AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

[SAUSAGE]

Hi all - marking and running!!

Thought i'd start us all off today - not had much time for the internet last few days - my mum has been down for a visit and whilst here took a fall, and fractured her arm - so that was all a bit stressful! - Didn't drink though!! She's gone back home now and seems to be managing fine (it's her non dominant hand fortunately) although she can't drive for 6-8 weeks and lives alone in an area with a rubbish bus service, so getting anywhere will be a bit challenging.

Am off to hospital myself later today, for various gastro invesigations - colonoscopy and endoscopy, so have been living on clear fluids, jelly etc for last 24 hrs!! Not much fun - not looking forward to investigations themselves either - hope i'll be sedated!!

I'll be back later (I hope!!!) - have a good day everyone!

[retteacher]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Hi Everyone: This is a quick hello. I'll try to get back later. Mary

[hiddengoal]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Good Morning AFreedom Riders -

Sausage, thanks for the kickstart and good luck with all the testing and investigating.

Gia, way to go on the weekend and string of AF days. The clarity of mind when AF is so refreshing, isn't it?

Just want to say that I believe those of us on this journey are brave and courageous. Have a good day everyone.

[rustop61]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Hi everyone

Thanks for getting us started Sausage, hope all goes well for you with the tests and that they knock you out for them. Spent most of yesterday in bed!! Think I have a chest infection, first time in years I felt so ugh I had to take to the bed. Even with the worst hangover I always kept going. It was probably all the hanging around in the rain on Sunday at my daughters pony show that caused it.

Feeling a little better today but still not right. Did manage a walk this morning and am trying to keep things ticking over in the house.

Cindi- congratulations, you must be delighted with the new arrival. Need to catch up on yesterday's posts, big hello to everyone.

Rustop

[greeneyes]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Morning abbers!

Gosh saussage, I guess you'll be clean as a whistle after today. Good luck!

Gia I had to do that too, as best I could manage. And it does make a huge difference. Great job on the AF weekend.

Hi Mary, hg & rustop (feel better soon!)

Off to the hole. Estranged one was such a trigger yesterday I brought my work home. I found myself struggling with my judgemental feelings towards him and trying to shoo them away. So I just had to remove myself. My hearing date is 2 months away and it's hard to be patient. It is amost exactly a year from when he left. What a year!

[Lavande]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Hi all,

Hope everyone is having a good, healthy, productive day

Good luck with the testing Sausage - you will be sedated, for sure!
Gia, I could give you a list as long as my arm of people (including a relative or two) I've had to extract from my life. They were absolutely toxic!!
Hope everyone else is feeling good & positive today.

Finally have some sunshine here so I'm off to the garden!

Enjoy your day,
Lavande

[Loppy lugs]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Hi all,

Sausage, best of luck.

Toxic people...... Sometimes for me, it is the people who are just trying to help who are the most damaging.... Sometimes they bring up in me emotions that are negative but I think are unworthy of me. So I try to keep them in and not express them. Pretend that I don't feel anything that petty or unfair. I try and stuff them back inside but no amount of food or alcohol would do it. Now that I am AF I just have to live through it until I come out the other side. These emotions are not easy!!!!

Hope everyone has a good day.

[Determinator]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Ahoy there AF mateys!

Sausage, well done on the AF despite family stresses. hope yer mum's ok.

Rustop get your chest looked at! don't want you getting pneumonia or something dreadful.

busy day but all good and well

be well my friends

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Hello all and thanks Sausage for kicking things off today! I hope your Mom gets along OK. Congrats on keepin' it AF during the stress. Ditto Deter's well wishes for Rustop - that chest infection is nothing to fool around with!!

TG - I too am in the camp that says a clear head will be optimal for figuring out what your next steps in this life might best be.

Hello to everyone - I am woefully behind from the last couple days - not totally caught up on all the action. I hope you will accept my apologies!

I'm still a little nuts adapting to the schedule changes and new routine related to the change in gyms. It's great but I have to plan my time differently. I'm also working out longer which means that time has to come from somewhere! But it's all good. I've already found several muscles I definitely did not know I had. :b&d: I know, I know...I need to take this to the abbercize thread!

Tomorrow the new Far Infrared Sauna arrives. I can't wait. Supposedly the health benefits are amazing. We shall see. Don't know if the water coming out of the new magic water machine (ionized higher alkaline) is producing benefits as claimed, but even Mr. Doggy admits it tastes a WHOLE lot better than the craptacular liquid that comes out of our tap.

Life is good.

DG

[ThatGirl]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Just checking in, have had a very relaxed day today, plenty of time to think and also to be with my lovely fiance - time together is pretty hard to come by right now with the back to back exam days. Have had more greta news regarding a festival I'm attending in the summer, which now features heaven & hell, along with metallica, fear factory, machine head and anthrax. Anybody who knows their metal will know just how excited me and my boyfriend are about this - especially as my boyfriend is a masisve fan of tony iommi. Anywho, away I must go to revision

Thanks for the support regarding yesterdays exam guys, and Sausage; best of luck with your tests, I'll be thinking of you.

-TG

[Cinders]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Hi, everyone.

Trying to catch up but want to say hello and I am okay. Just missing my family.

Love,
Cindi

[Winefree]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Hi Everyone. Been doing lots of reading lately and minimal posting. Day 18 for me which is nothing short of a miracle. Hope I can keep it up.
Great to read and absorb everyone's wisdom and encouragement on this journey.

Winefree

[hiddengoal]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Winefree, way to go! That is awesome - 18 days - it was only a bit more than a week ago and you were saying how you couldn't get past the 10-11 mark - whoohoo! You are on your way to a clean 30! Thrilling...

[Winefree]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

Thanks HG. I'm stuggling with the beast telling me I can drink again someday and I'm fighting him off for now. Really wanting the 30 days. AA is helping me to get through and MWO of course.

WF

[hiddengoal]

AF Daily Tues 19th May 09

WF - don't know if this makes sense for you, but since I decided I won't drink unless I can say I won't be 'using' twine to self-medicate, its much easier. i just know that I don't have to worry for awhile because I am not ready to drink and not keep drinking. Still too much stuff to sort in my head. Actually, it may be a longer while because I think there is more in there than I knew. Just wish I could have a garage sale and get rid of the 'extra, useless crap' in my head......