Wednesday, 9 May 2007

[Paddy]

Well, let me kick of May 9 with a brief

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLO!

hope all of you have a good midweek. We all are working towards Friday! I can smell it already! It's round the bend!

[weemelonhead]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Bonjourno Paddywhack!!!!
Actually my dear old codfish, I think you will find that the smell is my Birkenstocks.....I've just taken them off after wearing them with no socks the entire summer......
With the flies buzzing around my little pieds, I look a bit like pig pen from Charlie Brown!!!!

Just managed to wrestle the 'work' (and don't we know it!) laptop from the dearly beloved for 3 nanoseconds, so am taking this tiny window of opportunity to fill the boards with as much drivel as I can ....fingers smokin'........
The Bald and I seem to be working longer and longer hours to earn enough spondoolies to FINALLY transform our shack from the Clampitts residence into somewhere that we can actually invite people over to of an evening, which is keeping us tres busy to put it mildly.
We will soon have enough cash to have the walls plastered and then may even have enough left to buy a dining room table....woopie doodly doo......it seems mad to anyone who I work with, but all I can think of is that previously...all these hours would have been spent pouring vino down the piehole and behaving like a dick, I have soooooo much self pride these days...the name will soon be GINORMOUSmelonhead......

Love to all who follow, and ......well.....just happy hugs all round abbers
Have a great Wednesday dearhearts...in spite of Paddys smell.....:h
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[irishlady]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Morning all,

Paddy NEVER sniff anything thats been round the bend, surely you know that by now, hmm...

Wow Weemelon, isn't is great, getting your walls plastered instead of yourself... As for behaving like a dick, what did you do ?? stand up straight and spit at people or perhaps you just wobbled about a bit...

Alls fine here in the Limey heads homestead, been having a few cravings lately, you know the sort, the little voice, just like a maggot in an apple, telling me it will be ok to have just one glass of wine as I can control it now... Ha, if I listened to that I would be fooling myself, and if I did have a drink it wouldn't stop at one glass, heck, it wouldn't even stop at one bottle, and there is NO WAY I am going to flush 222 days of being sober down the pan just to see if I could keep it at one glass... Ugh, imagine how I would feel in the morning when I woke up to that old familiar hangover and everything that goes with it :yuk: :bang :flush: no thanks, I'll pass on the one glass..

Hope all who follow have a good day,

catch ya later,
Love Louise :h

[Mackeral]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

LOL...I'm not even going to attempt to follow that..(The dick comments had me chuckling to myself)...Good to hear everyone is busy and well..

Day 17 for me...Thats the longest this year for me by some way..And yes i am feeling enormously smug..The meds have helped me out a lot...I dont know why i did'nt do this earlier...I still get the odd bad night...But thats to be expected i suppose..Things are definatly on the right track..

Happy Wednesday to all to come...:l 's Macks

[Breez]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Ah~I love to wake up in the morn' & read of all the happy Abbers doing well!

Hey Paddy~Happy "humpday" to you. People get your minds outa the gutter-Wed. is the hump of the week. Weekend fast approaching-looking like good weather for daughter's Communion on Sat.

Wee~it is so nice to finally get projects started knowing I won't stop in the middle of it due to something else beckoning for me to put it off. Ahh, motivation comes with being AF.

Hi Loiuse~as summer approaches that brain of mine has also started to overthink. But as you pointed out-why throw it all away. One glass, one bottle....shoot just park that gallon in front of me because I know that's where I'd be headed. No thanks. Congrats on 222-you go girlfriend!

Hey macks~Congrats on 17! That's awesome! Why you didn't do this earlier....took me 4 yrs to quit...and 4 yrs before that convincing myself I could moderate. Keep up the good work!


Off to do some cleaning in preparation for Saturday. Today is also my son's Mother's Day recital at nursery school & he's been practicing one his secret song's "I'm A Little TeaPot". To funny.
Have a Wonderful Wednesday everyone!

