Sober October Challenge!

[Choochie]

Sober October Challenge!

Peace, so great on your being around your friend and wine without partaking. I can't wait to get to where you guys are at - where you don't think about wine any more. I am less and less, but still get some craving.

Peace, can you remind me - did you quite for a long time and then quit again? Would like to hear that story if you have time.

Hi Hippy and everyone else. Happy October Challenge Victory to us all!!

Choochie - 24 days AF today (yea)!

[neart]

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I'M BACK!!!! Hello everyone!! I just spent aaaaaaaaaaaaaages reading back on nearly a weeks worth of posts. Tis good to be back

Quick update - meet up was fantastic, so lovely to meet up with Molly and Firefox and all the rest of the gang. As Molly said, we were so loud we were getting stares from the other tables, and I loved it - proof you can be loud and annoying without AL!

Date went brilliantly, I'm pretty smitten, as Molly can attest to. Ktab kept telling me to take the coat hanger out of my mouth cause I couldn't stop smiling Date had me spoilt rotten - bringing me out for dinner, we went on a few day trips over the weekend and had so much fun. I feel like I'm dating my best friend. And he is officially my boyfriend - I feel like a 16 year old :H

Had my first ever drinking dream last night, twas weird. I was really upset in it cause I'd drank. Can't remember it very well but strange it took over 3 months to have one. Just a warning to me to remain vigilent, I guess.

I hope everyone is doing well and keeping happy, despite the little bumps and ups and downs life delivers us. Tis grey and cold here today, so I'm staying inside

[anon]

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:goodjob:
WELL DONE ENJA 60 DAYS!!:h

[Choochie]

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Hey Neart - so exciting about the new boyfriend. You'll have to tell us what it's like to date someone while sober. I have NEVER done that (well, ok, maybe in 6th grade). Sounds exciting. Have to say I'm envious that you got to meet other MWOers! Sounds like you had a blast.

Happy AF day to everyone,

Choochie

[anon]

Sober October Challenge!

Hi All
Bit of a miserable day here on the Costa del Mersey .Just been to a funeral of someone exactly the same age as me and sad as it was it was a good learning experience for me showing that life is too precious to waste on bloody alcohol or even thinking about it.

Sorry Hippy about our different language but after Neighbours and Home and Away hit here everyone said "See you Later" instead of "goodbye "I used to get so confused. I did used to love Skippy though!

OOh Neart just seen your post how lovely it is so exiting to be in a new relationship dating your best friend sounds gorgous.:goodjob:

Off to do some cleaning around the house not my favourite job.:upset:

[mollyka]

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Hi folks, Neart!!! Great to see you back. I have my smilie face on my house key and think of you each day! It was brilliant meeting you and everyone else - they're organising another one in London I think in Feb, fancy that one? Reckon a few of us from here could make it?! Delighted your few days went well, you sound so happy!!
Evening to everyone, Choochie, Peace, Anon, Congrats again Enja, Hipster and everyone else. Will check in again later
Molly

[Dewdrop]

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Hi all I feel like I haven?t been around much this week as I?m on holiday and like Neart it takes ages to reread all the posts. I?m so nosy thought I can?t stay away for long. :hallo: Welcome Pat it?s great to have you on board, I haven?t tried AA myself but I also haven?t ruled it out because I?ll do whatever I need to stay sober. And yes we will be continuing through November for anyone who wants to join us. Hi Hipster I?m glad you?ve come back to join us. Spinning so sorry to hear that you are unwell just tuck yourself up under the duvet and get better soon. And Anon funerals are never easy to attend but I do know what you mean about life being too precious, I feel these days that I have been given a second shot at it and I'm not letting it slip through my fingers.

Whoohooo to Peace and Enja on 60 days doesn?t it feel fantastic guys and yes we can now start to count the months. I can empathise with you Enja on the little thoughts that creep up on you, I feel that I am well prepared for the nights out etc but it?s the little urges that catch me unguarded that have the potential to be disastrous. Choochie I was a little stunned to see you talking about me in the same sentence as someone as inspirational as Molly and about being a veteran ? my goodness I feel like a newbie but I guess we all have something to share and support to give no matter how far along the path we are. Molly you are such a rock to us all and you really are very special it would be fabulous if we could all make the meet up in February. Neart it?s so good to have you back and how fantastic that life is so spectacular for you at the moment. You must be on cloud 9 and you deserve it girl.

