Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

[kaddy]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

morning everyone,, thanks for the kind words
feel a lot better, going to work a do some cleaning
hope you all have a good weekend

[happydog]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hello ALL booze busters,

Wow the sun is out need to make the most of it.

Dg.. souds like a good sunday project have fun. How did yor test result go? i will look forward to looking at the link.
Kaddy.. Sorry you had a bad day yesterday, glad you feel a lot better, you are a strong person. Good luck with all that cleaning. 85days Af well done.x
Cindi... Hope your feeling better soon.:l
Auntymame..Wow hope you had a good night sleep after all that hard work in the garden. hope you have no ache or pains today.
Welcome aboard mags mom. its glad to see you are enjoying your af evening.
Louise.. glad i made you laugh. its funny the only think i can mod at the moment is af wine and that is only at weekends will not drink it at week days.
Marshy..Well done 50+days AF. if you feel like your not moving forward it a good idea maybe to get in contact and arrange counselling. i go to 1to1 sessions and stop my group session but later on i realize i needed the group session as well, it all helps. Also exercise does help a lot. good luck.
Hannah... have a good weekend.
anna... you just remined me i need to do some tiding up and (i hate this job) ironing.
livingfree..enjoy your family event. I'm looking forward to june as well going to see Bon Jovi in concerts cant wait.

Well i must be of going to my brother house, me and my sister take care of his finane he to has a drinking problem but he is up to his eye balls in debt. So he is not allow no money in his hand got to go and do his shopping with him. Yes it runs in the family.

Have a good weekend everyone.x

Take care
Love
Teardrop.x
48days af

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Good Day Booze Busters!!

Mame, congrats on a successful AF Saturday! Your garden sounds beautiful. With a brick path and everything! Once you get that path laid, it would be cool if you took a picture to share with us! I'm all thumbs when it comes to gardening but next week I'm going to attempt some potted stuff for the new roof top patio. After all that work I bet the hot bath and soft bed felt great. Happy AF Sunday to you!

Hi Kaddy. I'm glad you are feeling better today. Can I just express this one sentiment though. Cleaning = YUK!

TEARDROP!! John Bon Jovi is the hottest thing in pants. I am PEA GREEN with envy. Can I go too? When is the concert? I'm so sorry to hear about your brother. He is fortunate to have you and your sis to help him through this struggle. AL really can lead us to very bad places, can't he. Congratulations on your own 48 days AF. Oh..I won't know the test results for 3 weeks. The blood they took yesterday has to go to the lab. I have to do this saliva kit tomorrow - I have to basically fill 4 vials with spit. That's a lot of spit. I hope I can muster up enough! Then I mail that to the lab on Monday. I can't wait - it's going to be a long 3 weeks.

It's Double Digit Day here! Day 10. How funny that such a memorable milestone (well, for me anyway) occurs on dog training day. I'm really not uptight about it, which is unusual. And I think maybe a good thing - LOL will know more by the end of the day. It's going to be a LONG one. Nearly everyone who trains here plans to be here. We have lots of people who either work some weekends, or have to juggle training with family stuff, so our group is pretty big since usually only about 1/2 - 2/3 show up. We have more like 80%+ showing up today....My hands will be full trying to keep things moving along. I'm sure I'll be popping in to touch the life line occassionally!

Happy AF day to all!
DG Day Ten and Bite Me AL (oh wait! that doesn't rhyme!)
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[The Londoner]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Not the best of days

Hi All
Day 5 and still alive - just!
Nothing to do with craving alcohol, more to do with catmiaows keeping me awake since 3.30, then an annoying letter from the bank, apologising for their incompetence-I just freaked this morning and am still feeling tired this afternoon, but hey worse things are happening other peeps Kaddy, hope you're ok, so many setbacks in a short space of time, stay strong on the AF front, won't you? Forgive me everyone else, too irritable to write more, but know I am thinking of us all as an amazing bunch of BBs and welcome to MagsMom, stay close.

more tomorrow
Anna:h

[Miss Behaving]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

10 days for DG

DG - just wanted to say congrats on your 10 days and hope the tracking goes really well. Your positive and optimistic posts are so great and I look forward to reading them every day. Hope you took some great photos today.

