FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

[Chillgirl]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Goodnight Feb Fasters!
After only getting 4 hrs sleep last night I have not been firing on all cylinders today.
Have just had a long candle lite bath and i am heading off to my cozy bed.

Sooty I shall be giggling :H picturing you facing the wrong wall...

Lav - Old habits die hard, when I opened your link the 1st thing I saw was "wine farm"!

[lodestar]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Hi lovelies,

Thanks for planting a nonsmoking lode, LBH. I hope she isn't dying off like I am. Can't get a handle on this to save my life. Exhausted from it. I'm hoping I won't cry through american idol tonight. That would be a step. I bit off more than I can chew...again. Chilli, I put your quote in my inbox because it was so fantastic and I never want to forget it. Thank you!

Love to all fungals and funguys (welcome raven). Sweet fungi dreams. :l

[Lavande]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Evening friends,

Now that I have everyone seeing shrooms.......:H

Grateful, I'm sorry I did not see the Daily Local Article - I really should pay more attention to the local papers. I was getting a weekly paper delivered but it went out of business!!

Sooty - if you would like a mushroom themed gift - just let me know, I'll send you something. You'd be the talk of the town

Chill, there are a few small wineries in the area. Believe it or not I have never been to them & there's no chance of going to see them now - for sure!!!

Lode, hope you are getting a good rest tonight. tomorrow will be better

I hate rumors BUT I just heard we may be getting another 18" of snow on Monday :upset:

Good night all, pleasant mushroomy dreams!

Lav

[cyntree]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

I'M BAAAAACK! Lord, how I've missed you all....I just read up from Monday's posts, so I feel a little better about jumping back in. I so agree with you Red, this 'family' of choice is truly a gift.

I finished with both huge projects by last Saturday, and have spent the last few days trying to get caught up and remember who I am. I feel very grateful to have gotten through all of it and still maintained AF days and nights. But there is so much more to learn...I had a few very hard days - one when I wept the entire day, which has not happened for years. In the middle of it all I flew to be with my mom, who was in the hospital. Got her well enough to go home, cooked a bunch of food for her, and had to jump back on a plane...I seem to be pulled in 20 different directions at once.


Since it is Ash Wednesday/Hump Day, I am joining the 'giving up negativity' (possibly about oneself?) for Lent crowd. Also jumping in on the mushroom bandwagon - sounds magical to me!

Thank you all for still being here...I had fears that suddenly you would have all disappeared or gone on to other things...thank you.

PS Dill - I had a mentor who always preached "awareness creates change" - reminds me of your quotes today.

Peace to everyone -

[Miss Behaving]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

hello everyone,

not much to say today ....... a day of meetings (interesting ones, but still tiring) and I'm following Chillgirl's example and having a long bath and early night!

sorry I haven't got more energy for participating in the conversation!

[Sky]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Hi all. I have only one thing to say: IHATEMUSHROOMS! ICAN'TSTANDTHETHOUGHTOFMUSHROOMS! YUK! :yuk:

[Sky]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

spedteach;807068 wrote: Once you make a concerted effort to stop, I don't think you can casually say I'm going to relax now with a nice glass of wine. I was at a point where I always felt like a failure when I drank any amount.

Sped, if I ever think of having another drink, I will remember this. Thankyou.

[redhibiscus]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

I can't believe it is Thursday already. What a week. It was great to read all the posts and catch up on everyone's lives. We are all on this journey together and the support is so wonderful. As we head towards the weekend, it is time for me to start planning activities or goals to keep busy. Is anyone else doing this in their quest to remain AF?

I am nervous about the meeting at work today..will I have a job by the end of the day? What is going to happen? It is just crazy.

Lav, 18 more inches of snow? We probably had another eight inches this week and no one blinked an eye. I am in the snow belt around Lake Michigan, so we get nailed with snow constantly. One February I swear it snowed every day. I am wanting spring so badly.

