Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

[Sheepish]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Night to all from So California
Finally I can post here and hold my head up. AF day one down.
Thanks to all on this thread for your encouragement. Mame- thnaks for the update on the hypno. Food for thought. And Doggy Girl - loved the pictures of your Ferguson and Hubby.
Grateful to you all
-Sheep

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Good Day Booze Busters!!!

gelgit, I always wonder what it means when the news reports say a fire is "X % contained." Can you shed any light on that? Still sounds quite dangerous to me no matter what % "contained" it is. But I'm glad you saw some rays of sun!!!! I will try to do a rain dance for you. And no, you cannot have a video of that. About breeds changing over the years...the conformation show ring in the German Shepherd breed (and also in other breeds I think) is blamed heavily for changing the GSD breed into more non-workable slobs than dogs capable of doing the originally intended work. I would have to say I agree with that to a great degree with the American bloodlines, and to a smaller degree the German Showlines (which is what Ferguson and Kimba are). The Eastern European lines of German Shepherds are probably the closest to the original breed standard established around 1900 (actually late 1800's I think) with the Western European working lines the next closest. OK - enough dog history for one morning!!

Mame, I always wonder why mother nature distributes things like rain so unfairly. Some are flooded while others are burning down. Here's hoping you can send your extra rain to gelgit!! I think your hypno is onto something - let's declare July 4 INTERNATIONAL Independence from AL day. What is stroppy? Whatever it is, if it means you got 7 straight hours of sleep, uninterupted, all in a row, in the same night, then I WANNA BE STROPPY!! I think that is VERY cool that you contacted the restaurant, and made a difference in their decision to carry more AF options. That no sugar added sparkly juice sounds pretty good! What flavors does it come in?

kaddy, travel safely to see your son. Congratulations on 118 days. Hmm...that's 2 days away from 120 days. That's 4 30 Day AFHF stretches in a row. Hmmmm.....

SHEEPISH!!!! YOU GO on getting Day 1 under your belt. WE CAN DO THIS!! On to Day 2. Just figure out a good plan that works for you. :cheering:

Waving hello to all other Booze Busters. Hopefully all of us in the US have an EXCELLENT AF plan to get us through the upcoming holiday weekend. I got a whole bag of lemons at the store Tuesday. I plan to make some Louise Specials (gotta get mint today!) and also lemonade with Stevia. That and a firm decision that I WILL NOT drink alcohol will carry me through. And of course touching the life line here when needed!

I can't believe it's Day 43 AFHF here. I'm so focused on trying to get in shape and get this fat off my a$$ that I really haven't had more than the odd thought of AL recently, except for that "longing to celebrate" a bit last Sunday. I will enjoy this "peace" for however long it lasts!!

It's been a horrid slow week for business which is to be expected during a holiday week. I am trying not to panic!! This happens every year and most holiday weeks and I'm still not used to it. (we will celebrate our 5 year anniversary of our own business in September)

Well, have a great day everyone!!!!

DG
:award: + *************

[Marshy]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Hello everyone,

Some days I'm on a natural high from being sober and today is one of those days. I hope everyone else is feeling gooooooooood too.

Doggygirl: great pix of Ferguson. He looks very pleased to be showing off his moves! I'm sure business will pick up after the holiday. I had my own business very briefly a few years ago (it lasted for about nine months!) and I remember how stressful it was waiting for someone, anyone, please!!!, to give us work. You're doing very well if you've succeeded for five years.

Gelgit: I hope the fires are dying down. It sounds like a scary time.

Teardrop: I saw a piece on the news about kids here having proms now and dressing up and arriving in stretch limos etc. Bit different from when we were at school!

Sheepish: well done on day one! I always found those first few days tough - hang in there.

Everyone else have a great day, and I hope all you Yanks celebrate getting rid of us Limeys in splendid AF style tomorrow!

[louise]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Alas, I allowed funk to lead to deranged thinking and drank a bottle of wine Tues night. Wore the fuggly green suit yesterday (accompanied with headache). It is hot and scratchy and getting quite tattered. Glad to be back in normal clothes today so I'm on day 2 with Sheep. Way to go sheep!

