Join the Army Against Alcohol-December 2017

[Rusty]

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Molly-a Very Belated CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ON YOUR AF YEARS AND YEARS!:yay::welldone:

Thank you for being such a positive influence in guiding people towards the light of sobriety. I appreciate your candor and your sense of humor, too. Hope you have a fantastic New Year!!

P.S. I am feeling melancholic, too. I get the post-holiday blues REALLY bad!

[JackieClaire]

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Fabulous afternoon of complete sloth speed........Episode of Columbo.........then the movie Up........episode of Peaky Blinders and now Brave. Got a bit of a sore back from all this lying around on the sofa.

[MENTION=24080]Jude58[/MENTION].........reckon its the time of the year for feeling stagnant......I've deliberately signed on for a 6 week crocheting course.........not saying you should.....just I needed something I've wanted to do for donkey's years.....but I've paid good money and I'll get it in the ear from Mr JC if I don't do it. I know the populous will prolly be hammering the gym but I do have to walk for the bus

Always lovely to see you [MENTION=17632]Mr Vervill[/MENTION]

[JackieClaire]

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[MENTION=1214]Rusty[/MENTION].........you snuck in there, Rusticles.:love:

[mollyka]

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Morning Molly and all to come. I’m staying close as well. Delighted with myself for not drinking but instead of being on a high, feel kind of flat, does not really feel like Christmas. Maybe it’s the time of year. Could be having a house full either. Hard to fully relax when you have visitors. Not getting my long walks in either with all my chauffeuring duties. Be glad to get back to normal.

Meant to say it a while back actually - whereas I did have shed loads of sober Christmas's - I also had a shed load of relapses in January - it was like I used to sort of go 'WOW I've made it -- I did it -- now I deserve a drink' --- very sensible that huh?? :eek-new: just a word of warning really - don't let your guard down ..... and yes it'll be super to get back to normal -- even a few years on I still choose to work this week after Christmas cos I also feel that sort of flat - unexcited sort of.... blah....

I know how you feel.....lately I seem to be just going through the motions of everyday life, feeling kind of stagnant. I've been almost 4 months AF, and this past Christmas really tested my self control, but I managed to come through O.K. Since I've been AF, my mood has really improved for the most part, but lately I've been feeling like a part of me is missing. Maybe it's just the single digit temps, the never ending snow, or just holiday blues. Either way....hope that it goes away soon. Molly, I think that it's a tough time of year for many, and what a great idea to have people post their feelings on this thread.

Well d'ya know what Jude --- there IS a part of us missing - the part that gave us instant gratification for years and years -- 'oh I feel flat... fuck it I'll have a drink' -- problem solved.... so it's perfectly normal to feel like that for quite a long time - we need to teach ourselves the tools of entertaining ourselves or cheering ourselves from within ourselves - that's where the work comes in -- must be done imo or the f$%k it moment HAS to come....

Molly-a Very Belated CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ON YOUR AF YEARS AND YEARS!:yay:

Thank you for being such a positive influence in guiding people towards the light of sobriety. I appreciate your candor and your sense of humor, too. Hope you have a fantastic New Year!!

P.S. I am feeling melancholic, too. I get the post-holiday blues REALLY bad!

Thank you so much Rusty for your congrats... and shit you are also melancholic -- but it does help when we realise others feel the same way and it's like sort of 'normal' -- and you also I hope you have a smashing 2018 -- you're a cheerful head around the boards... always sound as if you're full of joie de vivre!
and thanks to you too Mr V -- good to see you -- will yiz all stick around a bit?????

Hi Jacks -- nice one on the crochet -- wouldn't mind learning.. no one much wears my knitting :cuss:

[caysea]

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Hi All
Congrats. Molly. 6 years is big time!!

[JackieClaire]

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I only knit baby stuff these days. Just finishing off a teddy

The thing about the crocheting is its one thing over the years I have tried and tried to do, watched a mountain of you tubes, even bought a cd and still haven't got the hang of it........My Gran at 90 could crochet a dress and I can't do a row or a string or whatever they call it. Although I promise if I do get the skill I'll never make toilet roll covers.

