15 for Gooch.
Hello! Is this seat taken??
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: A Denver far far away...
Posts: 92
HAPPY 15 G!!
You have been a huge inspiration and an honest pain in the ass when I needed both!
I'm in your debt, but all I can afford is cofee! LOL So if you ever make it to Colorado or CRCNA I'll buy you one!
hugs bro - and thanks tons!
Jay
You have been a huge inspiration and an honest pain in the ass when I needed both!
I'm in your debt, but all I can afford is cofee! LOL So if you ever make it to Colorado or CRCNA I'll buy you one!
hugs bro - and thanks tons!
Jay
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: somewhere
Posts: 3,384
Gooch, your experience, strength, and hope lives on and shines throughout the lives you touch each day. You are awesome!! Congrats on a big 1-5!!
That is a lot of years, my friend. Hope you have a huge smile on your face today. You are doing so great!!
Cheryl
That is a lot of years, my friend. Hope you have a huge smile on your face today. You are doing so great!!
Cheryl
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: out there...
Posts: 2,653
wow
just wow. woke up feeling lousy .. ( not terminally so .lol ) so I hit the snooze ( must have reset it for 24 hrs..) and went back to sleep. It looks like I'm going to be late for work and the first emotion to hit me was guilt... and 15 years later without having to miss work because I was loaded or had a hangover, the guilt has the same taste it did way back then. Some days when the first wave of some old familiar feeling hits me that I used to get wasted to try and avoid experiencing, some skeleton in my closet says "See getting clean didn't solve your problems". But there's this other voice thats quick to tell the rest of the story and it says.. thats BS you know it. getting loaded never solved your problem either, and it eventually stopped offering even the temporary relief you were looking for.
Just like I remember hearing said all those years ago .."Drugs weren't my problem I was my problem".. I'm pretty sure my ex said something to the same effect as well.. she always did agree with me when I told her how sorry I was.
The 2nd voice wins the day. I wish I could claim it were my voice, and a part of it may certainly be, I only know that it was the NA members I met all those years ago that helped me to learn to listen for my truth.
To this day, that truth is getting clearer and more recognizable and every time one of you opens up to let your soul be revealed, it shines the light I need to clearly see my own.
Thank you all for your participation in my inward journey.
I wish I could take credit for all these words some of you seem to appreciate so much.
However I am merely the stenographer lol.
Keep the light on for me and again Thanks for being here.
just wow. woke up feeling lousy .. ( not terminally so .lol ) so I hit the snooze ( must have reset it for 24 hrs..) and went back to sleep. It looks like I'm going to be late for work and the first emotion to hit me was guilt... and 15 years later without having to miss work because I was loaded or had a hangover, the guilt has the same taste it did way back then. Some days when the first wave of some old familiar feeling hits me that I used to get wasted to try and avoid experiencing, some skeleton in my closet says "See getting clean didn't solve your problems". But there's this other voice thats quick to tell the rest of the story and it says.. thats BS you know it. getting loaded never solved your problem either, and it eventually stopped offering even the temporary relief you were looking for.
Just like I remember hearing said all those years ago .."Drugs weren't my problem I was my problem".. I'm pretty sure my ex said something to the same effect as well.. she always did agree with me when I told her how sorry I was.
The 2nd voice wins the day. I wish I could claim it were my voice, and a part of it may certainly be, I only know that it was the NA members I met all those years ago that helped me to learn to listen for my truth.
To this day, that truth is getting clearer and more recognizable and every time one of you opens up to let your soul be revealed, it shines the light I need to clearly see my own.
Thank you all for your participation in my inward journey.
I wish I could take credit for all these words some of you seem to appreciate so much.
However I am merely the stenographer lol.
Keep the light on for me and again Thanks for being here.
blah blah blahhhhh
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: top secret, dark side of the moon
Posts: 131
Wow.... 15 Years Is Awesome, Reading Your Posts Has Brought A Lot Of Peace Understanding Strength And Hope In My Life. A True Inspiration Of The Miracles This Program Has To Give
Don't get undies in a bunch
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: South Shore MA
Posts: 7,120
Originally Posted by Gooch
However I am merely the stenographer lol.
Keep the light on for me
You know the light is on and the coffee will always be waiting.
if'n you carry some of your hotsauce with ya, my chile would taste ok as well *LOL*
I'm an addict.
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Hyde Park, NY
Posts: 1,201
Happy B-day gooch,
You have consistantly been an inspiration to me here at SR. You seem to allways be able to drop the knowledge down the way it needs to be dropped. And I respect your honesty to tell me things that sometimes I don't want to hear, but in a non-confrontational, empathetic way.
I truly respect your recovery and hope to see you around here for 15 more years...
Later,
Blake
You have consistantly been an inspiration to me here at SR. You seem to allways be able to drop the knowledge down the way it needs to be dropped. And I respect your honesty to tell me things that sometimes I don't want to hear, but in a non-confrontational, empathetic way.
I truly respect your recovery and hope to see you around here for 15 more years...
Later,
Blake
Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: fumbling towards ecstasy
Posts: 2,551
Originally Posted by Gooch
I wish I could take credit for all these words some of you seem to appreciate so much.
However I am merely the stenographer lol.
However I am merely the stenographer lol.
Happy FIFTEEN!
You are so very loved!
P.S. Awesome job on the card, Danno!
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