Rainy Monday

[Lucy Van Pelt]

Wow..I am actually starting today's thread!

Well, I am waiting on a mother and her 15 year old son...this mom called me to test her son...actually she practically begged me to fit him in PRONTO to test. So I did..I called to confirm last night. She then asked me how fast I could have the report completed...asked if I could have it done in a week, which is practically unheard of, as it takes hours and hours of work...but I am a sucker and I told her I would do it. OK..so, here it is and I am ready....where is she????...well, so far she is....late??? No show? We will just have to see. GRRRRR....

Anyway, at least it give me time to be the first to post:thumbs:

I actually had an AF night last night...yea!!!


Wow..I think she is here!!! catch you all later!! have a great day!!!

Beth

[Waves 2]

Rainy Monday

Hi all,

Beth :l

Jen, well done on the weekend success. Knew you could do it.

Gypsigirl welcome. :welcome:

You have come to a great place. I cannot call you Gypsi because we have a dear friend who comes on here called Gypsi. She was on here yesterday but unfortunately it was just as I was setting off to my mum's and I had to log off. I have sent a PM to wish her all the best.

Laura, You know that we mods have a special place in our hearts for all the people who post on here. We never let anyone disappear. If you notice Dilayne and Becca and others including yourself have tried to move to Absville but no-one seems able to escape our clutches. Welcome back.

Love to all as always,
Waves
PS
As far as I know all the neighbours have survived Feb 11th.

[Quiescent]

Rainy Monday

Beth, Congratulations on your AF day

We are supposed to get 6 - 8 inches of snow by tomorrow night

I hope everyone has a terrific day!

Thank you everyone who help lift my spirits the other day. It was a rough one. I'm felling so much better! THANKS!

Hugs,
Rachele

[Quiescent]

Rainy Monday

Waves,

We were posting at the same time.

I'm glad everyone came out of Feb 11th okay:H

[sammys]

Rainy Monday

Hey waves, bak and imagine have a good day and everybody else that comes later.


We love you
Sammys

[betty boop]

Rainy Monday

Afternoon all .....

Beth - Well done on your AF day, Good Luck with the extra workload ....

Waves - Glad to know that your neighbours survived ....

Rachele - Glad you 're feeling better, Good luck with the snow ......


Lots of love too all still to come.

Only 8 more days to my holidays ...... Yippeeeeeeee :whee: :whee: :whee:

[betty boop]

Rainy Monday

Sammys - Sorry we were posting at the same .... Hello .....

[InnerStrength]

Rainy Monday

Good morning to all my friends,
Its a snowy cold day here today!
I am just taking a moment to pop in - I actually want to get some work done today and want to take some time to catch up on what has been going on on the boards too! Rachele I am so glad you sound so much better today. Sometimes we just need a fresh beginning. Anytime you feel you need a lift or someone to talk to, please dont hesitate to sent me a PM ok, sweety? Really, I know how you feel - I have been there soooooo many times. Love you!
I am up to 175 mg of topa as of yesterday. I a mjust going to keep going up until 200 and stay there. I dont want to go higher if I dont have to. I am on day 10 - double digits - now, my caffeine intake is a bit of a different story ...
Love you all!!!!!
Love jen

[Preciouspinot]

Rainy Monday

It is a rainy Monday for me as well as I am in the same neck of the woods as Beth. Nothing Earth shattering to report here. I am skipping the office today to run errands and renew all three children's passsports and my own. I don't even know what the process is these days so wish me luck! I hope everone is well and will check in later.

[Mighty Mouse II]

Rainy Monday

Good morning everybody!!! "And another Monday morning it is" (The American President)

Waves & Beaches, as I was reviewing the weekend postings this morning, I saw your beautiful comments to me -- you made me so happy I actually cried!!! You compliments came at a time when I really needed someone to tell me I'm an ok person -- we all need those ata boys (girls!) sometimes - and it was truly inspiring for me to hear them today!

Something happened this weekend that I am hopeful will stick in my stupid head and permanently change my drinking habits forever. My father is an alcoholic and lately becomes so drunk at night he falls. He keeps falling out of bed -- one night he fell on my mother -- thought she broke her wrist but didn't. Well Friday night he fell down thirteen steps in their home and had to go to the hospital -- nothing serious, laserations and bruises, etc. But I was sure G-d was sending him a message and he wouldn't drink like that anymore. He got home the next morning at 5 a.m. And by 8 a.m. He had a beer in his hand. Words cannot express what snapped in me. To allow something to control you so much that you can be that stupid and disregarding of the ones you love -- I don't know, I just felt this ache in my heart. Saturday is our Sabboth and we talked about this as a family. My son said "Mom, I don't not respect your choice to drink too much wine, I am just dispaired by it" --WOW! Talk about mental black eye. We discussed what is reasonable. And he and my husband are comfortable with two to three glasses of wine a day, which is in line with medical reports of safe drinking. I do that most days. But I am determined!!!!!!! to make it consistent everyday!!!! But it is not going to be easy. But I'm thinking maybe it was to me that G-d was sending the message!

