Weekend Warriors - July Edition
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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Hey Bohemain. I'm still at work but fixing to go home. This will be my first weekend committed to not drinking (I'm a binger - usually on Fridays), so I will probably be on here later. I have to run to the store for a few things (no alcohol though, they don't sell that at Wally World around here) so no temptations there. Part of me still wants to do it anyway, but I know better, so I'm just ignoring that part!!
Going to try to go see Harry Potter movie, but it may be sold out already. We'll see.
I will check back later to see how everyone is doing!
Hugs!!!
Going to try to go see Harry Potter movie, but it may be sold out already. We'll see.
I will check back later to see how everyone is doing!
Hugs!!!
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 24
My first weekend too. I am headed to the lake, and I usually have wine, but I am not and I wonder if I will even have fun, but I know I have to be stron. I know when I wake up tomorrow it will be a good day. Good luck to everyone tonight...I know I need it.
grateful to be here
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 426
sending support your way determined and city ---you can do it!!!
make sure to check back in and let us know about your experiences
it helps to hear about how others deal with real life situations or what interesting, different things people are up to. take care, take care.
if i'm not on later, i'll definitely be on tomorrow throughout the day....it helped me a lot last weekend to be amongst supportive people. and for people to care about what i'm doing (i live by myself) so it was nice here with the weekend crowd---no smoke, no noise and i didn't have to drive myself home drunk and wake up piecing memories together--pretty chilled out!
make sure to check back in and let us know about your experiences
it helps to hear about how others deal with real life situations or what interesting, different things people are up to. take care, take care.
if i'm not on later, i'll definitely be on tomorrow throughout the day....it helped me a lot last weekend to be amongst supportive people. and for people to care about what i'm doing (i live by myself) so it was nice here with the weekend crowd---no smoke, no noise and i didn't have to drive myself home drunk and wake up piecing memories together--pretty chilled out!
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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Hi, I am right there with you bohemianzen.
This is my second sober weekend.
I actually went out to the pub last night until midnight. 3 of my friends drank, I did not. Wow. It's different on this side of the fence. I was quite bored and also quite anxious but I expected that. I also felt kind of blue. Not because I wanted to drink but because I was bored and I felt out of place. Goes to show you what power alcohol has over our feelings about socialising. BUT. But... I know this will pass as I have been here before during my other sober stints. I know I'll get comfy again.
It was funny watching my girlfriends get drunk and I was actually looking at them and could see how drunk they were by the changes in their eyes... their speech slurring, the volume of their speech and one of them fell into the bushes. That was funny.
Me, I walked home stone sober at 1 am and went to bed a bit cranky. Saw my room-mate's 6 pack of beer in the kitchen and didn't touch it.
I woke up this morning feeling grateful and probably a hell of a lot better than most folks do this morning in this town.
I am now off to the gym and the pool.
Bohemianzen, what worked for me is killing the association you have with drinking or diverting yourself temporarily to get over it. Get out of the house this weekend. Go to the pool, then the library and read all day, then go out for dinner. If you can afford it, spend the weekend at a hotel. Kind of a nice way to detox and stop drinking if you can afford it. Trick is, when you come home you have to have a PLAN.
Wishing you clarity, sobriety and peace.
This is my second sober weekend.
I actually went out to the pub last night until midnight. 3 of my friends drank, I did not. Wow. It's different on this side of the fence. I was quite bored and also quite anxious but I expected that. I also felt kind of blue. Not because I wanted to drink but because I was bored and I felt out of place. Goes to show you what power alcohol has over our feelings about socialising. BUT. But... I know this will pass as I have been here before during my other sober stints. I know I'll get comfy again.
It was funny watching my girlfriends get drunk and I was actually looking at them and could see how drunk they were by the changes in their eyes... their speech slurring, the volume of their speech and one of them fell into the bushes. That was funny.
Me, I walked home stone sober at 1 am and went to bed a bit cranky. Saw my room-mate's 6 pack of beer in the kitchen and didn't touch it.
I woke up this morning feeling grateful and probably a hell of a lot better than most folks do this morning in this town.