Dill, thanks for the daily reading. We are all making changes and moving forward. Even if we are not totally AF, progress is being made. I like to look at the just started posts and realize how many changes I have made in the last couple of years. I remember the relief I felt when I found the MWO site and ordered the book. The journey of R. Jewel was so like my own. I really want to just give up the battle, and say, I don't drink. Period. There is no magic in a drink, just misery.

Last night, my husband told me he was really craving alcohol. He wanted me to know that I am not alone. I appreciated it. I know that it will come out of nowhere sometimes. Needless to say, we did not drink.

Wishing everyone a great AF day. Today, I commit to being AF.

[dill]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Greetings Friends!

:welcome:Grateful! Nice to meet another mushroom lover!

Red, you will be in my thoughts today. I am wishing you the best. Whatever the outcome, don't let it weaken your AF resolve. You and Mr. R are doing so well! It's great you are in it together and can help each other through. If Mr. R is struggling internally, perhaps it explains his lack of energy in other areas such as Valentine's.? I know that early on in my struggle, I had little energy for anything else, and my nerves were so raw that Mr. D was placed way on a back burner for me. It was all I could do some days to be civil. Wow! I'm glad those days are gone. We really are making progress here everyday day.

Sky, you hate mushrooms?!! Well, we are all on our individual paths here, and mushroom loving is not required for thread participation!:H

Cyn, so glad you are back!! I missed you. I hope your Mom continues to improve. You managed all that work and stress and stayed AF? You are an inspiration!

Lav, I hate rumors, too. Especially when they come from good sources and include snow and ice...that's what is forecast for us in a couple of days. I did NOT get to go to work yesterday, as the school closed at the last minute. Today school is open and I will get back to some sort of normal. I hope your 18 inches does not come true. What a winter! Even if I had thought to plant snow drops last fall, They would not be visible above this snow!

Chill, I read a post of yours elsewhere on the site where you quoted Stirlygirl. I loved the quote, but don't remember where I saw it. Can you repeat it here? I'd appreciate it. I hope you get caught up on your sleep! To think, we used to function that way all the time. I mean, I for one, did not sleep more than four hours on nights that I drank too much. Which was pretty much every night. I am so grateful for the good night's sleep I get now!

Sooty, my two-left-footed friend! I admire you for doing those classes. I would have been facing the wall with you, my dear!:H

Running out of time here. LBH, thank you for the image of you working in your raised bed. I suggest a dill seed or two!
Hi Lode! Hang on girl! You are receiving positive thoughts from Ohio.

One of my plans for the weekend is to make the magic mushroom sobriety soup! The Kennett Square recipe sounds delicious!
Sped, Lil, Raven, everyone, Peace and strength.

[sooty]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Good afternoon my lovely fasters. Nearly lunchtime here, I haven't got mushroom soup but I made a nice veg soup yesterday and still have some left.
The bus is storming ahead through February and soon the snow will melt and we'll be looking forward to spring.
My weather is wet and cold but no snow thank goodness.
I can't hang around cos Mr S wants my lap top to look up car insurance quotes - his laptop playing up apparently so I have to share - boo hoo!
I hope we're all having a good day, managing to keep safe and warm - I'll see you all later.
Love Sooty

[spedteach]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Morning,
Survived a very strange humpday yesterday. Early predawn run. Ran between 2 posts that had a cable stretched thigh high between them. Did not see the cable. Ouch! Got to work at the school where I usually sub and learn that the principal's 22 year old daughter has died from a seizure the night before. Run to a grocery store during a break and notice the elderly man in the parked car next time to mine is sleeping/passed out slumped over the steering wheel. I notify the store manager. On my way back to school I am involved in a car accident (fender bender). Driving home from work, the helmetless kid on a motorcycle next to me pops a wheelie and nearly crashes into a streetlight.
Glad I got over that great big hump in one piece!

Cyn, Cyn, Cyn, so happy to see you back with us.

