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[mollyka]

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Mornin all! with me Witchy it has been a gradual realisation. I also drank twice during the last 12-14 months and my doc made a very wise comment. He said to make sure that I get SOME good out of the 2 occasions and that 'good' is that I truly visualise the mess my life got into both times from just a stupid frigging drink in a glass, I don't want to ever be in that mess again.
Off to that library Firefox We need all the support we can get! It scares me when I hear they are closing libraries in Britain. IMHO it is incalcuable the value of libraries, particularly in these recessionary times, to lonely, poor, elderly.....etc etc etc, and just plain bookworms like you and me I love libraries, so hopefully funds won't be withdrawn from them - besides the fact I'd be out of a job:H
I'll be back later, have a lovely morning all
Molly

[Spinning J]

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Morning Marchers!
Day 11 . Got to dash for the school run then I'm going for a swim, sauna, and steam followed by a costa coffee! Treat day for me as hubs is off. Have a good day to you all.
SJ

[allswell]

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Witchy,

No ah-ha moments for me. The closest would have been after I had abstained for about 6 weeks last year and all of a sudden I had the thought "I can do this". I no longer felt deprived or I was missing anything, I actually felt like I was exactly in the place I needed to be and joyful. I'm getting that feeling back. Hope everyone has a great day, off to work on taxes.

[mylife]

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Good morning guys! Happy Ash Wednesday to you all! I celebrated "Fat Tuesday" last night with Pizza and root beer. Not a good thing on a diet, but I was at a friends house. However, I feel good today and full of energy because there was NO Alcohol involved!

Sounds like a busy thread already this morning already. Molly, I completely agree with you about the Libraries! I think with the advent of Kindle and Ipads Libraries might become a thing of the past pretty soon...so sad as they are such wonderful places. I stubbornly use our local library and try to tell others to also to try and keep them alive!

Hope you all have a wonderful AF day!

[vintage girl]

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Hello Marchers, isn't March just flying past? Can't believe it's the 9th already! Having internet problems so not on much, just wanted to pop in and say hello on this cold and blustery Wednesday. Ran off last night's pnacakes this morning, now I am off to buy a lottery ticket, dreaming of sunnier climes. *sigh*

[here4hope]

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Good Morning All: For me it was a general realization over time. Insanity: doing the same thing and expecting a different result. I too, feel less anxious and angry, yet I have to deal with some hurts with my DH, (emotional betrayal), okay there I finally said it. I do know that in the past when I would get to a certain point in sobriety, I would begin "feeling" and not liking it. Physically feeling well and clear headed is far outweighing the emotional discomfort this time. Ah, wisdom comes with age ;-) Blessings

[piper123]

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Can I join you all today, in the middle of March. I am hoping today will be my day one. Again. It's been two weeks since I did 21 days, so I am hoping I can go further because I am feeling that awful anxiety, depression, doom that comes on the first day. if I remember correctly, that went away pretty fast, pretty much the next day I think?

Well off to cook a nice slow cooked meal for my son who is coming home for the second half of his spring break tonight. It always helps to have one of my kids around. If I can get a couple days under my belt, and the sickness that triggered my relaspe doesn't come back, I'll start exercising again this weekend.

luv n hugs, piper

[Spinning J]

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Hi piper and welcome . I'm sure you will feel better tomorrow!

[louie]

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Morning all,

Welcome Piper!

Thursday morning, 5.45am and Day 19 AF for me. Pitch black outside, but I was awake so up I got.

Meeting with the bank with DH today to try and sort out our money situation, banks here suck. They make it very easy to deposit your money, but very difficult to get it out of the country, and noone keeps any money here as they have the right to 'freeze' your account at any time and then you can't access any money. So we are just trying to understand how they work or don't work here. It can be frustrating.

Hope everyone has a great day!!

