OADT - Monday

[Bessie]

Morning all.

First of all, Uni says hi - she is away without internet access (!!) so can't log on her.

Second, I say hi! Busy busy with freidns and relatives staying but I will log on each day even if I don't manage to start the thread. It doesn't matter. Anyone can do it. I just need to be here each day.

It should be ok to mod this week as my mum is staying and I don't want to be drunk in front of her! Trouble is, my modding can still = 8 units in 4 glasses of wine. I need to bring that down to 2 glasses max, which would still be 4 units. There, that's my ODAT goal. I will keep busy by cooking the meals and try not to have a alcoholic drink until I sit down to dinner.

Love and success to all to come.

bessie xx

[Anjicia]

OADT - Monday

Good morning Bessie and all who follow. I got through the weekend without drinking and i feel so good this monday morning. I went for lunch with my brother and his wife yesterday and we sat outside a seaside cafe and had lattes and sandwiches. It was a lovely sunny day. Later i went on a dinner date with a guy i had known on the internet for a while. He was driving and wasn't drinking so i had orange juice and he had a coke. It went well and normally i would have had to down a couple of glasses of wine before meeting some one for the first time but i was strong as i did it before. We got on well had a nice meal and we may meet again. Today is cloudy with rain showers so i may just stay home and catch up on some cleaning. Already cleaned out a drawer in my bedroom, its the one under my chevel mirror. If it doesn't rain later i may go for a walk. Got some programmes marked to watch on tv for later. Hasn't been easy as day 3 and 4 i really wanted wine but i don't want to go back to waking up hungover and wasting the day and letting housework and garden work pile up. My energy is getting better tho sleep is not great. Feeling bloated and have constipation but that will pass guess its from not drinking. I'm on day 6 now and if i make a week will be an acheivement as last time i caved in on day 6. Have a goo dmonday all.:h

[ladybirdheart]

OADT - Monday

Hi Bessie. Glad you are here with your little cow and flock of sheep. Good for you Firefox on day 6; my thoughts are with you. It is a bit after 5:00 AM (yawn) here. Off to work in another town soon. If you read this Ms. Scrubbly thank you for your words of encouragement. I shall carry them as a shield in my heart against the stress, anger, fatigue or whatever turns up that I chose to drink over last week. I hope your shopping trip went well; you shall look as fine for that interview coming up as you are on the inside. Love, Ladybird.

[Anjicia]

OADT - Monday

Thanks Ladybird good luck to you too and anyone else who is struggling.

[DancingGirl]

OADT - Monday

Good Monday morning ODATers,

Just a short post today - my sister and small nephew are coming to visit for four days. I have to go clean the house! However, there shouldn't be many temptations to drink. Today should be AF as I drank yesterday.

Bravo Firefox - you'll be at a week soon (more than I've done). Good luck Ladybird and Bessie.

[Boss.man]

OADT - Monday

Happy OADT to all! LOL Monday again. Sigh.

I solved a huge problem. Since my beginning of my recovery, about a year ago. OMG one year yesterday Aug 2. Since then, I haven't gone on any trips or anything interesting with my spouse. It's like I'm white-knuckling the armchair, and not engaging the outside world. That's way out of character for me, as I have 400k miles behind me, and 20-25 countries, multiple languages. FINALLY we have a trip planned. It's just to a resort an hour away, two nights, but at least it's a start. We also have 10 days planned in Japan for September, a trip I've been dreading because of not knowing how to tackle moderating/being AF. But that will be solved next month. So I'm finally going to get away for a bit, and I'm looking forward to that, and that is a big step to re-learning how to live my life without AL.

[Blue Sky]

OADT - Monday

Hi ODATERS

Just popped into say hello. Had a lovely holiday last week. Stayed in UK, weather wasn't brilliant but we had a good time anyway. We were actually quite lucky as it seems most of the country had worse weather than we did. Drank every evening, wouldn't exactly say I moderated but did not drink enough to ruin any of the following days. Mother is now visiting and I can see that I won't get any AF time in til after the weekend which incidentally is my birthday. I'm feeling quite relaxed about it actually, sort of feeling that I may as well drink this week and then start again with renewed vigour next week. The good thing is that I don't seem to want to drink to pass out like I used to, that craving isn't there and I seem to be stopping earlier.

[My New Beginning]

OADT - Monday

Whew! I'm so late checking in today! My daughter was here for the afternoon yesterday and overnight and she just left to go back home...so we had hours of girl talk that is always so important to me. She's a real doll. No AL temptations at all so that is a wonderful thing.
One day at a time is my goal for today.

[My New Beginning]

OADT - Monday

Firefox;681716 wrote: Good morning Bessie and all who follow. I got through the weekend without drinking and i feel so good this monday morning. I went for lunch with my brother and his wife yesterday and we sat outside a seaside cafe and had lattes and sandwiches. It was a lovely sunny day. Later i went on a dinner date with a guy i had known on the internet for a while. He was driving and wasn't drinking so i had orange juice and he had a coke. It went well and normally i would have had to down a couple of glasses of wine before meeting some one for the first time but i was strong as i did it before. We got on well had a nice meal and we may meet again. Today is cloudy with rain showers so i may just stay home and catch up on some cleaning. Already cleaned out a drawer in my bedroom, its the one under my chevel mirror. If it doesn't rain later i may go for a walk. Got some programmes marked to watch on tv for later. Hasn't been easy as day 3 and 4 i really wanted wine but i don't want to go back to waking up hungover and wasting the day and letting housework and garden work pile up. My energy is getting better tho sleep is not great. Feeling bloated and have constipation but that will pass guess its from not drinking. I'm on day 6 now and if i make a week will be an acheivement as last time i caved in on day 6. Have a goo dmonday all.:h

Congrats on day 6 Firfox! You are in Dublin. I'm in U.S. Hubby and I will be in Dublin and traveling around in mid Sept. I can't wait to see your part of the world!

[scrubbly]

OADT - Monday

Afternoon ODATers...crazy morning today getting out of the house on a Monday, so I'm late checking in too.

Sounds like everyone is doing pretty well today.

Bessie, good luck with the modding, sounds like you have a plan which is at least half the battle.

Ladybird, the shopping trip was a success, have to get the suit altered, but that is no surprise since I'm quite short! Hope your workday was a success today too.

MNB, glad you had a nice visit with your daughter.

Blue Sky - nice to have you popping in!

Firefox - good on you for Day 6....splendid!

Dancing Girl - enjoy your visit with the relatives, sounds like a good reason to be AF.

Bossman - I understand your trepidation around traveling, my first excursion comes up in Sept too, going to Germany (Rhine wine country, UGH) and Mr. Scrubbly has already asked me how I plan to handle it and I'm not altogether sure yet, still working out the PLAN I guess. Eeek! Good luck to you.

[decastille]

OADT - Monday

Hello everyone,
Well I have been away from here for a good tree months! Don't know way, be I don't think I should have. This july i went 17 days af for the first time and I felt so good ! An then this week end I had some really bad family issues and just couldn't deal with it ,so went back to old habit of wine..and being really angry ,so drank some more . ..the whole week end..but finally sunday morning go up and went to AA meeting.Not sure yet how I feel about it, but its a big step for me and also coming back here! I want to be able to deal with my problems and not drink it just make it worst. Im going to another meeting tonight .I guess i need all the help i can get to stay away from al. Well that's it for now! Lots a people I don't know so hi everyone ! Im going for 30 days. I know I can do it!
Francine