ILX REHAB

thread for addicts to one thing or another but especially booze

does ilx count as an addiction?

in your case, yes

woo woo

i should probably just try to get SBed outta here and then never come back, like EP

but i'm not controversial enough

incidents:

-lol my flask fell out of my jacket pocket at a staff meeting wednesday

-the next day at a smaller meeting while waiting for everyone to show up someone said i looked a little :/ and i answered "yeah i probably shouldn't have finished the bottle last night"
fellow dreamweaver: "what do you drink it with?"
me:"my mouth"

-i went back to the restaurant last night to steal a red bull
me:"ay could i grab one of these"
chef:"that depends man: what are you cutting it with"

Ive had a severe head cold and ear infection for 7 days. Did that stop me drinking 3 longnex of cider and smoking half a pack? Naw :(

I'm a lot better than I was, but I'm constantly CONSTANTLY having to berate myself to stay on guard and not go nuts.

spent 80 dollars on liquor today even though i am broke

"cant go without gin!!!"

fellow dreamweaver: "what do you drink it with?"
me:"my mouth"

xpost lol did this the other day. "quality bottle of rum is $34. what, you want a hangover the next day? no, it's worth it."

I am drinking right now. :-/

jergins thats exactly what i said while i was at the store, got a 40 dollar whisky and a 40 dollar gin, anything less is gross imo

envious of u xp

i mean i'll drink "quality house" gin out, but like at my house? its gonna be at least decent shit or why bother

do yall have quality house other places? its like 3 dollar a bottle gin. i cant find any pics of it on GIS

it will hurt you

lolity house

"yeah i probably shouldn't have finished the bottle last night"
fellow dreamweaver: "what do you drink it with?"
me:"my mouth"

btw this recounting is missing the words bottle of tequila last night

what was $40 gin???
i drink mostly g&t's at home so usually don't go for the premium stuff, $20 gin good enough for liver destruction

a 'why bother' reference to cheap gin is a disconcerting thing to read on a rehab thread.

Quality House Extra Dry Gin
by Sharon Flannagan

I drink Gin and Tonic when we are entertaining friends, but it is difficult to find a decent dry Gin, unless you buy Quality House Extra Dry Gin. It is 35% alcohol, and I usually purchase the smaller bottle of 200 ml.

Quality House Exrta Dry Gin is refreshing when served with tonic water, tonic water and over ice, or just on the rocks. I have also had it with plain club soda, and it is just as refreshing, especially with a slice of lemon added.

If you need to spice up some punch, add the 200 ml. bottle of Quality House Extra Dry Gin with some pineapple jiuce and white cranberry juice. Garnish the punchbowl with some lemon slices and a pich of dried mint before serving.

Some recipes which require alcohol in the sauces can also se gin as a substitute; try this brand, because it is inexpensive as well as reducing the sickly sweet taste that some of those sauces add to a meal. If you want to watch your calorie intake, Quality House Extra Dry Gin is also a great standby for that night of socializing, without the bloated feeling you would get from drinking a glass of beer.

Quality House Extra Dry Gin can be bought in the smaller 200 ml. sized clear plastic bottle at most liquer stores for just around $3.00. Larger bottles can be bought of course, but please, be mindful of storing largr bottles of liquer away from children of any age.

Quality House Extra Dry Gin is made from grain neutral spirits, and is distributed by Quality Control Distilling Co, of Bardstown, Kentucky, U.S.A.

I enjoy this particular brand of dry gin, and give it 10 out of 10 for the rich dry tatse, and great value for money.

Rating: 10

be mindful of storing largr bottles of liquer away from children of any age.

helping u

Still drinking. This thread is way long. Too long to read. We can chatz later!

hendricks gin yo

http://joella.blogspot.com/photos/christmas_gin.jpg

£6.41

that bauble has made me maudlin.

Good lord that Tesco gin looks like a bottle of rubbing alcohol :/

poor kitty dukakis

refreshing when served with tonic water, tonic water and over ice, or just on the rocks

with tonic water, tonic water or tonic water

or just on the rocks

read this as "just on the socks"

yeah you need to quit

guyz

what up

ok good idea i am going to fix a g&t right now

i need to find a liquor store open late i am out of booze

hoos, lol. Did you take advantage of southby? The streets were flowing with Red Bull and vodka.

