What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

[retteacher]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

I hate the accidents I've had because I got drunk:
-left my hearing aid on a couch & the dog chewed it.
-broke a tooth chomping on an olive pit while drunk.

There are a few others, but I can't think of what they are right now.

Mary

[retteacher]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

I hated having liquor bottles rolling around underneath my car seat until I could find an out of the way trash recepticle to put them in (when hopefully nobody was looking).

[Tiny]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

I hated the way I neglectled myself -- I found myself wearing the same old outfit all the time -- meanwhile I have a closet full of clothing...

I hated that I lost touch with me!!!!!!!!

I hated that I fell flat on my face and chipped a front tooth!

[retteacher]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

Tiny: I broke a tooth once while drunk. Awful! Mary

[lukalee]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

I hate that I allow people to walk all over me when I drink.

[greeneyes]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

I hate that I never got around to paying the car insurance and now we are driving uninsured car! Holy shit! Wait till hubby finds THIS out! And I thought yesterday was bad.

[Cinders]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

Greenie,

You can fix that with a phone call, though. Do it now!!

Love,
Cindi

[greeneyes]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

I did. Called agent and gave credit card #. I'm looking at about $600 in fines from DMV. Holy shit I hope I can hide this. He's been making counter draws again so I don't know how much is actually in the bank! Gaaaahhh!!!

[Larisa]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

Ha, y'all are so awesome! One thing AA has right, it takes an alkie to understand another alkie. Nobody else knows what it's like to be in a public place thinking, go slooooow...don't fall, and don't...sccchhhhllur.

I know it's not really funny, but humor has helped me through some really dark places.

And hey! It's day 3! That's a sobriety marathon, for me!

[Cinders]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

Larisa,

:goodjob: just a couple more days and you will be through the absolute worst of withdrawals.

Yee Haw, keep it going.

I hated the trying to act "normal" as I meandered from the bar to my hotel room. Umm, stumbled, swayed, looked at the floor.

Cindi

[one of 7]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

oh another good one. Business conference, up late, drinking, trying not to slur...........talking til late in the night.

next day, i asked a colleague "what time did you go to bed?" he said "you should know, i walked you to your room". oh my jolly, had no recollection of that. No, nothing happened, but what an shameful recollection. of course then i carried on drinking for the next 5 years. Doh, dumb

[SpiritGirl]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

Michaela - thats was a good one - "puking on the plane". I didn't have a "bag" in my sit and BARELY made it to the bathroom. Thank GOD it was unoccupied!! I hope to never do that again. And also, never be ashamed here. We all have been there and can relate. You can trust that.

I hate that my son (12, almost 13) watches to see how much I have drank, and when I'm not looking, or so he thinks, he pours the wine that's in my glass down the sink. He never says a word.

I hate having to spend a sunny day "sleeping it off"

I hate that my parents have to worry about me.

I hate that I am mean to my significant other. He deserves a sober me.

I hate the times I have embarassed my kids in front of their friends.

I hate that I have so much to hate....


Day 3 for me tomorrow... A rough day to go into the weekend. I'm going to give the beast my best shot

[Seen the light!]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

This is a good thread and so true!!!

Things I hate:

1. Waking up on Monday morning after a weekly weekend binge and hating myself for doing it again when I said I wouldn't

2. The black depressions

3. Having to ask my son who's 10 what time I went to bed (at weekend)

4. Standing away from people some mornings cos I think I might smell of stale AL

5. Slurring my words and forgetting what I was trying to say half way through a conversation

6. Spoiling weekends with hangovers

7. Hate that my kids will probably think this is normal adult behaviour


I could go on and on ..... One positive thing to say is that at least all of us here are trying to do something about our problem and not just burying our head in the sand like others do. We will get there eventually!!!!!!!

[Doggygirl]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

Hi all. Such great posts. This thread will be one of my first defense weapons when AL comes knocking!! I can relate to nearly 100% of what's on everyone's list.

STL - I totally forgot about an important one you mentioned - forgetting halfway through a sentence what I was going to say. I can feel my face turning red with embarrassment just thinking about it!! I did that A LOT.

I woke up quite a bit earlier than I got up this morning, and was thinking about how life is different now. I got thinking about Booze Beast Lie #2 - "tomorrow (Monday / next month / etc.) we'll stop...." and all that comes with that mode of thinking.

I don't even want to try to count the number of days and weeks and months and I'm sure enough days to make up YEARS that I spent in the bottle, in prison in my own home, thinking about how good "tomorrow" (or whenever) was going to be without drinking. I would look around my house and yard and think of the projects I would do "when." I would imagine myself exercising and cooking interesting new recipes and helping more productively with our business and doing volunteer work and and and and. ALL these good things were reserved for "tomorrow." And subsequently life was a never ending string of "one last private party."

What a waste of a life. I NEVER want to waste away like that again.

I HATE AL!!!! :b&d:

DG
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[retteacher]

What I HATE, LOATH, and JUST CAN'T STAND about drinking.

Once I had quite a bit to drink (approx. half a bottle), I hated the way I had to force myself through the rest of the day (cooking, cleaning, etc.) under the influence...drinking the whole way through...then, in the evening, just flopping down & vegging in front of TV, because I wasn't capable of doing anything else. M