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[satz123]

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You'll get there Roxy!
Just decide where 'there' is.

My goal was to end daily drinking - because I knew that was not normal - and a very bad 'habit'.
I was lucky - once I got a taste of AF on day one - and no-one died - I kept going and although I've had some returns to alcohol for a wedding & holidays, I am content at the moment to be AF.

Keep chipping away if that is your MO - different approaches work for different people - but you need to identify what your goal is :thumbsup:

[JackieClaire]

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:hallo:

Well now Roxx as yesterday is gone an it's a better day the big question of the moment
is what are your plans for the weekend for not drinking?

[roxane]

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I don't know what my MO is really.

Hmm, the weekend. Trying to ODAAT is hard when you have to plan lol. What I think I have to do is not leave the house. I started painting the gloss work a while ago that I haven't finished, how about that?

[JackieClaire]

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There you go.......it's a start...........don't envy you though painting skirting boards.

Keep a few things in you mind........alcohol is not, repeat after me is not a reward...........neither is it a good idea, relaxing, bringer of all things good, makes us funnier, happier, more lovable, wittier or beautiful.

It's bull shit in a bottle.

[DreamThinkDo]

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The worst of those days: I, and I guess a lot of other people, had forgotten what it felt like outside the fogginess - I came to accept cotton wool in my head as normal.

[JackieClaire]

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mollyka;1623613 wrote: Just a bit about ME ME ME for a change:H
Tuesday was the weirdest day --- and yet - it was totally familiar to me - horribly so -- it reminded me SO much of how most of my days were towards the end of my drinking. Even if I hadn't been drinking the night before --- my life was sorta constantly 'foggy' --- vague - anxiety ridden -- forgetful and totally bollixed --- feeling scared and even lonely -- now this was only down to jet-lag/sleep deprivation --- but lord jaysus --- did it bring me back --- EVERYTHING was a chore -- everything (the simplest things) felt almost overwhelming --
I COULD NEVER EVER EVER want to go back to feeling like that again --- and I stress --- this wasn't just on hangover days from the night before --- even if I hadn't had a drink for a few days -- I just felt 'off' ALL the time --- horrible horrible horrible --- if I needed it, it was the best experience I could have had to remind me of where I'm not ever going again --- SO THERE!!!!!!:H
Better now..........ackshully best description of jet-lag I've ever seen.

mollyka;1623614 wrote: Yes it is!!!!
AND --- and this is just my tuppence worth here -- whereas it's brilliant to do something constructive and you'll get satisfaction out of finishing etc. I just wonder should you maybe think of something that is more a sort of reward in itself? This is really just my lazy way of thinking --- but the weekend could feel a bit 'deprived' for you at the beginning -- I did find that a wee reward of going shopping - going to the pictures - eating and slumming on the couch........ just never felt the deprivation vibe going on so much -- of course we're all different --- and for you - maybe it's the ideal thing to do --- just wouldn't have been for me.........

Good idea.

DreamThinkDo;1623616 wrote: The worst of those days: I, and I guess a lot of other people, had forgotten what it felt like outside the fogginess - I came to accept cotton wool in my head as normal.

OMG (said in squeeky high school girly voice) you are so right.

[roxane]

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I know it sounds like an unrewarding thing to do, but it is staring me in the face. The old gloss is yellow and the new paint so.... White!
It will make the place fresher and it's one of a list of things I haven't done because I preferred to drink.

Ooh look at that! I put preferred not prefer!

[roxane]

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Very good point Molly.
Where did you go to get jet lag?

[JackieClaire]

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Oooh I've got a mini rant..........

Got to the orifice today and the office manager had cleaned a nice place for me to work.............in the fecking corner. Not too bad but every time I moved my chair thumped one of the secretary's chairs in the back...........so moved over slightly............then his holiness pops out of his orifice to ask me ever so politely to watch for old staples on the floor (part of the job is unstapling old fecking documents and they go all over)...............yes says I before I go I'll get down on me hands and knees and pick them up individually with me tongue (I didn't really ............I just thought it).

[roxane]

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Canada, rellies?

I did Australia last year, now THAT was jet lag, omg. With alcohol it must have been even worse that it should have been. Took me over a week to get over it.

[JackieClaire]

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mollyka;1623626 wrote: Didya tell him to fuck off?:H
I dazzled myself today -- I'm inclined to speak my mind a bit too much these days -- ended up sitting with my big boss for lunch and asked her bluntly how she thinks 'staff-less' libraries are gonna work (they plan on having them open at night with nobody working there) she said she thought it would work 'admirably' (HER word - not mine!!) I just asked her was she not afraid of teenagers lookin on them as a 'free gaff' and somewhere to go knacker-drinking --- there was a weeeee silence --- after which she burst out laughing and just said 'the thought HAD crossed my mind' and laughed till she achully cried ---- jaysus - 'twas hysterical --- no one is willing to face her down bout anything!! I'll prolly get transferred to Siberia on the strength of it tho

The thought did cross my mind but he's married to the owner of the firm who happens to be Mr JC's boss. She's lovely.

A staff-less library............indeed

[roxane]

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Connection playing up, anyone else?

[JackieClaire]

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roxane;1623632 wrote: Connection playing up, anyone else?

Yep.

[JackieClaire]

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mollyka;1623635 wrote: My daughter is over there -- longest flight I've been on was SA -- and there shouldn't be jet-lag cos there's not much of a time difference -- but omg -- I remember nearly DYING on a connection in Heathrow --- methinks THAT one had very little to do with anything but the grog!! Can't imagine the Ozzie job with a tankful!!

yup --- only back on now -- bastards:H
Lickin up to the boss then Jackser?

Naw ..................it's more pity for her being married to that a*** hole.

[anon]

ARMY THREAD THURSDAY 6TH FEBRUARY

Mrs A aka Whizzy back on line from the new pad