rainyengland

Hi everyone

Just back from work and my darling children have smashed my iPad to peices!!

Bad reaction by moi and stormed straight to shop With wine wine wine on my hit list!!..walked back out with just some cigarettes but what I would do right now for a glass of red wine :-(

Little buggers!!!!

Arrgggg!!

Need to apologise to wife now as well as threw iPad in rage !! - worse than the kids

Rant over!

bloss

Glad you didn't buy the wine, sorry about your I-Pad...

rainyengland

I've calmed down now - just needed to vent !!

Kids ay!

Delilah1

Sorry about your iPad, good choice avoiding the wine!

cfm

You didn't drink. Go back and edit the post, Change to

BabyJane

Sounds like perhaps you and the wife could use a date night away from the little ones! These are daily frustrations, as you know, and they will be around whether we drink or not but everytime I face things (big and small) in sobriety I learn from them instead of repeating them and I become stronger.

Deep breath! Props to you for not doing the wine and coming to SR instead!

rainyengland

thanks !

Think the walk helped - black mist lifted slightly - first time in 11 days I nearly cracked

Usually when I stressed first thing i did was drink - progress!

Bruno1979

House contents insurance will sort that fella.

My kids managed to spill a full bottle of coke over my work laptop and totally destroyed it. I did drink after that, and I drank when the claim was accepted by the insurance company and I drank when the new laptop arrived. Those were the old days though.

Well done on not drinking.

Bruno.

AnotherPaul

You had a close call and you held up and said "NO". That's worth a lot more than any piece of electronics! Contratulations. Sorry about your I-pad, tho, that does suck a little, lol.

bryangt

Drinking will not fix or replace anything broken. Drinking will break you however, in more ways than one. Good job..this too shall pass...

Applecrumble

Good work on not drinking, Rainy.

Like that Bruno: I drank when something happened, I drank when the repercussions happened, I drank when things improved, I drank when everything was ok. Sums up the absurdity of our behaviour! Doh!

TTBABP

Now you know for sure you can find a way to deal with stresses without the wine! Hurrah for you

FreeFall

I'd be upset too!!! Good for you for not turning to booze to deal with the stress.
It happened at a good time of year. Now they all know what you want for Christmas Seriously though, hope insurance covers it-those suckers are expensive!

Hevyn

Hi Rainy. Glad you got over that hurdle. Alcohol doesn't really help us cope, we just imagine that it will. All it does it complicate matters and set us back. Proud of you for handling it the way you did.

cat1961

Rainy - so so sorry about the iPad but am darn proud of you to handle it the way you did.

dragon12

So you didn't drink..........fantastic!

Caledonia1

Great stuff resisting the urge. Keep it up, just dismiss that thought immediatly should it ever raise it's ugly head again.

Sorry about your ipad. Bummer but to you!