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[narilly]

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Good morning beautiful ladies!
I am in Florida!
It is -23c in Calgary today and supposed to get to +23c here today! Yes!!

Ava, glad Maddie is home! Amputee barbies? Hahaha! Pav, I used to have amputee bionicals too

Rox, mother troubles are the worst just keep posting

Hi Daisy! You are doing well!

J-Vo, stink bugs? Yuk! We don't get them, our cold weather kills most bugs. You sound great by the way

Well another day at Universal. No time to drink. I am trying to keep too busy to be able to drink. Our hotel has a snack time/ happ

[narilly]

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Continued..
Hapy hour and I was soooo tempted yesterday. I have made plans every night so I just miss it.

Gotta go!

[HumbleRider]

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If you're just about anywhere but Australia, hold the applause on my 100 days, which will be Monday. Unless of course like NS says, you're like every alky and want to get the party started early, in which case, party on! I'll be in later to post.

[NoSugar]

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Good to see you, Narilly! Glad you're having fun and sticking with The Plan. You'll never regret it!

LB, it never occurred to me that other cities in LA celebrate Mardi Gras with parades and all that. I guess because we hear about the ones in NO, I figured you had to travel to participate in all the action. I bet it will be fun and interesting sober but a bit depressing to witness the behavior of those who aren't. I never liked seeing people act stupid but now it really makes me uncomfortable and sad. And I hate it when they are made fun of and mocked.

Ava, so glad your family is back together and your pup is doing better. It is so good you are establishing yourself as a non-drinker with new people in your life. Now it would be weird if you ever ordered alcohol with this guy. Just another in a long, long list of reasons not to.

Well, Pav, I don't eat bread, even gluten free, although I'll occasionally have a GF pizza. When I first had to give all that up, there weren't very good substitutes (in fact, they were disgusting) and what were available were extremely expensive. I just got used to not eating it and didn't really miss it. Now there is GF everything available and most of it is as horrible for you as the original in many ways with its only benefit being that there isn't any gluten. You asked what I do eat, J-vo. Well, for the most part, I just stay on the edges of the grocery store -- makes shopping pretty quick and easy.

That experience really helped me here, I think. I am used to being surrounded by things that other people love (and I used to love) and that smell good, are heavily promoted, and that carry warm and fuzzy associations. I don't respond to them at all - they're just not for me. I don't put anything in or on my mouth without a quick mental check to make sure I know exactly what it is. I don't have to stop and think about this - it is automatic. Now I feel the same way about AL - I feel dead to it. There were open wine glasses all over my house Friday night and the leftover bottles are in the kitchen now. And they'll stay there until someone else drinks them (I don't recommend this for everyone and especially not early in your quit but my point is, it is possible to get to the point where you just don't care about it and it no longer is a threat. You won't have to think about not drinking it all the time. You just won't.).

Good to see you here, Roxy. Now where is Pat? It would be fun to wake up to posts from her, too - sometimes it seems like everyone on the other side of world other than Ava and Dreamy sleep all the time!

How are you doing, MaryLou? I see you posting around MWO. That sure is what kept me going in the early days!

Hey, Humble, 99 is a pretty cool number, too so let's get the party started!

Have a great day, friends. I'm going XC skiing. If we're gonna have all this snow, might as well enjoy it.

[Pavati]

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Morning (for me!)

OK, NS - you're inspiring me. I know you started a recipe thread, but I am wondering if you cook from any particular cookbooks, magazines or websites?

Glad you're having fun, Nar, and following your plan. I wouldn't want to have to sic Ava on you!

Thanks for the party, J-Vo. Very excited to be here on day 70. To paraphrase Chief Bromden - this day is no better than days 69 or 71, but for some reason I get very excited to see those big round numbers. 10 weeks! That is the longest I have gone without alcohol except in my pregnancies, too, Humble. So cool.

Marylou of few words - how are YOU doing? Glad you're with us.

