ODAT - Thursday

[Bessie]

Hi all

Plodding through this week with family. It is quite tiring and it doesn't help that every evening is a big dinner and wine and stuff. When they go I will take time out to recharge and regroup and refocus on my approach to Al.

Hope you all have a good day whether you are repairing houses, avoiding being shot at (!), walking doggies or whatever!

bessie xxx

[CAPA]

ODAT - Thursday

Hello Bessie and all to come. Very frustrated that AL has a grip on me still. I have not drank to excess, but enough to annoy me and make me feel sad that I did it. I want to stop. I have to get on the supps again...this is not working for me....

[Anjicia]

ODAT - Thursday

Morning Bessie Aka and all who follow. Nice sunny morning here so i'm going to tackle the back garden. Its overgrown with all the rain we have been having so not looking forward to this job. I'm on day 9 now still struggling a little bit but coping. Have a good thursday whatever you have planned or not planned chillin workin or wotever. :bee::leaf::kudos:

[ladybirdheart]

ODAT - Thursday

Good Morning. Hope we meet our goals and challenges today. Good hanging on Fox. Bessie (and Scrubs, if you come along to read this later), “nobody is shooting at me” is just saying (at least ideally!). I heard it from fellow who was a Vietnam Vet and cop, not sure in which time it was born. Could be any war since gunpowder. It is a good one anyway with which to compare the difficulties of one’s daily life, even the really big ones, puts things in perspective. Off to work. Love, Ladybird.

[universal]

ODAT - Thursday

Hi everyone.

Thanks for clearing that up ladybird, I was confused also.
Capa - I am sorry you are having such a hard time right now. Keep trying - get some fresh lemons if you can - the lemon water really does help.

To everyone else, I hope you have a great day and meet your goals. I have an ultrasound this morning so I cannot have my morning coffee until it's over (grrrrr). I am so sick of being tired so I hope that they figure out asap what is going on. Doctors appt tomorrow to get a bunch of test results and back to work on Monday so I must get as much rest in now as I can.

I will not drink today.

Love and hugs to all who have been here and all to come,

Uni

[sooty]

ODAT - Thursday

Afternoon everyone. Hope you get some good news from the docs Uni. I will not drink today and thanks for the tip about the lemon water I'll certainly try that.
Hope everyone has a good AF day
Sooty

[Boss.man]

ODAT - Thursday

Happy ODAT all! I want it to be Friday. I'm getting by today. Was drinking earlier in the week and I really can't do that at all. It blows my sleep, which zaps my mood for days. Working today just to get my attitude back. It's like climing a cliff (or a big hole) ledge by ledge...

[Blue Sky]

ODAT - Thursday

Hi ODATERS

I did not drink yesterday which was an accomplishment as my dear mother is still visiting and she is a trigger. First day AF in 2 weeks.

Bessie, like you I intend to recharge and regroup once life settles back down to it's usual routine. This should be after the weekend.

Hope you all having a great AF day!

[andaz]

ODAT - Thursday

Hi all

I am on day 3 of ODAT still having a few withdrawals and my back hurts. My throat hurts because of acid and i am still sweating buckets. But i havent drank and that is all that matters. Slept a little last night so things are improving. What i have to be careful of is when i feel well ........a few weeks down the line and Al ....with that little voice starts saying :

"well if only it might be okay, after all you used to be able to, go on 1 or 2 glasses wont harm" I seem to loose the last 16 years of my life, 1 or 2 glasses was in 1993. When i could put the cork in after 2 glasses. Now i go into the off licence for 1 bottle and come out with 2 litre bottles "just incase" i run out. Dont even wait till it is cold ,find the biggest glass and glug at least half the glass before filing it up again then sitting down.Somtimes throwing up cause its warm and i have gluged it too quick.

If i start hearing the beast Al's voice i will have to tell myself;

Go on a liitle bit will be ok will find me waking up in hospital with a broken nose cause i passed out at 09.00 in the morning going to work in the bus stop. Who phoned the ambulance? Did i know them did anyone that knew me see me?

Go on a little bit will be okay -will find me passed out in the bushes at night at the park , could have been raped or murdered and someone phoned an ambulance

Go on a little bit will be okay will find me in hospital as i was passed out on the park bench, at 08.30 in the morning my dog ended up in the police station who phoned that ambulance?

If he dares get on my shoulder and start i will tell him to f***K off and get back in the gutter where you belong

[Cinders]

ODAT - Thursday

Hello ODATers,

It sounds like everyone has a plan and I do have to add LadyBird that I am also glad you cleared up that saying for us. I, too, was confused.

Andaz, you sound like the kind of drinker I am. Yes, exactly like me. It does amaze me when my brain starts that dialog considering the horrible consequences I have had because of my drinking. That is why I have to take this ODAT and just know that I can handle today. :welcome:

I hope all meet their goals today, whatever they may be.

Love,
Cindi

[My New Beginning]

ODAT - Thursday

Hello All
I've been away for a few days and AF too! Yay!
Very stressful time here as hubby's mom is dying and it could be any time now. She's elderly with Alzheimers but was a wonderful, caring and fun woman. I'm going to miss her. The whole family is kind of scattered so it makes things difficult. It's weird, when I'm stressed out and uptight I never want alcohol. Never! Only when I'm stress free and relaxed do I think of it. Anyone out there have this same feeling?
I'll be back bright and early tomorrow morning to welcome the new day with all of you! Take it easy and I hope everyone managed to stay sober today.:h

[scrubbly]

ODAT - Thursday

Hello ODATers...

VERY late posting today, I was at a different office and didn't have a private office in which to do a post.

Hope everyone had a good day and YES none of us were shot at :H :H :H Thanks for the explanation Ladybird! Saw on another thread you went to the Butterfly Pavilion, I have been there and it is pretty but SO HUMID! Hope you enjoyed that today.

MNB - sorry about your M-I-L, that is stressful and sad. I know what you mean about stress, it isn't a trigger for me, my triggers for AL were boredom and social situations, not REAL stress and sorrow.

Sounds like lots of others are having a bit of a struggle, so here is a big group hug on this Thursday evening... :groupluv:

Hope everyone's Friday is a bit brighter!!!