Yes, must make a really good plan for tomorrow. Have been invited over for small party at house of some people we are acquainted with but don't yet know really well. When we said we could come, got a message back about how glad they were we could come and "as I recall you both drink and like good food so we will have fun" Yikes!!! My husband drinks little. I have no recollection of these people drinking more than very casually at any event we have been at with them. Of course I was always busy trying to figure out how to get more wine without being too conspicuous. Well somebody noticed obviously! Need to mull the "I'm on medication" and take AF beer, which will make it easier for me, or the "I'm trying to lose a few (45) pounds" and stick with water. Perhaps I could just try "No thanks". That would be novel.

DG - for mint I would suggest you buy a plant and stick it in 1 of your pots. The stuff is next to impossible to kill (one person said sometimes you can drown it). Do NOT plant it in your yard unless contained - it is a rampant weed. The previous owners of our house planted it in a the yard so I just go out and pull some up daily to try to keep it in control. It is amazing to me how much they charge for it at the store.

So thankful, hope you are doing ok. Gelgit, still sending good wishes for rain, let us know you are still safe. Marshy and Teardrop, glad you are both felling good. Marshy, you Limeys are probably quite relieved you didn't keep us at times. Kaddy, have a good trip and we look forward to your party!

Have a good day all BBs!

[Pamina]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Oh Louise!!!! Was it at least the finest, most expensive, exquisite yummy wine to be found in New Mexico? I was about to post that we should finally get the fugly green suit to the dry cleaners now that it's not being used by anybody. Which indeed it no longer is today. Good to have you back. I should take the AF beer to your party so you're less likely to be tempted by any goodies they may have to offer. I'm still at work so will post more later. And yes, good going Sheep on day 2!!
Just wanted to add, Louise, you were feeling out of sorts earlier in the week. Some issues are hard, they just are, and take time to work through. It can even take time to find the words to articulate what doesn't sit right in your soul. Don't give your power away. (((((((:l))))))

[sothankful]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Hi All, It's so hot today I almost can't stand it. 112 today I have to plan everything around the intense heat. Workout at the gym this morning early. the gym will be closed tomorrow. Dang it. Open again on Saturday. Anyway I am planning on trying some AF beer. doing good today.
I just love reading the posts. I don't feel like such an alien. from outer space that is. ha ha

have a happy 4th

[Miss Behaving]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Hi all, hope everyone is feeling good. Kaddy - enjoy seeing your son.

Sheepish and Louise ... so good that you've picked yourselves up. I know how much pride I had to swallow (several times) last month when I was all over the place, but it was so great to feel the support from here.

DG - happy anniversary to your business!! I've got a marketing suggestion for you - someone sent me an email today advertising a USB wine tap!!

I didn't know that "stroppy" was not a universal term, but it is obviously a kiwi-ism. "Stroppy" is a word usually applied to women, but not usually in a negative way. Its a bit of a "dont mess with me, I'm in charge, get out of my way" sort of thing. I like days when I feel that that as I usually get a lot done because I'm not constantly re-visiting whether I'm doing the right thing, or trying to please other people.

Things are definitely looking up on this side of the world ....... sold some furniture this week which has simultaneously given us some cash and some space in the house! And its been a good wek for exercise and the rain stopped last night and today is a beautiful day. But the best news is that Uncle Mame has been offered a fantastic job - because he was not having any luck getting anything he wanted he applied for something that he could do just fine, but which he felt was going backwards a bit. Anyway, they rang yesterday and asked him to come in to have a chat, and this morning they asked him to take on another role leading a 3-year change management programme. He is brilliant at this stuff and prides himself on doing these things in a way which is people-centred, instead of those nasty horrible "if you dont do it our way you are out the door" processes. We met for coffee afterwards and he looked like a changed person - all the light is back in his eyes, and he is cheerful again, and he was off to get stuff done at home.