I keep waking up with headaches and stiffness - feeling slightly hungover. So much better than actually being hungover, I agree. I figure I have to tame the sugar beast (have taken to eating something sweet every day) and that should help.

OK - I think I got my serious posting done in the nest today - you get a short one for a change. I'm off for a hike in the rain, my kid's basketball game, and a movie with the family. And SO happy to be doing it all sober and without a hangover. Really, SO happy. Thanks to you ladies for helping to make this possible!

xo!

Have great days, loamers.

[roxane]

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Congrats on 70 pav. Sorry if I'm late, I'm rubbish at keeping up.
Day four for me. After yesterday's worry about lapsing today, I needn't have.
I thought less about it and had shorter and weaker urge during my witching hours.
Attitude of gratitude!

Sneakily adding a congrats to humble for 100 days after reading the first line of post below.....

[available]

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Hello Loamers

Well well well, Humble congrats on your 100 days and Pav wow 70 days, i didnt realise that! Hope you girls keep smiling today, you soooo deserve to feel so good about yourselves. A big difference from that day 1 when we really didnt have anything to smile about at all. How times have changed.

Nar so glad you are finally able to frolick naked through the streets of florida. You sound happy. The cold does get in after awhile doesnt it. Snack time sounds good and happy hour could entail some nice non alcoholic cocktails couldnt it? I am looking forward to them when i go to Thailand. Have fun lovely, i have been thinking of you.

NS life is good and it gets easier to look at people drinking and not even feel that horrific craving that i have to just have ONE. ONE sip, ONE mouthful, ONE glass can never be done for this Ava so it is not even a thought anymore. Im always bloody awake. My sleeping pattern is horrible and i really have to stop drinking coffee at nighttime. I didnt last week for a couple of days and i slept so much better. I think Dream has the same sleeping crap pattern as me.

Pav, i love breathing down throats, i dont celebrate my birthday with Hitler for no reason so my kids tell me. Everyday af is a bonus as you say but i love the numbers with a 0 attached to them, 00 will be wonderful. Same as Humble and you being pregnant was the only thing that stopped me. Good thing i had 4 children. Keep smiling Pav you deserve it as we all do being af.

Pat where are you? Internet crap still? Hope you are doing well. Rox hope you are having a sober af day also.

well i am off to get ready for work. was hoping bushfires had come to suburbia and made it impossible for me to get to work but no such luck, not that i wish a bushfire on anyone, i just dont want to go to work.

Hugs to all and enjoy your Sunday. xxx

[Dottie Belle]

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Hi ladies,
Went to our train club meeting today. I am the chair person for the spring flea market so I had my sign up sheets ready to go. It is mostly guys but they seem to appreciate my good work...and my event makes money...
Going to watch the beetles special tonight. I remember them on the Ed Sullivan show..
Being AF is so totally freeing and wonderful. So glad it finally clicked for me...better late than never.
Pav congrats on 70 and humble on 100..great numbers and u should be so proud!!

[j-vo]

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Humble, we can party twice for you, as you deserve it for 100 days!

Dottie, I'm going to watch the Beatles special too. Well, as much as I can before bedtime, but have the DVR set up. I love the Beatles!

Nar, so glad you're warm and loving the sunshine. Take it all in, except any Al. I know you'll come up with some special Al drink and enjoy near the pool.

Ava, hope the weather changes and the bush fires settle! That's sounds really bad. Your kids are off for the heat and bush fires, and ours from ice and snow. Such a small world...

Roxy, 4 days and it's getting easier! See that. Just one day at a time, and next think you know it, you won't even think twice when you hear a bottle clink.

NS, it takes quite a bit of time for something to become automatic like you described. I'm willing to wait it out this time, one day at a time.

Congrats again Pav!

Hi LB!

Where's pretty SL, Acadia, River/Roller, Patrice? Have a great night.

[NoSugar]

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Hey, Dottie - fund-raising and dancing?? Like Humble said, there is so much fun stuff to do when we don't waste hours with AL!

