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[Doggygirl]

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Almostfamous;168098 wrote: I would have flipped them off but that would have been quite inappropriate in front of dear daughter.

WHEE!!!! What's that old saying???? It's the thought that counts.......

DG

[buffy]

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Hi everyone and congrats on everyones success! I am on day 3 and feeling good. I know I will make it through the night. I just walked what feels like 10 miles in the mountains following my son as he played in a golf tournament. I am tired and sun burned to a crisp...don't know why I am so stubborn and didn't put on sun screen, I had it with me....one day I will learn from my mistakes....It was a beautiful day and I had a wonderful time, even though I may not be able to get out of bed in the morning. I am sure I will sleep well. It is so much better without a hangover!

[Doggygirl]

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Good for you buffy on a great day! Sounds like lots (too much??) of sunshine and exercise. And boy you are so right about days without hangovers!! Even a downright craptacular day is way better without a hangover!!!

Which brings me to...I had lots of unexpected stuff happen today. I'm actually going to reach over and pat myself on the back, hoping the entire time that I do not break my arm in the process. I will share more details tomorrow - I'm winding down - getting ready for some CD Hypno Action with Will and then hope upon hope, a good night sleep. (I always hope!) I didn't drink, and with all the poop I ended up shoveling today, there must be a pony in here somewhere!!

WHEE!!! I'm heading to the drink tracker to claim Gold Star # 13. That's right folks!! As of 4PM CST, almost 4 hours ago, I am less than 24 hours away from finishing out 2 weeks since my last sip of the booze. Un.Frickin.Believable.

See you all in the morning - or whatever the right term is since people are in every time zone there is!

DG
Day 14 ALCOHOL FREE!!!!!! * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

[pinkie]

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DG, as always, you are an inspiration to us all!!

Keep up that positive attitude girlfriend, it is infectious!

[Almostfamous]

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Good morning everyone!!!!

Doggy G (sounds like a rapper, eh? ) 13 was one lucky number for you. I'll be interested in your stories from yesterday. You made it through. Keep it up!!!

I am more than thrilled to say I am entering day 5. I stopped the milk thistle and still have headaches. Could it be from the lack of alcohol? Duh! How long do these babies last? The kicker is I don't like to take pain relievers unless I absolutely have to. What a joke! I could previously knock back enough drinks in a week to probably shrivel my liver to the size of a raisin but won't take an aspirin?!

Wishing you all a successful and healthy day.

[Doggygirl]

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HELLO 30 Day AF Clubbers!!! I pledge no drinking today. So there you have it - my promise to myself, for myself, for today.

PINKIE!!! A hearty hello to you, and congratulations on Day 13 AF!!! Look out for ladders and black cats and cracks in the sidewalk OK?

Yesterday sure was a day of either seeing the cup half full or half empty. Or seeing life as one big tedius shoveling a mountain of poop, or shoveling the poop enthusiastically believing with all that poop, there must be a pony in there.

A couple weeks or so ago, our big whole house fan - in the attick with a vent thingy broke down. We don't have central air - just several wall unit air conditioners for when it's REALLY hot. Our house is very shady and has lots of windows. So the whole house fan is great - draws in the cool morning air, etc. Our house was built in 1967 so it's inevitable that things break down. Yesterday they came with the new fan to the tune of $1,600. Whiel the guy was looking things over, he saw that all the electrical wires were literally burned up. And the circuit breaker never went off prior to the fan quitting on us. We are lucky our house didn't burn down - no grounding up there apparently. The repair guy needed to get up inside the attick for a closer look, which meant I had to empty out more that half of the stuff in my closet so he could get to the hatch.

HEY!! I was planning to do come closet cleaning, but was certainly not planning on doing it yesterday!

Indeed he confirmed we need and electrician to make sure things are safe. 1) Electrician couldn't come yesterday, so no fan yet, and also 2) no electricity in the master bedroom.

Normally with such a turn of events, which actually isn't unusual - just how this stuff goes sometimes I would have:

1) Been majorly pissed that the project took a turn that would interfere with my drinking.

2) I would have spent time figuring out how to sneak drinks hoping the repair man wouldn't figure me out.

