Class Of November 2013 Part 3
 

Continues from here :)

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rt-2-a-20.html

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Checking in. Hope everyone is well and sober!

Checking in, also! I hope everyone is feeling okay on this beautiful Tuesday. Feeling good today, didn't wake up with a hangover, feeling more clear headed and energetic and happier. I love this not drinking thing.

Hi, everybody.

Hi Claire, Bpositive, and Gilmer,
Good morning from CA. Coffee time :) then time to walk the dog. Feel good on the start of my 4th week.
A friend called to go for a drink yesterday and I immediately sent her a text that I quit drinking. I was curious to see if she'd say she wanted to see me anyway, but she didn't. Oh well. Moving on.

What a b****!

Thanks Gilmer :). She's always been kind of a negative influence anyway

Hi all!! Checking in on my day 11! Feeling really good. Glad you all are well! Lets keep on keepin on friends!

Day 6 here! Stressed and emotional, but still going!

Hey sober buddies:)
I have been reading all your posts over the last few days but haven't had much time to post. Still going strong, day 30 for me!
The sugar craving has died down massively, and I am half a stone lighter. Work is much less stressful, I have spoken to my boss again about my hours and we have reached a compromise so I'll be getting one weekend and one Sunday off a month:) I haven't had a weekend off apart from annual leave in more than a year so I can't wait!
I've also had a really long chat with my husband and we are getting on so much better. We have been so close the last few days it's been lovely:)
I decorated the house for Christmas today and after I had finished my av chirped up, a glass of red wouldn't hurt, just one to be festive. I told it to shut its trap and had an apple spiced tea! The craving hardly ever hits me, but if it does it disappears quickly.
I had a lovely spa day with my daughter last week, every time I treat myself to one I always have wine. This time I drank lots of water and then ordered a diet coke with lunch and a latte with dessert. I enjoyed that spa day more than any one I've had before! It was so relaxing and I wasn't rushing to get home to continue drinking like every other time.
Life is good:)

congratulations apophylite :)

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Checking in at day 19. Still no booze in sight!
I had a terrible craving for wine today. We dropped our son off at his grandma's for the day and that is when I would usually hit it pretty hard. I made it through and enjoyed a chicken club instead.

Hi 4 days sober nearly got to 10 mths went to Xmas party never saw it coming I drank and couldn't stop end result ended up I'm hospital :(

welcome Liss :)

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Day 5. Heading out to CT for a business trip tomorrow. We have a company dinner with (oh joy) a "cocktail hour" prior. It's club soda and lime for me, baby. And I think I'm going to come a bit late and make it a cocktail half hour ;)

DH and I had a very good, real conversation tonight about our drinking and the fact that it needs to stop. Just one or two will never be a possibility again. I think DH is coming to that realization more slowly than I am. After all, he's not the one who blacked out on Thanksgiving so he doesn't have scary moment quite as immediate as mine.

My FIL is very ill and in all likelihood won't live much longer. We agreed we have a tough road ahead in that regard and booze is going to make it worse, not better. Felt good to get that out in the open.

DH and I talked about the cruise we want to finally go on with the $$ we're saving. Feels good to plan positive things.

Hi Liss. Welcome.

I hope to join this thread if you will have me I'm going back to read your stories so I get to know you I've been on February thread and thought I would join this to xx

thank you x

Having a bit of fear with my life now that I'm back to day 4 will it happen again can't trust myself ect not sure of me now thought I was ok but not really :(

I think you're actually better off than you were before Liss - when you think of drinking again, you can call on this experience :)

You'll have your own ideas on the things you let slip in your recovery this time.
Use this experience to make sure you don't make the same mistakes again :)

you'll be OK :)
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Thought I would join this thread, I don't see a December thread yet. Today is day 1 again, after 6 day drink my wine in the evening binge. I want to stop the fight! Glad you are OK Liss.

Hi missyloo thank you so glad you are here xxxx

The current month thread is always in the main Newcomers thread missylou :)

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...-2013-a-7.html

Thanks dee found December thread x

Hi everyone.

Haven't posted much recently but still in the program with you all.

Last weekend was SO hard as far as cravings. I am getting through it and each day is getting slightly easier.

It is great to have new people join our awesome class. You are among friends here!
Best of luck to all of us for Wednesday.

Bttrl8

My big ugly monster keeps trying to rear it's head ... every time I read about someone having a slip or relapse, that nasty voice whispers in my ear "lots of people do it ... almost everyone has at some point". I know where that thought is going and I shut it down as soon as I realize what's going on in there. I also had the very real thought "I can't WAIT for that beer after work" after a sketchy situation at work. My next thought was "hang on ... I don't DO that anymore" (thankfully) and the thought did not intrude as I was driving home past the beer store. It's unnerving when I realize how my brain is working ... it's scary and makes me question whether I can make it or not. I made it today, so that's a good thing (day 11) ... one more down and I'd like another 24 please. Sometimes I have to grind through minute by minute, play the tape ... but that voice, that monster can be soooo seductive sometimes.

Same here Hokey :)

yeah, it can seem so inconsequential in posts but I hope I never forget relapse is not pleasant, guys.

I went out for 'a night off' in 2004 and didn't get back to recovery until 2007.

Congrats on 30 Days apophylite!!!
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Hugs to everyone in November! Snaps if you made it through your first holiday! I did and I feel like a superhero!!! Closing out day 10, feeling pretty good. :dancer5:

For those of you who drank, the holidays are tough and as long as you keep trying, you will succeed in sobriety! I have faith in ALL of us!!
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Got my first service position (as a greeter at one of the meetings I go to) in AA which I am pretty proud of!!

It's nice to have a weekly responsibility that holds me accountable.

Hey all, still around and just checking in. Welcome to liss and missylou.
Had a bad day yesterday where work didn't go my way and then as a further challenge felt a bit let down by a friend.
Sat on the couch and stared into space for a couple of hours and then just went to bed but importantly I didn't drink and the issues seemed a lot less major this morning than they did last night.

My one and only Christmas party challenge is happening this Friday which will involve going for drinks with some colleagues/friends but the firm plan is to not drink with some excuses prepared in advance. I might get one or two disapproving looks (dammed if you do, dammed if you don't but I think I will pick the don't thanks) but I think I can handle it.

I think I am slowly getting better at handling it - perhaps it is like horse riding-you just get better the more time you spend in the saddle , and if you fall off you get back on and concentrate on not falling off some more.