guess how long the binge lasted...
THIS time.
And guess what I did.
No pole - just flat-out wild-assed guessing.
Fourteen days since I don't know when...
"6 days do not a week make."
Come on, name that movie.
Bri, did it involve hobos? Or carnies? Do tell.
it involved hobos who aspire to carnie-hood.
wait a second! this isn't funny! I could be dead for all you guys know!
Sheesh! what pals!
A better class of hobos, huh? Well, that explains why all the crappy hobos are headed up this way. hmmmph. I cannot find a good quality hobo to save my life!
edit: you know me: open jar, add levity.
What limey said (down thar) dust yourself off!
Are you OK?
Four days. Oh dear. Never mind. Pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again :grouphug:
aw, shawnee, I was just wantin to be all serious and shitl.
I drank for six days! three pints of Smirnoff each day. A new personal best. In all ways.
cops are prolly trying to think up an honor or something for me right about now.
and PS
I know some of you out there are smirking. well. Ok, then.
Oh, well, I was right, it did not a week make.
Are you OK now?
That stupid one foot in front of the other stuff... I had to remind myself that this weekend...and I thought "yabbut, sometimes that first foot feels so fucking heavy!"
:comfort:
Are you OK now?
That stupid one foot in front of the other stuff... I had to remind myself that this weekend...and I thought "yabbut, sometimes that first foot feels so fucking heavy!"
:comfort:
I'm better. quit sat. night around 8pm-ish. still feeling it though. all fuzzy headed and DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.
Thanks :)
Cops?
four times.
toldya it was a personal best.
Damn Bri - sorry to hear that. Try to drink lots of water &/or cranberry juice to flush your system.
Are you in a place to see what happened between
here and last week?
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step...
Oh baby.
Sorry.
I didn't notice you were missing because I've not been around much myself for a while.
Funny (synchronicity rather than ha-ha) because I was thinking of you just last night. I have a book I want to send you. Don't worry, it's not Stop Being A Drunk Or I'll Kick You In The Cunt or anything preachy like that. Just something I think you'd get a kick out of. Heavily annotated by yours truly.
I'll send it this week.
You'll have to stay sober to read it.
I still love you muchly.
I thought you were out preparing for graduation otherwise I would have noted your absence.
Of course we noticed!
Sending you a hug, Bri. I don't know what else to say, other than we're here for you if you want to talk about it.
Three pints? A day? We are lucky you're still alive.
To be fair, their pints are smaller than ours.
I'm sure it wasn't healthy of course.
But when our drinking coincided, Bri & I could never come up with a measurement that allowed us to properly document our war stories...
No pole - just flat-out wild-assed guessing.
When I saw this quote I got some other idea in my mind [pole dance] since I am now assuming that did not happen that is one thing in your favor. :biggrin: Another is that it only lasted 6 days and not 6 years. No matter when you start over or how long its been, the end result is that you have a beginning. Good Luck we know you can do it! :)
You've had the binge, now it's time for the purge.
Now you must drink at least three pints of water each and every day. And forget it.
Were any of the cops hawt?
What set you off?
too much success and inner peace.
And yes - that's the truth.
Were any of the cops hawt?
too drunk to notice so probably not.
They
were kinda in a bad mood, though.
so take this for the relief that is was.
it was the black you need to see the white you are.
move forward. start where you are.
Indeed, we are very lucky you made it through this one. ;)
So have you gathered enough shame to balance the pride of graduating?
To be fair, their pints are smaller than ours.
I'm sure it wasn't healthy of course.
But when our drinking coincided, Bri & I could never come up with a measurement that allowed us to properly document our war stories...
Think two 750ml per day.
I know US pints are smaller, but it's still a heckuva lot. When planning a Russian-style party I allow 1/2 litre of vodka per person and that neatly piles everyone on the floor in a stupor at the end of the evening (even the Russian guests!!).
too much success and inner peace.
And yes - that's the truth.
I was in the mood for a bender yesterday, but it wasn't from feeling successful. Pick up the pieces kid. I'm rooting for you. I was hoping you'd met someone hawt and gone on a sexy bender instead.
I'm so sorry to hear your news, Bri. 3 pints is a LOT. I used to drink 2 pints and that would keep me pretty snockered. Drinking to that degree is very spooky. The trouble with alcohol is that you'll drink when things are bad, you'll drink when things are great, you'll drink because the sun came up this morning. I've drank for all those reasons and many more.
I forget if you go to AA. They have helped me tremendously.
Please take care of yourself and concentrate on the next sober 24 hours - just one foot in front of the other.
I hope you didn't end up with some lasting legal problem. No DUI or anything? :(
"6 days do not a week make."
Come on, name that movie.
Bri, did it involve hobos? Or carnies? Do tell.
"Barefoot In The Park"
Yay!
That line never fails to crack me up.
Yay!
That line never fails to crack me up.
Mildred Natwick is one of my all-time favorite character actresses.
:)
She hasn't logged in since the morning of the 14th -- does anyone know if she's doing okay?
I'm worried about her. Three pints a day is such desperation, end of the road drinking. It is very hard to come back down from that amount of alcohol, too. Sometimes a person needs to go into detox for a day or two.
Bri seems like a scrapper, though. Hopefully, we'll be reading her posts here again soon.
hey, thanks, you guys. I'm here and I'm doing better. My brain in coming back online (not entirely all there - but better) meetings, sponsor, book work, all that. everyday. EVERYday.
I did go to the hospital. If you really want to know, I'll tell you what they did - but you can probably guess. People like me are treated worse than an animal.
wolf, I'm sure, has thoughts on this topic.
Still - we ARE human. I know we are trying and a bother and GOMERs- all that. I didn't like working with people like me when I was a nurse. Karma.
the thing is - health care staff are so burned out right now & it's only going to get much, MUCH worse. Compassion? You'll have to pay for that.
Glad you're working it through, Bri. I like you and I worry about you.
Pleased to hear you're taking some positive steps, Bri. Yeah, medical staff can be so ignorant and downright hurtful when it comes to dealing with us alkies. The AMA classified alcoholism as a DISEASE years and years ago, but try and get some doctors and nurses to cop to that. I guess they were back doing the nasty with the cadavers on the day the alcoholism lecture was given.
If you ever need support, feel free to PM me. We're walking down the same road.
I used to see that kind of attitude a lot on the education programme I worked at. Some of the students had drugs or alcohol problems. If one of them dropped off the radar for a spell and then reappeared having put themselves through god knows what, there were a couple of tutors who seemed to go out of their way to make them feel bad about it.
Aside from the fact that it is probably the least helpful thing anyone can do, it was often as not accompanied by total hypocrisy: these same tutors would be down in the smoking room with a patch on their arm and a cig in their hand complaining that they just couldn't give up.
I'm a nicoteine addict. It killed my dad it may well kill me. It is a matter of luck and grace that I just happened to fall into an addiction that society deems relatively acceptable, and just as much a matter of luck and grace that i didn't fall into an addiction that is judged harshly.
There but for the grace of fate go we.