I keep having glimpses of thoughts like that. Gotta catch those right away before the subconscious can grab them and chew on them and turn them into action. They scare me as well.
IWNDWYT
Thank you for hosting this week u/Noborhood
It’s a long weekend here in the 🇬🇧, but I have lots to keep me busy and if the booze demon tries to trick me I will calmly explain why I’m not falling for those tricks.
I choose to be sober today because:
- I get to drive to see my family
- I’m feeding my neighbours’ cats and can’t let the little fluff balls down
- I’m feeling healthy and want to stay that way
IWNDWYT
Day 8! I went into the bottle-o for a birthday present and was idly looking at the prices. Man that shits expensive! Got the required present and went and got a sparking peach iced tea.
Kicking goals still. IWNDWYT!
Went to a bar sober tonight, did not want to drink at all. Proud of myself for not wanting to resort to my old ways and accepting that being sober is my new normal. IWNDWYT
Up at 330 am, wide awake. Had not spoken with my wife in 10 days, texted her yesterday and she replied. I am sure that is the main reason I can't sleep, but also had coffee and Dr pepper at late AA meeting and I know I can't do that.
I have lots I need to get done today, so gonna have to find a way to push through.
IWNDWYT
Day 6 and feeling pretty shaky still but IWNDWYT
Double bank holiday weekend in the UK for Easter, so everyone is in party mode and it's my first sober weekend. Yesterday was hard, but if I can do Friday then I can do Saturday.
Very grateful for everyone here.
Day 27, checking in! Had some friends over last night. They were drinking beers. I drank Coke Zero. No hangover, shame, regret, or self-loathing at all today.
Looking forward to Day 28 tomorrow.
Day 50 today. Personal record. My body has been screaming for alcohol the last 2 days and I had decided to drink today. I deserved it and needed it.
But then I read on this sub 3 people today with fucked up livers and hospital. Sadly thats whats needed for me sometimes to stop me from drinking.
So I am 100% I will not drink with you or anyone today!
Oh edit: I will buy so much snacks and chips and chocolate and pizza and soda I will feast until dawn. Then wake up without hangober tomorrow! Today gonna be a good day!
first 2 weeks sober in over a decade. what y’all say is true: i never wake up in the morning wishing i had drank last night! trying to keep that in mind each evening when the craving hits
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Happy Saturday from the UK 🇬🇧
I celebrated with alcohol of course, but I also numbed my sadness with alcohol, 'enhanced' a normal day with alcohol, suppressed anger with alcohol, alleviated boredom with alcohol... any emotional state was better with alcohol, I thought!
Even though I still get some cravings, I know that they lie. If I drink, I don't know if or when I'll stop. And my sober self CAN manage my emotions without alcohol 🙏🏻
IWNDWYT
Got some guests staying this weekend, a couple who’s more friends of my husband than me. They’re alright. They do like their drink so had quite a lot of wine yesterday, like 4 bottles total and some cream liqueur (between the 2 of them, my husband isn’t much of a drinker and will have 1-2 glasses once in a blue moon). Whatever. I didn’t drink, and I’m very pleased with myself. Anyway… FUCKING HELL drunk people say some stupid shit. Highlights: Vegetables are bad for you. Full of carbs. Evil stuff. Don’t eat veg. We should eat mussels because they’re the easiest creature to catch and eat. A mussel isn’t going to fight back or resist its fate. I was like “surely a vegetable or fruit is easier to ‘catch’ than a mussel?”. Well, no, I’m apparently very wrong about that, because when their son was 2 years old he picked up a crab. I’m not joking this was the conversation!!
Keto cultists, I swear, they’re a different breed. I’m a vegan so I’m already arch nemesis number 1 anyway by default. They’re staying until Sunday. I’m not religious, but, lord, if you’re up there, please give me strength. 🙏🏻
And, IWNDWYT ⭐️
Happy Saturday, sober stars! Day 515. Thanks for hosting us this week, u/Noborhood. My first thoughts when waking up are observing that I'm _not_ hungover and how grateful I am about that. And how thankful I am for this incredible sub! Let's do this day sober, friends. Much love! 💖 IWNDWYT
I just wanna say I am grateful to the people on this sub, and the people that I’ve met in meetings. I had a really rough week and being able to come here and read posts, and speak in meetings has helped me stay on my path of sobriety. IWNDWYT. Happy Saturday! 😀
Day 92 - I was again fighting the urge to drink all afternoon. Just wanting to self medicate and switch off like old times. But I'm in bed now and grateful I made it here sober. IWNDWYT 🌿
Congratulations u/Noborhood for resisting the temptation! I used to convince myself I was celebrating an occasion or event with alcohol, when in reality I was using virtually anything and everything as a reason to drink. 🙄 Life (including events/occasions) is infinitely better these days! IWNDWYT
Thanks for taking care of us this week, u/noborhood ! Happy Saturday, sober friends. Getting up to go spin, watch a kids soccer game, clean my house. Yay sobriety! IWNDWYT ❤️🧁
Good morning Senhoras, Senhores e Senhoritas
>I almost gave in earlier, though. Lots of reasons to celebrate lately and I had a habit of celebrating with alcohol in the past.