Attitude of Gratitude was one of the missing keys for me, Roxy. You're smart to be already getting it on day 4! (Ava, I know you're grateful for your job once you're with the patients! It's just the getting there...)

Happy 70 days, Pav! Byrdie posted some poems for you that j-vo and I helped her with in the roll call (I'm glad you have a sense of humor about all of this!). You have been such a Force of Good all over MWO. You've helped so many others while you've helped yourself :l.

For basic recipes, I usually start with Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything and then go from there. If I have something great at a restaurant, I'll search online for similar recipes and get the general idea. If i find interesting ones online, I save them in a digital file. You live in such a great place to get local fish, meat, and vegetables - all they need is heat and some spices!

You're right, j-vo that things take time but I was so impatient - I just wanted to be fine. It was silly to think I could undo in 4 months what took years to develop but that is what I tried to do. Now my perspective has totally changed- I'm pleasantly surprised (shocked!) at how easy it is after just a year. I'm not complacent (you guys see me here everyday) but I don't think about me not drinking everyday (I think about YOU GUYS not drinking every day :H! - I want that practically as much as I do for myself ). I think that it why it is so important to stay connected with people at all stages of this - it would be so easy to decide it wasn't that bad...

xx-NS

[daisy45]

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Hey everyone; It is almost 2am here. An hour ago I got a text from my sister saying 'help'. That was all. I imagined all sorts and even locked up as I was going to drive round and check, but I called her number first - was I sorry - she is drunk and I have just endured an hour long phone call of her talking shite! She is depressed, thinks she has a drink problem, has no friends, her husband doesn't understand or care and the list goes on......tired all the time....
I told her no-one can fix it but her and she has to be committed........every excuse under the sun; need drink to relax at the weekend, husband and her out for Valentines and no confidence without alcohol.
Now don't get me wrong - I am understanding but I know most of it is down to alcohol and of course she can't see that - she won't until she tries....
Soooo frustrating, and the 'help'!? So next time do I return the call? No way.....but I will feel crap if it happened to be real....
I am sad to hear her like this but glad for myself not to be there or ever want it back again!!!
And believe it or not, when she text I was heading to bed for my earliest night since being sober.....
Anyway, hope you are all on track - will check in tomorrow....

[Dottie Belle]

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NS I am just warming up...so much to do and enjoy!!

[Pavati]

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Oh my goodness - I LOVE my 70 day poem. Thanks! I was feeling so great about being sober today, and that made it even better.

Daisy - so sorry you had to deal with that with your sister! At least you were sober to give her support (although - will she remember it in the morning). I guess the best you can do is lead by example? You stay strong and show her how it is done.

Well, I started out well at the food thing, but ended up out to dinner and had lamb with risotto and veggies. Oh, and then ice cream (can't figure out how to make that really, really small like Dreamy does). :blush: One step at a time, right...

Another walk in the rain up a local creek that was dry as a bone three days ago and now is a roaring river. Glad we're finally getting some water although they say it is too little too late.

I am pooped. Good night, all. Sleep tight (unless you're in tomorrow morning already, then get a move on, FFS!)

[DreamThinkDo]

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MAE Loamers!

Congrats to all those with round figures (no, I'm not talking body shape here - I'm talking 70 days and 100 days and all that!), especially Humble :jumpwow:

Pav, to do the small font, click on Go advanced in the message window, click on Sizes, then click on whatever size you want. If you want to change the font colour, click on the A with a solid black line underneath it, and then choose the colour. Easy peasy!

Daisy, I'm glad it was "just" a drunk sister, and not something more serious. I really hope that when she sees how much you enjoy your AF life, she starts to question her life and decide to do something about changing it for the better.

Ok ladies, off to my "other" life! Have a lovely AF Monday, all of you!

[roxane]

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day four mission accomplished.
i do wish the days would speed up to normal speed though i know they will.
has felt like two weeks which in itself is not long at all. but.