[mollyka]

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Thanks Caysea - between you and Jackie it's like following in the footsteps of giants:thumbsup:

yeah I never ever could grasp crochet - and almost everyone says how easy it is - those You Tube clips make it even MORE complicated.. could keep going with a string forever but that's as far as it goes!!!!

[JackieClaire]

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Hello Caysea.
You were a willing listener, Molls.

Just got mightily pissed off on FB..........one of Jenny's friends has just celebrated his 3rd sober Christmas and into his 3rd year of sobriety.....think I mentioned a while back him a while ago his father died on the streets from alcoholism aged only 54........... the number his pals that have offered to buy him a pint on New Year's Eve really got up my nose.

I very rarely mention my sobriety on FB but told him he should be proud and giving up drinking will be something he'll never regret because I haven't.

[Jude58]

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I'm more of a knitter than a crocheter, (is that even a word?) but I'm in the same boat as Molly...nobody wears my knitting much either. Knitting does help me to stay occupied, and keeps me away from the booze, so I guess that it doesn't matter if the finished product looks nothing like the picture in the pattern. I made a sweater for myself once, and now I use it as a bathrobe....should've checked my gage. I've tried crochet as everyone says "How easy it is." Yeah right. My fingers waving everywhere they shouldn't be, the yarn won't stay on the hook, which usually goes flying off into space at regular intervals. Gave that up in a hurry! Glad that I stopped in here, you guys are really funny which is just what I needed today. Thank you!

[mollyka]

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Haha! So we're all shagging miserable and none of us can crochet!!!! That's our gang:welldone::welldone:

Goodnight folks and drop in every day jude ;-) talk tomorrow xxxx

[JackieClaire]

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Haha! So we're all shagging miserable and none of us can crochet!!!! That's our gang:welldone::welldone:

Goodnight folks and drop in every day jude ;-) talk tomorrow xxxx

Yep we'll be easy to find.......just follow the long piece of tangled attempts at crocheting.

Night night, lovelies.

[rustop59]

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Yep we'll be easy to find.......just follow the long piece of tangled attempts at crocheting.

Good morning all. Started crocheting two years ago and absolutely love it. My mermaid blankets are being used, saw a picture. Did some great Xmas stuff. Improving all the time so JC you will be doing great in no time. I did feel all fingers and thumbs starting off but that passed.

Miserable morning here so I think I’ll stay in bed and read.

[IamMary]

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Morning all,
Have a full house, sisters kids here, they were on lash last night (not the kids :happy2
Good for you staying in bed [MENTION=15758]rustop59[/MENTION].. Dont worry too much about feeling a bit flat, its that time of year - it will pass. The ads on telly say we should on be in constant party mode, thats not real.. Is it lashing there, can you get a hike in today?
[MENTION=7008]JackieClaire[/MENTION] - I remember you talking about that guy, cant believe people are saying that to him. Maybe theres a lot to be said for not being so public?? Then you cant be influenced by those that just dont get it...

morning all!

[JackieClaire]

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Morning,
Well you wouldn't believe the turn around on FB after I posted the congrats and well dones. This young man started getting a load of congrats and asking how did you do it, does he enjoy it and is it worth it type of questions..........he's showing at 30 years old that life doesn't have to revolve around alcohol.

Now listen, I'm not banging on here about everyone in the universe being sober and getting rid of alcohol......a lot of people handle it very well and know their limits..............just its nice seeing light bulb moments going on in the younger generations.

[Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)]

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Morning ladies, probably just post Christmas but I am feeling a tad flat too. But then thinking thats only the case if I allow myself to be. I used to 'enjoy' the odd wallow/pity party, it was always a good excuse to drink.
So its been a odd last couple of days, we had some guests around and I handed one 2 bottles of wine to take home last night, they were annoying me looking at them there on the sideboard, the bottles not the guests haha. I also inquisitively had a sniff of a glass of red for the first time in a long time and guess what bang the memories flooded back, dangerous memories. I had absolutely no desire or intention to even take a sip I already knew exactly where that would quickly lead, not that I need confirmation but a sobering thought none the less. Sent a shiver down my spine if truth were told.