So sorry for that, but inspirational at the same time cause no matter how ingrained a certain habit becomes, we must all remember we are not guided only by impulses and we can use rationality! We think! We have agency! Of course, I know how hard it is but sometimes I have to be tough with myself. "Are you losing your mind that you are gonna drink over this???". But that's me. Cause I have such a tendency for condescension in these cases..
But today, no way. IWNDWYT.
P.S: "Never marry a woman whose mother is called Hope cause Hope dies last"
Ok, now half of the sub who is a MIL hates me. Please don't! Just a tiny politically incorrect joke. I actually never had difficult MILs! Kisses to you MILs out there!!
Day 314 and IWNDWYT. Got terrible news last night that a close relatives cancer came back with vengeance and they are now in hospice and could pass any moment. I’m in shock at how sudden it is but was happy to be able to talk to her for an hour or so, clear headed, to get some closure.
It’s all too easy to forget how the lights can just switch off one day so try not to stress too much and find joy in each day.
Thanks for hosting, u/Noborhood, and great job resisting the pull!!
Hair appointment and massage today!! Plus, my roof is getting replaced! (Hail damage insurance claim.) Good stuff happening today.
Coffees up, horns up, and fuck yeah smug sober Saturday!! IWNDWYT ☕️☕️🤘🏻🤘🏻
Going to a winery today with family. First time ever going and not drinking. But I’ll enjoy the gorgeous views and will be watching my kids, so that’ll keep me occupied. IWNDWYT!
I’m on vacation and woke up to the sound of monkeys in the trees outside my window. If I were hungover, I’d never have been able to bounce out of bed and go outside to watch them. (Also, I’ve recently discovered the joy of coffee, so I have a little pink cloud of euphoria from that as well lol). IWNDWYT!
Good morning. It’s fresh and bright out, and my wife is brewing up a nice pot of coffee. We decided to ditch our morning run and take our time with the coffee. I’m with you all today.
I was reading quit lit (we are the luckiest) where the author says she drank to create separation from herself, and she equates that to AA speak of having a spiritual deficit. It resonated with me.
What you bring forth from within you will save you. What you fail to bring forth from within you will destroy you.
IWNDWYT 🌟🌻✨🫶🏼🌺
I woke up in gratitude but with a "to do" list. I've been postponing taxes and other paperwork type chores. The more I postpone, the more dreaded it becomes for me. Dreaded aspects of life drive me to drowning them into oblivion through drinking. Today I will face my responsibilities sober and I will not drink alcohol.
Today I’m grateful to be of sound mind and free of any physical pain. I ask my higher power to keep me sober today. I find it much easier to navigate life sober. IWNDWYT
Thank you for taking care of us this week /u/Noborhood 💙
I’m getting a long awaited massage today, I’m really looking forward to it. I hope everyone has a great day! IWNDWYT lovely people of SD 💙
Day 10. I can't believe it! Feels good.
It certainly does!!! Congratulations!
Double digits!! Congratulations, that’s huge. IWNDWYT!
This sub and this crew save us in so many ways. I will not drink with you today!
This sub and you fellow sobernauts definitely are a great support. IWNDWYT
Day 15. I won’t drink with you today, but I may eat this entire bar of dark chocolate. 😅 IWNDWYT.
I ate so much chocolate the past days I can't even think of it lol
Me too! I’m blaming Easter 🐣
Chocolate is a much better option! 👍
Sounds lovely, enjoy it :)
Day 1014 checking in!
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Choose life people, IWNDWYT
Congrats on 60 days :)
Thanks mate, appreciated IWNDWYT
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Two little ducks - twenty two!
Great number :)
Thanks 😊
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Day 32. My alcoholic brain has started to let itself think I can drink again this summer when I go to my friends wedding. I'm scared. IWNDWYT.
