Greeneyes will PERSEVERE.........

Hi Linda - nice to hear from you again! I've been hoping to hear some news from you about Mr Depp and it is sounding promising!

Quite a few of us have moved over to SW now. My WW membership expired and I wasn't really sticking to it as I was so hungry all the time so decided to commit to SW for 3 months. I now need to stick to it as I can't flit from diet to diet forever.

Anyway- will keep this short as am on my phone and the predictive typing is driving me crazy :D

Hope you have a good SW friendly day!
 
Hi Linda,

Glad to know that you are okay (except for the cystitis). Fingers crossed for Mr depp's new job. My DH doesn't like seafood either, and I love it. So, I pretty much only have it when we go out -- and that isn't all that often.

It looks to be a nice a day here -- and that always help my spirits.

Good luck with Slimming World. I am still losing at my slow rate with I am doing, so as we say down South (US South that is) "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

MM
 
Morning Linda,

Glad to see you back posting and fingers crossed for the job - hope Mr Depp gets some good news.

So sorry to hear about the cystitis. That is so nasty and I hope that clears up very soon.

It has been very quiet on the boards recently. That initial burst of enthusiasm had dwindled away a bit but at least we are all still trying to sort ourselves out. We will get there and I can picture a whole page of diaries where the titles will say ..................has got to goal!!!

Good luck with your new plan. The joy of having some food to eat again :D xx
 
Morning Linda!
Hope your new SW plan is going well, looks like SW is the plan of the hour...i'm staunch CD tho', only thing that ever worked for me longterm.

I know everyone has wished your OH luck, so here's some more from me too "Gooc Luck!!"

Hope your feelin gbetter after your Cystitis attack, nasty business!

I'm slowly getting round to posting after the busiest two days ever on my return from trip, head still spinning but much calmer today...phew!

Have a great week hun, enjoy the SW freedom.

xx
 
Hi Linda, welcome to the SW club. At least we are all still trying, by whatever route to get there! xx
 
Ha ha, not doing very well this week, think cystitis may be a slightly more serious water infection as it is getting worse instead of better so trip to Doctor today I think..... food wise? well have had lunch out nearly every day this week, went out with Mum and Step Dad yesterday, did try to eat wisely had cajun chicken but there were saute potatoes and coleslaw so slightly off plan. Due to this have put on another 1.5lb today. Out with sister tomorrow evening too with alcohol involved, so fresh start next week I think.

DH had a no for the job 40 miles away, but he had told recruitment consultant he didn't want it anyway, just not viable, and another no to a job he applied for, but still not news from the second interview he went for yet. No news is good news they say!!! lol

Have a good day all xxxx
 
Definitely hope for the no news being good news for you hun!!

Hope you get your infection sorted with the doc too, not very nice at all!

Enjoy your lovely lunches and night with your sis, me and my sis love a good drinky night out (she's worse than me!)

Wishing you a fabby sunny day
xxx
 
Hi Linda --

No news, is not a No. So, here's to a change in fortune!

The sun is out here, I hope it is shining on you, too.

Wishing you a wonderful day.

MM
 
Am now on super strong antibiotics, am allergic to so much medication they always struggle to find something for me to take. Only have 6 tablets to take, 2 a day for 3 days, am halfway through now, but still have the infection. Am continuing to put on weight as I am continuing to eat, it would seem that I add food into the equation and totally lose the plot. But I have not given up, I will get back on soon I promise.