Think my sore muscles yesterday were less to do with garden and more to do with coming down with the flu - it has me in its grip this morning. So I'm going back to bed with lots of audio books on my i-pod and think I am likely to sleep though quite a lot of day 7!

Have a good day everyone!

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hi Anna and Mame. Anna, sorry to here that things are a bit off today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. Hopefully the kitties will be quiet tonight!! Sleep is a wonderful thing that I am ready for a WHOLE bunch of myself!

Mame, sorry to hear that you are sick!! I too have been trying to fight off a cold/sore through/now feels like coughing will start. It's about done me in today too. It was a good day at training. There are some things about my camera I have GOT to figure out! Nobody's fault but my own for not reading the manual LOL. Anyway Mame, I just wanted to check in and say that Day 10 was fine. Now I'm heading to bed with some Nyquil (even though it's not quite 6PM here) and a movie to fall asleep to. I think tomorrow Day 11 for me needs to be a R&R day.

Hope all Booze Busters are :b&d: the beast today!!

Thanks again for all of your daily support. I wouldn't be this far on the journey without all of you!! Day 10 feels great. Another AF dog training day down too!

Nighty night all! Hope you are having fun and I'll see ya tomorrow!

DG
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[july232007]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hello Boozebusters,

May is drawing to a close and June begins with opportunity for us all. How do you want to spend it?

For those completeing 30 days well done. And, for those building 30 keep working. The foundation of those first 30 days is the beginning of good things.

July,

Day 310 AF

[eksil]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

still hanging after a few days... not very hard to quit the bottle plus of vino a night, but I do miss it. I'm sure I'm still an alcoholic even as I am not really having many symptoms right .

ANHOW I HOPE TO TRY TO KEEP THS GOING! GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE, WILL TRY TO CHECK IN MORE OFTEN.

THANKS
J

[Hannah]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th



Well, Boozebusters, here we go ? June!

I realized yesterday that I have now got 30 days under my belt ? but no biggee, because that?s only the beginning??I have no intentions of stopping at any set number, because I realize that for me this must be a lifelong commitment. As so many others will attest, I just don?t believe very many people do all that well at moderation ? I have tried it also, and it just seems to be a slippery slope ? sooner or later most find themselves in the muck again. You all need to decide for yourselves whether you think you dare to moderate, or whether you are going to stay AF. Myself, the choice is easy.

My hubby has had this week off, and we?ve spent a lot of it on the golf course. Today we were paired up with another couple, John and Linda, around our own age. They seemed like nice enough people, maybe a little rough around the edges, but friendly. By the second hole we were feeling pretty comfortable golfing with them, and we were making idle conversation as we waited to tee off. John and my hubby were standing at the men?s tee, talking, and John mentioned that one of his friends had just quit drinking ? in his words, ?Just quit drinking, just like that!? I, standing next to Linda, said to her, ?Well, good for him, so many people have such a hard time with drinking? (Nice, safe, and non-revealing!) And she replied, ?Yes, well, John drinks more than he should, really? ? well, around this time I realized the husband (John) was somewhat drunk. And everytime the refreshment cart came around, he bought another beer. And my hubby noticed that he?d had a six pack in his bag at the start. His wife, (Linda) was drinking coffee, nothing more.

As we continued to make conversation, we discovered that John and I had gone to the same high school, at the same time, in it?s first year of operation. Turned out I am 1 year older than him. As time went on, John became somewhat foul mouthed, although still friendly. But every second word?.well, you get the drift. And he got progressively louder, and more foul mouthed as time went on. And said some fairly inappropriate things, such as, ?Oh, Oh, won?t be any piece of tail for me tonight?, etc. His wife looked quite embarrassed at times. I was feeling very embarrassed on her behalf, and sorry for her, by the time we?d finished the game. Throughout the whole time, John remained friendly, but was pretty blotto by the end. When we got home, I went and dug out my old high school yearbook and looked for his name ? and sure enough, there he was. Just an innocent looking face staring out from the page, a blank slate, really ? with the potential at the age of 16 or 17 to do many things ? even, I guess, to become an alcoholic.

