LESS Alcohol ~ DECEMBER 2024 ~ One Day at A Time

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  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 2,013 Member
    Michieb125 wrote: »
    @xbowhunter a huge Congratulations! You and I have been on this thread together for a long time. You have done amazing and I hope you will sit with the feeling of zero drink days for over 3 months! Such a great accomplishment……please keep checking in here. This month is especially challenging for many of us and will be over in just 18 days!

    @Womona I love your social life! Geeze, good luck with the printer/scanner. I hate troubleshooting those too, lol.
    And, I think you are doing really great with balancing your decisions on wine and not overdoing. WTG!

    @xbowhunter congratulations in 90 days! That is really impressive, and I’m so happy for you. I know you’ll keep the streak going because of your insight into how you just cannot moderate. You are very wise. That said, I wonder why it is that some people can moderate, and some cannot. Isn’t that weird? Seriously, has anyone ever studied
    this? It’s quite a phenomenon!

    @Michieb125 thank you for saying that. You’re so sweet. However…. You may want to retract your statement about how great I am at moderating! While yesterday at lunch, I had no desire to drink, at dinner I did ok. One Old Fashioned and two glasses of wine. Ok that to me is acceptable for a big steak dinner office party. Then someone ordered a round of espresso martinis after dinner. Oh geez. Of course I drank it. By the way, it was delicious. So that’s drink #4. Guess who slept terribly last night???? So…. Back at it today. Tonight is the night I crack open the Geisen NA wine to give that a try.

    Oh, and the scanner conversation went well! Haha!
  • Womona
    Womona Posts: 2,013 Member
    SurferGirl1982 wrote: »
    This is a bit off topic, but, I've mentioned in some of my posts that I live in a somewhat rural area. I actually had to drive 60 miles each way to see my eye doctor recently. And, I have an appointment with a different doctor next month in the same area. I feel that is totally ridiculous.

    So, I put in a search with Realtor.com for an area about 120 miles south of here. I've lived there before. I was actually a meter reader for the power company. So, I know the neighborhoods. And, there's more medical care, shopping and entertainment.

    Has anyone else ever moved 100 miles or more away? I tend to get cold feet.

    I moved from NJ (born and bred Jersey girl here, we don’t pump gas) to Bellingham Wa, where the first time I got gas I sat in my car for 5 minutes waiting for the attendant, only to remember that I now have to pump gas. Then we moved to PA just over the Jersey border. My husband almost took a job in Boise ID.

    Here’s what I can tell you… it’s scary but to me also exciting. Social media and texting makes it sooooo much easier to to connect with your far away friends. Also, I will say that you need to actively join things and get involved with clubs, sports, etc. We joined a country club because we are golfers, also Rotary, also the gym and tennis drills where I’ve gotten to be friendly with the other ladies in the classes I take. We are active in our church. Bottom line, get involved with your new community and it will be a much better transition. Even if you’re in the shy side, join something that interests you.
  • globalhiker
    globalhiker Posts: 1,966 Member
    Going AF strong over here.
    @chicbuc your grandson can fly! Very talented indeed and what a joy it must be to watch him dance.

    @tmbg1 and @xbowhunter YAY for both of you! YOU ARE ON A ROLL!! I find that while it gets so easy there are still random days when we have to jump unexpected hurdles. We can't let our guard down.

    @NonnieDoiron about your 50th bday plans, can you celebrate both during the same time? Or celebrate just before?

    @Michieb125, the faux prosecco I drink (Mionetto alcohol removed) sometimes shows it has 36 calories for 12 ounces. But it's hard to believe it is so low, maybe it's incorrect. Yours seems more realistic.
  • globalhiker
    globalhiker Posts: 1,966 Member
    @SurferGirl1982, yes I have moved before but that was when I was much younger and didn't own a house and was poor as hell, so the move was easy. Where I live now, it would be monumental to fix up the house to sell, sell it, find another, move, then spend way too many years fixing up that new place. And moving away from friends and family. Plus, I have about 10 different awesome medical specialists here that my husband and I go to that are just awesome and within 25 miles drive time. So yeah, tough to uproot.
    Also, I try my best not to direct messages to any particular person. If you want me to, I can :). I write for me and everyone who listens including those that never write on here.
  • tmbg1
    tmbg1 Posts: 1,635 Member
    MissMay wrote: »
    QUICK CHECKIN as we are away from home and it is difficult to type on phone screen.

    Huge success at my husbands fancy Christmas party last night. I ordered ginger ale in a stem less wine tumbler with 2 fresh mint leaves and a candied cranberry.

    Talk about festive, all I said to the bartender was I am not having alcohol tonight. Can you make me a drink so no one judges me??

    I later met a young woman there that was sipping out of a plastic glass, with a straw. She mentioned that everyone keeps asking her why she is not drinking. I went back up to that bartender and asked for another drink like he had made me but with sprite.

    Took it to this girl I just met and said here now no one else will question your beverage choice. It is 99.9% first impression. Use this fancy glass technique next time you order and definitely do not put a straw in it.

    70 days AF

    Great idea- a visually appealing mocktail helps when it's a festive occasion!
  • NonnieDoiron
    NonnieDoiron Posts: 511 Member
    SurferGirl1982 wrote: »

    I'm so happy for you! I'm a bit of an optimist and I thought everything would work out 😀 Not sure about opening the wallet part HaHa!

    I’m glad you’re an optimist! I try to be but fall short too often.

    The wallet is very hard to pry open! I asked him last night about a budget. He asked how much I needed. Lol… I’m an event planner for the military, I don’t create the budgets… I plan within them. He looked at me with a straight face and said, “$200?” 🤣 🤣🤣🤣 I told him that wouldn’t even cover the food! He cringed.

    He openly admits he is no good at planning parties, and I told him that’s why I’m planning it. I just have to know my “real” budget, so I can plan accordingly. I’m going to give him some time to mull it over.

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