I am now off to the gym and the pool.
Bohemianzen, what worked for me is killing the association you have with drinking or diverting yourself temporarily to get over it. Get out of the house this weekend. Go to the pool, then the library and read all day, then go out for dinner. If you can afford it, spend the weekend at a hotel. Kind of a nice way to detox and stop drinking if you can afford it. Trick is, when you come home you have to have a PLAN.
Wishing you clarity, sobriety and peace.
grateful to be here
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 426
hope you have fun vegi 
turned thanx for the advice (any and all needed and appreciated)
wow what strength you have -- i'm sure i couldn't be around alcohol yet without losing my willpower......but someday i'm sure it won't bother me. i've been in bars before in a previous nondrinking time and was ok with it.
i'm still working on purging junk i've built up in the past 6yrs of drinking-my house is a mess and I think it has helped keep me in the drinking rut. i'm also dehydrating again this weekend. i got a slicer from aldi's this past week and wow it speeded up the slicing of zucchini and squash. just a minute or so and i had enough to fill the dehydrator.
i'm watching a movie on netflix (i have the get 1dvd at a time and all the movies you want instantly - cheapest plan LOL) got a sinkful of dishes soaking and i'm printing out the smilies here on sr (30 pgs geeeesh) so it's easier to see them than having to pop them up all the time. in that vein a thought popped up about making my own personalized take care of myself non alcoholic book with things to read for support and a list of things to do instead of. i'll let ya know how that goes. other things i want to do: blog, take pictures for blog, upload pics, do something in the crockpot, research a gallstone/gallbladder diet (i'm self diagnosing again since i've not been doing so great physically---my dr appt is next month), read, walk on the treadmill, try out a yoga cd on netflix, crochet on the ugly blanket, continue cutting out pics for my vision board, take a big long bath every nite, read posts and post on sr, check in on chat, play some arcade games (blast pool drives me insane)..........and anything else i can think up to do!
turned thanx for the advice (any and all needed and appreciated)
wow what strength you have -- i'm sure i couldn't be around alcohol yet without losing my willpower......but someday i'm sure it won't bother me. i've been in bars before in a previous nondrinking time and was ok with it.
i'm still working on purging junk i've built up in the past 6yrs of drinking-my house is a mess and I think it has helped keep me in the drinking rut. i'm also dehydrating again this weekend. i got a slicer from aldi's this past week and wow it speeded up the slicing of zucchini and squash. just a minute or so and i had enough to fill the dehydrator.
i'm watching a movie on netflix (i have the get 1dvd at a time and all the movies you want instantly - cheapest plan LOL) got a sinkful of dishes soaking and i'm printing out the smilies here on sr (30 pgs geeeesh) so it's easier to see them than having to pop them up all the time. in that vein a thought popped up about making my own personalized take care of myself non alcoholic book with things to read for support and a list of things to do instead of. i'll let ya know how that goes. other things i want to do: blog, take pictures for blog, upload pics, do something in the crockpot, research a gallstone/gallbladder diet (i'm self diagnosing again since i've not been doing so great physically---my dr appt is next month), read, walk on the treadmill, try out a yoga cd on netflix, crochet on the ugly blanket, continue cutting out pics for my vision board, take a big long bath every nite, read posts and post on sr, check in on chat, play some arcade games (blast pool drives me insane)..........and anything else i can think up to do!
grateful to be here
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 426
almost through with my 2nd weekend --- yesterday was peaceful. the weather is like autumn here so the windows were up. i love it -- i hate being in the ac all the time. the ugly blanket is coming along....i'm on the color of pink right now hehe uggggly. i read and didn't do that bad on eating. i did great on drinking water 10 cups. that's the most i've drank in one day in ages. and it wasn't so bad. of course my not feeling good in the tummy kinda helped that along. i don't feel like drinking pop right now, it hurts my side. not doing so good on getting motivated to clean- i did wash a sinkful of dishes. i hope to do better today. i did do an exercise i found on sparkpeople (it only took a few minutes but that's a few minutes more than the day before) wish i could get some motivation to get off the couch more. but i'm not drinking and so far that is the most important part.
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