Sky, re:mushrooms, is it the flavor or the texture? Have you tried wild ones?

Sooty, your dance class sounds like so much fun. I always exercise to music. Sometimes on my early runs, a good song will come on on my ipod and I'll be literally dancing in the streets. Which is why I like to run at 5:00 in the morning! LBH, I probably danced by your house this morning.

Red, I am a big weekend planner. I actually experience some anxiety going into a weekend with no plans. Also as a teacher, I had summers off. All that time to drink. So I'm planning for my summer too. Am so determined to make it to August 8th af. Fingers are crossed here in terms of your job.

I'm ready for Lil to be back among us on a daily basis.

Dill, Lav, Chill, Miss B, everybody. Have a good Thursday.

Shelley

[Lavande]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Morning Feb friends,

Wow Shelley - you take the prize for the most bizarre Humpday ever!!!! Glad you survived to tell us abou it

Sky, mushroom consumption is not required...........maybe if I dipped some in chocolate for you??

Cyn, welcome back, missed you around here. I know how difficult it is taking care of your Mom. I still miss mine so much - she's been gone since 1986, a very long time. Great job keeping your eye on the goal.

Red, will be thinking about you today as well. We are not responsible for this economy mess but left holding the bag, aren't we?

Dill, Sooty & all the other soup lovers.......Soup Rocks Think I'll make more today!

Chill, Miss B, Lode, LBH & everyone - have a great AF Thursday, will be back later!

Lav

[ladybirdheart]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Hi all. Hope you are feeling a bit more settled, Lode. When I quit smoking I had a dreadful time. Like you, I was also cold turkey, it was thirty years ago and I don?t recall if there was a choice. I had been trying for a month or so and could not get past four or five days when in a weak, ruined moment a co-worker got me to promise, swear, give up what passes for my soul, that for every cigarette I smoked in the next six months I would have to donate a dollar to the Klu Klux Klan. While this did the trick in terms of precipitously reducing my rate without a single puff to a dead, done zero, my vocabulary was at times equally reduced to multiple permutations and unlikely grammatical forms of the f-word and it was a good thing I lived alone. I remember bursting into tears at work, a deafening humiliation, from anger and frustration. It got better than my dreams when the release from the addiction came, but we know that.

Dill and Red, I always plan for the witching times, I have to and I am really tired of cravings. It seems I partake a lot in the Netflix cure in the evenings, thank goodness for all the ?instant? ones as well as the mail, last night it was a quirky film about a hit man having a midlife crisis played by the riveting William H. Macy. Shelley, dear neighbor, your hump day sounds like a vortex of anxiety, I am glad you are safe. Some times are like that and I just get small and hope I am ?overlooked?. I am lucky to have had an easy day in this window of warmth (it was fifty-two) and shall continue early gardening today as it is supposed to end soon. I hope you rested up Chill and Ms. B. Welcome home Cyn, you have been missed. Hi, Sky, Raven, Mandalay, Lil, Lav. Keep us on course Sooty. Love, Ladybird.

[Raven.joy]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Hey Lav does your local market sell the unconventional wild varieties? I like to go picking. Last year I found a beefsteak fungus in the forest of dean.

[Chillgirl]

FEB FAST ~ WEEK THREE

Hi Gang
Thursday already, where did this week go....??!

Picked up my post today and have received my order from Amazon including the book "RATIONAL RECOVERY" by Jack Trimpey - One of you dear people gave me this recommendation but i cant remember who, so thank you whoever it was... this will be my weekend reading and i will report back on what i thought.

My other delivery was the DVD THE SHADOW EFFECT by Debbie Ford, have any of you seen it? Im a big fan of Debbie's and used to listen to her show on Hayhouse Radio. She was always talking about exploring our dark side but of course in my alcohol induced thinking I didnt thing I had a dark side! LOL

Cyn welcome back! Sky my heart goes out to you, all this talk of mushrooms and you cant stand them....

Sending love to you all :h