LindaLou

Another 24 please! 8:46 pm in NY.

CristinaN

Logging in a little late 24 more for me please. Visiting New Mexico right now and it's 7:00 PM

DaneK

Checking in for 24 more!

8:14 pm in TX

Zencat

6pm, CA and I'm in for the 24.

nonna11

9:30 in Chattanooga.....24 more please.....

BarbieKen

Since our son didn't have a Final today he went with me to my Noon Meeting. Afterwards a bit of shopping, then watched a couple episodes of 'Games of Thrones'. Just a nice day!
Time to check-in for another 24 hours of my recovery, thanks HP.
. Bobbi

deeker

Hello! We hope you will join us today in a commitment to stay clean and sober.
That's right! No alcohol, No drugs. 24 hours, you can do it right? Are You In?

Just post your local time and commit. Please sign in just once daily as this is mainly
a sign up sheet. Thanks!



Welcome To Our Newest Members- GirlyGirlRacing - Livingbetter - Pat82 - Saskia - StormiNormi-
Jenners -BHappy2014 - FormerBeerLover -SilentCinemaFan


Congratulations!!

calichris 2 weeks!
BigShoe 3 weeks!
BoozeFree 1 month!
Marjoram 1 month!
Gakx 2 months!
abcowboy 4 months!
SilentCinemaFan 4 months!
Kaneda8888 8 months!


Sorry If I missed your special day. Please send me your clean/sober date in a pm.
Did you slip or are you coming back from a relapse? We are glad you are here!

Please send me any updates or corrections.

Thank You Miss venuscat for working behind the scenes personally Congratulating
our Celebrants on behalf of the 24 hour club! You Rock!!




Look who joined us and made that 24 hr commitment since 10 pm EST USA 5/5.

Thank You Miss calico for Today's Roster!

1newcreation
Aarryckha
abcowboy
abetterlife45
adams
Addi
adee
AG2013
airwick
AlcoholFree66
Alysheba
Applekat
aussieblue
AZliving
Babs1234
bananacake
BarbieKen
Beanie25
BHappy2014
BigTeddy
biminiblue
BoozeFree
BradJustBrad
BuddinK
calico
CAPTAINZING2000
Carlotta
Cascabel
casinva
ChickChick
ChloeRose63
Coldfusion
courage2
CristinaN
DancingDiva
DaneK
deeker
Elseware
erfra7
ForMeForThem
FormerBeerLover
Gakx
Gilmer
gleefan
Goat
Goose1
goose333
Grateful11
greenturtle
grtgrandpa
halfvictory
hanita2809
HDrosebud
huntingtontx
IWLSAST
jat14
joshlyman
Justadude
Kaneda8888
kellbell123
Kisho
Kizzer49
Kris47
LDT
Levitz
liberated
Libertas
lifetplant
lilac0721
LindaLou
lommey
Longpasttime
Marymacsmith
mimi2014
MrG
Mrsbee
MythicPhoenix
nmd
nonna11
Odelle
Panacea
Peacehappyness
Rar
Reboot
Rickh54
savarna
Saskia
SilentCinemaFan
SnoozyQ
SoberLeigh
SolitaryThinker
StormiNormi
Tetra
tgirl
TigerLili
tootsl1
tornrealization
trudgingagain
venuscat
wehav2day
yukonm
ZeldaFan
Zencat
zeppodog
zoey09


Did you make the list?

If not that's ok. Everyone can start signing in again for the next roster posted
24 hours from now at 10 pm EST USA 5/6.



Complacency

I got complacent.

I remember it happened after 2.5 yrs of sobriety around 1992. I began to get a life again.
I got a job, had a baby, was wrapped up in house renovations, family gatherings. I would
say Gee, I really need to get to a meeting, only to start another project.

I found I wasn't talking to God as much and letting up on calls to others in the AA program.
Stopped singing at church and then stopped going to church all together.It wasn't long
before The serenity and joy I had began to slip away.

