AF Daily Sun Sept 6th 09

[SAUSAGE]

AF Daily Sun Sept 6th 09

Well it s the end of Day 1 and i'm AF - just sipping a mug of tea. Wasn't too difficult actually - I was at a neighbours house this evening for their daughters birthday party - I was there last year too, when i'd just started going AF and I found it a lot easier this time - although i've had a bit of a relapse, i'm still in the long term routine of going for soft drinks when i'm out - it's what i've done for most of the last 20 months.

Mr Sausage over did it a bit on the alcohol on Saturday night with G+T and a lot of 14% red wine - was v hung over for most of the day - says it's put him off drinking - he was AF today too!! - we'll see how long that lasts !! he still has all the bottles in the garage!!

I'll be back tomorrow to report on Day 2. Thanks again for all your support and welcome backs everyone - it means a lot - I would'nt be able to do this without you all.

Take care

Sausage x

[Marshy]

AF Daily Sun Sept 6th 09

Prest4time,

Thanks for your response. I can see where you're coming from but I don't think I'll ever really understand it, just as you can't understand why I would start my Saturday mornings with lager or wine as soon as I woke up, hungover from Friday night. Urrg. The very thought of it makes me shudder now! My whole aim was always to pass out, which is why I don't see the *point* of a few glasses. But I can see that other people use alcohol in different ways from me.

My original post, which I didn't make clear, was more about people who drink far too much, like I did, who try to go *back* to a couple of drinks a night. Would it ever feel like *enough*? For me it would just be tortuous. But I can see that if your drinking was fairly light but has crept up and you're not happy about that, going back to something you were once happy with would be possible.

There certainly are lots of different types of drinkers here, and I suppose we can only really understand our own behaviour and all the subtle nuances of that and our goals. But I certainly hope we all succeed in whatever we're trying to achieve.

Anyhoooooo, I must go to bed. Onwards and upwards

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Sun Sept 6th 09

I was telling a gal at AA yesterday that I was going home to make dill pickles. She has an analogy about that - it's pretty fun and relates to drinkers like me, who cannot "go back." (well, Marshy as you pointed out I was never a "one or two" drinker anyway so don't have that to "go back to" but I digress....)

We start out as cucumbers. Enough alcohol and eventually we become pickles. Once a person is a pickle, it's not possible to be a cucumber again. Then....

A good day for a pickle is a sweet pickle.

A bad day is a dill pickle.

A scatter brained day is relish.

:H

DG