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[Spinning J]

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Hiya Team NOvember! Not been posting much recently but have been lurking! Still sober, 11 weeks today. So grateful everything! I don't really think about alcohol now. I have really got into cake tho :H. Have a great sober Sunday everyone. Good luck with the run anon.
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[JackieClaire]

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Good Morning Team November,

Yes it's that time of the week again for Mrs Naggity Nag to remind you to get over to the SHOUT THREAD and shout it loud and proud.

For the newbies, try the date and time calculator link. It will even give you hours,minutes and even seconds. Remember we all started with a a day one, that became a day two, then week one .

Calculate duration between two dates – results

:goodjob: Spinning J on 11 weeks.

J x
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[Guest]

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hello all, im ready to face another sober sunday! Bringing the ole dear to mass now and then the christmas faire.Hi Jc! See you all later...

[Brigitte Bardot]

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Morning everyone! Another sober Sunday for me as well. Woohoo!! Today I'll root through the shed and find more Christmas lights to put out if the rain holds out. Right now its pouring like a SOB. Everyone have a super great day! No AL for me, and the fuzzy warm manipulating thoughts are gone.

[Peacefull]

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Hi everyone,

Good for you BB and you Oney for being honest, we tend to think of the instant gratification a drink will bring, not the awful repercussions of imbibing and that list sums up my drinking cycle to a T.

Loving being back on a normal wonderful sleep rhythm. These past years I thought it was hormonal LOL not quite is was AL fueled insomnia...

Molly, a tree is a wonderful idea, I have a couple in my backyard and also as part of groups have planted a couple in pubic parks in memory of loved ones. I don't go to the cemetery a lot myself and having my garden to go is wonderful.

Spinning, I am right behind ya at 10 weeks today and yes, the thoughts of drinking are really starting to disappear. It is sooo incredibly freeing. I had an absolutely fantastic day yesterday and if I drank it would have all been ruined today with a hangover and anxiety.

Let's keep this strong momentum going and enjoy the upcoming holiday season sober and clear headed. :h

[sunray]

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Good afternoon all, haven't been on much but been reading posts- i think i am more of a listener in life anyway than a talker! anyway 1 week al free today, feels great on a sunday morning, just did a walk,have a lovely clearheaded day today everyone.

By the way fellow dubs- mary didn't do great last night but i don't think she will be kicked out tonight, she is fantastic- i really like matt too...

[Spinning J]

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Love Matt and Aiden! Cher and Rebbeca too! Congrats on your week AF sunray x

[ifulovelife2]

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Good morning all!

Day 7 is really here and this is remarkable. I have not gone for over 4 days in 4 years without my red! BB, it helps to know I am not alone with the FB rants and the calls and accusations I don't remember. I would wake up and put my head under a pillow and say "God what did I do and/or say" Then look in the mirror at my red eyes and swollen face and say "why can't I stop this vicious cycle?" It REALLY helps knowing I am not alone. And as far as that other blog goes, I did read it but kept to myself. I have a brother that has been drunk for years and years. Rehabs, lost jobs, lost families, suicide attempts (he was always the one to call 911 after calling everyone he knows) etc... But he just doesn't get it. He was always on the wagon for someone other than himself....would fall off, whine, and someone pick him up. He is 53 years old and living with my 75 year old mother, driving her car, no job, and still drinking. It is pathetic and I lost sympathy for him along time ago. Yes there are some of us that may need a soft okay get over it and get going again but this is the classic example of what I think the conversation started referring to and I totally agree with it. You have to be sober for YOU, and you have to really, really want it for YOU!

Just a rant...
I love life 2 = Ill2 but realizing it.

Great day to all!

Have a great morning

[Choochie]

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Hi Everyone,

Just dropping in to say hi and yes to an AF November. Feeling free of the horrible burden al was to me.

Peace, my sleep is wonderful too and that alone can keep me sober. Amazing.

IFulovelife - so glad you're at a week. Big hurdle - sounds like you're making an important shift in your thinking. From deprivation to gratitude as Peace and others say. I'm definitely there too. I also think of it as the modders on meds say - hitting the switch (but for us going AF it's the mental shift). I'm there (while also thinking ODAT because I know we are all vulnerable) - and wake up feeling wonderful every day now.