[southernbelle47]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007


You guys are just tooooo much!
Off to the big city to have lunch with my son and grandson.
Shopping for the Sat going away party. It's going to be a longgg year at my house!
But.....with the help of my friends here, lots of prayer and a very busy work load, I will not only survive...I will thrive!

Mack..is is great to see you so positive!
:l 's to all....

:h NAncy

[zincityzen]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Good morning! Today is my Saturday, and I have three days off in a row! Time to get caught up, no excuses after taxes 3 weeks now, getting some routine with this program, and having fun with DH. Might start diet, might not. It makes a difference to be consciously AF than to be white knuckling abstinent for some type of detox diet. Day 10 for me! Have a fabulous hump day, fellow abbers!

[lucky 2.0]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Hello All.

Congrats on all the efforts paying off and everyone feeling good. I am feeling good also, just looking forward to the feeling of more abs days under my belt.

Be well friends-
lucky

[Accountable for Me]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Good morning! Everyone here is doing so well!! Good job!

Just about to give my daughter a nice bath to get her all spit-polished clean as we are going to meet with her new potential daycare provider at 10am. My husband and I did a drive-by her house the other night and it looks like a fun place (back yard is filled with activity centres) for her. Once we get the daycare stuff all settled I will be looking for work. It thought about doing my own business thing here as I was before moving but honestly I just don't have the energy! I think right now I would rather go and punch the clock for someone else at this point in time. This move has kicked the crap out my energy levels and now that hubby is back in my life I would like to just leave work at work - ya know!?

Well my smoking thing hasn't quite stopped yet. I bummed a couple off of my hubby - LOL! Oh well, I guess I just need to get in the mind set some more and ween myself down. A couple a day won't be so bad and at least I won't be so panicked. I am not too worried about it. It will happen. If I can quit drinking I can quit smoking - it just takes a bit of time to muster up the courage to dump it completely.

Well must go and get ready for the day. Everyone have a happy Wednesday!

[Birdman]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Hey gang,

I have been away for a few months. After going AF for 70 days I decided I would start to moderate a little. Things went well for the next couple of months, just a couple of drinks a dinner with friends. But as time went by I started drinking more and more. I can feel myself qucikly losing control. And so before I get back to a fifth of gin a night, if there's room for a fallen brother I am going to try and rejoin you abbers.

Birdman

[Popeye]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Hello All.
My, what a pleasure it is to read so many happy words.
Fanstastic!
Enjoy the rest of your day.

[dilayne]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

Hello...(giggling here) How refreshing you all are! Just a fly by here...stopped at the garden center on the way to work and bought a pair of bright blue garden crogs...always wanted a pair of those, to trade in my working shoes...YEAH! My garden is coming along quite nicely..and we're enjoying the newly repaired pond..we put about 80 little gold fish in it this week...ahhhhh. I haven't felt so light in a while...seems the decision to resign might just be what I needed to do. I feel like I'm busting out of a cacoon! 9 days AF..no problemo!!!

[Popeye]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

I forgot to mention.....
I went into my pocket today to see if I had enough money for a magazine and I remember thinking...."that's enough for a bottle of vodka and a magazine."
I was annoyed at myself for a moment and then I had a little chuckle.
It's not going to get me that easily.
I'm off to bed now.
Have a good night.

[Determinator]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

hey AB crew! what a nice cheeery bunch. checking in a tad late tonight, but still here. just got back from the restaurant with a party of 16 others and watched them drink while having my NA beer and dinner. really wasn't a problem. Was also remarkable to me seeing many of them stopping at one or two drinks for the whole dinner. I've just been sooo tired. travel is bad enough but working extra long hours and hussling this trade show has really knocked me down a few paces...and to think I used to do this all so hung over before.
Birdman nice to see you in here, and happy happy times to you one and all......

sleepy time.

[Breez]

Wednesday, 9 May 2007

hey Bird-glad to see ya back!

Hey Det-hope you got some sight seeing in there too!

Me sleepy too....night night.