Giving up the booze

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  • Video sent!  Just hope it's not to big to go in your in-boxes!
  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭
    Thanks TST, will have a browse later image
  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭
    TST, that vid is fab, thanks.  I've tried to stretch, yikes I'm so not supple!  Was laughing trying to do the squashed frog image
  • SunluvvaSunluvva ✭✭✭

    Morning

    Thanks TST, I had a quick look but had to leave for work so I forwarded it here - it's not in my inbox though so has probably been quarantined - I imagine theres an office full of IT geeks somewhere creasing up laughing as we speak imageimageimage.

    I somehow forgot that we are all going on a long weekend at the Haven Caravan Park in All Hallows (classy stuff eh!)  I think there's about 40 of us in total image.  It's mostly the main group of people we socialise with plus various friends and kids.  It will be a weekend of excessive drunkeness for the majority - not me, I can't handle more than a couple these days - so I shall make sure my camera is charged and video the evidence for the future, that way I can use it as a bargaining tool and threaten to release it on youtube if they don't agree to my demands...............image,.

    I've no idea if there's internet access there so probably won't be able to take my turn at scrabble if it comes up - sorry.

    What's everyone else doing this rainy weekend?


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    Yes, the squashed frog is funny isn't it!  Our coach says you can do that one in the evenings when you are watching the telly, but Mr TST just laughs at me!   Apparently if you do the stretches every day it should take about 4 months or so to be able to get right down, but I guess it depends how hard you push them and how flexible you are in the first place.  As you can tell, I've not been doing mine every day like I should image  Need to get into a routine of doing them really, and it would be good for me to do them all (I have a whole list of stuff I should do) after my runs as it seems to stop me getting achy.  What's everyone up to at the weekend?  We are keeping busy with my half on Sunday and tomorrow we go to Rutland Water to support my friend doing her first tri and to check out the cycle route for the Vit.  I'm getting a bit nervous about that really as I'm scared it's going to be hillier than I thought when I entered.  I've been really slacking in my cycling so if it is tough I have some work to do.  And it's also a possible flash point for drinking image  If we had a problem before the solution would be to get hammered and try not to worry about it, or at least put off worrying about it for a while.  Mind you I suppose sometimes the problem was the excuse to drink.  I think I'll be ok, but it's been an instinctive reaction, or bad habit really, to just get drunk rather than face up to things.  I know it won't go away, the course will still be the same, and getting drunk would only bugger up my training for the next week and my half on Sunday so I'm not going to give in.  Gonna be bloody hard though image
  • Sunluvva wrote (see)

    Morning

    Thanks TST, I had a quick look but had to leave for work so I forwarded it here - it's not in my inbox though so has probably been quarantined - I imagine theres an office full of IT geeks somewhere creasing up laughing as we speak imageimageimage.

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    Oh my!!! 

    Sounds like a fun filled weekend SL!!  I'm quite looking forward to being the sober one with the video rather than the drunk being videoed when we are eventually able to handle parties and stuff.   Where is All Hallows?  I've never stayed in a caravan you know.  I've camped and done b&bs but never a caravan.  Maybe that's something me and Mr TST should look at next year.  There often seem to be collect the token type deals in some of the papers so you can go cheaply. 

  • Good morning!

    SL, that sounds like my idea of purgatory, a weekend away with a whole load of people getting over-stimulated by alcohol! I must be middle-aged now - far prefer the chance to sit and chat over a meal and just take things easy (suspect you are the same!!).

    Nothing much happening in my world this weekend. Couple of visits today from people who haven't seen me since my operation, meeting a friend for coffee tomorrow morning and that is it. I am hoping to go to the gym next week with Mr ST - at the very least, I can do my physio there and also use the exercise bike and the hip adductor/abductor machines and the treadmill - alas, no running, as I can't take the jolt to my shoulder and wound image

    No hospital visits planned for next week, which is a refreshing change - well, unless my referral appointment comes through for the Royal Marsden, but that is highly unlikely as we only asked to be referred there on Tuesday.

    Dull, overcast and pretty horrid here - I hope someone, somewhere has sunshine!!
  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭

    No sun here either ST, looking like its going to rain again.

    Hope you have a nice long weekend SL, be interested to know what All Hallows is like.  We like going to Haven as there is a lot for Thomas to do.

    TST, these caravans are now homes from home if you know what I mean, fitted kitchens, showers, fires etc.  We went last month and we did collect the tokens from the paper image

    Quiet morning here, watching Stuart Little and going to try the new ice cream maker (no brussel sprouts I promise SL image)  Little man had some jabs on Weds and a bit off colour from them.

