ODAT - Tuesday

[Bessie]

Hi guys

Really quick - trying to keep typing to a min so as not to wake hubby!! Off to ride early as farrier coming at 8am. Need to get his coffee and biscuits sorted! AND he gets paid a king's ransome!

Got another busy day - very hot and muggy here. Yuck. Never mind. Easy mod last night. Run of AF days coming up through into August. Hope everyone is doing ok - loving all the Irish posts.

Post more later in the week.

Love to all.

Bessie xxx

[Bandit]

ODAT - Tuesday

Hi Bessie and all to follow,

Bessie, I'd love a job that had coffee and biscuits ready for me at 8am and paid me a king's ransom!! - I'm obviously in the wrong vocation - I get up way earlier than that, get everyone else their breakfast, clean up etc.. and then sit down to do work that pays me more like a ransom for one of Henry the 8th's wives - excuse my ignorance but what exactly does a ferrier do?? - is it too late for me to change career?!!

Quick one from me too - off to a slow start this morning as just so tired - find it really hard to unwind and get to sleep at night without my normal few drinks and then I finally fall asleep near waking up time so wrecked tired getting up (no lie ins as hubby is up at 5.30 and kids up from about 7 onwards). Find it hard to function then during the day.

Have been AF since Saturday and finding it hard but I will keep it up until Friday anyway and take it from there.

Weather was fab here yesterday and now back to rain, rain, rain!

Anyway, chin up everyone - have to keep going - hoping all have a good Tuesday, AF or mods.

Best Wishes,
:h
Bandit

[Captnjack]

ODAT - Tuesday

Hi all and every one comming nothing interesting today except I am starting to get the winter blues ( I know now thats not interesting lol) Bring on summer I say. Bandit although winter here I wish we had your rain we are on stage 3 water restrictions our dams are at below 30 % capacity and our rivers and lakes are drying up down south> Our country in a lot of parts has been in drought for over 10 years God do we need lots of rain. Now on that cheery note every one have a wonderful day
Love always cap

[Ripple]

ODAT - Tuesday

Its summer here! :lilflower::sun::sun::sun: feeling great and ready for a good day!

[A Work in Progress]

ODAT - Tuesday

Hi all. Doing great today so far, Mother is at home with her caregivers, I have a few things still to do for her today, but am getting all that stuff shifted over to caregivers, which is WONDERFUL. I am sleeping better (this is gradually improving) and still trying to sort out all this supplement stuff, seems like SO MUCH STUFF TO BE TAKING and I am having a hard time figuring out how much of it I really need. The more I read about it, the more confused I get. When you read about it, it all seems good and even maybe necessary! But I wonder about possible interactions, and optimal dosages... Info on this site and on the web is all over the place. And I don't even have any topa to add to the confusion. In fact I am thinking that even when the topa arrives I will likely just put it away somewhere and not start that up... I am doing well, 8 days AF today, and not having problems with strong impulses to drink (or intense craving).

Am finally beginning to think about re-focusing my life back to my own (non-mother-related!) work. I got my mother's house all cleaned and re-organized, and now mine is a mess, need to do something about that...

best wishes, all

wip

[A Work in Progress]

ODAT - Tuesday

p.s., hey Bessie, I know what AF and MOD are, but what is DD? My first thought was: "dead drunk"????

[New Day]

ODAT - Tuesday

good morning all ---- finally a couple of nice days here, so going to take advantage and get out to the golf course ---- rest of the week calling for rain. Captnjack ---- I wish I could send it to you! I was in Sydney in February ---- that part of Australia got a lot of rain when I was there! We went to Bondi Beach and were the only ones out there in a torrential downpour!

[My New Beginning]

ODAT - Tuesday

Wonderful morning to everyone!
A Work in Progress: I think DD means "dog day"...Maybe.
Everything great here, I'm on day 5 AF and slept really well last night. No aches or pains. I did take 1 Tylenol PM. Maybe that did the trick. Anyway, feel awesome and it's sunny and bright here in Vermont. Going to get outside and work on the lawn and do some trimming today. Have a great AF or Mod day everyone!

[Captnjack]

ODAT - Tuesday

HAAAAAAAA sorry about that New Northern parts are getting drenched they are talking of building a big drain pipe to the southern states Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide LOL hope you had a good time anyway. Feb up north usually wet. Love Bondi in the rain you should have gone for a swim you know the tune swimming in the rain just( I know groan)
Cap

[LVT25]

ODAT - Tuesday

Fixin to be another hot day here--it's been around 100 degress the past few days. Works for me to do my outside jobs early, then inside jobs with the AC cranked!! Picked, zucchini, cucumbers, peas and beans from the monster garden last night after a nice little rain shower.

