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    just got my own bac!

    bruuun! of course you weren't one of my goats in my dream! they are from the past, you are in my present. you are lovely - like my goats were when they lived here (mostly) - those in the dream were menacing!

    sheesh, sorry about your sorry ass boss, good golly! my bosses are very hands-off, which is a HUGE blessing.

    um, brenda, i did get your jokes, i'm not that stupid, but they were, you dummie. (but i love you just the same.) and NO, i did NOT eat my 'belles! the may was adopted by the town dog catcher (after she was found trotting down the road, remember?), and the anna was bought by a most beautiful farm girl who winds her own angora yarn from her rabbits and knits it into bikinis that decorate the models on the covers of sports illustrated and elle magazines. she'll be keeping the goat for milk, and maybe making her a swimsuit. (it was ruca and chula whom we ate. don't hate me; they were very tasty, and very skittish, so i didn't miss them.)

    weird thing happened today. i bet nobody
    here has ever experienced anything like this before... i was driving home, and these thoughts in my head kept dictating that i wanted to stop and buy vodka. but i really didn't
    ! those thougths just kept poking their noses in and trying to tell me what i wanted, it was so annoying! finally, after 25 minutes of this nonsense, in a great sweep of victory, i cruised right past
    the liquor store. an hour later, after picking up my son, the same thing happened again, near the other liquor store on my path. dag nab it! wtf is that?! i guess it might be the 120 mg instead of 160. good news is, i told the voices to shut the fuck up the second time, and they did. it took some conscious steering, though, not to turn into the lot of the promised land. maybe i'm not indifferent anymore, at least not today. but shit, i really, really, really want to be careful not to let too much time pass while taking hdb. it scares me more than a little. what else is happening to my brain, to my body (about which i worry less)? we really don't know yet. obviously, for the time being, this is much better than my pint-a-day habit, but, i'm uncomfortable with the unknown of a long future on hdb. for now, though, i'll just sit where i am and carefully watch what happens.

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      just got my own bac!

      That story is scary to me because Im still in the early days of bac I do worry about going up to a high dose then getting stuck there, also the headaches Im still getting are worrying me now. Wheheve I get cravings it makes me determined to carry on because without the antabuse I would drink due to them but then when Im not craving I do worry about these things for the long term. I dont want to get stuck on bac for years with headaches not being able to come off it coz cravings come back

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        just got my own bac!

        bebe, don't get discouraged, please! you've got to beat this demon, and as far as i can tell, bac is the best way to do it (for many of us). i don't have any reason to believe that long-term hdb would harm me, i just don't know. what i DO know is that i am no longer a problem drinker -a drunk- and that i have virtually no side effects (after having suffered many). i've never had the se's that you describe, but i would not fret about being stuck with them forever. as your doses change, so will the se's. and who's to say the headaches are not from something else entirely? (i don't remember reading of anyone else having this issue, but that doesn't mean they haven't.) are you drinking enough h2o? dehydration is a major cause of headaches, and many of us are dehydrated (especially, i think, if we're on medications). poke around your brain again for other possible causes, and see how you can improve on those. please, don't worry so much about future possibilities; focus on the hopeful beauty of being sober without constantly clenching your fists against cravings.

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          just got my own bac!

          I just think I may need to get my mojo activated , have been slobbing around in depression for ages now and need to dig my way up out of it, the headaches may well be from something else entirely and your right i should drink more water thanks rudy

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            just got my own bac!

            you're welcome, bebe. sorry about the depression. get a brisk walk in as often as you can, or whatever exercise you like. it does wonders for depression, as i am sure you know (though may have forgotten, if you're at all like me and sometimes miss the obvious). go on, girl, get a big shovel and dig! you can do it!

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              just got my own bac!

              ifulovelife2;1222284 wrote:
              Bruun, your boss sounds like an arse. Have you considered paying someone to kick the crap out of him? Not everybody shares my goto, default, violence-based solutions, so if you're one of those, ignore what I just said. Hey, how about trying voodoo on him? Think of the hours of fun you could have sticking pins into his junk.
              LOL, that sounds like fun! I made a voodoo doll of one of my customers once, she was evil. She caught me in the act of saving one of her hairs! LOL, anyways, I stuck that doll full of pins in the head and crotch, and did some damage to practically every area I could. It took a long long time for her to leave the company though and she didn't claim to have any head trauma or crotch problems so I'm not sure it worked.
              :H

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                just got my own bac!

                RudyB;1222690 wrote: weird thing happened today. i bet nobody here has ever experienced anything like this before... i was driving home, and these thoughts in my head kept dictating that i wanted to stop and buy vodka. but i really didn't! those thougths just kept poking their noses in and trying to tell me what i wanted, it was so annoying! finally, after 25 minutes of this nonsense, in a great sweep of victory, i cruised right past the liquor store. an hour later, after picking up my son, the same thing happened again, near the other liquor store on my path. dag nab it! wtf is that?! i guess it might be the 120 mg instead of 160. good news is, i told the voices to shut the fuck up the second time, and they did. it took some conscious steering, though, not to turn into the lot of the promised land. maybe i'm not indifferent anymore, at least not today. but shit, i really, really, really want to be careful not to let too much time pass while taking hdb. it scares me more than a little. what else is happening to my brain, to my body (about which i worry less)? we really don't know yet. obviously, for the time being, this is much better than my pint-a-day habit, but, i'm uncomfortable with the unknown of a long future on hdb. for now, though, i'll just sit where i am and carefully watch what happens.
                Rudy, can you buy the Jason Vale book or maybe Allen Carr (I have both but only have read the former, not the latter, to date so can only review the first). So quickie endorsement, it helps with my flirtations with temptation. It stuck in my mind enough to give me the defense needed to get home without buying wine or liquor, and not go out again. If EVER you cave, do not get the hard stuff, buy beer, preferably something you don't care for much. Light beer! Another tidbid about the book, it misses a few things and glosses over a few things and is sorta salesy - other than that, its helpful to me! A long term strategy might be using the book as one of your tools.