I?m going to quickly scan the other threads and will pop back,

Dewdrop :h

[mollyka]

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janie mac Dewdrop - thanks for the lovely compliment - but my life has been like a car crash for the last 3 years - all self inflicted!! Still muddling through ODAT, but anyway yes it would be fantastic to meet up!
This day next week daughter will be on the plane home - CAN'T WAIT!!!
Molly

[Hippy Chick]

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Morning all.

Well done Enja. 60 days is fantastic!

Hi Neart. Neart's gotta boyfriend, Near'ts gotta boyfriend..... I too have never dated sober!! I was sober for about four months when I got married for the first time. Only because I was pregnant though!

If we are confessing to watching certain TV shows, I have to admit that I DONT watch Neighbours or Home and Away (well, not since Kylie left Neighbours 20 years ago....) and I dont know anyone who does..... maybe we export it to the UK just so someone watches it.
BUT.... my name is Julie and I am addicted to Eastenders..... I even have it series linked on foxtel so the TV records it every night. I think we are about three months behind here and having the addictive personality I have, I have to google what is happening in England rather than wait and see it on TV here.

Hope everyone has a great Friday.

Hips

[enja]

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Hello Everyone- Just a quick pop in from me tonight to say thank you all for the congrats on my AF 60 - I really couldn't have done it without your support. :hug:

I love this place! :h See y'all tomorrow.

[Spinning J]

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Congratulations enja on your 60 days AF! Well done you!
Still poorly but on the mend . Have a great AF Friday everyone. XX

[anon]

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Hi Everyone, Glad you are on the mend Spinning J

Hippy when I was in NZ in feb everyone was watching Eastenders and Corrie, and I was able to tell them what was going to happen-- I am not sure whether that was welcome information.

Off for a run in the drizzle. My new addiction has taken the llbs off and makes me sleep for 9 hours a night.

Hi to Enja,Neart,Peace,Dewdrop ,Choocie and Molly have a great Friday. Sorry I have missed out loads of you but my memory is shot.

[neart]

Sober October Challenge!

Morning y'all! Tis grey and wet here, but in fairness it's nearly November so it's hardly a surprise I still don't feel like I've caught up yet - Peace - that sounds like you had a lovely evening with your friend - the more evenings like that, the more our confidence builds, I think. Anon, so sorry to hear you lost someone - it's scary when they're the same age. Hope you're doing okayx Spinning, hope you're feeling better? Hippy - I'm thinking Eastenders is a pretty harmless addiction I'm a sucker for comedies, if it's not funny I'm not interested! Molly - you must be sooooooooo excited about your daughter arriving!! 2 Christmases...I am so jealous...

As for sober dating? Well last weekend, as we were going out, I had a minor freak out in my head of "how am I going to go to dinner and sit across from someone I fancy, without a drink?" I think it was made a lot easier by the fact that I know him already. Over dinner, he had one small glass of wine, and he had one pint in the pub after. He had no interest in more, which I couldn't get my head around! And I know for sure if I had been drinking, I wouldn't have stopped, and we wouldn't have had such a lovely evening. Same this weekend - at one point I actually said to him that I was so glad to be sober, as it meant I was really present the whole time, I could enjoy every moment (I can say these things to him without him looking at me like I have 2 heads!)

I had already told him about this site and about going AF and he's 100% behind me on it, so it's easier for me in that sense. But I have to say, I think AF dates beat AL-fueled dates, hands down! I never had to worry about falling over/saying something really stupid/making a fool of myself (well, not much anyway ) And the next day I had no hangover, so I was able to go for lunch with him!

[Dewdrop]

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Hi all and happy Friday,

Well another weekend on the way and I am going to make the most of this one because I am back at work on Monday and I have so enjoyed having this week off, and I am so glad that for once I didn't spend it in the bottom of a bottle (or two). I feel that have achieved so much and caught up with so many things and people, maybe I am simply appreciating all the great things I have in my life without the alcohol fuzzing up the picture.

I'll log in later, I'm having my granddaughter stay over tonight and most of tomorrow so want to enjoy the peace and quiet this afternoon, I have just put on my coal fire and plan on lounging on the couch with a good book and a cuppa tea. Bliss.

Catch you all later.

Dewdrop :h

[Peacefull]

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Hi Everyone

Neart, it sounds like you are on cloud nine not only with the reconnection with your friend but how good you feel without AL..good for you :wd:

I am checking in quickly to say hi on this wonderful hangover, guilt-ridden free, anxiety free, clear headed Friday...my Thursday trigger is gone

Choochie, I will post my story on the Tell us your Story thread later. Thanks for the interest and I hope in telling it, I will help. Especially, those thinking of moderating.

Off to get ready for work, will be back later..