Of course, all this "things going well" stuff is presenting new challenges - I've developed some strategies for dealing with things when I'm feeling like shit, but my first response to things when they work out is currently "yay - lets open the champagne"!! We have decided to go out to dinner tonight to a nice place where we usually do our celebrating, and I think I will find that hard. Particularly as it is Friday night - which is the night I find hardest. I went and bought a bottle of Ariel AF (well, 0.5%) bubbles, and I'm going to suggest that we have a glass of that before we go out, so that I feel like I've had something celebratory with him.

anyway, hope you all have a good Friday and a good weekend ......... I will be hanging around the house cleaning out clothes and linen and books, so will check on regularly if anyone is around. For those of you in the US, have a great holiday weekend!!!

mame

[louise]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Mame, I'm so happy to hear the good news about Uncle Mame! That is wonderful. Hope your dinner was lovely.

[happydog]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Have A Happy Independence Day!

short post today I hope you all achieve your AF goals your aiming for. Busy day for me today which i think is a good thing for me.
Its funny i was thinking about my last drinking session i had.. You know it only takes one bottle of wine for me to have a blackout my brain cant seem to store information anymore! There's nothing worst when the kids ask you a questions from the night before and you cant remember a thing.

Take Care ALL you Booze Busters out there.
Have a good friday, catch up with you on saturday if not monday.

Love
Teardrop.x
9days af

[1967]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

okay here i am trying to join booze busters.
day 7 for me. i need all the encouragement i can get. holiday week-end... uh-huh.
this has been hard enough for me not to want to start over.

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Good Day Booze Busters!!!! Happy Independence Day to US Booze Busters. May your BBQ's be A(bsolutely) F(abulous) and the rest of your weekend Hangover Free!

It's Day 44 AFHF here and life is good. We have no special plans today which I am grateful for!! The doc made some hormone adjustements yesterday and at least for the moment I feel more energetic than usual in the morning, and feel like tackling some house projects such as closet / drawer / bathroom cabinet cleaning. Some steaks are thawing for dinner - YUM!! I might actually go to the liquor store today and buy some AF beer just to taste it later.

Marshy - I know what you mean about the "natural high" of sobriety - at least sometimes!! A special on-line friend back when I quit smoking taught me that I DO have some choice in the matter - whether I am miserable or not. Let's face it - some things in life just plain suck and that's that. But more often I think, the cup can be viewed as either half full or half empty, and the choice in how we view it is up to us. I think racking up AF time is easier when to the degree we can, we CHOOSE to enjoy all the good things about sobriety rather than being grumpy because we "can't" drink. (Truth is - we CAN drink whenever we want to. Why not get happy with the choice not to??) At any rate...enjoy your natural high!! (hope it's still going on today..)

louise, I'm sorry that AL managed to get to you. More lessons learned to arm yourself in the future I'm sure. I am SO glad you decided to get right back on the wagon!!! You are way smarter than me. On your BBQ later and thoughts on that....."No Thanks" and leave it at that is something I think we can all practice and get better at. I was thinking about that a couple of days ago. I am often in situations (including weekly dog training) where there are many people who don't drink alcohol. I don't even spend 30 seconds wondering why they aren't drinking. I especially don't think "I wonder if that person is really a recovering alcoholic..." or anything like that. I suspect that nearly all the people around most of us wouldn't think twice about it if we just learned to say "no thanks" and move on with no excuses made whatsoever. In any case, if you decide to try the AF beer, I'll be interested in what you think!! Also, thanks for the tip about not planting mint in the yard. I was thinking I should find some to plant and just grow my own. When I do, I will definitely use a pot!!

Hi Pamina!! I am really enjoying your words of wisdom along with your terrific humor here and in the daily thread and in the 31 - 60 thread!!

sothankful - 112 degrees is just TOO HOT. Glad you got the gym out of the way early yesterday!! I'm with you being sad that the gym is closed today. I'm really getting addicted to the good feeling of working out every morning. Mine is open tomorrow (Sat) too, and I will be there!! I will think of you!!)