3) I would need a rest from having expended all that frustration and brain power over the disruption and subseuent emergency plan for drinking.

4) I would have been FUMING AND STORMING all over the house being angry about the forced closet cleaning. In fact, I probably would have NOT taken the opportunity to go through the clothes and sort them, and put too small ones in storage boxes by size,etc. I probably would have flung everything on the bed, then flung it all back in the closet with worse organization (if that's even possible) than before.

5) If the day wasn't already shot, which it probably would have been, but in case not, I would proceed to pick an argument with Mr. Doggy or something just to put an exclamation point on the end of it.

As it was, I stayed amazingly calm, kept a chipper attitude with the repair people and Mr. Doggy. I went to the basement and found some empty storage containers. Mr. Doggy helped wash them out, and ALL of my clothing is now sorted by sizes, and stored appropriately. I still have some organizing of the current size stuff to do, and also have shoes and stuff like that to go through, but MAN it feels good to have made so much progress.

Yes, I thought of drinking often and of smoking too. With each unexpected turn of events, I little "reaction" went off in my head. Another trigger was tackling the clothes sorting, and out of habit, thinking of a "break" for a drink and a smoke each time I finished a step in the process. It was a little tough, but manageable. And I view that as good practice. I need to make NEW habits for how I take breaks during projects that are NOT smoking and NOT drinking. The only way to really do that IMO is to...just do it. I feel one step closer to true freedom!!

I gave up fighting the sleeplessness at 3:30 AM. Maybe I just don't need as much sleep as I used too when I was also "sleeping it off." I went to sleep at 9PM. I woke up every couple of hours. at 3:30 I got up. I feel good though - did the torture mill - oops I mean treadmill and already have some laundry and a few other things going on by 6AM. Hee hee I guess there is rocket fuel in my kudzu again today.

Anyway, my very best wishes, hugs and laughter (good medicine!) go out to all 30 day AFers today!! WE CAN DO THIS!!

Quote for the day: PMA is better than PMS. (sorry guys)

DG
Day 14 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (my gold stars!)

[Almostfamous]

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Oh Doggy G- I am soooo proud of you! We were both posting again at the same time! We have to stop this weird psychic thing. What a crapper of a day for you. I freakin hate the money pits. I love my house but want to kick it in the crotch (not sure where that is located) sometimes. Life threw you a big fat challenge and you remained true to your goal. YIPPPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I blew off my run today. Bad me. I am however in the process of cutting down on my caffeine intake. I always drink 1 cup of cofee and 1 diet coke. I am waving bye to Mr. Diet Coke for a caff. free beverage. You WILL sleep eventually. I just can feel it. Ask some of the wonderful boardies how long it takes for you to get some shut eye.

[Doggygirl]

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WHEE Hi AF! You're doing great on the caffeine! I need to make the switch to de-caf at least. Probably should get rid of it all together. We shall see. Like swearing and gossip, I gotta have SOME vices! LOL on kickin' these houses in the crotch. If you figure out exactly where that is located, PLEASE share because by now I'm entitled to full day of repeat kicking in that oh so special place!!

It's Day 5 for you, right? You all need to start sayin' your days so we can properly inflate your egos over it!!! We tend to get really hard on ourselves if we have a "learning experience." I think we are quite entitled to celebrate our successes with even more vigor. That's the message on my Butt Billboard today.

DG
Day 14 AF * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

[Almostfamous]

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Doggy G- I am entering day 5!!!! Yeah! I posted at the same time as you this morning( 1 up from your nasty house story) so you may have missed it. I feel great except for the headaches. I will let you know if I find that certain "part" in my house and we can have one (booze free) kicking party.

Oh and 1 more thing. I was thinking earlier how I gave up booze and caffeine for my entire pregnancy. But did I stay that way afterward....NOOOOOO! Felt like a zillion bucks too. Oh well the past is the past! Here's me looking forward.

[Doggygirl]

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OOPS I did miss your first post of the day!! We've got to stop our brains from meeting like this...

DG
Day 14 AF

[music man]

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My stupid day.

