two months, baby.

Keep up the good work spud. I was fortunate to never start smoking cigarettes. Glad you're back on board Bri. Still ok here.

You go, girl! The main laundromat in town is located right next to a liquor store. Last week I managed to keep my mind on the laundry and not sit there drooling out the window at the Corona sign. That's progress for me!

Great job, Bri.

Woo, Bri! :jig:

Go Bri!

I will have 8 months next Wednesday - the Lord willing and the creeks don't rise. Whoo Hoo!

Yay you :jig:!

I'm ready to jump off at any moment - Good thing I don't have the time.
Sooooo effin pissed about so much, Frustrated beyond belief.
Gotta love life - eh?

Am on it officially again.
Doing well. It was sneaking up to becoming a habit again after Christmas and then Cardiff...

Currently 1 week and 1 day since anything other than mouthwash entered my mouth. Alcoholic-wise I mean. I wanted to leave it at least a week before joining the thread because I was getting along for 4-5 days fine before but drinking at the weekends. So this is a new start.

You go, SG! One thing I have found helpful is to use non-alcoholic mouthwash. The alcohol taste tends to linger in my mouth and sometimes makes it feel natural to enter the liguor store for the real thing. I am ashamed to admit this, but once I drank half a bottle of mouthwash. NOT reccomended! :greenface

I haven't found the mouthwash to be a problem. I only know about it because my SIL warned me when I was Antabuse. I wouldn't have been aware of it otherwise.

Two weeks and one day.
Yay me.
Feels longer, but not in a bad way. Have I really turned a corner when it all seemed so pointless only a little while ago?

Yay you!

Good job guys. ;)

Still.

...staying away from the...

and staying the course

Brill guys!

:) i am very happy. I am feeling well. :)


thanks for your continued support ;)

ROLL CALL!

I haven't killed a hobo all year.
Well, there was one hit-and-run, but he was a squeegie-mop guy doing windscreens, so that was self defense.

Still ON. Nearly four months.

good here, nice work Bri!

Way to go, Bri and Griff!

Yay, Bri and Griff! I'm going on 9 months. Had a close call the other day, but I resisted.

Keep at it - great going folks!

11 Months! In one more month I'm going to celebrate with a super latte with 3 shots of expresso in a super latte and have caffeine jitters all day! Sure beats the other kind! :D

Woo-Hoo! I'd take you out to lunch to celebrate (if I lived anywhere near you)...

Great news SamIam!

Does not compute? written on 3/6 and 4/6? Congrats anyway, either is a great achievement

Rollcall!

Brianna, how many days have you been back on the wagon? Every one has been an achievement. Well done. :Hugs:

I've been without demon rum for one week. My head is clearing.

thanks :) it means a lot that I can share this with you all. In a lot of ways, the Cellar is my rock.

Your rock, because you rock. Who loves ya, Baby? :grouphug:

here's my rock:

what is that, dana??

A stick of Blackpool Rock.

Enjoy! Or then again, perhaps not.

A lick of Blackpool rock...

I was on the wagon for about one year - the Cellar wagon. I fell off about a week ago and here I am.

Yea, I tend to round up or down, but my sobriety date is May 10th. That's solid. And I'm still moving toward getting my one year chip next month. Yay! Day atta time. ;)

I suppose you'd call it some sort of candy cane, but it is straight, usually mint flavoured and, as you can see, has the name of the resort that it was bought at all through the middle.

My brain was like shattered glass on the pavement all week. Thor's hammer, I needed a damn drink. Still dry.

:comfort:

Me - thirty days last tuesday. Again. Alcoholic math.

I'm with y'all on the wagon these days. Not for sobriety reasons, for diet reasons.
Still sucks.

Still, ONWARD!

I'mma climb on the band wagon with all y'all. My bloodwork came back and everything was all good except my liver functions were all high. Despite not having had more than about two bottles of wine since November, when I unofficially hit the wagon.

So the doc told me not to drink for 6 weeks, which wouldn't have been a problem if he hadn't told me I couldn't. Nothing makes me want to do something more, than being told I can't. Even if I didn't want to in the first place.

So now I'm officially not drinking. Even after six weeks is up, I get the feeling that that won't be the end of it either.

Thanks Bri, I need all the help I can get... It was supposed to get fucking easier at least in my head I thought that. Good work girl.

That is some scary shit bro and I know that guy who wants to do mostly what people tell him not to.

Sober weirdness. I'm getting better at it but its still clumsy. We put a roof on my brother's house yesterday. Traditionally we'd all get tanked after so I just eased out after dinner, leaving the boozing to those qualified to handle it.

good for you, Griff.

it's always better to wake up sober. Always.

Yeah, if I can focus on how I'll feel the next day, I'm golden.

Nice non-alcoholic beer I found called Kaliber by Guiness. Delish!

On the non-drinking wagon 7 years, 1 year of non-smoking now too.

I was pleased with my efforts but after reading through this thread now feel quite pathetic in comparison to some folk here. In a couple of weeks time, on June 13th, it will be exactly a year since my last drink.

Yay, Rhianne! Keep up the good work Squirrel and Griff and everyone else. I got my 1 year chip on May 10th. I hope I never ever again touch another drop.

Thank you Sam. On a separate but related (and more girly) note, I only press the bathroom scales down three-quarters as far as I did then too.

Great job all! Keep up the good work.

That's due to Global Decrease in the Gravitational Constant (which will need to be addressed after Global Climate Change is sorted out).

Can I get some of that over here, please?
And well done all you wagonners - keep it up, I'm cheering for you all!

Yes, thanks to all wagoners - you're helping to keep prices down.

I worry that I'm causing unemployment in Scotland.

Well done Rhianne. Everyone has their own row to hoe, comparing success across different lives doesn't seem useful.

I used to smoke when I was a teenager between 12 and 16. Up to 2 packets/day of "Gauloises" (French brand, brown tobacco, no filter) by the end.

Then I began to think that my time doing laps in the pool sucked. So I stopped drastically. No cigs at all. And I got better.

On the evening of my 20th birthday, I was wishing for a smoke. And I thought : To hell with that, I'll be twenty only once, go for a cigar.

I cannot say that I'm addicted to cigar, but I indulge once in a while (8 or 10 times a year) and they're big (Churchill size).

As for the booze, I had a few episodes as a youth where I went on a binge session. Now, I'm out of that. I still indulge, but I drink a lot less and a lot more better. From Jhonn y Walker Red (2 bottles/night every week end) to Balvenie Cuban Wood, my current favorite (half a glass every 2 or 3 weeks).

On the drug front, never did it. And I never had that desire. Unless you consider girls as a drug :)