Day 3 , a party & still sober...
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Day 3 , a party & still sober...
Hi guys, I thought I'd better check in, as I know some of you were a little concerned because I had a mates birthday & my birthday bbq party tonight.
Well I went, I had an absolute ball with my friends, my hubby & children, and I stayed sober. It was weird, Hubby almost never drinks, but I told him to go ahead and have a beer, I had to get used to it, so here was I with my ice cold coke, and him a beer, it was bizzar, a complete opposite to the norm (he always has the coke lol)
I didn't feel stressed, just weird. But I really enjoyed myself, I don't know how long it's been since I had a genuine smile on my face for so long, and even after we got home, the kids & I cranked the rock & roll music up and boogied together, what a hoot. I can't remember feeling this happy, it was like a life time ago.
I hope everyone else had a great day
Well I went, I had an absolute ball with my friends, my hubby & children, and I stayed sober. It was weird, Hubby almost never drinks, but I told him to go ahead and have a beer, I had to get used to it, so here was I with my ice cold coke, and him a beer, it was bizzar, a complete opposite to the norm (he always has the coke lol)
I didn't feel stressed, just weird. But I really enjoyed myself, I don't know how long it's been since I had a genuine smile on my face for so long, and even after we got home, the kids & I cranked the rock & roll music up and boogied together, what a hoot. I can't remember feeling this happy, it was like a life time ago.
I hope everyone else had a great day
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"the kids & I cranked the rock & roll music up and boogied together, what a hoot. I can't remember feeling this happy, it was like a life time ago."
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Awww hi guys, sorry it took so long to answer, It was bedtime when I posted my original post, but I wanted to check in before bed.
Well today is my birthday, and I'm feeling great about having a sober one, that's a first for years
Thankyou for the posts and the support
I got some lovely prezzies this morning and I feel very spoilt, Hubby gave me a homemade voucher for $120 and written poem to go with it about how this voucher is just for me, it has a caveat (not to be spent on anyone else lol) he knows I am terrible for spending on others and never myself, he's so sweet. He has the money and will take me to town shopping and out for lunch on a day that I feel like going.
Miss 19 thinks it is great that I am eating again (she is a trainee chef) so she made me up a huge basket of all my favourite things to eat... marinated mussles, gouda cheese, crackers, fresh strawbwerries, asparagus, mushrooms, apricots, nectarines, advocado, pistachio nuts, as well as chocolates, iced coffee milk, liquorice, rashuns and the latest mag, as well as a wee pamper basket with soaps, etc...
The wee miss gave me lovely russian fudge yummm, and I was given a new knife set, and some lotto, boy oh boy I feel very very spoilt, and I'm grateful for having such a wonderful family who put a lot of thought and love into what the do for me.
Well enough ramblings from me.....
I hope you all have a fantastic day, find something to smile at, something to wonder at, and be kind to yourselves. :ghug3
Well today is my birthday, and I'm feeling great about having a sober one, that's a first for years
Thankyou for the posts and the support
I got some lovely prezzies this morning and I feel very spoilt, Hubby gave me a homemade voucher for $120 and written poem to go with it about how this voucher is just for me, it has a caveat (not to be spent on anyone else lol) he knows I am terrible for spending on others and never myself, he's so sweet. He has the money and will take me to town shopping and out for lunch on a day that I feel like going.
Miss 19 thinks it is great that I am eating again (she is a trainee chef) so she made me up a huge basket of all my favourite things to eat... marinated mussles, gouda cheese, crackers, fresh strawbwerries, asparagus, mushrooms, apricots, nectarines, advocado, pistachio nuts, as well as chocolates, iced coffee milk, liquorice, rashuns and the latest mag, as well as a wee pamper basket with soaps, etc...
The wee miss gave me lovely russian fudge yummm, and I was given a new knife set, and some lotto, boy oh boy I feel very very spoilt, and I'm grateful for having such a wonderful family who put a lot of thought and love into what the do for me.
Well enough ramblings from me.....
I hope you all have a fantastic day, find something to smile at, something to wonder at, and be kind to yourselves. :ghug3
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Thanks Kermit. I am good. Yesterday I went through bouts of grumpiness, this morning I have been a bit snappy at the family to. But then next minute I am happy. But the main thing is I got through a weekend with NO drinking. Day 5 - and going to go strong.
Are you feeling strong Kermit?
Are you feeling strong Kermit?
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Awww thankyou Sicilia & Dee *blushes*
I hope you guys are having a great day too :ghug3
That's the way of it tryingto isn't it, you are doing so well 'go you'
I'm still feeling great, when I feel a little stressed or overwhelmed, especially when it hits me again that I can never have another drink, I take myself back to the ten years before I started drinking.
I was 10 years inbetween quitting a 12 yr hard drug habit, and starting my drinking, in that time I hated alcohol or anything that changed my mood or thinking or feeling, I hated it with a passion.... and I was happy being straight, I played with my children, I lived a great alternative lifestyle, I milked the goat, I grew vegies, I baked, bottled, preserved & froze all of our goodies, I had friends, I laughed, I really loved my life, and I loved myself..... I want that back, I am claiming it back..... I can be the me I want to be again, I can have the life I loved again.
Anyway, that's where I take myself, and it makes me smile, it makes me strong
I hope you guys are having a great day too :ghug3
That's the way of it tryingto isn't it, you are doing so well 'go you'
I'm still feeling great, when I feel a little stressed or overwhelmed, especially when it hits me again that I can never have another drink, I take myself back to the ten years before I started drinking.
I was 10 years inbetween quitting a 12 yr hard drug habit, and starting my drinking, in that time I hated alcohol or anything that changed my mood or thinking or feeling, I hated it with a passion.... and I was happy being straight, I played with my children, I lived a great alternative lifestyle, I milked the goat, I grew vegies, I baked, bottled, preserved & froze all of our goodies, I had friends, I laughed, I really loved my life, and I loved myself..... I want that back, I am claiming it back..... I can be the me I want to be again, I can have the life I loved again.
Anyway, that's where I take myself, and it makes me smile, it makes me strong
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That sounds like a nice person to go back to being kermit.......a passionate, vibrant person who loves life!
I have not so much been wanting to pour a drink today as just being snappy, angry and grumpy.
Oh well, I have to put a smile on my dial tomorrow at least because I have work, lol.
I have not so much been wanting to pour a drink today as just being snappy, angry and grumpy.
Oh well, I have to put a smile on my dial tomorrow at least because I have work, lol.
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