Sunday and I can see straight !
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Join Date: May 2015
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5 days in and this is the first Sunday in 20+ years I have
A. Gotten up early...of my own free will...taken a shower without worrying if I was adequately scrubbing the alcohol stich off from the night before in the shower....and
B. Just really ENJOYING my day!!!
I got up....got ready....went to an AA meeting....went out to lunch with my dad and my kids.
You guys were right. Sobriety is SUCH a blessing. I know there will be ups and downs with this thing...but today has TRULY been a great day. First good day I have had in a really long time.
A. Gotten up early...of my own free will...taken a shower without worrying if I was adequately scrubbing the alcohol stich off from the night before in the shower....and
B. Just really ENJOYING my day!!!
I got up....got ready....went to an AA meeting....went out to lunch with my dad and my kids.
You guys were right. Sobriety is SUCH a blessing. I know there will be ups and downs with this thing...but today has TRULY been a great day. First good day I have had in a really long time.
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: northern michigan. not the U.P.
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"Yes, today is a nice mellow sober Sunday."
Amen!
It gives me gratitude. May seem crazy but greatful for every second of every minute of every day I fought the obsession to drink. For without that, today would have been another day of gloom dispair, and misery. And there was none of that today.
Amen!
It gives me gratitude. May seem crazy but greatful for every second of every minute of every day I fought the obsession to drink. For without that, today would have been another day of gloom dispair, and misery. And there was none of that today.
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Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: US
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After 7 months of sobriety I'm grateful for every day. But this post was a nice reminder of how bad it was. Sundays were so awful for me as well. After drinking since the the minute I'd get off work on Friday I'd wake up around 5am on sunday and continue drinking what I had left. My binge would usually end around noon but only because i'd run out of alcohol. I'd be too drunk to even walk a straight line so getting more was out of the question. Then it was just anticipating the withdrawals which would hit late afternoon sunday and continue through Monday. I'd be consumed with anxiety and overwhelming shame, guilt and depression. Starting Monday off trying to hide my shaking hands from my boss and coworkers....ahhh! Yea I don't miss that at all.
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Originally Posted by 2muchpain 
Sometimes, I'll get up in the morning and realize my hands aren't shaking. Ran some errands today and ended up have conversations with a few people. As I'm talking to them, I'm thinking, "wow, this is different". Felt good and strange at the same time. John
I just held them up with fingers extended and no shaking. This is nice! Took a few months for those to go away.
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I remember many, many Saturdays and Sundays spent on the couch.
Who remembers the hangovers where you sleep until 1 pm (you'd been up drinking til 4). The initial waking up you wonder just how terrible you're going to feel. You feel worse at 3 pm than 1. You feel worse at 5 pm than you did at 3. You can't quite put your finger on what might kill you that day because all the pains kind of blur together. By the time the sun goes down you have not left the couch and the day feels like a bad fuzzy dream. As you take your sleep aid late that night your heart is beating rapidly.
Sober Sundays are great.
Who remembers the hangovers where you sleep until 1 pm (you'd been up drinking til 4). The initial waking up you wonder just how terrible you're going to feel. You feel worse at 3 pm than 1. You feel worse at 5 pm than you did at 3. You can't quite put your finger on what might kill you that day because all the pains kind of blur together. By the time the sun goes down you have not left the couch and the day feels like a bad fuzzy dream. As you take your sleep aid late that night your heart is beating rapidly.
Sober Sundays are great.
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Join Date: May 2014
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Originally Posted by ScottFromWI
Sunday was the worst day for me, it signaled the end of the weekend and my opportunity to drink all day long, but I dreaded the Monday hangover as I would still drink all day Sunday too. The first beer of the morning was always a relief and a harbinger of doom all in one.
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Midwest
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Sundays were the worst.
They usually played out one of two ways:
1. Get absolutely nothing done because of a hangover.
2. Wake up not hungover because I was visiting family -- nearby, but in another state. Alcohol can be sold there on Sundays but not in the state where I live. I'd stop and pick up a box of wine (classy) on the way back and promise myself that I'd only have "one or two" while watching "Downton Abbey" or "Mad Men" or "Breaking Bad." Inevitably went to work hungover Monday morning.
Gawd, I hated my life.
It's so much better now. Thank you, sobriety. Thank you, SR.
They usually played out one of two ways:
1. Get absolutely nothing done because of a hangover.
2. Wake up not hungover because I was visiting family -- nearby, but in another state. Alcohol can be sold there on Sundays but not in the state where I live. I'd stop and pick up a box of wine (classy) on the way back and promise myself that I'd only have "one or two" while watching "Downton Abbey" or "Mad Men" or "Breaking Bad." Inevitably went to work hungover Monday morning.
Gawd, I hated my life.
It's so much better now. Thank you, sobriety. Thank you, SR.
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Join Date: Jul 2015
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It's day 28 for me and I've had several long periods of sobriety this year. This morning was nice and cool and crystal clear. Both the sky and my head. I'll have a productive day doing chores and hobbies. Enjoy the Sober Sunday everyone.
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Originally Posted by Fly N Buy
FOOTBALL! soberly 
I could see peace instead of this
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Canada, eh
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I'm enjoying what may be one of the last remaining beautiful days of the season out on my deck. I'd either be drinking and in a drunken haze or else be stuck indoors on the couch in a haze of hungover misery praying I wasn't going to die.
Every morning when I wake up, my first awareness is a wave of relief that I'm not doing that anymore.
Every morning when I wake up, my first awareness is a wave of relief that I'm not doing that anymore.
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Another sober Sunday
Getting ready for Church
Wife just put a cosmetic mask on me
Suppose to get rid of the wrinkles
That would take a lot of compound
If I was drinking it would be the last thing on my list
Sobriety is just amazing
Mountainmanbob
Getting ready for Church
Wife just put a cosmetic mask on me
Suppose to get rid of the wrinkles
That would take a lot of compound
If I was drinking it would be the last thing on my list
Sobriety is just amazing
Mountainmanbob
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