February Army Thread

[Battle_for_the_sun]

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Dragster - you're officially part of the army now you have a satz nickname

JC - Feel better soon

Techie - have a good trip back

Satz - forgot I had my old drawings as a profile pictures, been a long time since I saw the old account.

Still working on my studies, hard to focus with the stronger painkillers but less pain

[DragonbytheSea]

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LOL. Love Dragster! Off to work.

[rustop59]

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Good morning everyone

Hope you are soon over your cold JC, at least you have your holiday to look forward to. Winter not over yet. Climbed local mountain this morning and had snow and hail! Not really that cold, miserable coming down as hail was blowing in our faces. Doggy not too impressed.

Back to hot shower and cooked breakfast. Like Tabs I never grow tired of unhungover Sunday mornings, they are the best, even with hail and snow.

Hope everyone enjoys their Sunday.

[JackieClaire]

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I'm just bunged up now...............the coughing and sneezing has gone. I'm just tired now.

Surprise visit this morning from Alfie with his mum and dad (he's only 6 months so asked them for a lift over). He is delicious and so placid he reminds me of the son & heir when he was a baby.

I'm busy doing a tapestry of a golden Labrador for Mr. JC's birthday. Thank goodness its not til June.

[MENTION=24764]DragonbytheSea[/MENTION]..............Dragster is now yours.

[DragonbytheSea]

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Glad you are feeling better, JackieClaire. The tapestry sounds lovely. Lacking an art or craft, I admire creative people. Coloring is as close as I come to art. Unless you include gardening as art!

I have two grandsons who are strangers to me since their dad and I are no contact. I wish I was a nicer, better person who could say she missed grandchildren. The truth is, child-rearing kicked my butt, and I appreciate the absence of children. I'm also guessing that you are talking about children, because Alfie could be a golden Lab, and I would not know.

Rustop, snow and hail here too this weekend, at zero elevation, right on the flipping Pacific. Crazy, but CA is crazier, I hear. I believe it because CA is pretty much crazier in every way anyway.

Screwing up my courage for Day 1 tomorrow.

[JackieClaire]

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Morning,
[MENTION=24764]DragonbytheSea[/MENTION]..............today's the day to freedom. I remember the not sleeping for the first week or so. Apparently I wasn't a good sleeper when I was a baby.
TBH we're not asleep when we're drinking we're just passing out...............like all things that are good it takes time and by giving up the booze gives you that time.

Alfie is our grandson.................tbh I'm not a baby person either but I can make the right noises.

[mollyka]

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Okay -- 3rd time trying to write this post --- I'm very much a baby person --- could squish them to death -- but truly once they hit 6-7 they move along from grandparents anyway -- you have no choice really Dragster -- but (in my case anyway) I feel guilty sometimes that we moved down the country and put a bit of distance between the family and us -- but it's more (being honest here) -- what it seems like (heartless bitch...) than wishing to see them all the time -- I'm very happy plodding along myself and himself --- enjoying our free time -- need to let the guilts go and relax!!!

Well done being honest about not being a baby person Jacks -- it's not weird -- as my mum used to say about the grands 'I love to see them come and I love to see them go' ---

Having a lot of problems with Max now -- he's growling and snapping -- I know he's still very sore probably --- but it's difficult to deal with - I'm very nervous around him and Joe is heart broken --but hopefully when the stitches come out and he heals it might be okay..... my heart goes out to Max -- but Joe too.

Day 1 Dragster -- it can be the best day of your life or it can be another irrelevant pointless day chasing the unattainable (the lovely buzz of the first drinks) -- how long does the buzz last now? 15 mins? 2 hours? Is it worth compromising your life for that? not me anyways -- My 'want' these days is a cigarette when things are stressful -- wouldn't DREAM of a drink - never enters my head.... freedom as Jacks says xxx

[techie]

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Hi folks. Molly, our Maddie (rest her soul) had a minor surgery and the vet said she may be cranky until the stitches are removed. He was right. It was very upsetting seeing her poor behavior but she did change back to her loving self. Gad, so miss her. Have a great day :-)

[mollyka]

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Molls I hope you don't mind but I stole that sentence to say to YS 'cos he drank again on Saturday. Not a huge amount - but he got back on track straight away thank God !!
AA & Aftercare must be working.

