Ladies on a Mission: The Official Site

[abcowboy]

GMAE GLoamers! Just a quick check in before I head to work.... I go to my weekly AA meetings Tuesdays nights, it is a very small group, but I always manage to walk away with something to add to my toolbox! Last night, a lady said something that made sense to me, there are no guarantees in life, but as RA's, we do have one guarantee, if we never pick up the first drink, we can never get drunk again.. Such a positive thought to keep me calm on my journey...

Have a great day everyone!

[narilly]

"if we never pick up the first drink, we can never get drunk again" Love that quote Cowboy, its a keeper! Thanks for that. I still have to find an AA meeting to go to. I will do that soon just to have one more thing to keep me sober.

Hey Ava, breaking into your own house? Lol, I can imagine you climbing through the window, that is hilarous! +30 there and today is was -2C on the way to work. What a difference in our weather. Oh well, we can be sober hot or cold right?

of course I was cheering for you Pav! Go Giants! What a game. Hey I just noticed your Avatar. I love it. "You had the power all along my dear", that is good!

Hi Jane!

Hey Lil B, hope things are well.

J-Vo, I know you can kick this thing. Are you finding it hard to abstain after drinking again? That is something that scares me, if I start I may never stop. Keep strong babe.

Talk to you soon.

[j-vo]

Happy 8 months SL!! :welldone:

[j-vo]

Hi Loamers,
I've been back for a few days. I'm posting in the NN for awhile. I need to refocus a bit and hopefully I will be back posting here after sometime. :heartbeat:

[narilly]

Hi everyone, hope all is well.
Have a great night.
Xx

[Pavati]

Hi,

A short post from me, too, as I just wrote a long one in the nest.

Good night!

Pav

[NoSugar]

Sorry about your team, Pav :sad: but it sure must be fun to be interested in the outcome of the World Series.

Glad to see you here, J-vo. Your posts in the NN reveal how committed you are to making this quit your last one. We met a year ago and while I know you aren't quite where you want to be, you are in a much different place than you were then. SL (belated congrats on 8 months!) also has a great deal of AF time that doesn't get included in the consecutive count. Those days matter, too, and help form the springboard from which you can ultimately get this done.

A very inattentive waiter (I had already declined!) served me a glass of wine last evening. It occurred to me that if I had been looking for a sign from the universe that it was ok for me to have the occasional, social drink, I would have seen this as a good one. After all, I had tried not to be served... It crossed my mind briefly that I could drink it but I really didn't want it and best of all, didn't think I needed it.

Have a good one, NS

[abcowboy]

You_Rock_Emoticon.gif Congratulations on 7 months peppersnow!! You_Rock_Emoticon.gif

[narilly]

Pepper, 7 months! Yahoo!! I am happy for you, keep up the great work! We will all kick this AL in the butt together!

Pav, that sucks eh? But they will come back right? On to win the next one....they will do it!

A somber day here in Canada, a soldier was killed in Ottawa by a 'terorist', not sure how else to describe him. Anyway, the soldier was just a young guy with a 6 year old boy, so it is really sad. It was wierd to see video of our parliament and gunshots being heard in there. Our government was in lock down for hours yesterday, pretty scary stuff. I thought this didn't happen in Canada
Hopefully it is a better day today.
True North Strong and Free.

xx

[NoSugar]

Great job, Peppersnow! It is so clear from your posts how much happier you are now. I wish we could bottle the feeling and send it to everyone who isn't convinced they should go for it so they'd know for sure that whatever it takes is more than worth it!

Congratulations on 7 months!!

[little beagle]

Narilly I saw on the news about the terrorist attack. It's very disturbing.
Pepper 7 months. Awesome.
I am not giving up alcohol. I am STOPPING something harmful and starting to live. What a wonderful way of looking at it.

[narilly]

Goodnight Gloamers. I will chat tomorrow. It's Friday and payday too, yes!!

[Pavati]

Nar,

Sorry about what happened. That is global news as everyone thinks guns don't exist in Canada except for hunting. Very sad.

PEPPER! Congratulations on 7 months.

I will be posting more once this World Series is over. I DO care - always think it is weird how much I actually care about a game - and we have a lot of fun rooting for the Giants.

NS - My father in law offered me a beer the other night. I guess he hasn't noticed after 10.5 months that I haven't been drinking. A nice enough guy, but I think that illustrates how he is SO not a problem drinker that he never notice. And actually, it also says that he is pretty self centered and doesn't remember other people, as I know he has offered me many drinks over this time. Anyway - no sign from the universe, and to paraphrase LB, I am too stubborn to drink at this point, even if I wanted to (which, thankfully, I don't).

Off to bed.

xo
Pav

Hope all is well, and everyone is staying sober.

[DreamThinkDo]

Happy days, Pepper! One day without Al is a great achievement. More than 200 of them, in a pretty string of lights, is awesome! Hope you relished every second of it!

Have a great Friday, Loamers!

[available]

Hi Loamers

Well Saturday here and cloudy and coolish but going to have a cuppa and go for a walk. Funny how i used to think the time would drag when i stopped drinking, which in the early days it was like 48 hours in 24 but now i just dont have enough time. Will pick up Mia and have coffee and op shop and food shop and maybe buy something for myself. I have started to do that every pay now, even if its something little. Before i always made sure i had money for al even it it meant not paying a bill. thank god my utilities dont get disconnected now.

Pepper congratulations on 200 days. When i hit 200 i looked and thought "shit im closer to a year than day 1". Woo hoo. Pav and i are a hairs breath from 1 year now and i am looking at each day wanting it to hurry up. I so want a year! I know then that i am winning against al and i am accomplishing something i thought truly impossible. God i thought any day without al was a bonus and i still do.

Nar i seen on the news about the parliament and thats so scary. Get a bunch of pms women and we will find the terrorists and give them what for i say! I just figure when my time is up then thats it but its a sad world when people want to blow others up.

I just figured out how to make my typing box bigger. Wow im impressed with myself already this morning.

Jane where are you? I do hope you feel secure in your sobriety now to just pop in and say hi.

Jvo how are you girl?

Hey Dream how is that puppy? I bet he/she has grown so much now. my boys dog was de-balled the other day, no more making his territory thank god. they found one ball in his stomach and one near his ball sac. Apparently if they are not taken out they turn cancerous but he is back to his normal self now. I read what pain relief they give them and it was methadone and tramal, i was pretty amazed that they take what humans do.

LB you seem happier and more content now. how are things going in your neck of the woods?

Pav, i am so not a sports person except when my footy team won after 43 years, now that was good! I am with you and LB i am way too stubborn to drink and even those occasional mod thoughts are leaving, now i just dont want to drink and i wont.

My friend roberts op has been put off AGAIN. i am pretty pissed, well a lot pissed. i can see the drs logic that he had a chest infection and since his op is a big one and he will be in hospital for 6 weeks that if he gets pneumonia he will die. Yep fair enough BUT if they had operated within the 30 days that they said they would he would not have gotten a chest infection or been in hospital for pain relief. We are up to the 80 day mark of no op and still waiting. he goes back to the drs on 6/11 so i am hoping to go with him. I just dont want him to die and i do want him to have some quality of life before he does, which he isnt.

Hi Cowboy and welcome, not sure if i said that before. The more men the merrier!

so this is my gazette for today. Not enough hours in the day now but that is good as al does not rule me today.

hugs lovelies xxxxx