Stuff was becoming more important to me than my peace of mind, then my sobriety.Everyone
could see it but me. A Change in attitude.

All these things above are signs of a imminent relapse.
So please pay attention to your signs.

I eventually did relapse too.

I stayed out there for 20 some years and added drugs into the mix , I was a mess.
And it sucked. Jails, psych wards, detoxes and treatment centers

I have to put my recovery ahead of everything else or I will lose it all.

I lost all that stuff I put before my recovery. The house, the job, the little baby as a
teenager (he left home) who is now a grown man, family, friends, self respect, people's trust .

Don't get me wrong, our families are first but if I am not clean and sober I have no family
to put first.

I gave it all away really. If I don't work on my daily program of action I don't have any of
those things.Having those things in my life were the gifts of working my program on a
daily basis.

If I am not regularly working a program of action, being aware my thoughts , attitude and
behaviors, my spiritual condition, the thought of a drink can easily slip in and now I have
no defense.

Back then my thinking was "that I got this, I've mastered sobriety" and then one day you
see someone drinking a cold Marquerita and the thought has entered your mind, then a few
days later someone pi**es you off because you have stopped working a program which teaches
you how to let go and that Marquerita is slowly working on your subconscious and your not
using you tools anymore because you closed your tool box.

The relapse has already begun. The thought has been ruminating in your mind for days.

Then the day comes where your addictive mind tells you "maybe I can have just one."

It's the first drink, the one that will set off the craving for more but you think it won't happen
after all you learned in AA or whatever route your using for recovery.

You take that first drink and you succeed for a few weeks maybe even a month or two but
inevitably you are out of control nursing a hangover and trying to recall the stuff you did the
night before. Your consumption is right back to where it was when you quit the first time.

The guilt, shame and remorse!

And now you're afraid to call someone in AA, or go to a meeting or go back to SR because it's
been awhile. That ugly thing called pride.

You don't want to walk through that door of AA or admit to SR you relapsed because you
think everyone is thinking about you and is thinking bad things about you. (self centeredness).

5,10 or 15 years later nothing has changed, you can't stop drinking. And all those beautiful
gifts of recovery are gone along with a whole lot more. Your story just got longer and
more horrendous.

Believe me I know.

I stopped working the program and all the gifts were taken away.

I have become complacent the last couple months. Focusing only on the 24 Hour Club.

I used to go to 5 meetings a week, was on the NA activities commitee, secretary of H and I,
and spoke at detox 2x a week.

It was typical addict behavior, but at the time I needed it, I threw myself headlong into
the program. I needed to do service work to get out of my own head and it worked and I
was damn happy.

Then I became addicted to the 24 hour club spending 12 hours and more a day creating
and searching for pictures and songs and writing and sending pm's and encouraging people.

Soon I began to drop all those other things I did for my recovery except a meeting here and
there.

But I told myself it was ok because the 24 hour club fell under the guise of recovery.

But I am addict and I can take anything and run with it, it does not have to be alcohol
and drugs.

Today I don't have the material stuff I lost. But I do have my family back. It's not always
perfect but it's better than I ever thought it would be and I don't want to lose anything else.

So today I can not afford to be so addicted to one thing that I neglect my work, family, and
most importantly my own recovery.

My sobriety is to precious, I never want to take it for
granted again.

It's the reason I am retiring from the 24 hour club. It became another addiction and I
have let up on the rest of my program and it is showing in my life and my attitude.

I am spending hours and hours a day online and neglecting other areas of my life and my
joy is slipping away in fact I have become lazy and depressed. It is all about that balance
I was speaking of a few weeks ago.

I even have a Vit D deficiencey from lack of time in the sun. I have a feeling we are going
to have a whole generation of kids with a Vit D deficiency with video games and iphones.

But anyways I am gonna miss it and miss you folks, and I have a feeling I will have a hard
time leaving without lurking lol but I know it's what's best for me and my recovery.

