Day 2 - I can do this!!!!
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Go to the middle of nowhere & add 20 miles
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Day 2 - I can do this!!!!
Hi everyone -
Here it is Day 2 - the shakes are almost gone. Actually ate something this morning - got dressed and made the bed. Believe me - those were kind of big steps.
I am going to my first meeting tonight - a little scared, but I am a big girl (not really) and I have to do this.
I am back to keeping a journal - something that helped me last time. I write what I'm feeling - craving - doing, anything that comes to mind. It also helped me before to recognize the warning signs before I would start. If I kept myself from starting I was okay.
Glad I found SR - everyone has been very supportive. Nice to know we are not alone - huh.
Well, here is to a sober day for everyone. My toast will be with hot chocolate - thank you very much!!!!!!
Here it is Day 2 - the shakes are almost gone. Actually ate something this morning - got dressed and made the bed. Believe me - those were kind of big steps.
I am going to my first meeting tonight - a little scared, but I am a big girl (not really) and I have to do this.
I am back to keeping a journal - something that helped me last time. I write what I'm feeling - craving - doing, anything that comes to mind. It also helped me before to recognize the warning signs before I would start. If I kept myself from starting I was okay.
Glad I found SR - everyone has been very supportive. Nice to know we are not alone - huh.
Well, here is to a sober day for everyone. My toast will be with hot chocolate - thank you very much!!!!!!
It is what it is!!!
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Sobriety
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Congrats to you!!!! I know what you mean about just getting dressed and making the bed are big steps...I remember.
When you get to that meeting today, remember you deserve to be there just as much as anyone else and also remember that everyone in that room is there for the same reason you are, to stay sober today.
When you get to that meeting today, remember you deserve to be there just as much as anyone else and also remember that everyone in that room is there for the same reason you are, to stay sober today.
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Go to the middle of nowhere & add 20 miles
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Thanks to everyone for the words of support and wisdom.
I know I can do this - just not alone, which was what I was trying to do before. That obviously didn't do the trick.
Thanks again!!!!
I know I can do this - just not alone, which was what I was trying to do before. That obviously didn't do the trick.
Thanks again!!!!
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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Awesome!
Yesterday, well, that's over eh...
Tomorrow? Well, let's deal with that tomorrow okay...
Today is where it's at!
Like you say, if I keep myself from the first one, I'll be okay.
Right on! Have a great meeting Lady.
Yesterday, well, that's over eh...
Tomorrow? Well, let's deal with that tomorrow okay...
Today is where it's at!
Like you say, if I keep myself from the first one, I'll be okay.
Right on! Have a great meeting Lady.
slowing it down a notch......
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: MI
Posts: 42
me too
Last drink was Wednesday....hopefully forever.
I just came out of a haze and I am feeling a little stronger.
I know what you mean about the shakes and the making the bed thing....Those were big tasks for me today.
We can do it...we have to do it.
I just came out of a haze and I am feeling a little stronger.
I know what you mean about the shakes and the making the bed thing....Those were big tasks for me today.
We can do it...we have to do it.
Mostly Sunny Skies
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Mountain Top, WV
Posts: 62
I WAS BORN A YOOPER WITH BEER IN MY VEINS
I DRINK IT EVERY DAY TO TRY TO EASE THE PAIN
OF ELEVEN MONTHS OF WINTER AND 30 DAYS OF RAIN
AND IF I DIDNT HAVE MY BEER I THINK ID GO INSANE
I DRINK IT WHEN ITS FORTY BELOW, I DRINK IT WHEN ITS HOT
I DRINK IT WHEN IM HAPPY, I DRINK IT WHEN IM NOT
I DRINK IT IN THE SAUNA, I DRINK IT IN MY TRUCK
MY DADDY WAS A MINER MY MOTHER WAS THE BOSS
SHE BEAT HIM ALMOST EVERY NIGHT FOR DRINKING TOO MUCH SAUCE
MOTHER WAS AS HARD AS NAILS SHE NEVER SHED A TEAR
WHEN DADDY TOOK AWAY MY MILK AND HANDED ME A BEER
I DRINK IT UP IN HOUGHTON AND OVER IN THE S00
DOWN IN ESCANABA I DRINK THAT GOLDEN BREW
I DRINK IT IN NEGAUNEE AND OVER IN MARQUETTE
I WENT TO A BASH IN NEWBERRY I AINT GOT OVER YET
Lyrics by Da Yoopers
Ishpeming, MI
I DRINK IT EVERY DAY TO TRY TO EASE THE PAIN
OF ELEVEN MONTHS OF WINTER AND 30 DAYS OF RAIN
AND IF I DIDNT HAVE MY BEER I THINK ID GO INSANE
I DRINK IT WHEN ITS FORTY BELOW, I DRINK IT WHEN ITS HOT
I DRINK IT WHEN IM HAPPY, I DRINK IT WHEN IM NOT
I DRINK IT IN THE SAUNA, I DRINK IT IN MY TRUCK
MY DADDY WAS A MINER MY MOTHER WAS THE BOSS
SHE BEAT HIM ALMOST EVERY NIGHT FOR DRINKING TOO MUCH SAUCE
MOTHER WAS AS HARD AS NAILS SHE NEVER SHED A TEAR
WHEN DADDY TOOK AWAY MY MILK AND HANDED ME A BEER
I DRINK IT UP IN HOUGHTON AND OVER IN THE S00
DOWN IN ESCANABA I DRINK THAT GOLDEN BREW
I DRINK IT IN NEGAUNEE AND OVER IN MARQUETTE
I WENT TO A BASH IN NEWBERRY I AINT GOT OVER YET
Lyrics by Da Yoopers
Ishpeming, MI
Dear Northwoods Lady,
I’m really glad you are here. SR is a great place for answers and support. You have my support, understanding, and sympathy.
First, a journal is invaluable. I keep mine in ***** Notebook (part of ***** E-mail) so that I can get too it at any time, and without anybody knowing what I put in it.
From your postings, I assume you are just below the bridge. For more than 30 years, I spent many a hangover above the bridge. Most of my growing up days came from a little bit north and west. My cousins and in-laws still surround the entire perimeter of Lake Superior. My cousins, like the Yoopers, have made great fun of it. I escaped.
I do not envy you. If the area just below the bridge is anything like the area above the bridge, you have a snowy and muddy road to plow. Until Uncle Sam helped me escape, I thought it was normal to bring a cooler of Old Milwaukee and a bottle of Kessler’s to a baptism, wedding, or a funeral. Until I was drafted at the age of 22, Sunday after church was pasties (meat pies for those not from Northland) and Pabst for the adults. Most of us were “adults” by 14.
I hope you have a good counselor. You are also going to need to find some really good new friends – and that will be the hard part.
I was on the northwestern UP (Houghton-Hancock area) not too long ago. One of my "recovering" cousins was sipping Old Milwaukee N/A with her cholesterol laden breakfast. Her and her brother sucked on brown-papered little cigarettes. This is not recovery.
You probably will have to give up the snowmobile.
I don’t want to scare you too much, but if you want to quit drinking, you are going to face a major life-changing event. I was lucky. Like so many, I went off to war.
Spend hours on this site reviewing what other have experienced.
Ask lots of questions. You will get lots of support that you might not get in counselling or AA.
Toivo
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