almonds.
                            It could be worse, I could be filing.
                            AF since 7/7/2009

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                              #59
                              Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                              evening
                              I have faced it, a life wasted, and I am never going back there again

                              To ya'll my name is inchy. I am an alcoholic - and priority number one is making it to the end of this day AF. No excuses.

                              18.08.13

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                                #60
                                Army Thread Wednesday 2 November

                                Yoooooooo hoooooooooooo Incheroo.
                                It could be worse, I could be filing.
                                AF since 7/7/2009

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