                Remember that parking lot at the liquor store is not the "promised land", its the doorway to hell.

                :l

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                  just got my own bac!

                  Hi all!

                  I had to come on for just a second!
                  Bruun, LMAO :H

                  One of her hairs! :H

                  Gotta run but had to chime in to that one!

                  Sober weekend everyone!

                  love ya,:l
                  LL
                  The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

                  *Don't look where you fall, look why you slipped*

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                    just got my own bac!

                    how cool, i got this thread from page two. dunno why i love that, but i do. guess maybe it's a sign that the mania has been quiet lately, or maybe that i've got a life. tee hee.

                    anywhoot, as i'm sure you'd guess, i suddenly have some things to say...

                    first off, bruun, i love that you stole her hair. i'd do something like that, and i can just picture our similar impish shrugs when she discovered our deed. secondly, what the heck is the name of the jason vale book? i have only found on him something about the magic of juicing.

                    and this thing about the se of headaches: i never had them as such, but i guess i'm forgetting that others have. thanks for clearing that up, lifer. this morning, speaking of, i felt a twinge of a headache, and thought in dread for a moment that one might be coming on. it never did, but that momentary experience made me ever-more grateful that i almost never have headaches (seldom did while drinking, either). god i've been lucky!!!

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                      just got my own bac!

                      my dad called me this morning. we started off in the typical not-even-scratching-the-surface style, but, when we got past the introductory warming-up (which went on rather long), and i got out of earshot of my son and the arriving friends, we delved right in. i told my dad that my ex (j) had moved in as some kind of emotional blackmail (but within his legal rights) to extract more money from me. i told him that i was rapidly going into debt, that now is the scariest (financial) time of my life. that maybe i'd be out of debt in 40 or 50 years, but that i'd come out alive, and that is the main thing. i wrapped it all up, pretty much, with the summative: i'm relying on my spiritual resources right now to get me through this; they're the best thing that i've got. (as an afterthought, i wished that i'd told him that that included not resenting him for not helping me out, even though he could do so without feeling the slightest pinch, but then i realized that that subtext is there for him to read and interpret if he is willing and capable (not often the case), and that sometimes (saying) less is more.)

                      anywhoot, maybe once he realizes how life-shaking is my current reality, and how easily he could help, maybe then he'll come through and act like a father (but i'd still put money on it that he'll need me to be divorced before he extends any such decency).

                      it was cathartic to talk to my dad, to let him know just how difficult this epoch is for me. family members are supposed to help each other, right? just like my dad's folks helped him. it felt good to remind him of that in my own indirect way. but above all the wishing he were different is the knowing that there's usually no helping the behavior of people who are mentally unwell.

                      posting before accidentally deleting.

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                        just got my own bac!

                        I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with your ex and that your dad isn't so understanding. At the same time, I'm glad you feel comfortable talking with him and find comfort in it.

                        I know it's hard for me to not be able to talk to my parents about my struggles. Especially since they know I struggle. I'm just glad I can talk to my husband.

                        Do we need to burn an ex effigy?

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                          just got my own bac!

                          today my neighbor gal helped me clear out my kitchen of its disarray. now i have funcitioning cupboards, what a delight! i went for a three mile run and was as strong as ever, even though it has been a week. i listened to songs that i haven't heard in a while, songs that i love. oh, here's one:

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqKMCGPvZ08[/video]]

                          i know i've posted that one before.

                          anyway, it was an excellent day. purged from my dad. purged of extraneous junk in my cupboards. ran my ass off to feel good and it worked. hung with a new friend, a gal who lives with her ex, from whom she broke two years ago (just like me!!).

                          tomorrow is monday, and i'm trying to get used to that. suppose i should start by getting horzontal...

                          i've been watching a new show to help turn my mind off at night: saving grace. it's about a woman detective with a drinking thing (played by holly hunter), and her tango with an angel who re-started her life when he un-did a drunk-driving killing she caused. here's the theme song, whose video gives you an idea of my night-time fun (give it a whirl, it's in english!):

                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxu21fYnKMw[/video]]Saving Grace - Everlast - YouTube

                          the show is pretty cool. it's not too greusome or scary (like medium
                          can be), and they play with notions of god and stuff.

                          'kay, folks, thanks for tuning in. life is good and going to stay that way, what do you say?

                          xo rudy

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                            just got my own bac!

                            sabby, no need to burn an effigy of my ex. we had a conversation last week in which i was able to see more clearly, and with compassion, where he is coming from; he became human all of a sudden. i feel so much better now that i am free of the bitterness and hatred that i so recently and for so long felt toward him. now i hold a very strong and real hope that we'll quickly work out a financial settlement and move on. if he can't help me make that happen (by being fair and affordable (for me) in his demands), then we'll go into a potentially very protracted and ugly court battle, but one that without a doubt would leave me way ahead, financially. i'm just not thinking i wanna go through all of that. i'd rather pay a bit and resolve in peace. (shit, his buliding is going to pay for itself within a few years, watch me!)

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                              just got my own bac!

                              here's another one from everlast, whose music in these songs really appeals to me. they have another that gives a visceral interpretation of the gritty side of nyc, but i'll save it for later. (oh, how i don't miss those dark days of city life, as sparkly as they were!)

                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=vCZ1YteCv5M&feature=endscreen[/video]]Everlast - What Its Like - YouTube

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                                just got my own bac!

                                HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RUDY!!! :bday3:
                                "My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." Jack Kerouac

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