Mame - LOL on the USB wine tap. I'm still waiting for Mr. Doggy to come through with the automatic, network connected toilet scrubbing device. I'm likin' this Stroppy word!! That's a keeper. I'm feeling stroppy today too! WOO HOO on Uncle Mame's job!!! It's interesting how things in life take unexpected twists and turns. That sounds awesome and I BET he's happy!! Hope everything went great at dinner last night, and you had a nice AF celebration. When I lost my 60 day AF stretch...it was over a positive moment rather than a stressful one. I guess we focus so much sometimes on the problems we have used AL to avoid, that we fail to plan for the celebrations that are tied to AL. GREAT food for thought Mame!!

Teardrop, congratulations on Day 9!! Time seems to be flying - hope it feels that way on your end anyway, as far as back to AF goes! How was the prom? Did the tux (and your son!) get home safely all in one piece? Did you get pictures?

Well, I better get out on the roof porch and water my plants!! Have a GREAT AF day everyone!

DG
:award: + **************

[Sheepish]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Hi Everybody
A quick check in- Made it through Day 2 AF yesterday. Louise- my AF partner in crime- how's it going?
All of you BB folks- Doggy, Mame, Pamina, So Thankful, Teardrop- everyone who posts here are so very important to me. You start and end my day...
Happy 4th to those in the US and Happy Friday to those in the N Hemisphere and Happy Saturday to the Down Under pals!
xxx
-Sheep

[louise]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Welcome 1967. Yep, those 1st days are terrible. Don't want to do that again. Shall we both commit to party AF? Happy 4th to all in USA and have a great Friday to all others. So thankful, hope it cools down son. Still sending rain wishes to gelgit.

Took 2 days to get AL from fall on Tues out of system but feel good again today. Since 5/28, I have had 35 days AF, 1 day moderate and 1 day way to much. So I'm still feeling good despite slip. AL did not get me DG. My emotions and thinking got me. Must learn more mature ways of handling them. Alas, Pamina, only the last 2 glasses was really good wine. The first 4 were from a cheap bottle my husband had opened 8 days before. In fact, the first few sips tasted terrible and I actually thought 2 times to just throw it out. It was like when I smoke after not smoking for a while - tastes terrible at 1st. (In fact the beginning of the downfall was actually an intense desire to smoke, which I resisted, not to drink). So of course my mind decided it would be a good idea to drink a bit more to see if maybe I really didn't even like wine anymore! Geeze. Anyway, today I'm taking 2 AF beers to the party (not generally much of a beer drinker but in summer when hot it tastes good and the good AF beers taste better to me than bad AL beer!). I think your observations that others are really not paying attention to us NOT drinking is true DG. They are much more likely to pay attention if I overdrink, that's for sure.

Congrats on 9 days teardrop.

I like the word stroppy too. Have a stroppy day all!

HI Sheep! We cross posted. Have a great AF 4th so we can both be on day 4 tomorrow! Yep, generally start and end my day here too, even if I don't post.

[Doggygirl]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Welcome 1967 to Booze Busters!! Congratulations on 7 days. I'm with ya on part of the motivation being NOT wanting to re-do the early days!! No short term buzz (and suqsequent hangover) is worth it. (ask me, I know this from experience...)

Good to see you louise and sheepish!! MAN the mental games that come with addiction are really something, aren't they. It's like our subconscious mind has a life of it's own coming up with justifications to smoke / drink.

NO NO NO NO NO!!!! That's what I have to say to AL this weekend!!

My cherry tomato plant was really suffering so a few days ago I moved it to a shadier spot on the roof. It looks like it's getting some new growth!! I hope I didn't kill it completely by cutting off some of the dead stuff so that hopefully, the new stuff will get all the nutrients. Mean time, it has produced a total of 7 cherry tomatoes to full ripeness and they were good. So it would be REALLY cool if I can get the plant back to some sort of health and it gets more blossoms!!

The Farmers Market right down the road from my house should be opening this weekend. YUM!! I need to go drive by there and see what's up.

DG

[louise]

Booze Busters Week of 6/30 Absolutely Fabulous Hangover Free 30 Day Challenge!

Farmers Markets! Yeah! Went there yesterday. One near us is really small. But got some great apricots and Fabulous bread. I must get off of here and go start cookin! Have some ripe mangoes, trying to make up a mango salsa.