So sorry to hear the lad drank -- but by god that's great that it didn't end up in a bender.... is that a first for him? Delighted..... well as he has AA and Aftercare in his life I'm sure all the 'good advice' is being thrown his way.... but if there is a conversation to be had with him I would suggest he analyses what happened on Saturday? Was it watching the rugby maybe? the advice from treatment was always to prepare for a trigger event and then avoid if at all possible -- course he could watch the rugby -- but maybe sit down with his Dad or you and watch it the next time (probably wasn't the rugby but you get my drift) -- you were lucky in early sobriety that you really seemed to call the shots with the drink but many aren't -- and avoidance is necessary...and it's not forever -- just to get past the first 'early' period - whether that be 3 months or 3 years -- it can vary.... but it needs to be the most important thing in his life (sobriety) hence the overkill.... good advice I think -- bit like you - once this quit happened I never looked back - I could have been immersed in a vat of vodka and my lips wudda been sealed -- but it wasn't always like that for me!!!!

[mollyka]

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Hi folks. Molly, our Maddie (rest her soul) had a minor surgery and the vet said she may be cranky until the stitches are removed. He was right. It was very upsetting seeing her poor behavior but she did change back to her loving self. Gad, so miss her. Have a great day :-)

Thank you so much for that Techie -- it is extremely upsetting - he is normally such a lively funny bold little bugger that I don't even recognise him at the moment -- it's so bad that the vet asked us to put ointment on his stitfches -- but we felt (well I felt - ) a bit scared actually -- even putting his muzzle on today to do it he literally went for Joe - he's a big strong dog and yeah -- horrible -- they're down at the vet for check up now so hoping he'll come home with good news... it's endless -- nearly 2 weeks now!!

[rustop59]

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Evening everyone

Sorry to hear that Molly, hopefully he will revert back to his sweet self once he feels better. One of our JR’s is snarky little cow to me. Would never dream of doing anything with her so leave her to her favourite people.

Molly gave some good advice there Satz. Great that he is back on plan and hopefully it sticks.

Just in from work so need to get some food.

[mollyka]

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Evening everyone

Sorry to hear that Molly, hopefully he will revert back to his sweet self once he feels better. One of our JR’s is snarky little cow to me. Would never dream of doing anything with her so leave her to her favourite people.

Molly gave some good advice there Satz. Great that he is back on plan and hopefully it sticks.

Just in from work so need to get some food.

Really hope so...its beginning to really worry me. Anyway started watching The Last of Us....bit sceptical at the beginning but growing on me

[Battle_for_the_sun]

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Evening all,

Still having a rough time, getting me down a fair bit, had a couple of friends send care packages today to cheer me up - cute pens from one and a selection of energy drinks and snacks from the other - plus some fresh veggies for the guinea pigs. Still in pain but going to try cutting back on painkillers so I can concentrate better on my work, I'm half asleep most of the time as it is and feeling like a failure because of it.

Molly - I hope Max is feeling better soon, can't speak to animals but I know when I had surgery I was a moody bugger for a few days after, can't imagine what it must be like for an animal that doesn't fully understand what happened.

Satz - sorry to hear YS slipped but its great he got right back to it, picking yourself up again is half the battle.

Dragster - hope day 1 has treated you kindly.

Re; small children - personally on the extreme end of not being a baby person here haha, never have wanted kids, never really understood the appeal of small children. Only found a baby cute once in my life and that was a little one who looked up at me from a pram and did the heavy metal 'devil horns' gesture at me, parents were metalheads by the looks of things so I'm guessing they taught the kid the customary greeting of our people haha. In fairness I also don't see the appeal of most humans full stop, quite happy to spend all my time in my own little bubble with just the pets.

[DragonbytheSea]

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Thanks everyone for your responses.

MollyKa, the buzz lasts 15 minutes if vaping. Edibles is equivalent to getting drunk. You are married to it for hours.

I am doing OK, having a more productive day. Took the pup and shopped my own self at Walmart. I have been ordering pickup since the pandemic started. Mazie did great!

My works accepts her a service animal, even though she only has ESA creds. I got her a "service animal" vest in case a customer questions it at work, and since we have the vest, I let her sit in the cart. We've taken short trips with her in a stroller, but this is the first time she got to be up high where the people are.

I'm afraid to watch "The Last of Us" because I loved the video game so much! I would love to know what you think of it. But, one month from today, "Yellow Jackets" season 2 premieres. Really looking forward to it.

My apartment looks like a crazy person lives here. Going to go tidy up.

[DragonbytheSea]

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Battle, I hope you get ahead of the pain.

In fairness I also don't see the appeal of most humans full stop, quite happy to spend all my time in my own little bubble with just the pets.

Me too. I could have saved myself a lot of heartache if I had understood as a young person that this is how I like to do life.