I made it to day 30!
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I made it to day 30!
Hello there SR,
Well, the title of the thread pretty much sums it up. Today is my 30 day mark. I know it's not a long time, but I think I'm starting to feel better about it. All those drinking demons shouting at me "What about us? Hey, if you forget about us, you won't have any fun anymore...." Well, I've been trying to ignore them like badly behaving children, and the strategy seems to be working more or less. They've gone off to sulk with their tails between their legs now that realize I'm not playing their game. However, I hope this doesn't mean they haven't gone somewhere to re-organize their efforts!
I was complaining to my husband about being sick for the second time this months--"Dammit, I don't understand why I'm sick again. I quit drinking, I eat well, I'm sleeping well, and I exercise my a** off, literally. What gives?" And he said, "Sounds to me like your exercising the Booze demons out of your body. They're pissed off because your no fun for them anymore, so they're making you suffer before they leave and go to Chris W.'s house were it's more fun for them....hahahahaha." Chris W. being a friend of ours who likes his booze, etc. I know, bad joke. (Though it was my husbands joke, not mine)
Well, I'm still pissed off about being sick, but that made me chuckle. As they say, laughter is the best medicine, thought it appears to be failing it's job at the moment: I wish I was celebrating my 30 days by being out in this cold, but clear weather, ripping up the trails on my beloved mountain bike--and not stuck here on the couch hacking and wheezing, coughing, and feeling really irritated that I'm stuck on the couch doing all of the former. Soon enough, I suppose. Patience grasshopper.
Thanks for all the support here people, it's been invaluable. I'm a whacky chick with some crazy ideas that sometimes get a little abstract--so thanks for sticking it out with me, even if you had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Cheers.
Well, the title of the thread pretty much sums it up. Today is my 30 day mark. I know it's not a long time, but I think I'm starting to feel better about it. All those drinking demons shouting at me "What about us? Hey, if you forget about us, you won't have any fun anymore...." Well, I've been trying to ignore them like badly behaving children, and the strategy seems to be working more or less. They've gone off to sulk with their tails between their legs now that realize I'm not playing their game. However, I hope this doesn't mean they haven't gone somewhere to re-organize their efforts!
I was complaining to my husband about being sick for the second time this months--"Dammit, I don't understand why I'm sick again. I quit drinking, I eat well, I'm sleeping well, and I exercise my a** off, literally. What gives?" And he said, "Sounds to me like your exercising the Booze demons out of your body. They're pissed off because your no fun for them anymore, so they're making you suffer before they leave and go to Chris W.'s house were it's more fun for them....hahahahaha." Chris W. being a friend of ours who likes his booze, etc. I know, bad joke. (Though it was my husbands joke, not mine)
Well, I'm still pissed off about being sick, but that made me chuckle. As they say, laughter is the best medicine, thought it appears to be failing it's job at the moment: I wish I was celebrating my 30 days by being out in this cold, but clear weather, ripping up the trails on my beloved mountain bike--and not stuck here on the couch hacking and wheezing, coughing, and feeling really irritated that I'm stuck on the couch doing all of the former. Soon enough, I suppose. Patience grasshopper.
Thanks for all the support here people, it's been invaluable. I'm a whacky chick with some crazy ideas that sometimes get a little abstract--so thanks for sticking it out with me, even if you had no idea what the hell I was talking about.
Cheers.
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Originally Posted by wiscsober 
Good for you.
We tend to spend more time around people when living a sober life vs. the isolation. Hence, we're more exposed to germs. Keep up the great work. Best to you and your family.
We tend to spend more time around people when living a sober life vs. the isolation. Hence, we're more exposed to germs. Keep up the great work. Best to you and your family.
Unfortunately, bugs have been making the rounds at my kids school in record numbers this year, it seems. I try not to let my kid cough in my face, but if you have kids, you know that this is almost entirely impossible to control %100 percent of the time!
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Originally Posted by 2granddaughters
Are you going to AA meetings on the Island, G?
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Awe geez,
It's the thought that counts, Coldfusion!
Just like with birthdays, after certain amount, I think it's fair to put a "representational" number of candles on the cake, so to speak. For instance, my husbands' turning 46 this year. I can't possibly fit 46 candles on cake (unless it's a really big cake.) so what I usually do in this case, is to put as many candles as I need to spell "46."
Thanks so much for rooting for me Coldfusion, and right back at ya'!!!
It's the thought that counts, Coldfusion!
Just like with birthdays, after certain amount, I think it's fair to put a "representational" number of candles on the cake, so to speak. For instance, my husbands' turning 46 this year. I can't possibly fit 46 candles on cake (unless it's a really big cake.) so what I usually do in this case, is to put as many candles as I need to spell "46."
Thanks so much for rooting for me Coldfusion, and right back at ya'!!!
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Thanks for the support, everyone! I really appreciate it. Coming here and practically journaling this journey in these forums has really helped me a lot. Better than a private journal, because people here actually respond to what I say!
However, though writing here has helped me a long this process, so has reading as much as I can here and responding to others.
After reading through the forums, I no longer feel like I'm alone in this, or that my drinking problem is unique to me. I have read so many other similar stories that I relate to so well, that I could have wrote those stories myself. So, this has given me the ability to have almost an outside perspective on my drinking problem--in the sense that, if I recognize myself in someone elses' story and say to myself, "yeah, reading this it sounds like they have a problem," and what they're saying sounds a lot like what I have said... well, there you go. If it walks like a duck...
Quack quack, fellow ducks.
Cheers to these forums!
However, though writing here has helped me a long this process, so has reading as much as I can here and responding to others.
After reading through the forums, I no longer feel like I'm alone in this, or that my drinking problem is unique to me. I have read so many other similar stories that I relate to so well, that I could have wrote those stories myself. So, this has given me the ability to have almost an outside perspective on my drinking problem--in the sense that, if I recognize myself in someone elses' story and say to myself, "yeah, reading this it sounds like they have a problem," and what they're saying sounds a lot like what I have said... well, there you go. If it walks like a duck...
Quack quack, fellow ducks.
Cheers to these forums!
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