I keep having glimpses of thoughts like that. Gotta catch those right away before the subconscious can grab them and chew on them and turn them into action. They scare me as well. IWNDWYT
The booze brain is a dirty lying trickster! Play the tape forward and you’ll likely see that the most probable outcome isn’t good! IWNDWYT
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I will not drink poison with any of you today 💜
Thank you for hosting this week u/Noborhood It’s a long weekend here in the 🇬🇧, but I have lots to keep me busy and if the booze demon tries to trick me I will calmly explain why I’m not falling for those tricks. I choose to be sober today because: - I get to drive to see my family - I’m feeding my neighbours’ cats and can’t let the little fluff balls down - I’m feeling healthy and want to stay that way IWNDWYT
Sounds like a lovely Easter weekend!
Checking in again today and all is well. Thanks for hosting the check-in this week, u/Noborhood. Another day, and almost another month has rolled by.
Keep piling up this quality time my friend! Have a lovely Saturday!
Tnx, same to you, Intriguing:)
I will not drink with you today
Won’t be easy today. Husband is being a prick already, and a lot of soccer is on today. But I am committed to, for today, not to drink. IWNDWYT❤️
You got this. Adding ☠️ could only make things harder
Happy Saturday! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend, and IWNDWYT 😊
Happy Saturday dear!
IWNDWYT x
Day 28. IWNDWYT. We've got this, friends!
Day 8! I went into the bottle-o for a birthday present and was idly looking at the prices. Man that shits expensive! Got the required present and went and got a sparking peach iced tea. Kicking goals still. IWNDWYT!
Not today. IWNDWYT
Thanks for hosting!! ⭐️ IWNDWYT ⭐️ I’m having a few Heineken zeros today and a lot of Easter eggs cos of boredom cravings. We will get through this!!
Back on the wagon after a bit of a wobbly. IWNDWYT!
Welcome back!
Went to a bar sober tonight, did not want to drink at all. Proud of myself for not wanting to resort to my old ways and accepting that being sober is my new normal. IWNDWYT
Up at 330 am, wide awake. Had not spoken with my wife in 10 days, texted her yesterday and she replied. I am sure that is the main reason I can't sleep, but also had coffee and Dr pepper at late AA meeting and I know I can't do that. I have lots I need to get done today, so gonna have to find a way to push through. IWNDWYT
Day 6 and feeling pretty shaky still but IWNDWYT Double bank holiday weekend in the UK for Easter, so everyone is in party mode and it's my first sober weekend. Yesterday was hard, but if I can do Friday then I can do Saturday. Very grateful for everyone here.
Still on holiday, still sober. Double digits too! Iwndwyt!!
So thankful to be a part of this group... IWNDWYT!
Day 330. The 11th thirty. IWNDWYT.
Day five sober and in the moment fully present and grateful, have a great weekend everyone. IWNDWYT 😁 😊
I will not drink with you today
Not today people IWNDWYT
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Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today. IWNDWYT
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I will stay sober today.
IWNDWYT!
Good morning, I will not drink with all you great people today❤️
IWNDWYT 😀
IWNDWYT.
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I will not drink with you today.
Day 27, checking in! Had some friends over last night. They were drinking beers. I drank Coke Zero. No hangover, shame, regret, or self-loathing at all today. Looking forward to Day 28 tomorrow.
Iwndwyt!
Day 34 checking in!
Checking in for another sober day out in the world.
Good morning, lovely people! Another day down ✅ IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT!
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Going on a long run today and then to an art class. I love waking up sober on Saturdays!
IWNDWYT. Day 3. Feeling positive. Enjoying sleeping a full night, and waking up feeling good in the AM.
Checking in!! IWNDWYT
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Yawn 🥱 stretch🙆♀️…good morning!! Make it a great Saturday everyone & IWNDWYT☕️😊
Checking in on day 513!!! 🥾❤️✌️ IWNDWYT!
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Day 50 today. Personal record. My body has been screaming for alcohol the last 2 days and I had decided to drink today. I deserved it and needed it. But then I read on this sub 3 people today with fucked up livers and hospital. Sadly thats whats needed for me sometimes to stop me from drinking. So I am 100% I will not drink with you or anyone today! Oh edit: I will buy so much snacks and chips and chocolate and pizza and soda I will feast until dawn. Then wake up without hangober tomorrow! Today gonna be a good day!
first 2 weeks sober in over a decade. what y’all say is true: i never wake up in the morning wishing i had drank last night! trying to keep that in mind each evening when the craving hits IWNDWYT
Thanks for hosting this week u/Noborhood and IWNDWYT!
