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Be, wonderful post about your night! Made me smile to read it :lilangel:

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BE - your night sounded great! I'm so happy for you and kudos for staying strong...it's great that your hubby stuck with you...that was nice.

[ezzmae]

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Be, it sounds like a wonderful night with some wonderful rewards. It is amazing how good being sober can feel sometimes. It is great that your hubby stuck with you. My hubby is going to avoid beer this weekend so that I won't be tempted. He can drink as much red wine as he likes because the smell of it is enough to turn my stomach let alone drink it. I always wanted to be able to drink wine, seems more sophisticated than beer, but the fact that I can't stand the taste is a big blessing now.

[Captnjack]

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Your the BEST bee beee Thanks for sharing just saw this and WE LOVE YOU!!!! great resolve to remain sober
Love cap

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thH3qnHTbI[/video]]YouTube - bobby 'boris' pickett & the cryptkickers - monster mash

[Captnjack]

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I wish I could show Its a Killer

[yogini]

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Woo Hoo! Be - I'm so proud and happy for you!

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Hey ... and I forgot ... THIS is Day #7 for me!! Last night I do admit to some cravings, but not serious. I thought I might be asked to meet someone out for a drink and as I rehearsed it in my brain I could see that I was tempted, but at the same time I felt like I would be totally OK telling him that I had decided not to drink for a while and why ... and I realized my expectation would be that my friend would be totally OK with it! That's good, because the situation didn't actually present itself, BUT I know it will come up within the next 90 days ... before I decide if I even want to be permanently AF or MOD. Now I have thought in advance how to handle it.

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Day 5 here. I hope more people post and tell me how they're doing...?

Thanks starting, looking and jamms, you guys are always right here with me, aren't you? :h

Capt, you?re so nice, thanks! Love the Monster Mash song we play it every Halloween! LOL!!
:H

Ezz, I sure wish the taste of wine turned me off! Well, with topa it does and, anyway, there?d probably be something else that turned me on, anyway. We?re lucky to have that HB support. Mine drank quite a bit of beer last night but I didn?t care. We were home and I was just reading under a thick blanket. It's friggin' freezing out!

Speaking of reading, I'm reading Dry by Augusten Burroughs. I just love his prose. I'll post more under the reading section when I'm done but I just have to put this down before I forget. I wonder how many of us feel this way?

Why does this have to be so complicated? I wish they coiuld just cut your "drinker" out of you. Like having a kidney stone removed. You check into the hospital as an outpatient, get anesthetized from the waist down, they put headphones on you and you listen to Enya. Fifteen minutes later, the doctor lifts the headphones off and shows you the small, turd-colored organ he extracted from somewhere inside you. I see it looking like a snail.
"Would you like to save it...as a souvenir?"
"No, Dr. Zizmor, toss it. I don't want any reminder."
The doctor slaps you on the back on your way out. "Congratulations, you're now a sober man."

Right?
Be

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Wait a minute! Yogini! When you make it through today you'll be the first to get the 7-day present. I can't tell you what it is or it wouldn't be a present, now would it? Be sure to post, okay? And congratulations! I had some cravings yesterday, too, but I thought them through and took my supps.

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It's great that you were able to think them through and move on.

You asked me about yoga yesterday; I started practicing 4 years ago but the woman who's class I really enjoyed moved out of state a year ago and I stopped going because I wasn't really getting much out of it spiritually when I attended classes with other instructors. I stopped practicing and found myself going back to old habits ( drinking) and feeling depressed . I just recently started again but I'm practicing at home with some dvds I purchased. I'm also practicing qigong and I feel like I'm back to being myself and feeling better physically and spiritually.

sending you positive vibes and happy thoughts on your 6th day, you're almost there!

1MC

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Yes ... here it is 7:30 pm on Day 7 and I'm making myself a cup of tea ...

Be -- a PRESENT , there is a PRESENT for going AF 7 days??? :l:thanks::thanks: I thought it was present enough that I have stuck to my resolve ... now I don't want to get lax after this ... 7 days isn't so hard ... what seems to be difficult (in the past) is I begin to feel so "normal" I just can't imagine that I can't have a couple of drinks ... and after a while, assuming I change some of my strategies, perhaps I can have some socially. I don't want to crave it when I am home by myself, as I am tonight ... and yes, I do admit to some cravings. Probably, I have used Alcohol for years to self medicate and numb the feeling of lonliness.

My EX was a few doors down around a bonfire drinking until the wee hours of the a.m. ... when my son called to see if he could go visit he needed to take a "nap" first at 11:00 a.m. Glad that "be he and not me"! LOL!

Thanks everyone for being here ... what has happened to PAW and his thread seems to have disappeared ... anyone know?

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I have done it - 7 day AF. By Christmas day it will have been 10 AF. I am hoping to make it to 30 days AF. Without being able to log on here and read everyone stories and inspirational replies I would never have even got this far. I would have done the same thing I do everyweek, convince myself that having a drink at the weekend is not that bad, that I wasn't really binge drinking.

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Woo Hoo seven dayers!! Well done!
Just keep it going now, it gets better and better...

Augusten Burroughs is great Be, I have read Dry, Running with Scissors and I have just bought Possible Side Effects, I'll let you know what its like...Dry is fantastic though....

Yogini, yes I think we all go through periods of thinking we can drink normally...give it time, it does pass as do the cravings...have you tried the kudzu and lglut? they work wonders for me...

Ezzmae, keep reading and posting hun, it has saved me on many occasions.

You are all doing so well, I am proud of you!

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Here I am ... day 8! Woo Hoo, and feeling stronger than EVER!

Someone just turned me onto a book that I want to share with all of you; Many of you have likely heard of the book, [u]The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles. Did you know he ALSO wrote The Science of Being Well[/B][/US?

I think everyone on this string might benefit & enjoy reading it ... and those already meditating, doing Yoga and into "The Law of Attraction" will especially relate.

Starting ... Thanks for all the positive comments ... and Great Job for the rest of "Us" who have just made it to day 7!!! Woo Hoo! :goodjob: I know for me I am Sooo Happy I have made this decision and I am sticking with it. I feel stronger and stronger that the right friends and the right relationships will all support me in my decision ... no more embarassment, no more guilt. I'm pretty much an open book and I'm going to just tell people ... I was married to a drunk for 20 years and it had its costs ... alcohol became a problem for me as well, and I decided I'd handle it! It is something I definitely do NOT want to carry forward into another relationship, and I do NOT want alcohol to be a big part of my life moving forward. As in the Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: Whatever you put your attention on will grow and expand in your life ... and if you withdraw you attention from something it will wither and die. "Where attention goes energy flows." (Can you guys tell I read a lot?? Ha Ha).

OK, I hope all of you have a wonderful and sober day ... and put your attention on what you WANT ... imagine your life the way you want it to be, sober and healty, and put your attention on that. That is what the book, "The Science of Being Well" is all about ...

:h Hope you guys don't mind my long, philosophical post! YIKES!