Old 07-11-2013, 08:42 PM
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Threshold
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Originally Posted by DrSober View Post

I'm basically making it a project to readily identify any and all thinking in my head that minimizes drinking or using, or somehow makes room for me to use 'someday' (for example, projecting myself 25 years from now at my son's wedding and stressing about whether I can toast his marriage with champagne.... who f**king cares, really). That's my 'A' (addict brain) speaking and can be recognized as such, and told to drink a big glass of shut the f**k up.
Last summer one of my son's got married. I toasted with water, and enjoyed orange juice and lime on ice...it was HOT in Atlanta.

Yup, no one F'n cared...including me. They had wedding cake AND an ice cream sundae bar...there are so many wonderful things in life!
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