I only drink beer and wine, easier to get at odd hours than liquor.

I'm up to a bottle or a bottle and a half of wine on weekend nights. A half bottle on most week nights. *sigh* so sad.

Of course this is tons better than my trainwreck days on ILx six years ago or so when I was posting under the influence of things that could not be bought retail.

on my way to the bar for my 6th night of drinking in a row since coming home from tour, which was 14 days of drinking iirc

what is going on here!

I may buy some wine on my way home good call

blue nun lol

aint f/w a gas station red inna min

You can't be addicted to alcohol, silly.

For what it's worth, I'm addicted to posh bread at the supermarket infused with olive oil and sea salt.

btw instead i bought a dumb beer it sucks

Did it have a NASCAR star on the side of the can?

hendricks gin yo

― s1ocki, Friday, March 27, 2009 9:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My name's Noodle and I'm an alcoholic.

aw

Did it have a NASCAR star on the side of the can?

― No name is good name (Susan), Saturday, March 28, 2009 2:08 PM (4 hours ago)

pint n half of Budweiser Select, the official beer of Jay-Z and the 2006 NBA Finals iirc

my name's warm sherry and I'm strictly bourb'n this week

HI NOODLE

so lets really get into this rehab bit

what are the reasons we are supposed to be not drinking???

beer makes one fat in the stomach

"don't drink that budweiser select hoos you will wake up fat"

^ what i tell myself

u fuckin degenerates~

*pop tart crumbs flying from my neckbeard*

but like whats wrong with slamming cocktails, why really should i quit at all

drunk driving is bad, thats one thing

gastrointestinal rebellion

distance makes the heart *dook dook dook*

im not an alcoholic or anything but today my mom was imploring me to work at a summer camp this summer (money is good, place can't go out of business etc) and i basically told her "im 20 years old and i have a life and i don't want to turn it off for three months" which basically boiled down to "im 20 years old and i have a computer and i don't want to turn it off for three months" :/

!

jordan u r basically just my favorite dude these days

Jordan - working at a summer camp can actually rule depending on the place. Maybe you should consider it?

I drink like once a month now and holy shit the #1 I shouldn't even do that is because I feel like crap the entire next day. Oof. I just took a three hour "nap".

ive gotta stop drinking beer though talk about NOT on the body for life plan

guinness!!!

thats the only one and its 5 bucks a pop at the branch, puttin me in the poorhouse instead of the pourhouse UIH

might could buy some sweet tea flavored vodka on my lunch break

OK today I quit. Basically I only get hammered once a week but in the last couple of months of lost 2 wallets and a phone, plus I tend to have no memory of where I've been, plus the hangovers the next day involve me twitching and hyperventilating and panicking that my heart's about to stop. Me and my daughter went to watch my son in his school play tonight and about 5 minutes in I started a major panic attack that got so bad I had to step out and I ended up watching the whole think from the foyer while I twitched and struggled to breathe. So you know what? I'm thru with this shit. I've been drunk all my adult life and it's gotten me into nothing but trouble trouble trouble plus beergut plus being unreliable dickwit with the shakes. As of now I'm in rehab for reals and y'all can feel free to quote me this if I wind up typing pissed incomprehensible bollocks on this board ever again.

we're here for you noodle <3! u can do this 4 real

we're rooting for ya <3

haha that was an xpost

all is <3

We've got your back Noodle. <3

Thanks guys :D

I'm not moaning or posturing, I just had to tell myself a few home truths, y'know?

this is first step iirc

gotta hit bottom before it gets better. good luck, nv

what sort of drinks should i go for 2nite (thought id ask the experts)

salty dogs are good

"good" in what sense

Dark and Stormys are v good. Also anything with Tequila. Just Tequila, really.

what the fu--

shut your little AARRRRRRGGYH

xpost

im going to the rusty knot so a salty dog is prob an appropriate recommend

schlitz?

salty dog w/a schlitz back barkeep and make it snappy!

^^^would think i was dreaming if i heard a dude say this at a bar

maybe i will order that and look around to see if any girls think theyre dreaming

no guarantees

looking around for people who think they dreaming sounds pretty appealing - on the other hand it sounds quasi insane

also u are gonna be a person who orders a drink and then looks around to see how everyone reacted -- real bad

i will look around surreptitiously tho - im pretty sneaky - also maybe i will just feel the vibes

i will look around surreptitiously tho - im pretty sneaky - also maybe i will just feel the vibes

i will look around surreptitiously tho - im pretty sneaky - also maybe i will just feel the vibes

so lets really get into this rehab bit

what are the reasons we are supposed to be not drinking???

