AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

[Marshy]

Hello abbers,

Visit to parents going ... OK. Been a few possible flashpoints that I've avoided. It's SO much easier to deal with anything when not drunk/hungover. So much easier to let things go. This is the first time I've visited family without having an emergency Antabuse in case I feel tempted by all the booze, but I'm not at all tempted. Glad to be able to stay on an even keel.

My parents have got their computer set up so you need a password to get into it (even though it's just the two of them here). They won't tell me what the password is (!), so I have to ask them to switch on the computer for me - and then they keep coming up behind me to see what I'm doing. I feel like a teenager trying to downlolad porn :H:H

Have a good day all.

[Suni]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

This is the first time I've visited family without having an emergency Antabuse in case I feel tempted by all the booze, but I'm not at all tempted. Glad to be able to stay on an even keel.

Bravo Marshy. Good Work there. :thumbs::yay:

Onwards and Upwards!

:wavin:

[greeneyes]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Morning abbers!

Marshy! The computer situation made me laugh out loud! downloading porn.....:H:H:H Good think I changed my avatar! :H I'm sure you will stay on even keel.

Zoom zoom day here.

Be well!

[spedteach]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

I know I never come to this thread but good morning anyways.
Marshy I just noticed how close you are to having a year af. How wonderful for you.
Maybe you should down load some porn!!!
Antabuse. At this point I don't go anywhere without it.
Have a good Wednesday everyone.

[Lavande]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Good morning Abbers!

Marshy, we're with you in spirit! Why don't you go ahead & leave a little 'something special' on your parent's computer, ha ha

Greetings Suni, Greenie & all to come today!
Chilly but sunny today - looks nice out there. Think I will try to do a little AF baking this afternoon............ there's a first time for everything, right???

Wishing everyone a terrific AF Humpday!

Lav

[KateH1]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Marshy, Good Job, dealing with your parental units without alcohol or antibuse! Yes...find something "Interesting" for them to enjoy when watching over your shoulder! LOL

Lavende, enjoy your sober baking!! No "Funny Brownies"...just straight up CHOCOLATE!!:H

I too will be baking and working. My visit with my boss went Very Well...now I am tying up end of the year stuff and finishing up treats for my best clients....still a bit more shopping to do but Almost There!!

Det, sounds like your drive up to Oregon was a bit Tense:upset:...But, just think, next week at this time, you will be in sunny HI, with your lovely DX!!:h

Have a Great Day, All!
xxx Kate

[drylifeahead]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Good morning Marshy (thanks for starting us off), Suni, greeneyes, spedteach, Lavande , and Kate..

Busy day ahead...on my way out the door..feeling fantastic, just wanted to pop in to say enjoy your AL free day. I know I will!

DLA :l

[zincityzen]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Hello ABBERs,
I've been gone from MWO a long time, drinking less overall, but got a little drunk last night - during finals, very destructive of me considering the sacrifice I'm making to go back to school. Was AF all week, enjoying delicious restorative sleep all week long, then felt I deserved a glass of wine... yeah, well. So now JUST two glasses RUINS my sleep. Bleah. So my goal is to be AF for the break, including Christmas with family. I'm glad I'm not alone here.

Zin

[Doggygirl]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

:welcome: Zin! You are definitely not alone. It took me awhile to start loving myself enough to realize that what I DO deserve is a beautiful, sober day with a zillion possibilities for a good one. I do NOT deserve all the misery and hangovers that AL brings me. Congrats on your decision to go back to school. What are you studying? Good luck with whatever finals you may have left to go, and ENJOY your upcoming sober holiday, one day at a time.

Marshy, thanks for starting us off today. :H:H on the porn!! LOL when I was reading along in your post and you first mentioned the password, I thought "ParentPorn." Yes, the gift of Greenie's former avatar would be nice to leave behind. :H Glad you are surviving and the fact that you feel comfortable doing so Antabuse Free as well as Alcohol Free shows how terrific your progress has been! Can't wait to help you celebrate your upcoming Anni.

Spedteach, good to see you! Sounds like the Antabuse is working for you, and that is terrific news.

Lav and Kate, all I can say is...SEND ME COOKIES!!!

Hi Greenie and Suni!

DLA = floating on the pink cloud of :h!!!!

It's a zoom zoom kind of day here as well. Knocking off several "miscellaneous" type action items that have been rolling forward day to day on my to do list. I'm so grateful to feel like I am LIVING again. Actually participating in the human race going on all around me rather than holed up in my house, drinking in isolation and contemplating suicide. If anyone reading this is suffering like that in isolation, please have hope that you too can dig yourself out.

Have a terrifc day abbers! zoom zoom..

DG

[Raven.joy]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

I saw my boy in nativity play today, so proud I wanted to cry but didn't. I fought to stay awake last year drunk on sherry. Shame.

[Determinator]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Happy rainy greetings from a Starbucks in Crecent City California! good grief it's a long way out here....whew!

Raven you are on the right track for you and your boy now, time to let that shame melt away.

Spedteach and Zincity, nice to see you two again! been a while.

going to be a late one I think. the roads east are closed so I have to drive back up through OR again tonight and down to Yreka. catch ya's from my next hotel.....

be well

[spedteach]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Raven,
For me too, it's hard to experience things, celebrate holidays, birthdays, etc. without thinking about my state a year ago. And as much as I know shame is just a worthless feeling, sometimes I'm just flooded with it.
Deter. you're makin me jealous for a road trip!

[Pamina]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Evening all,

I ran out of a pub tonight! I must be developing some sort of allergy. It wasn't so much that I thought I'd drink. It was someone's leaving do, and I'd thought it would be a smaller crowd so we could talk. Instead it was loads of people I didn't know, pushing into a pub that was full of xmas party folk and loud music. I haven't been in that situation for a while, and I decided that if we can't have a conversation, I just didn't want to be there. I'm a bit astounded at myself, but there you have it.

LOL Marshy, porn - go for it! Well done navigating that quicksand.

[Determinator]

AF daily - Wednesday 16th December

Pamina, sounds like a good move to me. I think I'm also allergic to noisy pubs!

Spedteach, don't be too jealous....I actually have the beginnings of a blister on my finger from doing so much driving over the last 2 days! I've never had that before. all those windy little roads on the far north CA/OR coast. I'm still dizzy!

checked into my hotel de jour at any rate. shoes are coming off!