Newbies in Need - Day 26

[Cinders]

Good Morning to all!!

I blew it yesterday. I went down to town and had my hair done and then ended up sitting with my daughter and a bunch of friends at the restaurant. I must have ended up drinking at least 3 glasses of wine at the restaurant.

By the time I got home, I ended up drinking 2 more.

I ended up waking up at 3:00 a.m. unable to go back to sleep because of it. Mind racing around why I did it.

Oh well. Today is a new day and here I go again!!

Hope all to come have a great one!!

Cindi

[retteacher]

Newbies in Need - Day 26

Hi Cindi: I know you feel like you blew it, but I never would have been able to stop at 5. Give yourself that accomplishment. I know all about the 3 am wake-up...it's happened to me many times. I love that you recognize that today is a new day.

Last night we went to a play, & I remembered back to the many times I've done things like that severely under the influence (sometimes even falling asleep &/or blacking out in the theater). While I didn't love the play, I could be discriminating about what I liked & didn't like about it. It wasn't a big jumble in my head.

Sometimes it's good for me to remember some of the things I've done drunk through or was severly under the influence during:
-driven.
-given dinners parties.
-babysat.
-gone to alanon meetings.
-gone to movies & plays.
-gone to parties already under from drinking beforehand.
-clean house.
-others too numerous to remember.
What about you all out there?
The alcohol ruined most (if not all) of those events. Now that I'm doing these things sober, I'm enjoying them so much more. Mary

[Cinders]

Newbies in Need - Day 26

Mary and all to come,

Well, at least the good thing about not getting truly plastered is that I have enjoyed many things that I was too drunk to take in before. Yes.

However, I am going to go for it today.

One day AF. Today.

I'll let you know tomorrow!!

Have a good day everyone!!

Cindi

[Doggygirl]

Newbies in Need - Day 26

Cindi, good for you getting right back on the wagon. Like Mary, I give you credit for stopping when you did. On the occassions where I drank 3 at lunch (many, many of those occassions) the rest of the day went completely downhill from there - why stop at 5 when I've got TWO hands full of fingers to count with? And who is counting anyway?

Mary, awesome observation about your experience watching the play - even if it didn't turn out to be a play you particularly liked.


Things I've done drunk that I'm either looking forward to doing not-drunk, or have already enjoyed doing not-drunk:

Dog training on Saturdays (done not-drunk, and liked that a lot)
Business After Hours networking event (done not-drunk yesterday, and liked the paranoia free business outing)
Family parties - especially the in-laws where I am literally the only one drinking alcohol even if 25people are here. (looking forward to doing that not-drunk)

That's just a couple off the top. Life not-drunk is good.

DG
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[Cinders]

Newbies in Need - Day 26

Whew - Hitting the Witching Hour!!

Boy,

Ran down to the store and bought some grapefruit juice and Tonic Water.

The Witching Hour is upon me big time.

Saying "No" to the old girl, though. Grrrrrrrr.

Guess I'd better run and take some L-Glut to stave this off before hubby gets home. Don't want to bite his head off. :H

Cindi

[bird]

Newbies in Need - Day 26

Hi all,
I have done most things drunk.
driven
went to work
I have read alot of books to my kids drunk and had to ask them the next night if I read it or not
fish from boat falling in on more than 1 occasion
falling off bicycle more than once
swimming fully clothed

So many things. Bird