  • SunluvvaSunluvva ✭✭✭

    To be honest ST I'd rather be curled up on the sofa with a cup of tea and a good book in this weather. I don't mind these 'outings' because wer'e all friends but I get bored of others telling me to have a) a drink or b) fun, when I'm perfectly happy with my orange squash and tea. Everyone is used to me not drinking much - maybe a glass of wine or two so that dosen't bother me - and if I'm in the mood I'll probably be the first of us to be up onstage doing silly games and karaoking!  I'm taking at least two books with me but also looking forward to playing crazy golf if it's not chucking it down.  Glad to hear you're going to have a nice restful weekend.  I didn't get chance to catch up on your blog yesterday but will have a look when I get home if there's time.

    Here's the park details Cinders - you could get there in under half an hour.  The area isn't fantastic but the park itself is really nice and good fun - loads of things to do for little kids and much bigger kids too and the prices inside aren't nearly as extortionate as somewhere like Butlins.  They've also improved the beach too by getting rid of the shingle and bringing in loads of sand!

    Allhallows is a small village in Kent TST, near Rochester.  The accommodation is really static mobile homes and some of them are really lovely - all with inside loos and showers so no running to the shower block in the rain in the middle of the night.  They have proper kitchens with cookers & microwaves etc and lots have TV's, though I doubt ours will be used!

    I'm looking forward to trying the squashed frog stretch , not seen the video yet so have an image in my mind and it's not pleasantimage.

    Have a lovely weekend everyone and I'll try to do my scrabble before we set off x

  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭
    That looks good SL, right on our doorstep too image
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    Have a lovely time SL.  I'll be resting this weekend after a hectic trip to Accrington.  To much socialising and chat and too little sleep I fear image I'm getting too old to play like that anymore.

  • Hi,

    I just want to say that you can do it, i had a drink feb 5th and felt horrible and sluggish so thought sick of feeling likethis i'm going to see how long i can go without drinking, now its just over 4 months and i still haven't had any and i don't even miss it !

     I never thought i'd see the day as i could quite easily drink a bottle of wine a night !! image

     Hope you manage it, i'm sure you will........think positive and the positive effects it will have on your body

  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭
    Morning all, we have image today, yay!
  • Hope ever ones had a good day. Cake baking sounds wonderful I once made cheese scones and my step daughter thought it was a pizza...

    I'm really feeling the need to see the squashed frog!
  • SunluvvaSunluvva ✭✭✭

    Morning all

    I have survived the weekend intact - very little booze for me and no hangover, it's amazing what happens when you drink pints of tea and orange squash image.  Can't say the same for any of the other adults though, apart from hayley who had her 5 yr old son with her and is 7 months preganant  everyone was pretty much legless the whole weekend - but it was very very funny.  We visited hubby's brother who owns the only pub on the Isle of Grain which is only 20 mins from Allhallows first so he had a couple of pints there.  Then everyone met up in a pub round the corner from the park and had several there.  Once we'd found our mobile homes and chucked our bags in everyone met in the bar and just continued in the same vain until they couldn't take anymore which included winding up the comedian and men who never dance taking to the dance floor with something that can only be described as contemporary dance image

    Hubby crashed out  at 11pm and went back, I told him to leave the door unlocked so I could get in.  I got back about an hour later (the band was good) to find the place locked so I started knocking on doors and windows to wake him up and calling him every name under the sun - a couple of minutes later a security patrol van pulled up and hubby got out - he'd been staggering round in a drunken stupor for an hour and still couldn't find the place -  I couldn't stop laughing, then later he fell out of bed and I haven't stopped lauging yet image

    We had the occasional bit of sunshine between the gales, torrential rain, thunder and lightening but it was still good fun.  Some of them are still there today but a few of us left as we had work this morning, it was so nice to sleep in my own bed and see my doggies image.

    I can understand how cheese scones could be mistaken for pizza PixieP, theres a similarity in taste but were they really that flat image.

    TP, sounds like you went to Accrington with my mates!

    Hope everyone had a lovely weekend, Dx

  • Pixiep wrote (see)
    I'm really feeling the need to see the squashed frog!


    lol  It's pretty scary PP, but if you message me your email I will send it to you.  Am sure you can save it for when you need a good laugh!! image

    Sounds like you had a good weekend SL! image  I guess hubby will be getting reminded about the security guard incident and falling out of bed for a few weeks yet!  image

    I have had a great weekend, and today we celebrate 4 weeks sober image  Don't worry, I won't be mentioning every week for eternity, but it's still a big achievement so I feel the need to shout about it!!

