Great meeting!
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Great meeting!
I went to a great meeting last night! Best meeting that i've been to since leaving detox!!! The guy chairing was great. Most everyone shared! I've been to meetings that i wanted to leave. But last night's meeting ended too soon.
Big thanks to Kiki, Lexie, Lildawg, Cottonwood, AA4Life and the others who encouraged me.
As you know NA does not tolerate beer. Which is good for me.
longwinded & off topic
A wonderful woman of 79 years hired me to do her taxes. I got her multiple refunds and rebates from years prior. She would always cook for me, hence I adopted a grandmother.
This woman called me to her house. The IRS sent her a notice (bill) for $8,800. (The problem didn't come from me.)
OMG!!!! How the h*** am i going to fix this!?!
I researched the f*** out of this -- beat it to death! Eventually i 'took the position' that my client qualified for a full exemption under US code section 403(c), Rev. Proc. .... (complicated and technical)
My response was 21 pages long. I needed 21 pages of air-tight, rock solid argument. Because I was not going to be bluffing. I would not fold. This was not a game played for fun, not a stack of plastic poker chips.
If you're willing to go tooth and nail against the IRS you better not be bringing a pile of weak sh**.
I left detox early, against medical advice, simply because i had committed myself to other things. While I was in detox an IRS agent snailmailed me -- he denied my request for an exemption.
Anyways, the point i'm trying to make is that i totally stress myself out at work. And if i get to leave work & go to a meeting i really do not have much patience left for anyone or anything.
The people that hugged me last night made me feel very comfortable and accepted. I look forward to seeing them again.
Big thanks to Kiki, Lexie, Lildawg, Cottonwood, AA4Life and the others who encouraged me.
As you know NA does not tolerate beer. Which is good for me.
longwinded & off topic
A wonderful woman of 79 years hired me to do her taxes. I got her multiple refunds and rebates from years prior. She would always cook for me, hence I adopted a grandmother.
This woman called me to her house. The IRS sent her a notice (bill) for $8,800. (The problem didn't come from me.)
OMG!!!! How the h*** am i going to fix this!?!
I researched the f*** out of this -- beat it to death! Eventually i 'took the position' that my client qualified for a full exemption under US code section 403(c), Rev. Proc. .... (complicated and technical)
My response was 21 pages long. I needed 21 pages of air-tight, rock solid argument. Because I was not going to be bluffing. I would not fold. This was not a game played for fun, not a stack of plastic poker chips.
If you're willing to go tooth and nail against the IRS you better not be bringing a pile of weak sh**.
I left detox early, against medical advice, simply because i had committed myself to other things. While I was in detox an IRS agent snailmailed me -- he denied my request for an exemption.
Anyways, the point i'm trying to make is that i totally stress myself out at work. And if i get to leave work & go to a meeting i really do not have much patience left for anyone or anything.
The people that hugged me last night made me feel very comfortable and accepted. I look forward to seeing them again.
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Thanks very much, Carol!
Everyone at the meeting gave me phone numbers. Including an AA member who chairs AA meetings. I got on well with him and we talked for some time. Eventually he recommended a few AA meetings which sounded like they'd be much more to my liking.
tacks
Everyone at the meeting gave me phone numbers. Including an AA member who chairs AA meetings. I got on well with him and we talked for some time. Eventually he recommended a few AA meetings which sounded like they'd be much more to my liking.
tacks
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Originally Posted by tacks 
Thanks very much, Carol!
Everyone at the meeting gave me phone numbers. Including an AA member who chairs AA meetings. I got on well with him and we talked for some time. Eventually he recommended a few AA meetings which sounded like they'd be much more to my liking.
tacks
Everyone at the meeting gave me phone numbers. Including an AA member who chairs AA meetings. I got on well with him and we talked for some time. Eventually he recommended a few AA meetings which sounded like they'd be much more to my liking.
tacks
Glad you found a meeting you liked.
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