Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

[kaddy]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

morning all were has everyone gone
weres big mag and barebones
81 days af

[Cinders]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Good Morning BBs,

I am working from home this week. I have a horrible sinus infection and the doctor indicated flying would be hazardous. Yay!!

I haven't counted my AF days but have been AF starting May 8. Prior to that almost 2 months. So, I am feeling pretty good physically and mentally.

Now, if I could only get rid of this horrible sinus infection..

Have a good day, everyone.

Love,
Cindi

[jajoly]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Jumping in to keep motivated!

Day 2 here we come (again)

J x

[The Londoner]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hi Jajoly
Day 2 for me too!
Doggy G I love the sound of your rooftop garden and you can have lots of smelly flowers :flower::flower:for the little bees to enjoy! the ones on my pergola loved my wallflowers so much they are positively skeletal. THe flowers, not the bees who are small and fat. Well I think they're wallflowers-I'm one of those gardeners (now that's a posh definition for what I do out there!) if I lose the little tag that comes with the plant, I usually can't remember what it's called!
Cindi, a pity about the sinuses but at least you get to stay at home. Will you be travelling forever with your job or have you got dreams and schemes and things to change to something closer to home? I am so lucky. With my husband's approval, I switched to part-time, within walking distance, with lots of holidays. Less money, more happiness. I get to do some freelance writing "on the side". Might even get paid for it one of these days!

all for now folks, time for some afternoon telly-yes I know I am being bad, but I do not care, so there!
hope they serve up a nice little cookery programme-I love my food, even if it is only audiovisual! :strawberry::television:

Anna :happy:

[louise]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

OK if I jump in and join you all here? I'm not really a newcomer, or an oldtimer. More of a "joined a while ago" but lapsed comer. Having trouble doing 1 day AF recently so got on here this AM only to find out about Bear. Now feel sad and tired so no energy to respond to any of above. Off to open my new box of Kudzu and L-glut. Thanks all for the inspiration.

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Wow Kaddy! Day 81. I'm followin' YOU!

Cindi, I'm sorry you are suffering a sinus infection, but I'm sure it's at least a little plus to be at home! Hope you are feeling better soon enough to enjoy some of this week NOT on the road!

LOL Anna - I'm like you in the flower/plant department. My ability to identify plants and trees is at about a 2nd grade level. My ability to remember to water them is at about the same level. But...I think I will try because this roof top thing is gonna be pretty cool.

Welcome jajoly!! Congrats on Day 2. Been there done that a few times on that (again) part. I'm know I will get this right eventually - I'm feelin' really good about this shot.

Hi Louise. It's great to see you. I remember you from last year. I just came back recently myself, and it was very jarring to see the news of Bear right off. I know that Bear would NOT want you to stay away or be down about getting things back on track because of what happened to him. Right?? (R.I.P. Bear)

Well, I need to quit goofing off here and get some work done!! See all you Booze Busters later..

DG
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[eksil]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Going Drink Free...

May 28 - going drink free here....

Bottle of wine a night has become too much... some nights a beer or two as well.
225lb 6-2 male...

I should my liver tested so I can compare after a few months...

anyhow wish me luck, hope I can find a habit here

J

[jajoly]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Feel very ashamed to say I'm jumping out again - have had wine this evening

[meditation mama]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hello, my fello BB's!!

Sorry for the departure the last few days, but work has been absolutely crazy.

That and I had a kind of "date" last night.... it was really fun. Nice guy - and he is a chef! Woo-hoo! I have known him for about 10 years and he is also going through a divorce. I am definately NOT ready for anything more than a fun night of chat and dinner (OK, I must confess, his absolutely handsome features did temp me - but alas, I was good), but the attention was very nice. I styed out until MIDNIGHT! What a bad little MM!

I am still feeling really good. I feel like I have turned another corner in my ever changing path. Life has come at me pretty hard lately, but I finally feel like life and I are on agreeable terms and can walk together. I can be pretty stubborn, but I have done a lot of changing over the past 5 months and I must say I am very happy where I am and the lessons that have been taught ot me.

Well, I'm off for a night of relaxing after tripping-the-light-fantastic last night!

Namaste, my friends.

MM

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Welcome J!! Glad you are joining us in our efforts to be Alcohol Free for 30 days, or many 30 days stretches.

jajoly, I hope you will think about coming back tomorrow and fighting the battle again. Don't be like me and KNOW drinking is a big problem...but let a fall off the wagon take me into the Beast's pit for weeks or months. It's so not worth it.

MM!!! You get ALL the handsome men, I swear!! (where's the groping smiley when you need it!) I'm really happy for you that life is moving forward and you are finding peace with it.

It's been a dodgy afternoon here. We lost a client today which happens in any business, but this one is a pisser because the maker of the backup software that keeps failing is NOT standing by their product, but we ended up taking the heat (and losing the client) for it. After 10 years, I very well know how Mr. Doggy deals with these things. I know I need to just leave him alone and let him stew...then by tomorrow we will get back to normal and move forward. In the not so old days, I would have poured drinks for sure. anThen I probably would make the problem worse by bugging Mr. Doggy about his need to just go to the cave for awhile, when I would just rather confront and get past the problem RIGHT NOW.

It really is so much easier to handle things properly when sober. Yes, I had thoughts of drinking - a habit response if nothing else. But coming here has helped me to stay calm and keep things in perspective.

I love you guys!

