Fabela's Fabulous Fantastic Freeway to Freedom! Pt 2
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Fabela's Fabulous Fantastic Freeway to Freedom! Pt 2
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Thing one: you feel that you're setting yourself up for failure or your AV feels that way? I'm hoping it's the latter and you're right if so - keep telling on it!
Thing two: I love that Charlie and am so glad you have him. <3
Thing one: you feel that you're setting yourself up for failure or your AV feels that way? I'm hoping it's the latter and you're right if so - keep telling on it!
Thing two: I love that Charlie and am so glad you have him. <3
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Originally Posted by Obladi 
Fabs
Thing one: you feel that you're setting yourself up for failure or your AV feels that way? I'm hoping it's the latter and you're right if so - keep telling on it!
Thing two: I love that Charlie and am so glad you have him. <3
Thing one: you feel that you're setting yourself up for failure or your AV feels that way? I'm hoping it's the latter and you're right if so - keep telling on it!
Thing two: I love that Charlie and am so glad you have him. <3
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Originally Posted by CaseyW
Love the fancy new digs, Fabela!
I'm saying goodnight just an hour or two before you usually say hello. I hope you have a wonderful Saturday with the family!
I'm saying goodnight just an hour or two before you usually say hello. I hope you have a wonderful Saturday with the family!
(I'm sitting here, thinking how the last thread ended, with a poop story. Can we find a deeper meaning in that?)
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One month. I feel that I have proven to myself that I can go a whole month without drinking, and now I'm done. I can drink tonight, and then take another month. Tonight's party is the excellent excuse for drinking, everyone else will be drunk too. It's perfect. Besides, I never drink that much anyways, a sixpack of beer is all that I need. The kids don't need to see me, and DH is probably asleep when I get back. Yeah, it's a deal.
Shut up, AV. I'm tired of this constant back and forth. Leave me alone.
Shut up, AV. I'm tired of this constant back and forth. Leave me alone.
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What a wonderful picture, Fabela. Your daughter and Charlie both look so happy there. That picture is enough reason right there to not drink today.
Congratulations on starting month 2 of your better way of life!
Congratulations on starting month 2 of your better way of life!
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Struggling. Struggling so badly. I've done everything I can to stay away from the shops, I've knitted, watched TV, cleaned, walked Charlie x3 and done some heavy gardening, and I've told my husband. All I need to do now is to stay put right here for the next ten minutes, until it's too late to get beer. Then I can hit the shower and get ready for the party. I'll stay for the food, and then I'll get out of there.
Wish I knew why I'm struggling so much today, but there's no point in wondering why. I just hope that I'll drive straight home afterwards, instead of hitting the pubs in town...
Wish I knew why I'm struggling so much today, but there's no point in wondering why. I just hope that I'll drive straight home afterwards, instead of hitting the pubs in town...
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Ms Fab,
I have a remarkably difficult time with milestones. The thing that stinks about it is that my AV (and yours too it seems?) lies in wait quietly and then pounces.
Opportunistic jerk.
I'm rooting for you, hon.
xo
O
I have a remarkably difficult time with milestones. The thing that stinks about it is that my AV (and yours too it seems?) lies in wait quietly and then pounces.
Opportunistic jerk.
I'm rooting for you, hon.
xo
O
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My AV didn't get what it wanted, and I have no milestone hangover today. I went to the party, which had great food and LOTS of free alcohol, and when I saw them carry the goods in I thought to myself "Oh my dog, I'm so relieved that I have decided to stay sober". Not because I was tempted by what I saw, but because I so vividly could imagine what might have happened if I had decided otherwise. A colleague of mine, who has admitted that he has an alcohol problem, was drunk when he arrived, and he continued drinking, getting more and more obnoxious. Not nice to witness.
I was sitting with a group of my co-workers, five of them were sober like me and we had such a nice time chatting to each other. Three of them know about my problem, and when I decided to leave, one of them wanted to talk to me outside. She said that she knows a woman who has been sober for 14 months, and that she very much would like to talk to me. Why not, I thought, so I'm getting her number and will try calling her some time next week. (My friend asked if I was proud of my one month milestone, and when I said no she actually started crying, and said that SHE is so proud of me. She's such a sweetheart.)
I got back home before 10 pm and I took Charlie for a walk, the black night sky covered in stars, and the moon and the northern lights were having a fight to see who's more beautiful. Walking that gorgeous golden dog, I felt something that could resemble pride, and waking up this morning felt sooo good.
Day 32.
I was sitting with a group of my co-workers, five of them were sober like me and we had such a nice time chatting to each other. Three of them know about my problem, and when I decided to leave, one of them wanted to talk to me outside. She said that she knows a woman who has been sober for 14 months, and that she very much would like to talk to me. Why not, I thought, so I'm getting her number and will try calling her some time next week. (My friend asked if I was proud of my one month milestone, and when I said no she actually started crying, and said that SHE is so proud of me. She's such a sweetheart.)
I got back home before 10 pm and I took Charlie for a walk, the black night sky covered in stars, and the moon and the northern lights were having a fight to see who's more beautiful. Walking that gorgeous golden dog, I felt something that could resemble pride, and waking up this morning felt sooo good.
Day 32.
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