I am ready to turn the club over to venuscat and anyone she chooses to help
her if needed. I hope she does take on volunteers if need be.

So again wanted to let you all know venuscat will be taking over the club on May 19th.

There will be a few changes which I will explain that day but the 24 Hour Club Lives on!! lol

Thanks venuscat you are very special to me!

The Question today is "Are we putting anything before our recovery?"

*Song For The Day- Freedom Rebels -Adam Brand






If unable to find this 24 hour club Thread in the future, Click on Search near top of page and type
in Newcomer Daily Support and click Go. This is part 56!

calico

Thanks for that message deeker, and I hope you find the balance you have been missing. I can understand how just about anything can become an addiction.

I am feeling better tonight after learning that venuscat will be taking the reins. She will do a great job.

24 hours for this cat please.

abetterlife45

I'm in for another day. 9:48 in Texas

Rar

Thank you for sharing Deeker. I wish you happiness and peace.

24 more please.
10:59 pm. EST

Justadude

Signing in for another 24. 2200hrs. Central Time

AG2013

meden agan


Signing in for another 24
8:14 CA

wehav2day

deeker, you don't owe us an explanation, but you gave us a beautifully written one anyway. I really appreciate everything you have done here on sr, and hope you quickly regain your joy.

wehav here signing in for another 24 hours!

venuscat

That post was so moving on so many levels deek that I have tears in my eyes.
We are so so blessed that you dedicated so much to this club.
And I am so glad that you are going to have the time you need to do all of those things that keep your recovery strong, and your heart filled.
Plus, I am glad you will have more time to see the sun my love!!!

You know that you are very special to me as well.

I really really want another 24 hours please...sobriety rocks!!!
1.28pm, Melbourne, Oz.

Love to all,

V xx

bananacake

4:40 am I can happily do another 24 hours please Xxxx

Pedro1234

Here is to finding the right balance in life and recovery. Thanks Deeker

1newcreation

12amET...md; tuf day mentally but made it sober. Good mtg @ home group. Going to bed in a few & I frankly don't give a damn what ga does!!! Got no intentions of going back there anyways & when I'm stable again, will buy my boys air tickets so they can come visit me here. So if they wanna send the bloodhounds after me for bs misdemeanors that I've tried to work w/ the p.o about, let em do it; powerless over her & cops!
Good grief & Gnite

Heartfan82

Checking in after a very productive, but relaxing day.

It's 9:20 pm here in Oregon,
and I'm pledging 24 more hours to beautiful sobriety!

1newcreation- I wish you a good night's rest,
and hope everything looks better for you tomorrow...
Hang in there!

Peace,
~Heartfan
tomorrow

Marjoram

Deeker - we are all so grateful you did what you have done with this club. And honestly, I always wondered how you did it. I think you are right in handing over the torch. You created something that works for us all, and we all have to work together to keep it going.

I agree as many of us do, that we as addicts of whatever nature tend to put our everything into everything, and that is something I've been trying to teach myself to do more lately. To say "no". And that is not meant in a bad way. But, if we say "yes" to everything, our life is constant turmoil, never knowing if we are coming or going. We need our quiet time, we need our peace, we need to step outside and enjoy the fresh air. This is not selfish, as much as it is necessary.

You are saying "no" right now. And that is okay. You did an absolutely amazing job with this thread and this club. It may change as time goes by, but the concept is actually as it should be, committing to another 24.

And yes, technology is wonderful, but it can also be an addiction as well. I have a flip phone, a land line, and an antennae for TV that I hardly watch. Being in touch with the simple things creates balance - so go get yours. You deserve it!

We love you lots - and yes, I believe you are having us all in tears.

Oh, and why of course I'd love 24 more!!! It's late for me or early depending on how you look at it!

deadpie

Haven't been on this site in what seems like forever. Had a slip that lead me to a really bad place. Almost died at one point. Seven days and it's 12:02 AM here in TX. In for another 24 hopefully.