    Saturday was a bit scary as we went to Rutland Water and drove around the cycle course I will be doing for the Vit.  There are a couple of really steep hills which look really scary, a couple of long hard drag hills which will be killers as they are so long, and the rest seems undulating which is ok as I think I can replicate that round here.  Am going to have to learn to cycle on the hard gears cog rather than the easy gears one that I use at the moment though or I won't have any gears to use up the hills image  There were lots of lovely looking pubs around where we were driving too and they all looked very inviting.  In our old life we would have tried at least two of them out, but on Saturday we didn't go in any of them.  It was our first ever 'road trip' without stopping at pubs and I'm really proud of us for doing it without having a drink.

    Yesterday I did the half marathon, another usual excuse to get hammered!!  I pee'd it down for most of the run but I still managed to do it in 2:17, which is nearly 27 minutes faster than I did the Great North Run in last year (my only previous half).  We took the champers glasses, but instead of champagne I had sparkling strawberry and kiwi fruit flavoured water and then instead of stopping for a few drinks in pubs on the way home we stopped at a chippy and had fish and chips out of the wrapper in the car image

    So, that's two major events where we would have drunk now done and I think it will help us be able to do them again in future without drinking.   Still have the hurdle of stuffing my face instead of drinking, but am aiming to work on that this week.  It's amazing to see how well my training has come on since we stopped and I think that is helping me stay on the straight and narrow too. 

    Having a nice rest evening this evening so my legs can recover and then back to training again tomorrow. image

  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭

    Welcome back SL, weekend sounds interesting.  Did laugh at hubby and the security van!

    TST, well done on the half  imageimageimage 

  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭
    Afternoon all image  Very quiet here.

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    Been having computer problems this morning, it just didn't want to boot up!  At least that's what we thought, but it turned out my screen didn't want to work for some reason; that's two I've gone through in the last year or so image  Not sure why the don't like me!

    Am trying to start my 'I don't eat chocolate and all that other junk' thing today image  I didn't mind using it to replace the booze for a little while, but I'll end up addicted to all that stuff again if I'm not careful.  Had a chat with Mr TST this morning and said I need his help with it too, so no bringing stuff in the house or sitting there going 'I really want some ice cream' or whatever.  Think this will be harder than giving up the booze, but if I can crack it then it will make a bit more difference to my training and getting rid of the belly will help too.  image

    Got swimming and gymnastics tonight so that will stretch out the last few niggling achy bits in my quads.  Am so pleased with how little achiness I've had after Sunday - when I did the Great North Run I could hardly walk for two days! 

  • SunluvvaSunluvva ✭✭✭

    Afternoon folks

    Got a problem with my computer at home and can't get on the net at all.  It says it's infected with multiple viruses but it isn't, it's a site trying to get me to buy windows vista security from them but it overrides everything and won't let me get on.  My son got rid of the last one, it's just a case of finding the programme and deleting it but I can't find it- he's going to have a look for me as soon has he has time.  Till then it's RW via work or hubby's iPhone at home - not sure if I can play scrabble on it so sorry for the delay folks.

    Fantastic going TST, 4 weeks is awsome going, and the 1/2m was fab too imageimageimage.

    Cinders, at least hubby wasn't embarrasing this time, do you remember the incident at his works do a couple of years ago with the santa suit and the broken nose - I've never been so mortified in my life imageimageimage - I don't know why I'm blushing, it wasn't me image.

    I had great plans to get up early and go for a brisk walk/run with the dogs this morning and have a go on the 'adult' gym in the park - in the end I overslept and have been knackered all day.

    Where's HTF and the other usual suspects got to, not heard from them in a while.

  • This usual suspect is here!

    Belated hello to Nikki, who appeared unnoticed over the page. Sorry! Being booze free since Feb is fab, and thanks for telling us - success stories really do give us all a boost. Do please come back and join in the chat.

    SL, I loved the story of your weekend, made me literally LOL. I'd wondered why you were neglecting scrabble - boo to computer probs!

    Commiserations on that front to TST too.  Congrats on the four weeks and the excellent half result, you really are doing well. Good luck on the choc and junk food though, that's my major failing these days so maybe you can spur me on.

    Day off work today, choir rehearsal tonight, and washing on the line, but of course it pished down while I was in the bath and unable to do anything about it.