[witchywoman]

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Hi Piper & welcome.
Well I have worked out one of my major trigers is boredom, as I am only working 2&1/2 days this week (being Fri night, Sat & Sun) I ahvent had a lot to do, am finding about 4pm I am crazy bored & thats went the drinking thoughts begin, "wouldnt a glass (bottle) of wine be nice" goes round& round in my head, well no it would not be nice. to be honest i find boredon as excuse to drink anoying more than anything else, stress, anger etc at least i can understand why we drink in those situations, but boredom, really?
right now that I have vented i am going to go see if any more butterflys have hatched, (my dad had some breeding in his tomato house.
stay strong kids
catch ya later
Xx

[Anjicia]

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:hallo:Morning its still dark outside and quite stormy I can hear the wind howling. Its almost 5am and i'm awake since 4 so i thought i may as get up and have a coffee:cupajoe:. I fall asleep no problem but most nights i wake bought 4 am and can't get back asleep straight away so i tend to get up have a hot drink and come on the internet. I plan to go to an AA meeting today at some stage and go to the library as i didn't make it yesterday. I cleaned my two windows out front and sweep up some leaves and weeds in the garden. Was a sunny afternoon yesterday but a chilly. Its day 12 and no major craving or urges to drink so far... long may it last. Witchy boredom is a trigger for me also among others and i'm not working at all but looking in to doing a coarse of some sort to get me back in to work again. I'm just trying to keep busy. The house has never been as clean lol. I'm sorting out my bills best i can as i got behind when i was drinking as i was spending money on al i could ill afford. Well i'll read the posts here and try get asleep for anotherhour or so. Wishing you all a good thursday. xxxx:h

[Spinning J]

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Morning Marchers!
Hi Firefox I too was up at 4am woken by the howling wind ! Day 12 for me today and feeling good . As it's Lent I've got another 'reason' to give up alcohol not that I need one but it's a good motivator. Hope everyone has a good day. Will check in later when I wake up. Oh and I bought a lovely bag off eBay last night for the price of a bottle of wine :H !
:l SJ

[Anjicia]

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:wavin:Morning everyone its still dark outside but no its not windy. Just having my early morning coffee. :cupajoe: Yesterday i got to the library to change and renew some books cds and dvds so i have lots to keep me going for the next 3 weeks. I went for a cappuchino afterwards and i walked up and back 20 minutes each way as i need the exercise. I have at least 10 ibs of weight to lose specially round my middle. Thats al bloat lol. Isn't it great Spinning when you can buy yourself the odd treat with the money you would have spent on al? :handbag: Well today i'm getting my hair cut and coloured. I would have got it done a few weeks ago but because i was spending too much on wine i couldn't get the money together. Its a good chunk out of my allowance but so was drinking 2 bottles of wine 4 to 5 days a week. Didn't make the AA meeting yesterday so i might go this evening. Well thats me so far this friday so i'll wish you all a good one whatever your plans. out:

[mollyka]

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Mornin All! Hi Firefox, we seem to be the only early birds today! Hope the hair is lovely - it is one of the treats I now allow myself with the 'booze money' used to be like a madwoman with the hair cos there was no way I would fork out the money when it would buy a bottle of vodka or three - lookin in the mirror at my nice cut hair and highlights does a lot more for me these days than the booze head that's for sure
Watching Ireland V WI in cricket - we're doing way better than I expected so far:fingers:

All good here, glad to be working today - workmen will be in soon painting and plastering so glad to get out, hate anyone in the house. My hubs, and 2 of my sons have an 18/30/60 birthday all in the space of a week next year and have decided to organise a trip for all 6 of us to somewhere as a celebration. We don't often all get together so if I can organise it it would be brilliant! Daughter suggested Amsterdam - she reckons we could be sort of a 'stoned Von Trapp family outing', may be a plan to stop us all killin eachother:H
Will check in later
Molly

[anon]

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Morning ladies!:
goodjob:On the hair front. Keep up the hard work Firefox