― WHO DEY and the blowfish (roxymuzak), Saturday, March 28, 2009 5:13 PM (4 hours ago)

lol loved this post. when alcoholics try to rehab they usually start w/ stuff like "what triggers our drinking" but ilx rehab is "wait why the fuck would ppl not drink???"

im not an alcoholic or anything but today my mom was imploring me to work at a summer camp this summer (money is good, place can't go out of business etc) and i basically told her "im 20 years old and i have a life and i don't want to turn it off for three months" which basically boiled down to "im 20 years old and i have a computer and i don't want to turn it off for three months" :/

― unique whips (J0rdan S.), Saturday, March 28, 2009 5:34 PM (3 hours ago)

dude i thought you wanted that job!!! i told u this already but working at a summer camp last year = best thing i ever did

jordan once youre away from the comp u stop caring

i will look around surreptitiously tho - im pretty sneaky - also maybe i will just feel the vibes

i don't really want to work at a camp even tho i love kids to the death, i mean i don't really wanna be cut off from my friends (or, oh fuck... fuck fuck fuck, "the internet (frequented by lex) plus you know i gots some writings and stuff to do it would just be a weird thing. camp is dope but i feel like camp counselors at my age have been way into the camps since they were kids. idk. this is kind of unimportant.

ayo noodle good luck dude

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/primrosehill/gotblue.jpg

the internet (frequented by lex

lol i see what you did there

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3313/3311921277_ab3695f562.jpg

Mr. S, last year i had to work at a summer camp
i was very upset about it and thought it was going to ruin my vacation and the money wasn't even good.
but it was the best time of my life and i can't wait to go back

did not make it to the nautical bar - whatevs its turtles all the way down

this is my first graveyard shift ince 3 weeks and i am dying for a cocktail

ince? IN

since?

i had something called a southside w/gin mint cucumber soda and some sweetness and i had and old fashioned old fashioned also i had a beer and some japanese meatballs

did u look around surreptitiously tho - did u feel the vibes

if only

Friday night, I had blackout + vomiting and yesterday I was hung over all day. :/

yall need to smoke more p-o-t

lol @ "p-o-t"!!!

the deal

what is it

drank every night but one this week iirc

if you can rc, no problem

see text messages thread

lol?

i need to smoke more p-o-t

don't we all tbh

wish i had some p-o-t tbh

i think i smoke too much tbh

real talk

xpost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<3<3<3<3<3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just checking in
still a drunkerd

Another visit to the doc this week that I can't afford resulted in yet more insistence that I cease the liquor & spicy food to let my stomach recover or this ulcer thing'll get real serious.

HOOS!?

a doctor is telling you to cease drinking!?

I mean ay Doc said step back from the heavy drinking so I did and was fine for a couple months.....so I drank some more and now it's a thing again.

So I guess I step back again.

you should take the advice imo

yeah like, cease it

w33d is cheaper anyhow

anyhoos

its spelled p-o-t

i have a pretty nice little bar set up at my house!

proposed logo for ilx rehab:

http://www.iirc.ca/__shared/templates/images/iirc.jpg

Ilx Internet Rehab Club

we have the logo and we're voting yes

yes on iirc

please visit our new domain
http://www.iirc.net/images/logo210x86.png

http://www.iirc.net/images/logo210x86.png

i havent had a drink since tuesday

on purpose??

just been either working or camping, no real occasion to drink

had my first beer in a month tonight and kinda got leaned!!! lmbo

i had NO drinks at rock show and then djing at a bar tonight

my new resolution is to have at least one non-hungover weekend day.

I am currently addicted to saving money and making wise investments!!

Camping?

i hiked 20 miles and was nearly swallowed by bears, bryce!!!!

wow hello thread, i should've been posting on u back in the freshly post-dui days haha

anyway i'm drinking a lot otnight in the midst of a not drinking that much era, its' interesting

lookit my typos

i could maybe make a thread about stuff i learned in my dui classes eh ha.

lesson 1 - don't drink
lesson 2 - if you drink don't drive
(rpt for 20 hrs over 5 wknts or 2 wkends)

so not a thread then i guess ha.

i didnt really drink for like 18 days. i had two drags of moonshine in nashville, but that is pretty much it. and i had two cocktails two days before that. but that is all.

