Weekender Thread 09-13 August 2018
Sober-T- Dragon
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Manitoba
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Originally Posted by Minion09 
...I finally have surrendered to the fact that I’m an alcoholic and I couldn’t kick this beast alone, which I thought I had to do... how wrong I was!...
Sober-T- Dragon
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So with it being so darn hot out I didn't get much done this weekend. Saw the Star wars movie 'Solo' and watched a few episodes of 'lost in space'. I'm back to work in the morning after 2 1/2 weeks off.
I just bought the new ABR album 'The Shape of Blues to Come'.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...se_Blues_Revue
I have not listened to it yet. I have it queued up in the car ready for my morning drive into work. I'll be thinking of you Purps as I turn it up to 11.
G'night and congrats to all on another sober weekend.
I just bought the new ABR album 'The Shape of Blues to Come'.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...se_Blues_Revue
I have not listened to it yet. I have it queued up in the car ready for my morning drive into work. I'll be thinking of you Purps as I turn it up to 11.
G'night and congrats to all on another sober weekend.
Mr
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: FRANCE
Posts: 5,230
Morning all the weekenders.
Well done to mns1 Rae and Forme... Keep it up.
We have small little snakes in the hot summer in the mountains around rocks or walls called vipers. I don't know how big they can get but the few I have seen were 1m or less. They are however dangerous for hikers and hill walkers. Ideally every hiker should have an anti venom syringe but as I said that's ideally.
It was a scary enough night in the tent. We ended up researching tenting and thunder and lightning. We shouldn't have
Have a great day weekenders.
Well done to mns1 Rae and Forme... Keep it up.
We have small little snakes in the hot summer in the mountains around rocks or walls called vipers. I don't know how big they can get but the few I have seen were 1m or less. They are however dangerous for hikers and hill walkers. Ideally every hiker should have an anti venom syringe but as I said that's ideally.
It was a scary enough night in the tent. We ended up researching tenting and thunder and lightning. We shouldn't have
Have a great day weekenders.
Mr
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: FRANCE
Posts: 5,230
Yes we hesitated going into the car for a while but we braved it. Our tent kept us dry. We are now hiking and stopped off at a little mountain refuge.
I don't know if it is my 42 years or if there is a link with abstinence and sobriety but I have never suffered more muscle aches and aches in articulations. Back pain and sciatica...
Any else notice pain and aches after getting sober?
I don't know if it is my 42 years or if there is a link with abstinence and sobriety but I have never suffered more muscle aches and aches in articulations. Back pain and sciatica...
Any else notice pain and aches after getting sober?
Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Vman, I had a lot of aches and pains in really early sobriety, but not any more. Maybe you need to hike more. 
A night in a tent with a thunderstorm sounds interesting. I really love storms, but I dunno...
Rae, ForMe, and mns1, really well done. You get gold stars. You know, the sticky kind you put on your foreheads.
The snakey and rat stories are great. Venus, your story was just what I would imagine happening in AU. I've seen too many, "Terrible Creatures," Netflix shows.
I had a nice quiet sober weekend. Good home-cooked meals, exercise on each day and a proper sleep routine keeps me on an even keel.
Onward to week 233.
A night in a tent with a thunderstorm sounds interesting. I really love storms, but I dunno...Rae, ForMe, and mns1, really well done. You get gold stars. You know, the sticky kind you put on your foreheads.
The snakey and rat stories are great. Venus, your story was just what I would imagine happening in AU. I've seen too many, "Terrible Creatures," Netflix shows.
I had a nice quiet sober weekend. Good home-cooked meals, exercise on each day and a proper sleep routine keeps me on an even keel.
Onward to week 233.
Guest
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Ashburn, VA
Posts: 30,196
Vman, I look at that picture and all I see is wood, a very unforgiving hard surface.
Sleeping on the ground is hard and unforgiving too, even with air mattresses!
I have an amusing camping story.
It was November 1996 and I was heavily pregnant. My husband, three kids and I went camping in the Blue Ridge foothills, led by our friend, who had hiked the Appalachian Trail.
The kids and I crammed into the tent to sleep, and the guys slept on the ground under the stars.
But sometime in the night the stars must have gone away, because they woke up to a downpour! They got drenched.
Drenched with no sleep: the very epitome of the term “not a happy camper.”
We never camped again!
Sleeping on the ground is hard and unforgiving too, even with air mattresses!
I have an amusing camping story.
It was November 1996 and I was heavily pregnant. My husband, three kids and I went camping in the Blue Ridge foothills, led by our friend, who had hiked the Appalachian Trail.
