One Year and Over Club Part 3
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: New England
Posts: 5,285
Feel better Dee!
Well I'm at the parents. It's amazing how productive I am and how I no longer harbor resentment and anger towards the family. Being sober and having a good therapist does wonders for my state of mind
I will do as much as I can, because I enjoy it...and what doesn't get done doesn't get done.
I did freak out when my Dad told me that I hadn't brought the special Scandinavian ham down from CT (there is only one place you can get it on the East Coast). I was planning to drive back to CT tomorrow to get it (I'm in MD) and then I found it unpacked and in the fridge!!!!
Well I'm at the parents. It's amazing how productive I am and how I no longer harbor resentment and anger towards the family. Being sober and having a good therapist does wonders for my state of mind
I will do as much as I can, because I enjoy it...and what doesn't get done doesn't get done.
I did freak out when my Dad told me that I hadn't brought the special Scandinavian ham down from CT (there is only one place you can get it on the East Coast). I was planning to drive back to CT tomorrow to get it (I'm in MD) and then I found it unpacked and in the fridge!!!!
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Diego
Posts: 4,451
Thanks, TinMan. I like your avatar; I introduced my daughter to the Wizard of Oz on Thanksgiving, and have watched it about 5 times since.
Glad you're feeling better, Dee.
LF, I was just thinking this morning about how much more at peace with the world I've become. I used to feel so aggrieved all the time. Anger is another toxin I'm learning to keep out of my system.
Glad you're feeling better, Dee.
I no longer harbor resentment and anger towards the family.
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: New England
Posts: 5,285
Baked all days...then let my Dad and Sister do dinner...in the old days would have done it all and resented it.
Made Swedish Tosca's french bread and Jewish cookies (that's the Danish name of a Christmas cookie). All Danish recipes lol
Made Swedish Tosca's french bread and Jewish cookies (that's the Danish name of a Christmas cookie
). All Danish recipes lol
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Roxboro, NC
Posts: 544
I've been a team leader for 4 of the 5 years I've been at the company I'm at. My first 4 years were mostly spent drinking. I was not a pleasent person to work for. I demanded that my people do their job and I was basically an ass.
This last year I've started treating them like people. I've put them before myself.
When I got here today I had 2 gifts on my desk. At lunch they gave me a card that they all had signed filled with cash. I was moved.
I'm not sure why they gave me cash. Last week I did have supper catered in for them but I didn't let anyoen know what I spent and what I spent didn't hurt me financially anyhows. It was just very moving that they think so different of me now than they did a few years ago.
I've got one young lady that works for me that hadn't said more than a few words to me in the last 59 months. In the last month she won't stop talking to me.
I'm blessed. I love and I feel loved. This may be the best Christmas I've had in 2 decades. I was only about 7 weeks sober last Christmas so this time it's so very different.
Thank you all at SR too for helping me grow.
Thank God I'm sober today.
This last year I've started treating them like people. I've put them before myself.
When I got here today I had 2 gifts on my desk. At lunch they gave me a card that they all had signed filled with cash. I was moved.
I'm not sure why they gave me cash. Last week I did have supper catered in for them but I didn't let anyoen know what I spent and what I spent didn't hurt me financially anyhows. It was just very moving that they think so different of me now than they did a few years ago.
I've got one young lady that works for me that hadn't said more than a few words to me in the last 59 months. In the last month she won't stop talking to me.
I'm blessed. I love and I feel loved. This may be the best Christmas I've had in 2 decades. I was only about 7 weeks sober last Christmas so this time it's so very different.
Thank you all at SR too for helping me grow.
Thank God I'm sober today.
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Diego
Posts: 4,451
Really cool posts, folks. Isn't it amazing how changing one thing in our lives ends up changing everything? My family life, professional life, essentially my relationship with the entire universe, all changed for the better.
I feel the same way about this Christmas, TM. What a gift.
I feel the same way about this Christmas, TM. What a gift.
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Posts: 7,583
While many of you may have seen this video of what we have to be grateful for this season, it bears watching every year as we can add sobriety and all of its gifts to the list. But it brings home that the least of us, since we are online, have little to grouse about.
Count Your Blessings - YouTube
Count Your Blessings - YouTube
Trudging that road.
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Seattle Wa
Posts: 6,840
Hey all,
I heard this little quote at a meeting when a member was talking about thinking about drinking or having drunk dreams.
Alcoholism doesn't come in a bottle it comes in people.
Have a fantastic Friday all
I heard this little quote at a meeting when a member was talking about thinking about drinking or having drunk dreams.
Alcoholism doesn't come in a bottle it comes in people.
Have a fantastic Friday all
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Diego
Posts: 4,451
Planning to download and watch "It's a Wonderful Life" tonight. I think if my recovery had a name, it would be Clarence. It's opened my eyes to what matters most in life, just like the angel does for good old George Bailey.
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Posts: 7,583
If any here are Van Morrison Fans, perhaps you already know these lyrics. "These Are The Days" by him is my special sobriety song of gratitude, and also for Christmas, for those of us who love, who have loved, and lucky enough to have the love of family now. The lyrics are shown in this You Tube version, and are some of his best for me.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
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