24 Hour Club Sign Up Sheet, Part 57, All Welcome
Living and Loving Life at Last
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: gods own country
Posts: 12,171
Thank you for your open story Calico, you have done really well so far, and have true belief in your recovery.
Toots in for 24 more on the last weekend of Scottish fitba.
Toots in for 24 more on the last weekend of Scottish fitba.
Member
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: East Coast USA
Posts: 120,881
Thanks so much for your story, Calico. So much rang true especially the empty or futile deals, bargains and promises we make to ourselves in attempting to moderate or drink safely.
8:05 am on the East Coast; I'd like another 24 of Deeker's Accountability, please.
Soberly, all.
8:05 am on the East Coast; I'd like another 24 of Deeker's Accountability, please.
Soberly, all.
Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: German Village, Columbus with my love ♥
Posts: 88,532
Reposting for deek! May 10, 2014.
Hey Everybody! Thanks for stopping by! If you are new, what we do
is sign up and commit to staying clean and sober.
We would like for you to join us!
Just post your local time and commit. But please only sign in once daily
as this is a list to make up our final roster. Thank You!
Are You In?
Welcome to our Newest Members-
BHappy2014 - FormerBeerLover -SilentCinemaFan -tim68- 3777 -LeTheVerte -
mich78 - CapDB -ReadytoBeme79 - whatcouldbe -james186 - SunriseSky-
RylianH
Welcome back to those returning!
Congratulations!
nmd 1 week!
kellbell123 1 week!
Reboot 2 weeks!
Babs1234 2 weeks!
CristinaN 2 weeks!
abetterlife45 4 weeks!
StormiNormi 4 weeks!
Grateful11 30 days!
Siesta 6 months!
Anniversaries listed are based on consecutive days clean and sober.
If I missed your special day, please let me know your start date.
Thank You Miss venuscat who is showing some love behind the
scenes personally Congratulating Our Celebrants on behalf of
the 24 hour club!
Roster will be posted at 10 pm EST USA 5/10.
I have asked calico to share her story. I have seen calico struggle just a bit but she came back and I am just so honored
to know her and so grateful she does service work for the 24 hour club. She is doing amazing now and is coming up on 8
on May 14th. I hope her story gives you hope.
Hi my name is calico,
I started drinking my first week of college and didn’t stop until 36 years later, on September 14, 2013. Growing up, I had
always been shy and had found it hard to make friends and especially hard to talk to boys – I would just get so nervous
and feel so embarrassed and ridiculous. I remember thinking I had found the solution with alcohol and thinking it was really
a miracle. I could finally talk to people (even men!) and they really seemed to like me and want to be around me. We were
all just so happy, or I thought we were.
As time went by, I began to see that I was drinking more than my friends and it did bother me somewhat. Then I started
seeing that I might say or do things while drinking that I would never do sober. I did some stupid and dangerous things
and I was just lucky I didn’t get into real trouble or get killed or kill someone else. A normal person would have said at that
point, “I need to stop drinking.” But I just said, “Well, I guess I’ll have to control my drinking when I’m around other people
and save getting drunk for when I can be alone.” And that’s what I did, though more and more I just wanted to be left alone
so I could drink, and gradually that new social life I was so proud of just disappeared.
I had some scares along the way, but instead of realizing I had to quit, I just figured ways to keep on drinking. I drove drunk
one time and by some miracle all I did was run over a No Parking sign. I could barely get out of the car, and that convinced
me not to drink and drive. Once I got really sick on whiskey and I was worried I could have died from alcohol poisoning. I was
determined never to drink again. That lasted about two weeks, when I decided I would just not drink hard liquor anymore and
would just stick to one bottle of wine – therefore I wouldn’t have enough to kill myself with. I used to try to cook and drink,
but after burning and cutting myself a number of times I learned to get supper prepared before I opened the bottle.
I knew I needed to quit and I tried many times, but I could usually only make it a week or two. I was mainly a binge drinker
on weekends, so going a few days was never a problem, but getting through the weekend was almost impossible. I would
wake up in the morning determined to stay sober, but then by midafternoon I was thinking about drinking just one last bottle
of wine and THEN I would quit for good. This pattern went on not for years but for decades. I suppose it is only the alcoholic
or addicted brain that can come up with this sort of thinking and actually believe it every time.
I had signed up at SR in 2011 but dropped out since I could not seem to stay sober (wrong reason to stay away!). In April
of last year I remember sitting on my sofa, hungover, and thinking that I never wanted to feel like that again. I tried SR
again and found the 24-hour club. It seemed simple and straightforward, and honestly that was about all I could manage at
that point. I made it to 90 days, a record for me, but then I slipped. I had wondered if I could get high like when I first started
drinking, and I had myself thinking that if I drank once every three months, that’s only four times a year and that isn’t so bad.
More alcoholic logic.
Well, I didn’t get high, but I did get hungover and depressed, and that one slip turned into five times over the next eight weeks.
