Posting early...this might be a busy day. I may try to do a few things which, for me may be challenging. It seems like the weather over here will be cooperating. Thinking about buying some paint. Don't want to get too much, just paint one room at a time, slowly...I either want to do it all or nothing. I am the same with alcohol and food, all or nothing. I have read and heard this is a common thread with alcoholics. Exercise too, at least I was in my 30's...like a little of that back now....

Memorial Day used to be the start of the summer and the start of awesome partying. Now partying was awesome when I was 21-25, but after that it was a bunch of throwing up, hangovers, fist fights, and emotional distress. The day after binge drinking I had terror. Anyway, this memorial day was somewhat sad because well it just was a downer. I know I did good though. While people were partying I was trying to become more attractive to people. I really made an effort to text my friends and tell them...

So, up at usual time, after cuddling with my cat...I have 2. A boy and a girl brother and sister abandoned at birth...found them outside a donut shop in May 2002...little tiny kittens huddled together at the edge of sidewalk...it had been a cool night...found them at 5:30 in the morning...they have been with us together ever since... We treat our pets like family, many times we haven't taken trips if we can't make sure they are cared for...they go with us to the coast...our dog too...we are quite...

Hi, just wanted to post and get my blog going. I have 22 years clean and sober. I did not consistently go to meetings for 16 years. I became a wife, a mom and my mom died all in the same year and didn't drink or use over any of it. Which in turn made me think that I had a free pass to not go to meetings and participate in my home group. I had a couple of my friends from my home group encourage me to come back to meetings - and until the pain got great enough - I returned like a fiend August...

I had a talk with my mom this morning...her and my dad seem to be doing ok. We are closer now than in years past, lots of baggage...forgiveness and boundary setting are part of our relationship now...used to be a big trigger to drink...practicing forgiveness of the person, but not the behaviour is helpful...thinking about an instance recently where I was not totally honest with an elderly person. I know honesty is crucial to my sobriety...difficult situation, because shaded truth a bit/didn't...