I did not drink last weekend...
 

...and I am beyond grateful to this board, AA, and my higher power for helping me stay away from a drink during the last seven days.

I lived through exhibiting at my first craft show last Saturday, and while it was a great experience in lots of ways, I didn't make nearly as much money as I'd hoped or expected to...and frankly I was shocked. The stress of preparing for and doing the show combined with the disappointment over the lack of financial success put me into a dangerous and depressed frame of mind...a frame of mind that in the past would have - beyond the shadow of any doubt - caused me to not only drink, but drink heavily for several days.

I called my sponsor Saturday night, overwhelmed, angry, sad, hopeless...and I said something to the effect of "WHY CAN'T I HAVE JUST ONE G@D d@MNED SAM ADAMS? EFF WORD, EFF WORD, EFF WORD..." and she gently talked me down, then I proceeded to sleep for the next three days.

I finally started to snap out of my despair Wednesday afternoon, and I realized that I had never, ever, ever, ever been in such a bad state and not drank over it...it was just a miracle. God - whoever he or she is - truly did for me what I could not do for myself...I have no earthly idea how I managed to get through this past week without drinking. But I did. And for that I am truly grateful.

good luck to you and best best wishes!!!

I'm grateful you didn't drink, too! :)

Steph :hug:
Welcome to soberity :) when u do the right things the right things will happen, Good on you girl
xx

Hang in there, Steph, you're doing great! :hug:

steph,

a grateful drunk,

will "never" drink again

keep that grat flowing!

Thanks for all of your comments and support. SR...always close to the top of my list of things to be grateful for!