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[JackieClaire]

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Glad you came back, Oliver.

Loving the name.........Dry, yet Decadent December. We're going totally overboard in our house on the decorations this year.

Don't know if you've had a look in the tool box, but here's the link. It's packed full of great info.
https://www.mywayout.org/community/f1...box-27556.html

Hope all Team November has or is having a great day.

[Peacefull]

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Happy Sober Friday All,

I am starting to come out of this awful PAWS episode, on one hand I hate it and on the other it has been a huge learning curve that I hope I can share with those who do end up going through it.

I am stronger in my resolve to not drink...what good will it do ? I can only escape for that short while, I need to deal with my past and rid myself of the shame and anxiety naturally and healthfully.

:h

[Choochie]

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Good Morning All,

Proud to say I declined cocktails yesterday at my sister's house - everyone drank but me. Do you know, it's the first time I've ever been around others who were drinking when I was not? So, a record-breaking day for me. Have to say, it was definitely different. I wasn't tempted, though - just kinda bored. Well, I don't have to tell all of you how good I feel today because I abstained.............yea................happy, happy, happy! And, Dew, yes, the time is starting to click by more quickly now that the first 30 has gone by.

Peace, Limers, Oney, Choice (trust things have smoothed out a bit for you), Neart, Jackie, Wagon Anon (good luck in your training), Enja, GH and others to come along today.........

I hope you guys have a super AF day.

Oliver - love your December title...........

Molly - come back - let us know how things are going with your situation.

Choochie

[Wagoneer]

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Hey guys! Day 26! And I survived the drink-a-thon that used to be my Thanksgiving! Great food, great family, NO BOOZE FOR ME! Didn't even want any and my favorite California Cab ws opened and sitting on the table!! Can't believe I used to feed all those people, clean up, etc half in the bag. So much better sober. Still worn out though...lol. And for the first time in years I wll be Christmas decorating without being hungover! I am fighting a little bit of a cold, but NOT a hangover. A Sudafed and a cup of tea will fix me up fine. Can't wait to decorate and get into this holiday season. It is going to be awesome this year. And I will remember EVERYTHING (well as much as this AL free old brain CAN).

Happy Friday all!!

[Dewdrop]

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Hi Neart lovely to hear from you and glad that you are doing well, I sometimes find it difficult to fit in time to be online when I am busy but I still need to do it as regularly as possible. I try and meditate every day for 30-45 minutes in the morning and it really sets me up for the day, I?ve also joined a informal meditation group just a few of us who meet once a month in someone?s house, I feel it helps to focus me and we talk about what?s working and what?s not.

Anon let me know what the date is for your Fort William run in April and if I can I?ll take a drive out there and hope to catch up with you when you finish ? if you want? I did The West Highland Way a few years ago to raise funds for charity and we finished at Fort William. We walked the 95 miles in 6 days so I was exhausted at the end but the feeling is fantastic.

Hi to everyone else, has anyone heard from Molly at all, I hope she is okay it?s not like her to stay away for so long. Wagon you sound so full of beans these days.

Catch you all later

Dewdrop :h

[mollyka]

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Hi Everyone and I truly apologise for being missing!! To be honest, I got into a heap - not literally - no alcohol involved whatsoever thanky lordy, but from having a lovely peaceful tranquil life, things just seemed to go pearshaped for a while. My eldest son discovered on Facebook that my BIL was very ill and hubs and I had a row cos he thought I should do something and there is no way can I bring that mad cow back into my life - anyway he accepts he was 100% wrong now, if I was drinking I would presume he had been right!! We have also lost a shed load of money cos of the financial ruin this country is in. I'm not a moneymad person but we have had our own business for the last 20 yrs and in no way gained from the mad times here in the so called 'celtic tiger' and now we are suffering horrendously and I feel very aggrieved and angry. I felt I couldn't post on here cos I was all over the place but now calmness reigns again. I'm really sorry for all the above and I know I have lectured newbies and others re. always coming here no matter what is going on so:sorry: is all I can say!

I haven't read back, I just wanted to jump in but will now peruse the posts of the last couple of days and come back later. I hope everyone is doing well? I have NEVER been so thankful of ANYTHING as the fact that alcohol had no part of my life for the last couple of days, it would have been chaos! Will talk later:h:h:h
Molly

[Choochie]

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Molly - so glad to hear that you have weathered these storms sans alcohol. I wish you weren't having the problems but you must be very proud that you did NOT cave in to alcohol. So happy for you.:l

[Guest]

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Molly, great to see you back in form, feck the twisted sisters~!

[mollyka]

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OK reading back, everyone sounds pretty .......sound Enja and Neart - get your asses into gear and stick around girls - we can't have folks disappearing ya know:H
Peace, you've been having a tricky one. I remember my first time round having a bummer of a time at 3 months, I wonder is that what was wrong with me? Can't remember symptoms or facts or anything but really do remember difficulties - sounds like you've come out the other end?
Wagon and Choochie, good on you - a sober thanksgiving!! That's that one chalked up now!
Limers, hope the essay got done. We have PC's for the public where I work and I can't count the no. of times we've had to stay open late for students with 5pm deadlines! Hey Oney and JC!
Anon, bloody fantastic with the running - you really are amazing:goodjob:,
Dewdrop, are you one of those fiercely glamorous women that sit in hotel lobbies with pencil skirts and laptops???? I ALWAYS wanted to be one of them!!
SpiritedO, don't think of yourself as being late for Nov, you're just early for December:welcome:.Hi to Choice - hope all is good in NZ - awful sad news from your lovely country, thoughts are with you.
I really hope I haven't left anyone out, put it down to senility if I have. Thanks for all the well wishes - it's lovely to be back.
Molly

[mollyka]

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xposted Chooch and Limers, thanks again both of you - and absolutely Limers, those miserable sour twisted bitches oh.........and old (they are yonks older than me and do I love it!!!!) will never get back in my life again!
Molly

[mollyka]

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Ok, me again - I'm still catching up
DEWDROP, 3 MONTHS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC, SO VERY VERY WELL DONE!!!!!
Molly

[anon]

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Hi Molly glad to see you back. You have been missed.
Sorry about all your chaos and trauma. Celtic tiger well and truly dead. Bitchy sisters do not have to sour your life do not give them any power by thinking about them.

Love and hugs Anon xx

[mollyka]

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Thanks Anon, I did give them power for a little while - no more tho!! Am going back to my counsellor next Friday and she gave me great tips on how to deal with them, so am very interested to know what she thinks about them still upsetting me.
Just a question to you. Do you run every day or are there days where you just couldn't be arsed? I start off thing full of enthusiasm but I know in this cold dark weather there is no way would I keep up doing stuff, one way or the other I am full of admiration for you, talk about turning your life around:goodjob:
Molly

[anon]

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Mollyka No I do not run every day and some days I can not feel motivated but if I have a goal like those races I have just done I train because I do not want to collapse half way round.

I started out running for a minute and walking for a minute every few days and soon I could run a mile without stopping (about a month). I thought if I could just run 3 miles without stopping that would do me! It took me a couple of months to get to a stage were I felt I could run without worrying what I looked like and found it very enjoyable and today when I was out running in the freezing cold I was euphoric thinking I am sober and the fastest older female runner that I know!!!
I hope all this does not sound arrogant but without alcohol I feel I can now achieve anything I really want.

[Choochie]

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Anon, your description of how you built up to running sounds just like how we build up here to be AF - and I don't think it sounds arrogant at all that you feel like you can do anything. I think it sounds extraordinary and inspiring!! :l