Well, I'm off for some food and some tanning and a shower then a movie. Week 1 AF is drawing to a close!!

DG
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[livingfree]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Good evening all you BBers!

DG - Sorry to hear about the lost business. Try to keep it in perspective. There will be good come out of this - just wait and see!

MM- Awesome ... A Date with a hunk!! That should make the STBX turn his frickin head. Oooops sorry. I just wanted to slap him for bringing a date to that party. Jerk.

jajoly - jump back in here!!

eksil - Good luck!! You can do it!

louise - Jump in here also

Londoner - I love audiovisual food also!!

A great evening to all!

Liv

[july232007]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

jayjoly,

Do jump right back in. The attempts are good and it will stick if you keep trying. The alternative is not what you need.

eksil & louise welcome aboard.

All you BB friends keep it going. I'm off to bed after a school graduation. Feels great to be asked to come back at 11 pm to pick up the kids and to be able to answer immediately, yes. And, to know I'll be a sober and safe driver. A year ago I would have dodged the request. Ah, the simple rewards to an AF life. A ride home w/ a teenager talking about problems that I can barely comprehend.

Take care,

July

Day 307 AF

[Hannah]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hello fellow boozebusters!
July, my friend, I am another serial Boozebuster. It started up right around the time I joined MWO last year, and it was the best Rx going??boy, brings back memories. I don?t ever want to see this thread die out, so maybe 2007 and 2008 additions ? and beyond ? are a good idea.
DG ? By the time you read this, it will be your one week AF! :wd:I hope you are feeling better about the loss of business. Computers and software ? it?s hard to buy a computer or program that doesn?t have some sort of glitch in it. And some of them are real lemons?.and how crappy if the manufacturer is pulling a cop-out. Hopefully your client will come back when he finds out that no one else can fix his problem either.
We?ve been away to a funeral, my hubby?s last surviving Uncle passed away at the age of 86 ? so we travelled back to the small town we used to live in, and you know how it goes at weddings and funerals ? saw people that we haven?t seen for a very long time. Including some friends of mine that I know only came to the funeral to see me ? and how special did that make me feel!
I won?t say hi to all individually ? I am too far behind to catch up at this point ? so will just wish everyone a good AF day and leave it at that.:wavin:

[kaddy]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

morning everyone
well done dg on one week

[The Londoner]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hello everyone
It is 7.30 here and looking out the shock is that the sun seems to be hovering near the surface of the day! After days of rain and grey sky that is something to be happy about, believe you me.

Funny thing, I was happy when I woke up, even before noticing the improving weather. Two days AF and I have so much more energy and feel so full of life. The colour is back in my cheeks and I have already dispatched a mountain of chores! I feel optimistic fit to burst! This is such a cool decision, to go 30 AF. I feel like I did when I did the last 30 in March; my memory serves me well as a guide and I feel strong and confident and happy to reap the benefits, even after two days. I am especially thankful for a rather unsettling meetup with an old friend last Sunday, hope it won't bore you guys if I talk about it a little. The girlfriend I met up has similar drink patterns to myself and so we "shared" a bottle of wine and then another. Which meant a bottle of wine each. She led the conversation back to a very upsetting time in my life and asked me some very probing questions about that time, about family members and family circumstances that I would rather not have discussed quite frankly. I felt I was placed in a defensive position and it made me uncomfortable and unhappy and I went home and cried by myself for 3 hours, missing my mother and generally feeling very sorry for myself. I woke up the next day determined to do something positive around this and so I resolved to go 30 days AF. I know as a certainty that I can be strong around family issues when I am not drinking, and so I look forward to seeing this friend again in about a month's time, when I am sober, and I will explain to her that I do not want her introducing sensitive subjects in a merely inquisitive way. I am immensely pleased that we did meet up though, as it has made me so determined to be strong in every area of my life. Her drinking habits also mirrored mine over the past decades, drinking way too much too often, but in her case, especially since the breakup of her marriage 6 years ago, she is determined not to change this, referring to herself as "alcoholic" but with no wish to go AF, even for a 30 day stretch. This fact makes me sad for her as she has some wonderful qualities, is a good person who has suffered a lot, and has a range of health and life problems. I cannot suggest AF to her as she is rather intractable and we all know here that we must make the decision for ourselves. She has without realizing it, been instrumental in getting me to return to AF. For me, it is about breaking a deadly habit.I can only hope to show her by example that being AF for long and regular stretches, if not being AF forever, makes your life a totally different experience and a much safer and happier place to be.

Hi to Kaddy and Hannah and Cindi and Liv and DG and July and MM and jajoly and eksil and Louise-I just love reading your posts and keeping up to date with what's happening in your lives! jajoly stay with us, every AF day is a good day and soon you will manage a stretch of them, just put your mind to it and use whatever support works for you. DG sorry about that client, being self-employed must be a big stress. Whatever happened to the sea bass? Med Mama, glad you dined with a cutie and he's a chef! send him my way please, only for the food you understand! And indeed one in the eye for wonder rat ex Cindi how about those sinuses today? Hannah I remember you from way back as being incredibly computer savvy.

Well guys, its Day 3 for little old me and I am soo happie (it rhymes)
love to all, and those yet to come

Anna:h

ohmygod I did not mention my food intake! last night I had grilled English asparagus, it's in (short) season, the thin stuff, just with olive oil and sea salt and black pepper - the tips were all scorched and light and crunchy and the stalks were soft and juicy.... mmmmm