Bandit-FYI-a farrier is a person that shoes horses.

DD is indeed Bessie's very own abbreviation for "Dog Days"

Work--the supplements were (and still are) a source of confusion for me too. I had to get a plastic tote to keep them all in. I'm going to print the list again, and put it with them. I also put my journal beside them, so I can write down what I take when, and how I feel that day. Right now my goal is to help my mood. I'm pretty sure its hormone related (PMS), but if I can find something to help, that would be great. I will probably start eliminating a couple of them.

I don't want to brag--but I sleep like a rock. I'm not sure if it's just me, but I do take EPO, 5HTP and True Calm before bed. I wake up rested and good to go. (I still need my coffee though)

Hope everyone has a great day!!:h

[universal]

ODAT - Tuesday

Hi guys,

I had a rough night last night. For those of you who were with me last year when I was having a rough time with my BF I found some stuff on his computer last night that kind of solidified some of the suspicions I had and made it a hard evening so of course I decided to drown those sorrows with a bottle of wine cause that alway makes it better right? Well basically for me it does if you need to have a good cry cause I am the kind of person that doesn't cry unless I have AL in my system and sometimes I just need to have a good cry - so needless to say, I got that out.
Anyway, the stuff I found all goes back to a year ago when things weren't good with us - my therapist says that I need to talk to him to tell him that I haven't moved past this stuff cause he has never acknowledged how badly he hurt me then and he has never apologized for it and now with this new stuff I found I know that I do need to talk to him about it. It's just not going to be an easy conversation to start - once it gets going it will be fine, it's the starting it that's hard, ya know.............frick........sometimes this whole dealing with life thing is tough - that's how we all ended up in this mess to begin with, isn't it! LOL

Anyway, we'll get through it - that's Uni's day in a nutshell.........aaauuuggghhh - and now I'm off to work........

ladeedaadaa.......

Love and hugs,
Uni

[rudemama]

ODAT - Tuesday

Uni,
I so have been in that spot. My solution....I put the laptop in its carrying case held the strap and swung it several times against a tree then just put it back in the office.....not really a functional move but it saved me from torturing myself by rereading those #@%$@ emails. Yes I snooped..... I would tell him, though the snooping is tricky. As for AL don't kick yourself so hard you have been doing so well....
Love you and thinking of you
Rudemama
:h

[Captnjack]

ODAT - Tuesday

Hey Uni sort of in the same boat but on the other side I NEED to start that same conversation that you so aptly describe with my partener> Life is wonderful we turn it into something else by drinking to excess . Your post hit the nail on the head to use that warn out cliche. For me the drink has always been the shut down of communication I read somewhere today a post by livingfree who is a long term AL free person how she had a meet up with a friend she used to drink with socially and just realised how she couldnt really be in a AUTHENTIC conversation as she was sober and her friend was drinking. Liv has also hit the nail right...... we need to converse free of drink to really understand each other. The sad thing is I am too starting to question some of the relationships with long term drinking friends I have because I now choose to not drink and just cant relate anymore. any way
as you say we'll get through it
Love always cap

[universal]

ODAT - Tuesday

thamks rudemama, just knowing i have my cyberfriends helps!

[Seacailin]

ODAT - Tuesday

Good morning all

Sounds that most are doing well. I am sorry for what u are going through Uni. Life on Life's terms can be really tough. There is an acronym that I learned it Rehab, that in my experience, has rung true. It is F.E.A.R.-Face Everything and Recover. I hope that thing work out for you. Oh, yeah, they also say that when you are actively drinking or using drugs, the acronym stands for Fuck Everything and Run.
Beautiful day here in the Northeast. I will be amazed if we get through a day without a T storm though. Today is Day 25 for me. Sleeping a bit better but not great. Sending Sleep vibes your way Bandit. Also, sending Capt some sunshine and warmth. The winter here is long and tough. I will be feeling your pain soon. I guess the worst of the problems that I am still having are gastrointestinal. I am taking alot of supps/vits, not sure if one of them is not agreeing with me. It would be hard to tell, because I started most of them at the same time. Of course, my GI probs were worse when I was still drinking. I am a little bit concerned. If it doesn't subside soon. I will call my doc. They are at least willing to give me telephone advice without health insurance. Best wishes to all in reaching your goals for the day.