Happy AF Sunday and November to you all!

Choochie

[mollyka]

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Hi everybody - sorry I was missing all day, 'family commitments' is the usual description, my description is being run ragged by my children and I'm shagging exhausted!! Everyone sounds happy so that's good.
Finished the book at last - it is really a brilliant read (The Help), I was really sad to be finished it and I haven't felt like that about a book for a long time. Not sure if it was the book or the fact I'm sober!
Still waiting for the hurricane, hubs is fixated by it, he keeps ringing and texting from work telling me to tie everything down!
Nope, Mary was rubbish last night on x factor, but none of them were great. I like Aiden and Matt, but I don't think she will be knocked out just yet. Nice one on all those weeks SJ, only seems like yesterday we started on this thread!
Ok, need to go and deal with dinner. Daughter has a hangover and I'm actually sympathising - WTF! - good kick up the arse is what she should have:H. Talk later
Molly

[Choochie]

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Molly, I've heard this book is wonderful and plan to order it. Thanks for the reminder.

Getting a kick out of your family descriptions - WTF your daughter is hung over? Are you going to help her find her way out before she proeeds down the slippery slope?? I'm trying not to be a born again teetoatler but would find it hard not to try to show her the error of her ways.:H

Haven't watched x factory - any Boston Legal fans?? - do you get that there? I think it's good - over-the-top unrealistic but very entertaining. Love James Spader:h

xx,
Choochie

[one2many]

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Felt sorry for Mary last night but she was SHITE..hope she doesn't go tho...get rid of Katie..HATE HER!!

Feeking happy and contented with my little lot today, did some Christmas shopping, came back and we all got into PJ's (cept Wob coz he doesn't do pj's)... house all snug and warm and cosy waiting for the storm and The X Factor....

I BLOODY LOVE the sober life.....I love everything about it, I love the feeling of freedom, of not caring about drink anymore, I love the fact my depression has got so much better (the booze prob caused it), I Love how much simpler my life is....I love going out with friends and asking for coke and having a great time, I Love the I can honestly say I don't miss drinking as much as 1%....and I love the new person that I am, I love the fact that I am not ashamed anymore and I am learning to love the woman in the mirror (not quite there yet but working on it), I love that I have sober friends, I love that my kids have never seen me drunk, nor will they, I love that I am proud of myself, I love that my hubby is 3 weeks sober, I love that I am looking to the future with such excitement like when I was a kid, I love the fact that I have kicked the fags too, I love that I am not a prisoner anymore and I Love the fact that NOTHING has a hold on me anymore, I Love that I feel strong, confident, happy and joyful in my sober life.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

- Diane Ackerma


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[Choochie]

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Oney - love your sober life thoughts here. Thanks for posting - makes me KNOW I've done the right thing by embracing sobriety.:l

[mollyka]

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So Wob has nothing on then Oney?

Love your post seriously tho - yep, I feel exactly the same way, I AM proud of myself. I always put myself down as worthless and 'a waste of space' as I was so colourfully described by my hubs once when he was so so so very very cross with me. Today I am going thro in my head, my outfit for tomorrow, what way I'll do my hair, lovely matching underwear - for gods sake when I was drinking I was happy just not to be smelly! I would be PANIC stricken where I would get my drink before, during and after the Grad. I'd have to bring a really big handbag to hide the bottle - not the little one with the butterfly bow I'm bringing tomorrow! Yep Oney, lets live the 'width' of life!!

Choochie, daughter is ok - she's not a boozer at all, just out with her Irish pals last night - she can't keep up! Have heard of Boston Legal, never saw it tho, we have box sets of it in the library.
Molly

[Missing_link]

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Hello all

Won't mention my previous months/years but started my detox on the 1st of November and am looking forward to freedom for the first time in years

So this seemed like an appropriate place to post.

All the best and good luck to you all.

First prize Healthy Liver/or at least a stable one :thumbs:

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