200 Days
now's the time
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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200 Days
Big round number! I feel really good.
It's been hard lately. But after spending last week as a mess over a break up, this week I pulled together out of necessity and worked really hard. Hit a few big deadlines and I'm all lined up to hit another one tomorrow.
I'm looking at an apartment tomorrow. If it works out, it'll be my first time living without a roommate. I'm so excited. And if not this one, then another one soon.
In the afternoon I have a makeup appointment! I'm a makeup shunning traveling girl so this is a very strange indulgence, but I decided that I'm 32 and it's time someone showed me how to do makeup properly.
Tomorrow night, a small concert with a friend. I can't really believe this but drinking made me bored with music. I completely stopped listening to it the last few years. Just podcasts. That's how dulled out my pleasure receptors got. Music irritated me. I'm just coming back to it now.
And Saturday a day-long art class with my mother. <3
This feels really solid. The other day I thought, "I'll never drink again" just out of the blue, and it felt like a fact rather than a defense. Thanks to everyone here for hanging around with me, getting me thinking, and being on this journey with me. It just helps so much. Valentine's Day is my first sobriety date, so I'm pretty close to three years of posting here and trying and trying and trying to get sober.
It's really pretty awesome how much a bunch of strangers and a website that looks like it's 20 years old have helped me out the last three years.
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Well done Fantail .
We all usually have milestones in growing through sober living and we make changes for the better and find ourselves going back to interests we had before alcohol dulled or removed our interests in them, I'm of course talking about recovery , recovering good habits and hobbies we gave up re-organizing our lifestyles , its a really brilliant phase starting to build a new way of thinking and living , ( and it gets better if we remain in a fit spiritual condition ) take care.
Regards Stevie recovered 12 03 2006 .
words are easy music is much harder .
We all usually have milestones in growing through sober living and we make changes for the better and find ourselves going back to interests we had before alcohol dulled or removed our interests in them, I'm of course talking about recovery , recovering good habits and hobbies we gave up re-organizing our lifestyles , its a really brilliant phase starting to build a new way of thinking and living , ( and it gets better if we remain in a fit spiritual condition ) take care.
Regards Stevie recovered 12 03 2006 .
words are easy music is much harder .
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Originally Posted by fantail 
Big round number! I feel really good.
It's been hard lately. But after spending last week as a mess over a break up, this week I pulled together out of necessity and worked really hard. Hit a few big deadlines and I'm all lined up to hit another one tomorrow.
I'm looking at an apartment tomorrow. If it works out, it'll be my first time living without a roommate. I'm so excited. And if not this one, then another one soon.
In the afternoon I have a makeup appointment! I'm a makeup shunning traveling girl so this is a very strange indulgence, but I decided that I'm 32 and it's time someone showed me how to do makeup properly.
Tomorrow night, a small concert with a friend. I can't really believe this but drinking made me bored with music. I completely stopped listening to it the last few years. Just podcasts. That's how dulled out my pleasure receptors got. Music irritated me. I'm just coming back to it now.
And Saturday a day-long art class with my mother. <3
This feels really solid. The other day I thought, "I'll never drink again" just out of the blue, and it felt like a fact rather than a defense. Thanks to everyone here for hanging around with me, getting me thinking, and being on this journey with me. It just helps so much. Valentine's Day is my first sobriety date, so I'm pretty close to three years of posting here and trying and trying and trying to get sober.
It's really pretty awesome how much a bunch of strangers and a website that looks like it's 20 years old have helped me out the last three years.
I hate when sites "upgrade" anyways!!. I hope SR doesnt ever change, the routine and condsistency here make it nostalgic.
Ps.. awesome congrats on 200 days
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Congrats on 200 days Fantail!
I am about three months ahead of you and around this time, I had a big shift mentally. I went from thinking of myself as a drinker who was trying to abstain for a while to a person who simply doesn't drink. When that switch clicked in my brain,
I began to see the potential that life has for me sober. I began to have days where I actually had energy and got things done. I wasn't thinking about drinking or missing drinking. For certain, I am still a work in progress, but around 200 days, I began to see glimpses of the potential that I have inside of me to make a better life for myself than I ever felt possible.
Good luck on the apartment hunt!
I am about three months ahead of you and around this time, I had a big shift mentally. I went from thinking of myself as a drinker who was trying to abstain for a while to a person who simply doesn't drink. When that switch clicked in my brain,
I began to see the potential that life has for me sober. I began to have days where I actually had energy and got things done. I wasn't thinking about drinking or missing drinking. For certain, I am still a work in progress, but around 200 days, I began to see glimpses of the potential that I have inside of me to make a better life for myself than I ever felt possible.
Good luck on the apartment hunt!
now's the time
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Originally Posted by JoeCree
woah. Hey now!!! We make take a lot of things but dont diss the site..lol
I hate when sites "upgrade" anyways!!. I hope SR doesnt ever change, the routine and condsistency here make it nostalgic.
Ps.. awesome congrats on 200 days
I hate when sites "upgrade" anyways!!. I hope SR doesnt ever change, the routine and condsistency here make it nostalgic.
Ps.. awesome congrats on 200 days
It would be like coming home and someone else has painted the walls!
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