For those With Less Than Two Weeks Sober Part 5
 

Thank you Anna for starting our fresh thread!
:love:

Congratulations to everyone choosing sobriety today
:cheer

I didn't do well this weekend. I went over to a buddies house and had some beers and went out after that. I am encouraged that I didn't drink MTWT and surprisingly friday. Work really sucks the life out of me and it is almost like having a second job keeping straight. I am just glad that it feels like I have more control now that I atleast went 6 days without drinking. I just have to work harder to say no even if it is rude (that is what the problem was was his dad was wanting me to have a beer)

Hi Mcribb ....
I too found if I went where others were drinking...
I either got very antsy and peeved
or I would drink with them.
Thus re starting my drinking compulsion.

Thats when I found my sober AA friends to
be a valuable social assett.
We had a blast!

Hope you will find your way...:yup:
Sobreity Rocks!

Hi Mcribb

It sounds like you have a healthy perspective which is essential to recovery. It's great that you recognize that even if you did slip up last night you have still made significant progress. I would like to congratulate you on that!! Keep moving forward :c015:

:wave:....MD2B
Welcome to our recovery community.

Glad to see you are here
Congratulations on Day 1
:approve:

i disappeared for a few days and find that were now in part 5

hope you are doing what you want to do mccribb

as for me:

i'm going to stay clean today., i'm in for the night. went to a meeting and talked with my sponsor on the phone.

on the drive home i wanted to use....then it passed....then i called my sponsor....

i'm out of money too. out of credit too. living week to week.

i do still have a job and my car is running good. i have a little hope today

no action here today in this thread...


well ok....

i'm happy to say to the universe, and to the higher power and to you that i stayed clean today....DAY 2

i called my sponsor 3 times; we talked twice
i went to a meeting
i let two urges pass, instead of using
i had some quality time with my daughter
i punched in and out at the correct times at work
I ate good today

good night

Excellent progress.....:)

An AA friend picked me up so I could do needed errands.
We have the privledge of early voting here in Ga.
so she helped me vote....as I can no longer read.

We had brunch....then a nooon AA meeting

The meeting Topic was how we live sober
despite outside pressures/triggers/stressors.

The key most of us agreed on .....(drum roll)
by working and living the AA 12 Steps.

Thanks for checking in ksplash
Let's both make today another day of victory!
:a122:

Day thirteen. Went to the docter at last and got a short supply of diazepam (valium), which was very good, got me over the worst of it and stopped me have any fits or seizures, and shaking like hell :) I haven't had much cravings. I've started eating loads and even started enjoying old hobbies - films, TV boring basic stuff. I still get get slight spasms and headaches, wake up during the night, but getting better. I'll probably start taking B vitamins and cod liver oil to help my abused brain and nervous system!! All good, you do eventually start liking life again.

Day four, for the third time. Hey, ksplash, well done. I've been struggling a bit the last few days, but, you know, still sober and today feeling quite good.

LB xx

DAY 3

I am making good choices and staying clean today.....
after work I am going to a meeting, and then another meeting, and then helping my friend who's in deep depression


here is a pick-me-upper:
Melanie Calitri Holden | At The Heart Of Peace Movie

early morning day 4

i made it through yesterday. the drive home was stressful...i came close to getting in an accident at one point because of silly road games

i made it to a meeting and another meeting. by the second meeting i was feeling much more peaceful again.

and this morning it's wonderful to be alive and sober. it's nice to have had enough time to take a shower and to come here online for a moment and tell the SR world that I am making the choice to stay clean today. I want to stay clean. staying clean is the most important thing for me right now. today. it is my goal to stay clean. there is no other goals now. nothing else happens without me staying clean.



i clicked on that link that i left above and that was nice to help me take a moment to slow down

have a nice day

Day 5 for me. ksplash, you are brilliant. Aren't those meetings great? I always leave feeling a hundred times better than when I arrived.:ghug2

thanks beautiful butterfly........I hope to be one day behind you always.....keep up the good work....

i have stayed awake for the first 2 1/2 hours at work. i have engaged with people. I am alive a little bit more, and starting earlier. and with that comes a little bit of rebellion and unsatisfied wants and now the feelings must start to be felt. I love the remember of early recovery that I experienced in 1991/1992. I relish the memory of chasing recovery, of finding meetings 35 miles from home all by myself (and it's even easier today with mapquest and all!). I enjoy the memory of talking to a "sponsor person" everyday, and having him rooting for me and caring for me and helping me and listening to me.

at my second meeting last night my knowledge that going to meetings and being around recovering people helps was reinforced. I heard things that I know/knew are true; things that are true in early recovery. things that are going on right now for me. It gave me some confidence that i am on the right track and made me feel less alone as I e3xperienced others who are feeling it now, or are describing it as it happened to them in early recovery.

good luck to everyone ... may we keep on chasing the present moment

Congrats to everyone staying clean and sober one day at a time!

:ghug3

end of day 4

i have made it....another day clean.

i didn't want to for a moment after i dropped off my daughter, but the universe gave me a little help perhaps.

this has been an exhausting day for me.

:funjump:

What counts is you did not pick up!
Super!

I stayed sober today too....
at my noon meeting....I was asked to be
a sponsor by a woman just returning.
:)
She seemed surprized when I gave her "homework"
I asked she write down all the ways her life
had fallen apart due to alcohol.

AA or no AA....have any of you taken a hard look
at the destruction and written it down?
I :dunno:....it might be useful to you.

Carol, that was a great suggestion about writing down all the destruction that alcohol caused. I've never taken the time to write it down but I think that I should. I need to take a hard look at it. I need to write down how much pain it was quitting too.

Well done ksplash. What you're giving up is tough! Everytime I get that overwhelming compulsion and get past it without using or drinking, I feel a bit stronger.

Good going to everyone taking on their demons! Day 6 for LB, sun is shining.