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03-02-2005, 09:27 AM
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| Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Hola from Mexico!
Hi everyone! Just thought I would log-on and say that I am having a wonderful, SOBER time in Mexico! Things with my in-laws have not been bad at all...they have not made too many comments about me not-drinking. Just a few things to tease me about previous times I've drank on vacation and did stupid things! So that's kind of annoying, but I'm just letting it roll off my back. Being Sober in Mexico has been a challenge, but it is so worth it. I have been up early every morning, taking walks on the beach instead of sleeping off a hangover. I've also experienced more here than I would have if I had been worried about drinking or going to all the clubs, etc. Well, I will log on again later! Thank you all for your suggestions and support on my previous thread seeking advice for this trip. It has been very valuable to me here. Blessings, Renee
__________________ So make the best of this test/And don't ask why It's not a question/But a lesson learned in time It's something unpredictable/But in the end is right/ I hope you have the time of your life. - Greenday |
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03-02-2005, 10:56 AM
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Hola Renee That is such inspiring news. I have a house in Mexico and just went through a horrible binge period that cost me alot...I just joined this group two days ago to try and recover from it. Will I ever be able to be sober here again? Will I have to give up the house? These questions have been hanging over my head for days. Your story gives me a litte hope that does not have to be the case. Blessings, Lance |
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03-02-2005, 11:07 AM
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| Meetings Coordinator  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Detroit, Michigan
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hola renee. ¿Cómo es usted? Estoy muy bien. ¿Cómo es México? el tiempo aquÃ* en Detroit es tan esperanza nevosa de i su tener un gran rato. su e inspiración a mÃ*. ¡subsistencia en guardar encendido! hello renee. How are you? I am fine. How is mexico? weather here in detroit is snowy so i hope your having a great time. your and inspiration to me. keep on keeping on!
__________________ Alcoholism is the only disease that tries to convince you that you don’t have it. If you wonder if you’re an addict or alcoholic, you probably are. |
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03-02-2005, 11:11 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Boston, MA
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Great to hear from you Renee. Visited Mexico only once but it was great. Your experience of getting up in the morning and how you feel (as opposed to trying to nurse yourself out of a hangover) is inspiring to me and reminds me of my goal (of how I would like to keep waking up in the morning in peace and sobriety). ChrisMan
__________________ "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." -- Philo  |
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03-02-2005, 12:47 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: redwood city, california
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I am so glad that things are going well. I remember your concerns about the trip and how to approach your extended family. One thing that I have found, is that we accelerate our concerns and fears before such a new adventure and meeting in our sobriety, but when we look back, it just wasn't that hard nor hurtful. Hopefully, you have gained from this realization and can use it in the future when new meetings and trips are on the horizon. Do not know what part of Mexico you are vactioning, but I go each year to the East Cape of Baja for a week of relaxation and fishing (mid-way between La Paz and and Cabo). Far more of a family orientated experience than the constant party of Cabo. Jerry
__________________ Now living a life and not just taking up space. |
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03-02-2005, 11:08 PM
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| Seize the day  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Anytown, NJ
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Hi Renee, So glad to hear you are sober in Mexico. Esta bien! Sober fun is the best. One of the profoundest joys of sobriety has been the realization that, for me, life's true pleasures are to be found in walking along the beach, reading, exercising, listening to music, going to museums, and writing smart-ass vacation travelogues. When I was drinking, I probably would have dismissed these simple pleasures as part a boring life. Secretly, though, I yearned for them. I knew that what I was doing, while "exciting" in a certain way (cops, sirens, medical emergencies, tense courtroom dramas...), was in fact boring beyond measure. It was the same damned thing every day, day after day, year after year. Booooooooring. It made any mindless office job I've ever held seem thrilling by comparison. The bar, again, The liquor store, again. Passed out on the floor, again. Back to the bar. Hey, let's all hear that hilarious story again about the time we got drunk in this here bar. Tell it again, it's soooo funny and interesting. A long time ago, on a clear summer night, I left a loud, crowded, smoky bar and joined my one and only non-alcoholic friend on a bench by the ocean's edge. We talked about life, movies, politics, art, music, and all sorts of things. He always was one for learning, for exploring the rich depths life has to offer those who seek. He was also a sociable guy who liked to have a beer or two. But he never understood the death-grip that alcohol had on me. From time to time we would look back across the dunes toward the bar, its oozing neon and pulsing woofer leaching out into the environment each time the door opened and discharged another belching drunk. "Kev," he said at one point, sweeping his arm across the beach, the ocean, the universe itself. "THIS is what it's all about." So Renee, pick up a handful of sand for us. Let it run through your fingers and fall back lightly to the earth. We are prisoners no more.
__________________ Home is not where you live but where they understand you. -Christian Morgenstern, writer (1871-1914) |
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03-06-2005, 04:55 PM
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| Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 56
| I'm home
Hi everyone! Thank you all for your responses while I was gone. Ready this board gave me the extra umph of encouragement that I needed to make it through the week....wait for it.....SOBER! Yep, that's right friends, I'm still sober. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I could spend a week in Mexico and not have a shot of tequila, a Margarita, a Corona....nothing. It really is an amazing accomplishment and I am proud of myself. My sisters-in-law continued to make comments all week. One went as far to say that her husband (who was not in mexico) will be disappointed to find out there are no stories of me in a drunken stupor for her to tell him about. What an eye-opener! Jerry- coincidentally, I was in Cabo! Yeah, the Giggling Marlin, Cabo Wabo Cantina, etc....they were calling my name...but I refrained  Thank you all!! We are living a wonderful, sober lifestyle...what could be better? Renee
__________________ So make the best of this test/And don't ask why It's not a question/But a lesson learned in time It's something unpredictable/But in the end is right/ I hope you have the time of your life. - Greenday |
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