Shucks, you guys. Thank you very much for the positive affirmation.
It means an awful lot to me.
I'm still feeling the sting a little bit from when my sponsor told me that she wasn't going to blow smoke up my nether regions for doing something I ought to be doing. In retrospect, I see that her strident stance with me was likely coming from her own place of frustration with how I "am" and that I had ideas about how to coach people I might need to call on in the future. Of course, it's her prerogative to feel however she feels. But at the time, and still even now, I thought it was really unfair (there's that word again) for her to be dismissive of the enormity of this decision and that it signals a major commitment to getting this thing right. Oh well, it doesn't matter in the long run. It's up to me to keep myself sober, not dependent on anyone else's opinion of how I choose to work a program.
Of course you could have done this too, Flipsie.
You just didn't have to. Thank God or whoever your Higher Power might be.
Eldest has returned to her apartment.
More later...