The kids and I crammed into the tent to sleep, and the guys slept on the ground under the stars.
But sometime in the night the stars must have gone away, because they woke up to a downpour! They got drenched.
Drenched with no sleep: the very epitome of the term “not a happy camper.”
We never camped again!
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: US
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Originally Posted by STDragon
I just bought the new ABR album 'The Shape of Blues to Come'.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...se_Blues_Revue
I have not listened to it yet. I have it queued up in the car ready for my morning drive into work. I'll be thinking of you Purps as I turn it up to 11.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_...se_Blues_Revue
I have not listened to it yet. I have it queued up in the car ready for my morning drive into work. I'll be thinking of you Purps as I turn it up to 11.
It's a good one! Going to another show next month....hopefully they'll make it up your way so you can see them too!
Member
Join Date: Oct 2015
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Good morning...
I am feeling pretty crap. Craving the feeling of “just one or two”. Why can’t we get that anywhere else? Of course I know it can’t be had in drink either. But why cant we have that...anywhere?
My mind is far from right.
I am feeling pretty crap. Craving the feeling of “just one or two”. Why can’t we get that anywhere else? Of course I know it can’t be had in drink either. But why cant we have that...anywhere?
My mind is far from right.
Ocean Lover!
Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: You know nothing Jon Snow - UK
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Vman, I am 44 and starting to exercise too, do more walking and parts of me are hurting that I didn't know existed! I can definately feel a massive difference from only just 5 years ago but hoping the aches and pains will lessen the more I do! I think it's partly early sobriety and partly I age lol.
Saying that I did an aqua class today and all the attendees were little old ladies so I felt fine as wasn't having to keep up with skinny, young and beautiful gym bunnies! Was a bit of a laugh really and could track the calorie burn on my apple watch in the pool, thought that was pretty snazzy. Yesterday for the first day I stormed it with reaching my health goals set on the watch, quite proud and definately need the motivation and goals to keep me moving. So with that in mind I am only half way done on my calorie burn for the say so I am going back to the gym to do my workout plan, I can watch my own netflix on the machines so might just have a leisurely bike ride indoors (raining cats and dogs here) and watch some ep's of a series I am into at the moment.
Keep hanging in there Bix, as Bim says the cure is a more sober time and these cravings will lessen, just distract yourself for now and keep posting! xx
Saying that I did an aqua class today and all the attendees were little old ladies so I felt fine as wasn't having to keep up with skinny, young and beautiful gym bunnies! Was a bit of a laugh really and could track the calorie burn on my apple watch in the pool, thought that was pretty snazzy. Yesterday for the first day I stormed it with reaching my health goals set on the watch, quite proud and definately need the motivation and goals to keep me moving. So with that in mind I am only half way done on my calorie burn for the say so I am going back to the gym to do my workout plan, I can watch my own netflix on the machines so might just have a leisurely bike ride indoors (raining cats and dogs here) and watch some ep's of a series I am into at the moment.
Keep hanging in there Bix, as Bim says the cure is a more sober time and these cravings will lessen, just distract yourself for now and keep posting! xx
Mr
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: FRANCE
Posts: 5,230
Hang in there Bix.
Good stuff Manta.
Thanks for the replies Bim and Kathy
I used to play quite a bit of squash and a little trail running in between getting hammered and binging but stopped up about 3 months ago because of sciatica and disc problems. Some more hiking won't hurt. Time will tell
So who went back to work today after holidays...?
Good stuff Manta.
Thanks for the replies Bim and Kathy
I used to play quite a bit of squash and a little trail running in between getting hammered and binging but stopped up about 3 months ago because of sciatica and disc problems. Some more hiking won't hurt. Time will tell
So who went back to work today after holidays...?
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For those in need of a Monday chuckle 
Wanna see how the best rockstars prepare backstage for a show?!? Dancin' to the Bee Gees!!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmbMsIun...en-by=godsmack
(This a different video from the one I shared on the Soberbus a while back....yes, the silliness continues!
)
Wanna see how the best rockstars prepare backstage for a show?!? Dancin' to the Bee Gees!!!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmbMsIun...en-by=godsmack
(This a different video from the one I shared on the Soberbus a while back....yes, the silliness continues!
)
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Originally Posted by Gilmer
It was November 1996 and I was heavily pregnant. My husband, three kids and I went camping in the Blue Ridge foothills, led by our friend, who had hiked the Appalachian Trail.
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