Some things I highlighted:
"it's about taking active steps to achieve a new plane of living, to build a life with no room for alcohol abuse"
"I then got busy creating my new life rather than waiting for my next relapse"
"When cravings would come, it was like there were two voices in my mind: one loud, aggressive voice that would lobby hard to break abstinence, and the other, more passive voice that would try to hang on the abstinence for all it was worth....

I just got home. My dr appt went as well as it could I guess. She didn't "feel" anything wrong. I do have to go to another dr - family dr - she referred me since I didn't have anyone. That is for the GERD (pain in my armpit - which she seemed to go along with the notion that it is referred pain) and to monitor the celexa if it agrees with me.... oh yea she did give me a rx and I already took one. I hope it starts to help me quick and that I don't have any bad side effects. I've heard of...

here on the couch passing a bit of time. I want to go into the online meeting but I'm not sure if I will. Saturday was my first day @SR and I went into the meeting but left pretty early in. Not too much talk. Everyone asking to talk kinda slows down the back and forth and I think also some ppl or maybe it's the chat is a slow connection. It was nice though to read what people type in. I just went into chat before the meeting on Sunday-there were quite a few ppl chatting. I surfed around the site...