  • SunluvvaSunluvva ✭✭✭

    Hi Guys

    Sorry I can't play scrabble on hubby's phone so you'll have to evict me from the group game, Yeo, you had that one in the bag anyway (again image).

    I'm getting really tired again but got a jab booked in for next week so all in hand - I couldn't get up again this morning, I had such good intentions again but in the end had a rushed shower and cuppa before heading out.

    How was choir practice Yeo, whens the next performance?

    I hope everyone's having a good day today, Dx

  • Hello lovely people.

    Not having such a good time at the moment, I'm afraid - hence my lack of posting. I've put it all on my blog today so won't repeat it all here.

    I hope to resume normal service soon and in the meantime, hugs to all who need them, well done to everyone achieving in whatever area and keep being your usual gorgeous selves.
  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭

    ((( ST )))  Sorry to hear today isn't a good one for you, sending you a big hug x

    Yeo, typical re the washing.  How did your rehearsal go?

    SL, ah yes, the Santa Suit image

    TST, I love the smiley and the cactus gif thingybob, how do you do them?  Must have a go at the squashed frog later image

  • SunluvvaSunluvva ✭✭✭

    Morning image, this tiredness is getting silly - I need a day off but can't really have one as I've got to save my leave and use it as a notice period - if I get a call saying they need an emergency placement I'm off straight away - no intention of working here one day more than I have to!

    I've had a read back of your blog ST, sorry things aren't so good for you right now, just keep remembering that it wil be ok, it takes a while to accept that your life has changed and there is now a new 'normal' for you - my GP described the depression as 'grieving for the life that's gone and accepting that the new life has limitations'.  I hope today is a better day for you - at least we've woken up to some sunshine imageimage, dosen't matter if it dosen't last, it sets me up for the day.

    We've got a training  course this evening so I won't get home till about 10.30pm image.

    I can't open the 'squashed frog' video at work and the laptop isn't working at home so I shall just have to keep wondering image.  I daren't google it - it could be dangerous!

  • apparitionapparition ✭✭✭
    Morning

    I hope you're all well. Things have been very busy here but this morning I'm working from home so as not to pass on the very heavy cold I've developed - I had got used to working from home but it's been a while since I last did.

    ST - I just caught up with your blog - you're such an amazing woman. I'm sorry that yesterday was a dip but I know that your spirit, and the people you have in your life, will see you back on track soon.

    SL - It must be a little frustrating having to wait until something happens. I'm sure your new adventure will begin soon though!

    TST - it sounds like you are doing brilliantly with the booze...keep up the good work!

    Although it's been a little quiet here recently, there are a few too many regulars to say hi to individually these days, which suggests the thread is thriving!

    Things are still going well with me, and I really have felt in control of the booze. There have been 3 days where I've had a sociable drink in more than 2 months and absolutely no drinking at home. I'm still eating very healthily and doing regular 2 mile runs so that's all good too.

    It must be time to do some work...
  • Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh!!!! image  Stupid RW and it's 'your message is too long' thing!  I just typed loads out and it said it was too long, but deleted it all so I couldn't split it into two messages image  Will have to do it all again later as I need to do some work now!
  • SunluvvaSunluvva ✭✭✭

    Hi Apps, I wondered where you were.  Fantastic news about being in control of the booze, that's pretty much where i'm at these days.  I do have some at home but I can stop after a couple. 

    I've just done myself a schedule that would get me to the Tonbridge 1/2 marathon on 25th September but as even getting out of the door for 2 miles is a struggle at this point. I might have to accept that it's beyond me  If that is the case I'll find a nice 10k and work towards that.

    I can feel your frustration TST  imageimageimage.  Sometimes you can use your back button and get the message back on screen so you can copy and paste it in two part, and sometimes you can't imageimageimage.

  • CindersCinders ✭✭✭

    Hi all, bit of weather anyone.  We've had it all today, currently working through thunder and lightning.  Hey TST, do you have a gif thingy for lightning? image

    SL, hope the training course goes well tonight.  Hope you can get onto your schedule for the 1/2 but do you know of any 10k's if it turns out you can't?  Are they any nice ones around?

    Apps, good going still on the food/drink but boo to the cold.  Hope you get over it soon.

    Well surprised myself this morning and plodded 8 miles.  Its been a fair old while since I did that so very chuffed indeedy image  And I got lucky with the weather, it was sun all the way!

  • Hello image

    Hope you're all doing well.  I've been awfully busy in the real world so apologies for not posting though I do drop in to check up on you image

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