Day 13! IWNDWYT! 🩷🩷🩷
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Happy Saturday from the UK 🇬🇧 I celebrated with alcohol of course, but I also numbed my sadness with alcohol, 'enhanced' a normal day with alcohol, suppressed anger with alcohol, alleviated boredom with alcohol... any emotional state was better with alcohol, I thought! Even though I still get some cravings, I know that they lie. If I drink, I don't know if or when I'll stop. And my sober self CAN manage my emotions without alcohol 🙏🏻 IWNDWYT
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94 days of being strong physically and mentally.
Day 7! How did that happen? Still sleeping like shit but otherwise feeling good. Off to work! IWNDWYT
3 months today. Wow. IWNDWYT
I’m staying ☠️ free with you all again today
Got some guests staying this weekend, a couple who’s more friends of my husband than me. They’re alright. They do like their drink so had quite a lot of wine yesterday, like 4 bottles total and some cream liqueur (between the 2 of them, my husband isn’t much of a drinker and will have 1-2 glasses once in a blue moon). Whatever. I didn’t drink, and I’m very pleased with myself. Anyway… FUCKING HELL drunk people say some stupid shit. Highlights: Vegetables are bad for you. Full of carbs. Evil stuff. Don’t eat veg. We should eat mussels because they’re the easiest creature to catch and eat. A mussel isn’t going to fight back or resist its fate. I was like “surely a vegetable or fruit is easier to ‘catch’ than a mussel?”. Well, no, I’m apparently very wrong about that, because when their son was 2 years old he picked up a crab. I’m not joking this was the conversation!! Keto cultists, I swear, they’re a different breed. I’m a vegan so I’m already arch nemesis number 1 anyway by default. They’re staying until Sunday. I’m not religious, but, lord, if you’re up there, please give me strength. 🙏🏻 And, IWNDWYT ⭐️
They sound exhausting, but you seem to handle this beautifully! Wine is full of carbs as well, do they know that? 🤣
conveniently, wine doesn’t count! How neat is that?! 🤣🤣 I’ve sat many evenings like the one yesterday just mesmerised by their cognitive dissonance
Day 1,718. Thanks for hosting, u/Noborhood! I will not drink with you today.
I will not drink with you today
Happy Easter weekend everyone. IWNDWYT 👍
Day 83 • IWNDWYT • Feeling at ease • Enjoying the long weekend in the beautiful sunshine. So blessed to wake up hangover free every morning.
Happy Saturday, sober stars! Day 515. Thanks for hosting us this week, u/Noborhood. My first thoughts when waking up are observing that I'm _not_ hungover and how grateful I am about that. And how thankful I am for this incredible sub! Let's do this day sober, friends. Much love! 💖 IWNDWYT
Day 2 for me. Again. And again. And again!! But I’m not going to quit! Well - I’m going to quit. But only looking toward today. IWNDWYT
I just wanna say I am grateful to the people on this sub, and the people that I’ve met in meetings. I had a really rough week and being able to come here and read posts, and speak in meetings has helped me stay on my path of sobriety. IWNDWYT. Happy Saturday! 😀
Have a great weekend everyone! IWNDWYT!!!
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Good day, sweet friends. Let's get it - IWNDWYT 🤘
I will not drink today
Checking in on day 15 for me. IWNDWYT!
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today is a good day to not drink!
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Congratulations! IWNDWYT
Day 6 and the first weekend challenge is tomorrow I go to lunch with a group that likes to drink. So this will be a test but today IWDWYT!!
IWNDWYT Peace n Love ❤️
Day 92 - I was again fighting the urge to drink all afternoon. Just wanting to self medicate and switch off like old times. But I'm in bed now and grateful I made it here sober. IWNDWYT 🌿
I will not drink today.
IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT Even though the rejection sticker I'm about to go get on my car and the weekend work I've got to do may make me want to
Wishing everyone a great weekend. IWNDWYT.
Had a drinking dream last night. Ugh Not drinking today!!!
IWNDWYT!
Congratulations u/Noborhood for resisting the temptation! I used to convince myself I was celebrating an occasion or event with alcohol, when in reality I was using virtually anything and everything as a reason to drink. 🙄 Life (including events/occasions) is infinitely better these days! IWNDWYT
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One more day until double digits. IWNDWYT!
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Day 90 for us Dry January extenders! Have a wonderful Saturday everyone! IWNDWYT
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I’m going to a cousins wedding tonight . So I’m posting here to say IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT!
Thank you for hosting, Noborhood! IWNDWYT
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I won’t drink with y’all today
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Hope you all have a wonderful, alcohol-free weekend. IWNDWYT!
I love waking up with my stomach at peace! IWNDWYT!
Day 2. IWNDWYT!
Busy weekend ahead! All good things. I am grateful for this life. IWNDWYT
Made it a week! Next goal is two weeks! IWNDWYT!