You're teetotalin' now.

honey, u have to have moonshine in nashville

now i want catfish and slaw, thx a lot rox

my new house came with a
http://fdbnetwork.com/upload/783/image/369yp7O1Xv_GE-ProfileWineCenter.jpg
we load it up with fancy beer
one of these days I have to take a picture of the gangsta red stripe stocking pattern I figured out

wine hangover
curing it with moar wine

plz do that tombot

how nice, enbb

"do that tombot" sounds like you are imploring someone to dance

now i want catfish and slaw, thx a lot rox

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i ended up having this for lunch! omg good

my best friend just went to inpatient rehab. what will they do to him there?

oh no it is not...?

depends on the clinic and philosophy right?

They will teach him how to tolerate delays, I guess. (oh, iNpatient! nevermind)

http://www.veritasvilla.com/index.htm

ddb is one of my best friends, but it's not him. the rehabber i've known since 4th grade.

aw, good luck to your friend!
i only know about rehab from tv shows so i imagine being strapped down and sweating and stuff.

ha, it's not for heroin

i don't think he's physically addicted to alcohol or cocaine where that reaction would happen

nicotine, maybe

that place has a gift shop???

that place looks pretty standard, he'll probably get lectures, group therapy, 12 step meetings, one on one therapy. when he comes out he will feel like a freak but he won't want you to know the extent of it, people often relapse after rehab just from trying to please their friends and continue being who their friends think they are, which is difficult when you're in the middle of a huge upheaval. i wish him well.

i expect him to be different when he gets out. but i want him to be different. he should feel comfortable around me because i don't do that shit anymore.

is there brainashing? i'm kind of interested in how the process works.

addiction is located partly in the mind and then the mind has to accept it is addicted and it doesn't want to do that so they work on your perceptions of yourself and give you some third person perspective on yourself and your behaviour. denial is a very strange and powerful mechanism, 'the only disease that tells you you haven't got a disease'. a lot of people have trouble with the idea that addiction is a disease but i don't, there is a roteness to how it manifests and develops in people.

Cutty - one of my immediate family members has been in and out of several inpatient facilities over the past couple of years and to be honest each one is a little different. There will probably be a lot of group therapy and acitviites like others have describes. How different he is upon leaving is entirely dependent upon whether or not he wants this to work. If he doesn't then it'll go in one ear and out the other and he may be no different at all.

i always thought rehab would be miserable but i lolled and lolled, there were a lot of self-deprecating raconteurs in there.

I've heard similar believe it or not.

sorry you had to go through all this with a family member, enbb.

estela you give me a vision of a bunch of raggey Richard E Grant types demanding cake :)

Aw, thanks Estela. I'm sorry you had to go through it yourself.

fortunately i have always enjoyed the company of ratbags.

i expect him to be different when he gets out. but i want him to be different. he should feel comfortable around me because i don't do that shit anymore.

― cutty, Thursday, November 5, 2009 6:35 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

i'm glad he's got you as a friend.

he just managed to sneak a phone call to me to ask me to drive two hours and pick him up

Yeah, that'll happen. :-(

oh well.

It's gotta be scary I bet!

oh gosh, that's tough. i wonder how i'd react to that.

ive had a few weeks of gettin MAD leaned every other day or every couple days, tipping, actual gib talking, etc. and of course, remorse and embarassment iirc and i do (for once)

also can not get leaned and smaek wiid anymore. get sick! have to choose one or the other at the beginning of the night

sefap noooooo

dont worry im not actually quitting anything

Ughhh acid reflux why you gotta interfere with gettin my drank on ;_;

i quit smoking cigarettes and i cut down the weed too

i'm a fuckin smoke free bore fest help me :(

oh hey i quit smoking too, forgot to say that

have not struggled with it either

its kinda weird

yea screw tobacco it's the herb that's the problem

i have a hit-a-day policy, it's like a vitamin

I was on phone to mother earlier and she was all blah blah give up smoking you'll save money bla bla while I went "uh huh yep" and smoked and drank on the phone to her. \m/

I fully expect to die in 5 years.

oh who cares abt weed?????

esp a hit a day, it does you good. dont worry about it surms

xp Trayce - your mom sounds like my mom!

tolerance too high/$ flow too low

i am trying this thing where i don't drink for a week to see if i can.