Mr Depp got the job he was waiting on and hopefully starts on 4th April....... he is in my bad books at the moment. We went out for a meal with my sister and her partner and 4 other people last night. Now I drink but when I feel a bit woozy, change to diet coke or something so I never get really drunk. So after 4 glasses of wine I started on diet coke, but DH and another guy just carried on drinking. We went to my sisters afterwards and the men stood in the kitchen drinking and DH polished off nearly a bottle of scotch along with another guy, they were both totally out of it (and the other guy had to open his Estate Agency business first thing this morning). Anyway I only live close by my sister and couldn't bear the thought of getting in the car with 2 really drunk guys so said I would walk, and DH was chasing me to try and keep up, he ended up tripping up the kerb several times and falling into a bush once. Once home I went up to the bedroom and got into bed, and decided that I wasn't sure he would make it to bed so turned the light off. This morning 2 of the boys came knocking on the bedroom door rather worried wondering why Daddy is lying on the hall floor, I asked if he was still snoring loudly and they said yes, so I just said he had drunk too much and that this was why it wasn't a good idea to drink a lot. Eventually I woke DH up but he cannot stand still, he staggered around and eventually fell on the sofa where he still is........ looks like we will have a fun day today.
 
Morning GE,
Aww sounds like MrD will be having a rough day from you and the head! ha ha...the evilsof drinks eh!
Hope you are feeling better after your meds hun, you'll be back on track when you feel up to it.
Great news on MrD job though that's the silver lining we asked for for you, thank goodness for that!
hope u findsomething fun to do today hun, have a good one!
xxx
 
Hi Linda,

I hope this was a "one off" of getting carried away with the relief of having a job. I know from personal experience that men tend to not show just how horribly stressed they are when they are facing being unemployed.

I am so happy he has a job, and hope that once he is fully functional that he will a) apologise for his getting carried away (but that is one of the problems with drink... once you've had a few your judgement gets impaired and so you lose prespective), and b) promises to limit himself to no more than "X" number of drinks before switching to non-alcoholic ones.

My DH made me this promise before I married him over 24 years ago -- and has for the most part kept it. He did not have any issues with drink, but as I grew up with an alcoholic father I told him that I did not care if I was in labour with sextuplets, barefoot and there was a blizzard outside -- that if he ever pulled a falling down drunk, abusive, etc. episode -- I would leave so fast that time would move backwards. And, he promised me then and there: "No more than two drinks, before switching to non-alcoholic ones." And, I do not live with the stress I had growing up -- and we have a very responsible teenage son when it comes to drink (in fact he is stduying psychology because he wants to work with Post-traumatic stress, plus drug and alcohol counselling).

So, I hope that he asks you for forgiveness and you forgive him... and I also hope that this job is a good fit for him and family.

My best to you and yours today. How is your daughter doing?

MM
 
Well, DH often used to get drunk before he met me and we had a couple of episodes in the past when he got falling down drunk, but never as bad as last night/today, he even admitted once to drinking the alcohol in our cupboard sneakily at night, so we just got rid of all the alcohol we had and he promised never to drink again.......... but over the last couple of years he has had a drink and then another and I never said anything as it seemed to be in control...... he wont even talk to me today, he told my daughter he has totally blown it with me, he got in the shower, pulled down the curtain rail and I think fell asleep in the bath.

The two young boys were traumatised this morning, once their sister got here, they just sat with us crying saying they were frightened, so daughter has taken them to hers today to play with her small boys, they said they wanted to go. DH has slept all day in one of the boys beds, I have done all the housework, cleaned the bathroom after he wrecked it and done all the washing. I went to Costa Coffee and sat and read my book, then went shopping, am now home and he is still in sons bed........ feel like going in there and banging a few pans together right near his head...... ha ha. Dont know what to do now, surely a promise is a promise, and now any promises he makes means nothing, as he doesn't keep them!! hmmmm what to do!!
 
Hi Linda,

Once he is able to talk to you, I would tell him that he needs to go to an AA meeting and stop drinking all together. I also recommend that you go to an Alanon meeting, too. You can get advice on how to deal with what your children have experienced and support him in his sobriety. My father has been sober for over 20 years, I just wish he'd gotten help sooner. My childhood and teen years would have been so much better.

It sounds like you had a productive day. That's a plus.

MM
 
Oh gawd, what a mess?! I am surprised that he is still alive Linda, after drinking so much, he could have choked on vomit, or just plain alcohol poisoning. Doesn't bear thinking about. I hope he is ok today and that he waits on you hand and foot for a month to try and make it up to you all.