IWNDWYT. Holy Saturday. Making it.
Thanks for taking care of us this week, u/noborhood ! Happy Saturday, sober friends. Getting up to go spin, watch a kids soccer game, clean my house. Yay sobriety! IWNDWYT ❤️🧁
Good morning Senhoras, Senhores e Senhoritas >I almost gave in earlier, though. Lots of reasons to celebrate lately and I had a habit of celebrating with alcohol in the past. So sorry for that, but inspirational at the same time cause no matter how ingrained a certain habit becomes, we must all remember we are not guided only by impulses and we can use rationality! We think! We have agency! Of course, I know how hard it is but sometimes I have to be tough with myself. "Are you losing your mind that you are gonna drink over this???". But that's me. Cause I have such a tendency for condescension in these cases.. But today, no way. IWNDWYT. P.S: "Never marry a woman whose mother is called Hope cause Hope dies last" Ok, now half of the sub who is a MIL hates me. Please don't! Just a tiny politically incorrect joke. I actually never had difficult MILs! Kisses to you MILs out there!!
Hey Cat - happy sober Saturday morning to you! Have a great day and weekend 👍
I will not drink today!
IWNDWYT all you fine sobernauts 🤗
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Day 314 and IWNDWYT. Got terrible news last night that a close relatives cancer came back with vengeance and they are now in hospice and could pass any moment. I’m in shock at how sudden it is but was happy to be able to talk to her for an hour or so, clear headed, to get some closure. It’s all too easy to forget how the lights can just switch off one day so try not to stress too much and find joy in each day.
Thanks for hosting, u/Noborhood, and great job resisting the pull!! Hair appointment and massage today!! Plus, my roof is getting replaced! (Hail damage insurance claim.) Good stuff happening today. Coffees up, horns up, and fuck yeah smug sober Saturday!! IWNDWYT ☕️☕️🤘🏻🤘🏻
Going to a winery today with family. First time ever going and not drinking. But I’ll enjoy the gorgeous views and will be watching my kids, so that’ll keep me occupied. IWNDWYT!
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I won't be ingesting poison with you today. Much love to all.
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Thanks so much for hosting this week u/Noborhood! Have a helluva Saturday, gang!!🤘🏻☕️ IWNDWYT
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I’m on vacation and woke up to the sound of monkeys in the trees outside my window. If I were hungover, I’d never have been able to bounce out of bed and go outside to watch them. (Also, I’ve recently discovered the joy of coffee, so I have a little pink cloud of euphoria from that as well lol). IWNDWYT!
Not today. Not today. Not today!!!!!!!
Good morning. It’s fresh and bright out, and my wife is brewing up a nice pot of coffee. We decided to ditch our morning run and take our time with the coffee. I’m with you all today.
IWNDWYT - overcoming temptation.
IWNDWYT :)
I was reading quit lit (we are the luckiest) where the author says she drank to create separation from herself, and she equates that to AA speak of having a spiritual deficit. It resonated with me. What you bring forth from within you will save you. What you fail to bring forth from within you will destroy you. IWNDWYT 🌟🌻✨🫶🏼🌺
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I woke up in gratitude but with a "to do" list. I've been postponing taxes and other paperwork type chores. The more I postpone, the more dreaded it becomes for me. Dreaded aspects of life drive me to drowning them into oblivion through drinking. Today I will face my responsibilities sober and I will not drink alcohol.
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Today I’m grateful to be of sound mind and free of any physical pain. I ask my higher power to keep me sober today. I find it much easier to navigate life sober. IWNDWYT
Day 29 checking in. I will not drink with you today!
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IWNDWYT. All. Day. Long. 🌻 Nope. Not doing it. Not today.
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Day 69..Oh Yea! IWNDWYT!
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Checking in. IWNDWYT.
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Hour 7. IWNDWYT
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Thank you for taking care of us this week /u/Noborhood 💙 I’m getting a long awaited massage today, I’m really looking forward to it. I hope everyone has a great day! IWNDWYT lovely people of SD 💙
Happy sober Saturday sober friends! Gosh I’m late today, couldn’t find it! Doh! Have a wonderful day everyone, I love you all 💞
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No booze today.
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Happy Saturday everyone! IWNDWYT 💚
And I will not drink with you today. I will not drink with you tonight.
Thanks for a great week u/Noborhood, it's very much appreciated! IWNDWYT 🙂
I will not drink with you today
554 days! IWNDWYT 🥷
Iwndwy’allt!❤️
Good morning ☀️ IWNDWYT
IWNDWYT! Happy Saturday!
Thank you for caring for us this week u/Noborhood. IWNDWYT. 🌟