The day starts with a bunch of stupid contract B.S. to deal with, and I have to fax stuff and write cover letters and go to the post office... I get back and look through the mail only to find out that my auto insurance was cancelled because of some stupid billing mixup.

I get on the phone and straighten that one out (I hope)...

And then I get an email with a music request... hey things are looking up!... but nooo the stupid dates are conflicting with travel plans I have already made... So I make a bunch of stupid phone calls, and send off a bunch of email.

Now I am dying for a drink... The local store was out of the one brand of Non Alcoholic beer that they normally carry (stupid name! it should be recovering alcoholic or Beer for Alcoholics... or some crap like that!). So now I am crawling around the beer cooler moving 6 packs around looking to see if there was some in the back... and finally give up... Stupid store!

I come home opened the fridge and there is that stupid bottle of wine staring at me...So I drank a glass of... water ... yum...

I grab some dinner (missed lunch somehow)..

Then I start working on a stupid unnecessary revision for my stupid client, but like a good boy, I decide to back up my files... and after watching files copy for 20 minutes the stupid computer locks up and it causes some stupid network error... I have to reboot all the stupid computers then after relaunching all the software the stupid mixing board isn't outputting any stupid audio, so I reboot again and the stupid computer is frozen so I reboot again and now I am ready to start...but nooo! the sample rate is no incorrect so I need to reboot the stupid software again. And it's midnight and I start working on the stupid revision...and I finish it and upload it and send off email to let them know it's done and now it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm going to stupid bed...

Stupid day!

... hey, but I didn't drink though... cooool!

[satori]

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If you didn't drink, the day turned out not so stupid after all!

Well done - If you can resist alcohol after a day like that - you are doing real well!

Satori

[Arial]

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Wow! I missed a day on the computer and feel I'm now behind with all the news! It's great to feel the positive vibes and energy from everyone - a big, warm :welcome: to Sartori, Daisy-doo and Capricorn 1 - great decision to try abs for a while and good luck with it!

As I said in Sartori's thread the time I decided to go AF rather than keep trying to moderate was the time I finally found a bit of peace in my head - the arguments stopped, the negotiations - and the focus could change from not drinking to what I was going to do instead! I found a list of all the things I could now do since I wasn't drinking really helped keep me focused. Being there for my girls was obviously the biggest one, but also included excercise (sorry, the 'E' word again!), weekends hiking, driving after 6pm, reading, studying , watching a film till the end (unlike my usual open-mouth, head lolling pass-out half way through!), keep on top of the house, ....the list changes and gets longer, but it makes me realise just how much I've been putting off...

And have you added up the hours wasted through drink? I worked out that on average I lost a whole day's worth of time a week - ie 24 hours! I couldn't believe that I had wasted so much of my life, and it really helped give me the motivation to start making up for lost time. However, I think I need some of DG's energy to really do that, but I'll plod on in my more staid ways!

Pinkie - the tiredness is normal and does get better! I suppose it's our bodies adjusting to life without alcohol, creating new patterns of sleep and life. Ironically I found that if I excercised it actually increased my energy levels and I didn't feel so tired... And Cloud Jockey -sugar cravings?! Oh yes - Apparently the L-Glutamine is brilliant to stop these. I never got round to getting any so I binged on anything sweet for many weeks. Thank goodness I was doing some excercise aswell. It finally went away after a couple of months.

Anyway, day 6 for this new AF time and really looking forward to seeing those days clock up! Happy Tuesday everyone, and good luck with all your goals!

[satori]

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Hey Arial, :goodjob:


Looks like we are buddies - I am half way thru day 6 too - feeling good!

Take care

Satori
xxx

[buffy]

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Hi everyone, Doggy G....I have to get busy on my closet too. I love when things are organized. You handled all those problems like a pro. Almostfamous.....I know when I try to cut down on coffee I get horrible headaches! It goes away eventurally, but it is like having migranes. My skin feels better and I am hoping I will tan up instead of looking like I have been in a fire. haha.. I just heard on the news, that having even one soft drink a day can increase heart attacks....even diet....there goes my diet coke addiction. That is not a bad thing, I have been trying to drink more water. Keep up the good work you all, I am on day 4 yippy!