And it was a sort of awakening for me ? I never drank in public, and certainly wouldn?t have been foul mouthed, but I am sure if someone had knocked at my door, it would have been pretty apparent. Nothing like a virtual mirror to make you see things more clearly.
Hubby and I spent quite a bit of time talking this over during supper, and our consensus is that we are so very grateful we have made the decision we have made ? that is, to quit.

Eksil ? good for you on hanging in there. No one can really tell you if you are an alcoholic, but if you think you have a problem with drinking, then you probably do. Now is the time to nip it in the bud, just as you are doing. Good for you.

July ? always such a source of inspiration. 310 days and counting! Looking forward to your 1 year anniversary!

DG, Mame ? hope you can just chill out tomorrow, and get to feeling better.

Hey ? and you too Cindi! Geez, I?ve never known anyone to have sinusitis so bad! My Dad swears by the salt water snorting too, and apparently it really works!
To all my poor sick friends,



Londoner, Teardrop, Kaddy - and any others I've missed - I hope the start of the new week and the new month fill you with a renewed resolve to keep on keeping on - pile up those AF days - you will never regret it. And if you are done your initial 30 - be careful, be very careful, that Al won't catch you on the rebound, just because you have reached your target and are feeling safe.....if you are liking the feeling of being sober, not having that morning hangover, etc., why stop now? Think about it.

[kaddy]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

morning everyone,, well done Hanngh on 30 days
well made mexican last night for some mates,,then 4 more turned up,, you should of seen all the drink
then we all went to a club,, so wen l got back home there were beer and wine every were,, so this is the 1st time am on my own with alcy,, as l do not mind them bring beer as long as they take it home, so all what was in classes l throw away and the bottels l but in the shed,, this was very hard for me,, as for the bad week,, but l did it

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Good morning Booze Busters!!

Hannah, thanks for that soup - I need it today!! It is very thought provoking to watch people who are blotto when I am sober, and just wonder how many, many times I *thought* I was *under control* but really wasn't. It is SO nice to not have to worry about that. :kudos: on your 30 days!! That is awesome. You also have a great way of looking at this - it's for good. That's what I have to do as well.

eksil, keep up the good work. You might want to think long and hard about exactly what it is you are missing. In my past attempts at drinking, I think I allowed that "longing" voice - the beast within to keep convincing me that not drinking was a Big Sacrifice, and I was really missing out. For me anyway, most of that stuff is just a Big Fat Lie.

kaddy - good for you being able to hand out with your friends while they are partying it up. Good for you pitching the left overs! I'm sure that wasn't easy, especially on the heels of a rough week. Hang in there!

July, love love love your pearls of wisdom as always!

Today I still have a stuffy nose, sore throat, and feel like someone is sitting on my chest. One thing is for sure - I am VERY glad I am no longer a smoker (15+ months quit) and I'm way better off without a hangover on top of it too. (Annoying the world with a bright side - one person at a time! :lol

I have to go do one of 4 saliva test kits for this hormone thing. I'm still trying to visualize how on earth I will fill up they vials with spit. That's just a lot of spit! There is this wax stuff you chew on - I guess that's to help in the spit production department. The hole in the vials is not very big - I hope I don't miss. This should be rather hillarious and take my mind off of my cold for at least a few minutes!

Day 11 and I'm not soppy enough to say it's heaven.

DG
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[scullinggirl]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

:new:I am going to jump on the band wagon to be AF for 30 days starting today.
I am looking forward to getting to know all of you.

I have browsed this sight and in my head I have told myself I am going to be AF but then of course I drink. I decided this morning after waking up and wondering how I got into bed because I always fall asleep on the couch when I drink that I needed to post on this site. I want to get rid of the alcohol demon.

I am glad to have all of you to help me along the way.

scullinggirl

[Hannah]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Welcome Scullinggirl! Looking forward to getting to know you, and that you will find this site a big help in your journey. I know it has been for me!

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

:welcome: Scullingirl! Glad to have you on board. It might feel rough at first, but getting rid of the demon is SO worth it. Have you downloaded the My Way Out book through the Health Store? If not, I highly recommend it as I know many others here do.

WOO HOO on your Day 1 AF!

DG
Day 11 AF
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[Marshy]

Booze Busters 30 Day Challenge - Beginning May 26th

Hi all,
Quick check in. Busy weekend - had a friend visiting and we've been doing touristy things. Great fun!