Join the Army Against Alcohol-January 2018

[JackieClaire]

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[MENTION=5052]anon[/MENTION]..........ahh pet lamb. Get well soon/

[MENTION=11158]stirly-girly[/MENTION]..........Jenny's doing OK. Its all very emotional but she's holding it together. No sign of the S&H and his GF having kids yet.............they just about had a nervous breakdown getting a new kit hen fitted.

[MENTION=24080]Jude58[/MENTION]...........kit hen comes from ages ago when Satz first started posting and was doing it all from the phone. She meant kitchen but kit hen just stuck.

[JackieClaire]

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Just going to leave some cocoa out for the late night stragglers and lurkers. Hope its been a better day, Mers.

[IamMary]

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Yum...

Hope its been a better day, Mers.

all grand here thanks all.. moany moment, too many balls in the air!

How did you get that drawing of me [MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]!
Son doing ok? you doing ok?

Tony, cant believe you are working already, you are a busy bee.. Happy birthday!

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

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Morning folks from a white Emerald Isle, well my little corner of it anyway. So I was thinking how detached I have become from the thoughts of picking up a drink, being AF is my default setting now, it honestly doesn't ener into my thoughts in any given situation to pick up a glass of my poison but I am not sure when that switch actually occurred. It is one thing to acknowledge then accept and finally feel grateful for the 'freedom' but to make that switch in my head, which feels like something that happened without my conciously realising it happening, is another thing entirely. It is a really great thing but I just hope it doesn't lead to my subconscious starting to think that while there was a major problem, it wasn't actually alcoholism. 100+ plus units a week, every week says differently. Thanks for listen to my early morning rambles.

P.S. itsallaboutme.com hahaha

[stirly-girly]

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Morning folks from a white Emerald Isle, well my little corner of it anyway. So I was thinking how detached I have become from the thoughts of picking up a drink, being AF is my default setting now, it honestly doesn't ener into my thoughts in any given situation to pick up a glass of my poison but I am not sure when that switch actually occurred. It is one thing to acknowledge then accept and finally feel grateful for the 'freedom' but to make that switch in my head, which feels like something that happened without my conciously realising it happening, is another thing entirely. It is a really great thing but I just hope it doesn't lead to my subconscious starting to think that while there was a major problem, it wasn't actually alcoholism. 100+ plus units a week, every week says differently. Thanks for listen to my early morning rambles.

Good morning Army!!

Tabbers - not rambling at all - correct thinking, IMVHO, about how our thoughts change. How, as you said, our default switch changes. The same thing happened to me as soon as I stopped drinking. It was as if with the decision I made, the switch turned. I won't say that the thought of having a drink has never crossed my mind but the few times it happened, it was more of a conditioned thought that I needed something to relax me and a drink would do it, rather than an actual thought that I wanted a drink. If that makes any sense. It was a thought, it passed and that was that. As we've said and heard, time and again, when we finally get to the point that AL is not a part of our automatic thinking, it is truly liberating. As for the second part of your post, I really doubt that you would ever start to think that your problem with AL was less than it was. You have tried many times to quit and stay sober - this time you have managed a major milestone but most importantly, over all the years that I have read your posts, this is the first time that your thinking has actually changed and I know for sure that you found what works for you and the happiness, contentment and freedom that you feel is so obvious in your posts. And I just have to add, as a last thought, that these are the kind of posts that we all need to read - newbies, oldies, lurkers, visitors. Not ramblings, Tabbers, honest thoughts on your progress. Whatever you're doing is working - keep it up, dear man!!!!!!!

I started this post an hour ago and have only just now managed to finish it. So a quick Hello!! and a Happy Wednesday to all! Will try to drop by later for a wee chat if anyone is around!!!

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

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I really doubt that you would ever start to think that your problem with AL was less than it was. You have tried many times to quit and stay sober - this time you have managed a major milestone but most importantly, over all the years that I have read your posts, this is the first time that your thinking has actually changed and I know for sure that you found what works for you and the happiness, contentment and freedom that you feel is so obvious in your posts.

Thanks Stirly, it always helps to hear other opinions, as you say its not like I tried to stop drinking anytime recently. I should know the score by now. I know my post sounds somewhat contradictory in certain ways but as we always hear this is a AL addiction is a truly baffling thing and I concur.

[tonyniceday]

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Morning Troops

Well here's the hotel industry for you - day 2 in the new job and it's my day off! Not quite sure this hotel is going to be a long-term thing - very quirky and strange way of doing things, but for now it's a job and it will pay the bills...so I'm gonna take a deep breath and go with the flow while I continue to hunt for a better one!

Now I turn to the house-hunt - looking to continue to share for the moment but somewhere slightly bigger would be better. Going to look at a place this afternoon... I still can't believe what a difference it makes being in an AF house where al is hated by my friend - that, and being away from my own restaurant with my own huge stock of booze just across the road from home makes this so much easier on the mind (and my mind needs things easy!).

Happy AF hump-day

[JackieClaire]

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Morning from Costa del Tyne..........just a sprinkling of snow and rather pretty..........ask me again when its up to my knees as threatened tomorrow whether I think its rather pretty.

[MENTION=21798]Tabbers (a.k.a. KTAB)[/MENTION]...........ramble away. Better getting it out that sitting on it.

[MENTION=23019]tonyniceday[/MENTION].............I know when Jenny was in the hospitality industry her days off had neither rhyme nor reason and one of her jobs was the rota

[stirly-girly]

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Good morning Jackie Claire!!

It could be worse - I AM filing!!!

Hope you get just enough snow for it to be beautiful but not annoying.

Hey Tony - enjoy your day off. (I have no idea what that is - a day off!!!)

[tonyniceday]

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Ah Stirly,

It's one of those days when you get to do all the boring stuff like pay the bills, go shopping (GRRRRRR!), hoover (yes I found out how one works) etc .... then back to work in the morning for a rest!

[JackieClaire]

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Good morning Jackie Claire!!

It could be worse - I AM filing!!!

Oh noooooooooo. My thoughts are with you.

[rustop59]

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So are mine and I’m cleaning! Greetings all. Belated happy birthday Tony and hope you are feeling better Anon. Thanks for your thoughts Tabs, beneficial to everyone. Getting ready for visitors so better keep at it.

[RunningCourage]

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Evening troops,

Just to add to what other's have said - guid post Tabbers. And totally agree with Stirly about what you write being what people may very well need to read - to hear your thoughts of your journey. I can only speak for me, but reading your succinct ramblings has me think about my relationship with AL; the way I think about AL - the way I did think about it, have thought about it and how I think today, right now. (Or not, as the case could be!). So thank you.

Suppose to be at Uni tonight for a meeting, but cancelled due to the adverse weather. Not so bad where I am, but worse down south in the Borders. So - a night in reading... or, procrastinating online when i ought to be reading...

Back laters - big waves, all.

[mollyka]

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Evening all --- truly haven't read back - but just grabbing a mo to say hello.. will try and go back now

[JackieClaire]

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Eeeeeeeeek we're on an amber weather warning :egad: Not sure if we're supposed to run round like headless chickens or put a wooly hat on.