Congratulations. A third of a year no small feat. Keep it up.
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- Making coffee and breakfast. Up early on my day off to go for a ride. Looks like a good day for it. Keep going friends. It’s all we can do. Two steps forward, one step back. Sober and clean. Have a good day all. Love from my kitchen. @ChyB Congrats Olli!
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Ha, looks like the Netherlands waking up all at once! @Fargesia_murielae, @Mno, one after the other, and I see @SoberWalker typing! 
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Congratulations with your birthday!! That sushi looks delicious! Love sushi! 
Send you some dessert:
Also a favorite of mine: tiramisu 
That kind of vivid alcohol related dreams are normal in the beginning of sobriaty @She_hulk_kt. They call it relapse dreams. I had them multiple times and still have them some times (see picture below for info) Congratulations with your double digits! 
Everything is different for you now @TMAC , your home and the world you live in. That must feel unreal sometimes I guess. Getting more grounded takes time and dealing with the break up as well. Hope you will find a therapist you have a “click” with who can help you trough this difficult time. But you are strong and you will come trough this even stronger
Hang in there 
Here is my virtual kick in the ass @anon79808082 
You can do another day! Maybe you don’t feel like it but you can Your will is bigger then the voice of the winewitch! So I kick you and you kick her!! 
@Lisa07 good of your boss to apologize after all, how is your husband doing? I keep my fingers crossed for you. Our head does crazy stuff these days. I’m exposed to a lot of sick people in my neighbourhood en still not sick myself, but thought a 1000 times I felt something and think I had it too 
Congratulations @ChyB!! 
You caught me @ifs!! Goodmorning to you too my friend!!
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Day 585 
The store manager is back to work again, so happy with that! She made compliments about how I managed the store during her absence, happy with that too 
And now: 4 days off from work in a row!!
So today I’ve planned a long walk with my daughter in a nature reserve near by. My hubby and are youngest are going to mountain bike at the same spot. Oldest son has to work.
Yesterday evening we had our first dinner outside in our garden. My husband and 2 oldest drinking wine…and I had cravings
But it are just thoughts about it popping up like bubbles in my head. I can easily push them out of it. I do not give the thought attention and focus on something else. If I don’t give it attention, it can not grow.
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Day 134! Okay day today, didn’t do too much but looking forward to relaxing this weekend
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Checking in on day 8.
Last night I got the message my grandma’s infected with the Corona virus. I was talking to my dad and stepmom and felt so much emotion coming up to the surface. I miss them so so much and ofcourse I’m worried about my sweet granny.
No cravings whatsoever though. Had my first full night of sleep, had some vivid dreams but not too bad. Gonna make myself some coffee now and write in my journal for a bit. Hang out with my son and enjoy the lovely weather. All is well. 
Have a good day folks, hang in there. 
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Good morning all checking in on day 153 fuck a duck I made it 5 months who would of thought it NOT ME THATS FOR SURE,sending vibrations of hope ,light and laughter today ,and too remember even on the darkest hour clean is 1000,000,000 times better than our greatest day high.
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Consider ass of beer bitch kicked my friend, lol… thank you. 
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Oh Maartje, I’m sorry to hear that; I so wish your granny a quick recovery. 
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we are all just walking each other home right? Even if a kick in the ass is sometimes needed to walk in sink 
Good that you share. How are you doing now?
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Checking in late. Like the last days still a bit lost for words and in emotional nomansland. But pretty serene about it and sober. So I will just try and go with the not knowing today. Have a good day you all!
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I’m considering the same, although my hiatus has only been a year. I hate facebook as a company, and I am fiercely protective of my privacy and data, probably a bit overly paranoid about it at times…but I too am thinking that the pros of connection may outweigh the cons of conceding to big brother…at least for now.
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Thats just it. Its fucking creepy. Either the algorithms are insanely good, or – as I tend to believe – there’s more insidious stuff at work.
Yes I am one of those people who thinks our phones are used as listening devices. For example, how else would fb have known to trigger an advertisement at me regarding something I had only spoken about, once, in passing? Never googled the subject of interest or looked it up…it was just a small part of an in-person conversation I had. Then poof, a day or two later, there’s an advert for it. Fuck that. It was around that time that I noped out of there.
I was also adamantly against installing one of those video doorbells on our house. Easily hacked, but aside from that, I see it as voluntarily signing up to be monitored, just in yet another way. Don’t get me started on that Alexa shit.
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Day 139.
About to start my Friday. Drinking coffee. I’m working from home so that’s on the agenda for today and squeeze in some non-screen time for the little. I also have to make a video for a colleague who’s retiring. We’ve switched the farewell party to Zoom so they want to compile a group video to merge together when we do Zoom party next week. I’m not good at that stuff. First thought I’d have a drink to relax and it will go much more smoothly lol. But I’ll bare the awkwardness because, well, I’m awkward anyways. Enjoy the day.
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Day 11
The picture was taken (unaware) of walking through a field of Rapeseed, I think I was enjoying the day 
! Just loving nature at this time.
@zzz happy birthday for yesterday, sushi looks lovely
@Jane.c hope you slept better nothing worse to put you on back foot than a bad night sleep
@GVLNative thank you. They interviewing into next week so should hear by the end of the week. BTW I have copied and pasted the advice you passed to Donna, really useful, thank you
Thank you @crystalclear, and yes its got to be one day at a time. I learnt that from the last time
@Butterflymoonwoman good to see you back, just take each day at a time
@anon79808082 I did the same and it does not help. This forum is here to seek help, advice and support. I see how much support you offer others so always jump on wishing you a better day and a virtual hug
@Joy congrats on your days 
@Lilemm congrats on months!! fantastic 
@Flamestar sorry to hear about your grandma
Wishing everyone a positive day 
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So true. The hard part is that honesty needs trust. Thankfully this group is full of a caring people you can trust and who will help when you reach out to them. This group is the angel on my shoulder to help defeat the devil on my other shoulder tempting me to drink again.
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Day 11. Feeling mostly good. I’m ready for the weekend and feel like I can make it thru without alcohol (formerly my weekends were ruled by alcohol).
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Very true. Although the Zoom part is not too bad, I enjoy seeing everyone’s face. But the video we’re supposed to create solo and record prior to Zoom party is the awkward part for me. Soooo many of my coworkers are super creative extroverts that thrive on being in the limelight and like to ge centre of attention Not that that’s bad, it’s just the opposite of me I’ll likely include my little guy to make it less awkward and more lighthearted Should be fun to see the final video compilation though, and worth the awkwardness
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