^ I've done this before when I used to drink more regularly and it can be a v good thing imo. I only drink like once or twice a month now because I honestly just don't enjoy it that much anymore.

I find I go through phases where alcohol is repulsive to me and phases where alcohol is deliciously addictive to me

i think i've actually managed to develop a healthy attitude and use of alcohol, though it took me quite a while. maybe i don't belong on this thread?

you can be in rehab for too much moderation

i used to be able to and would often get really drunk, but now I just can't go there. I'm very immoderate in my smoking nowadays - almost 2 packs a day.

sarahel caught me smoking and she said "no wai"

i said "no wait" - you missed the "t"

i was drunk at 3 o'clock today after a morning of bloody marys with a side of mimosas.

this was fun until i realized I had folks coming over for an important meeting at my house. i brewed coffee to sober up but roxy said i smelled boozey.

haha it wasnt bad but i did notice when you were close to me at one moment that you had had at least a drink. lol

"at least one drink" - haw!

last night found me drinking 10 tequila drinks and spilling the eleventh one upon it's arrival. it is nice to have moved across the street from all the bars I frequent so I do not endanger lives on my way home.

not drinking is boring, guys

off sugar til xmas, will prolly b more bearable if i do not let myself get sober between now and then tho rite?

i kept a booze journal a few years back when i was drinking a lot and starting to get worried. it was just a daily tally of what kind & how many. it was useful in that i could see when i was spiking up and then i would lay off for a few days. not an issue anymore, i'm just a 1-2 drinks a day dude now

not drinking is boring, guys
--horseshoe

you are part of the problem!!!!

i so am

disapprove of u!!

velko thats a fantastic idea, I might have to try that. Esp over the xmas break and my holidays, to see how/if I get out of control when I dont have work to worry about, which is more than likely, haha oh dear.

I'm hoping my renewed Wii Fit routine will give me less desire to smoke, at least, as i'll need more energy.

approve of horseshoe

I am having no trouble quitting smoking, for some reason. Two weeks today!

booze, weed, and amphetamines. it's the golden triangle to a happy life.

Which one(s) are you on now?

ITS WEED AGAINST SPEED
ITS WEED AGAINST SPEED
ITS WEED AGAINST SPEED

not really rehabbing but i'm going on a supercharged workout spree pre-holidays in anticipation of my routine getting all screwed up while i'm out of town. 1.5 weeks til i leave. i went out for the first time in ages last weekend and it was terrible. i will have a few drinks at a party on sat but that is all.

dudes i was talking to a coworker who said he went to the doctor and told the guy that he has 2 beers on friday and saturday nights and the doc/nurses started making joeks abt him being an alky. i was like 2 beers?!? more like 10, amirite! i laughed and he looked at me incredulously.

youarerite!

i guess tho it does depend on when you start . . .

In my country 2 beers is what you have for breakfast, before biting the head off a wombat.

http://www.tourcart.net/tourmate/img/tours/2337-5.jpg

and what a country it is

http://i48.tinypic.com/2ds03lt.jpg

how do i do that?

leechblock is a plugin for firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476

that was supposed to be my last post for a week btw (ha ha)

I can see that this leechblock works really well!

works ok but doesn't save preferences when ff crashes (which it has been doing a lot recently)

Thinking of doing FebFast next month. Depressing to realise I dont know if I can not drink for one piddly month? lol :(

The English bloke next door is doing FebFast because "it's the shortest month of the year...and it's for charadee!"

I think the fact its the shortest month is one of the lolreasons why they picked it (kinda like "hey its only 28 days quit whining"). I dunno if I'll do the fundraiser though.

I don't really understand quitting drinking for charity. I also hate marathons for charity, so...

(Just give your money, must you hog glory?)

kind of like that facebook group, "i'll donate 25c for every person who joins". either it's just a stupid joke or the guy is a dick imo. just make a donation already!

Yeah well this is why I'm just doing the not drinking. I'm the fecking charity here - my body needs one break!

I'm looking at it more like nanowrimo. Painful, pointless and probably failworthy.