Already this morning, I have a client dying of cancer who wants us to fund his projects (not!), and another client who is like a clinging vine who wants free management advice in addition to what I really do for a job!! Even though I keep saying no, she keeps calling me like I said yes!! Dummy me, I give her the advice!
"And the hits just keep on coming" (A Few Good Men)

Beth, Congratulations on your AF. Imagine, glad you're feeling better. FRMCA - we love you here! Don't feel like you can't post because you feel wishy washy -- feeling wishy washy when fighting this problem is part of the process!!!

Love to all,
MM

[Preciouspinot]

Rainy Monday

Waves....I didn't see any posts by our Gypsi...if you talk to her, let her know we have her close to our hearts and in our prayers..

[InnerStrength]

Rainy Monday

Yes, waves please do let her know we are thinking of her.
MM - I know you have the strength and resolve to accomplish whatever you set out to do. I know you can and will do this. I believe this with all of my heart and soul. I believe in you.
Love Jen

[Allie]

Rainy Monday

Morning everyone!

Sounds like you are doing so good Jen! Way to go!!

MM, Wow... your Dad sounds JUST like mine. He is major alcoholic and goes through tons of vodka a week. Well, until October of this past year. He also fell down a flight of stairs one night after having many nights of falling out of the bed, falling on my Mom, falling and hitting his head on furniture (how the man has survived is beyond me). So he fell one night down this flight of stairs and cut his head. It looked worse because of the amount of blood than it really was, but my Mom called 911 and they sent ambulance who took him to hospital. They evaluated him for two days, and needless to say it was VERY humiliating for him. He has never talked about it other than to tell my Mom..."I'm sorry", but other than two slip-ups, he has not touched alcohol again. I thought that would NEVER happen. I didnt even think the fall would make him stop as he has sort of an "I dont care about life anymore, so why not drink to death" attitude. I hope your Dad will realize the magnitude of how devastating his choices are to those around him. I too have battled being angry at him because my Mom has terminal cancer and is going through chemo, feeling terrible and he was doing this... totally undependable to take her to appts, chemo treatments, etc. which left me to deal with it all. But its much better now....

By the way, my Mom has her LAST chemo treatment today and then she is done. We have no idea her prognosis at this point as they cannot run tests to see the state of her cancer until she is done with her chemo. It will probably be a few weeks before we find out how effective it was, so we are all holding our breath.

My dinner party ended up just fine although I was exhausted the next day! Those twice-baked potatoes are easy, but very time consuming. My husband pitched in and helped me tons with everything, so I couldnt have done it without him. However, after he put the steaks on the grill, the entire grill went up in flames as well as the steaks. Our guests were quite amused as we doused it with water and managed to get the fire out very quickly and believe it or not, the steaks were fabulous! I thought we had just thrown a boat load of expensive steaks down the drain, but thank goodness they survived and were still good! Talk about cooked over flames...

Trying to get on top of the house and laundry today as we are headed to North Carolina on Thursday for a long weekend... hoping to get a glimpse of some snow! There is a chance of snow on Friday. Time to break out the sweaters that I havent touched all winter!

Happy Monday all...
Allie

[InnerStrength]

Rainy Monday

Its amazing isnt it - seeing these things in our parents or loved ones can really inspire us to change....MM and Allie - your two stories reminded me of one thing that happened with my mom right before I found MWO. It was summer last year and I remember being at my parents' house. My mom was at the height of her drinking - 4-5 or more days a week getting blitzed every night (hiding it because at that point she could not drink openly in front of us as she had already clearly admitted to everyone that she could not handle alcohol). She woudl drink to oblivion every time. Anyways on this particular occasion, I remember she kept going outside and I knew she was drinking. This one time, she went outside and I happened to be listening and I heard a smash and a yelp. I went out to see what happened and she was standing in the garage with blood pouring down her face. She had apparently been reaching for her bottle of wine she had hidden on the shelf of the garage when she knocked it over and it smashed, the pieces flying up. One large shard hit her right between the eyes and another hit her about 1 inch above her left eye and blood was pouring down her face ,over her eye. As soon as I saw her, standing there, a look of bewildered, out of it shock on her face, blood everywhere I burst out in tears. I never wanted to see anything like that again. And like you said, MM, something in me changed that day. Thank God she was ok. I still rushed her inside to clean it up - they were not big cuts just a lot of blood - so my dad wouldnt see. I always protected her - I guess I enabled her that way. Anyways, he still knew she was drunk. You couldnt help but know.

[lushy]

Rainy Monday

Morning all,

Powerful stories. I am sorry about your Dad MM. My parents enjoyed their drinks too much but thankfully I never witnessed anything like that. It would break my heart.

After a really bad week last week I am feeling very positive about this week. Aiming for AF until at least Friday. I think I can, I think I can.....Glad you are feeling more positive too Rachele.

Gypsi, your and your husband have been in my thoughts lately wondering how you are. If you get a chance please give an update.

Waves, sorry but had to laugh about February 11th. Thankfully all went okay. Hope you are well.

Allie, glad your dinner went well. Yes, twice baked potatoes are time consuming to make, aren't they? Will you please tell Becca to check in with us? We miss her.

PP, let me know how the passports go. We need to get ours renewed too.

Jen, please send me some of your caffeine-hyped energy okay?

Fan, where are you?

Bak, good job on AF. Sundays are hard for me for some silly reason.

Sammy, Pixie, and all to come have a great day. :h