On a lighter note, I mentioned (as I am sure others have) that it would be nice if we could "like" certain posts and gave Pierce a shout on one of my replies to someone and lo and behold............. we have "like" and "share" now :D

I am wishing that the rest of your weekend goes without any other traumas and yay for the job!!! xxx
 
Hi Yang,

Glad to see you are alive and well. This is Linda's post number 973 -- do you want to alternate posting in Linda's diary until one of us hits #1,000? he he

MM
 
Ho hum, so totally off plan me and the boys have had pizza for tea and very nice it was too..... ha ha.

DH is not an alcoholic, he did stop drinking for a while, but I enjoy a glass of wine sometimes, so then he drinks, not really sure why he went mad last night, am wondering what happened to the other guy and if he made work today. He clinched a deal on a £550,000 house last night whilst we were out, his clients would not be impressed if he didn't make work today. DH is still asleep, he hasn't got up at all and no one wants to wake him, not sure where the boys will sleep tonight if he doesn't surface soon. Oh to be able to sleep the day away........
 
Hi Linda,

Oh, I'm sorry... I did not mean to imply that he was an alcoholic. it was a more of "make him go and see/hear where excess drinking can lead". And Alanon is an excellent support group -- and they can certainly help you with explaining things to the little ones. The idea of having him go to an AA meeting was sort of like taking your shoplifting child to tour a jail. And, the asking him to promise to not drink does need to be forever: only until you feel comfortable again.

I think he "owes" you some sort of level of comfort.

MM

My DS and his BFF are currently having pizza and it smells sooooo wonderful. I am having a very hungry day. I'll have wait for them to clear out of the kitchen and then make myself a MAM.
 
Slimming world have a lovely recipe for pizza Mel ;)

I think that he doesnt have an alcohol problem, he has a problem with alcohol, if that makes sense. Its such a fine line between you controlling it and it controlling you.

I used to drink a lot of whisky a few years back, my two older daughters will testify about how it changed me. I felt so much anger and pain to do with my father (he had a severe drink problem) and getting drunk was the only way I could unleash it. So much pain and hatred used to spew out of me and it would frighten the girls. I'd get in the car and speed off into the early hours hoping that I'd crash and get rid of all it. One night my son 'came to me' in a dream and told me that I was destroying myself and that my dad was human and had made mistakes and that I needed to forgive him.

Now I know that none of that was in my subconscious and to this day I really believe that it was a visitation from Tom, anyway something inside me changed from that day on and I dont have that pain anymore and I dont feel that way at all if I have a drink now. Again, my girls will testify to this. I just tell everyone I love them now if I'm a bit tiddly lol xx
 
Hiya Yang,

Thanks for the SW heads up.

I will be moving on to SB once I have hit goal (between 133 and 138) and stabilised there. Then I will have a low carb variety of pizza from time to time. I know that for me the processed carbs are like crack cocaine: addictive and dangerous.

DH has done so well on SB and wants to just keep living the SB way. He is having flank steak, roasted sweet potatoes and tossed salad for dinner tonight. I'll measure the potatoes with my RC portion pots, but he can have the whole steak if her wants it, and all the salad he likes.

I'm having a MAM. *sigh*

MM
 
LOL it sounds like your DH is in the dog house today Linda! It can happen to the best of us ;).

I don't drink much and can go for months without even thinking about a drink. Generally when I do drink I have a glass and that's it - never been a thing with me. That said, I went to a formal ball with my DH about a year ago, someone kept topping my wine glass up and several hours later with lots of dancing we went outside to go home. I knew I was tipsy but as soon as the outside air hit me I completely lost it and had to be helped to the car - I have no memory of getting home (DH drove) and was apparently helped to bed. The shame of it!!!:eek:

I'm so glad your DH got the job!! You must be so pleased.
 
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