But then I made it to 90 days again, and at that point it got easier and I started to believe that I could live without alcohol and
want that sober life.
I feel so much better now, and for the first time in years I am truly hopeful about the future and I’m making plans to do things I
had given up on. I see people struggling and slipping and I know what that is like – I was that person for so long and I know it’s
not easy. Never give up. There is a better way to live and you can have that life. Stay close, and reach out when you need to.
It is so worth it!
Thank You So Much Miss calico! Yes it is!
*Song For The Day-Avril Lavigne - Innocence
Hey Everybody! Thanks for stopping by! If you are new, what we do
is sign up and commit to staying clean and sober.
We would like for you to join us!
Just post your local time and commit. But please only sign in once daily
as this is a list to make up our final roster. Thank You!
Are You In?
Welcome to our Newest Members-
BHappy2014 - FormerBeerLover -SilentCinemaFan -tim68- 3777 -LeTheVerte -
mich78 - CapDB -ReadytoBeme79 - whatcouldbe -james186 - SunriseSky-
RylianH
Welcome back to those returning!
Congratulations!
nmd 1 week!
kellbell123 1 week!
Reboot 2 weeks!
Babs1234 2 weeks!
CristinaN 2 weeks!
abetterlife45 4 weeks!
StormiNormi 4 weeks!
Grateful11 30 days!
Siesta 6 months!
Anniversaries listed are based on consecutive days clean and sober.
If I missed your special day, please let me know your start date.
Thank You Miss venuscat who is showing some love behind the
scenes personally Congratulating Our Celebrants on behalf of
the 24 hour club!
Roster will be posted at 10 pm EST USA 5/10.
I have asked calico to share her story. I have seen calico struggle just a bit but she came back and I am just so honored
to know her and so grateful she does service work for the 24 hour club. She is doing amazing now and is coming up on 8
on May 14th. I hope her story gives you hope.
Hi my name is calico,
I started drinking my first week of college and didn’t stop until 36 years later, on September 14, 2013. Growing up, I had
always been shy and had found it hard to make friends and especially hard to talk to boys – I would just get so nervous
and feel so embarrassed and ridiculous. I remember thinking I had found the solution with alcohol and thinking it was really
a miracle. I could finally talk to people (even men!) and they really seemed to like me and want to be around me. We were
all just so happy, or I thought we were.
As time went by, I began to see that I was drinking more than my friends and it did bother me somewhat. Then I started
seeing that I might say or do things while drinking that I would never do sober. I did some stupid and dangerous things
and I was just lucky I didn’t get into real trouble or get killed or kill someone else. A normal person would have said at that
point, “I need to stop drinking.” But I just said, “Well, I guess I’ll have to control my drinking when I’m around other people
and save getting drunk for when I can be alone.” And that’s what I did, though more and more I just wanted to be left alone
so I could drink, and gradually that new social life I was so proud of just disappeared.
I had some scares along the way, but instead of realizing I had to quit, I just figured ways to keep on drinking. I drove drunk
one time and by some miracle all I did was run over a No Parking sign. I could barely get out of the car, and that convinced
me not to drink and drive. Once I got really sick on whiskey and I was worried I could have died from alcohol poisoning. I was
determined never to drink again. That lasted about two weeks, when I decided I would just not drink hard liquor anymore and
would just stick to one bottle of wine – therefore I wouldn’t have enough to kill myself with. I used to try to cook and drink,
but after burning and cutting myself a number of times I learned to get supper prepared before I opened the bottle.
I knew I needed to quit and I tried many times, but I could usually only make it a week or two. I was mainly a binge drinker
on weekends, so going a few days was never a problem, but getting through the weekend was almost impossible. I would
wake up in the morning determined to stay sober, but then by midafternoon I was thinking about drinking just one last bottle
of wine and THEN I would quit for good. This pattern went on not for years but for decades. I suppose it is only the alcoholic
or addicted brain that can come up with this sort of thinking and actually believe it every time.
I had signed up at SR in 2011 but dropped out since I could not seem to stay sober (wrong reason to stay away!). In April
of last year I remember sitting on my sofa, hungover, and thinking that I never wanted to feel like that again. I tried SR
again and found the 24-hour club. It seemed simple and straightforward, and honestly that was about all I could manage at
that point. I made it to 90 days, a record for me, but then I slipped. I had wondered if I could get high like when I first started
drinking, and I had myself thinking that if I drank once every three months, that’s only four times a year and that isn’t so bad.
More alcoholic logic.
Well, I didn’t get high, but I did get hungover and depressed, and that one slip turned into five times over the next eight weeks.
But then I made it to 90 days again, and at that point it got easier and I started to believe that I could live without alcohol and
want that sober life.
I feel so much better now, and for the first time in years I am truly hopeful about the future and I’m making plans to do things I
had given up on. I see people struggling and slipping and I know what that is like – I was that person for so long and I know it’s
not easy. Never give up. There is a better way to live and you can have that life. Stay close, and reach out when you need to.
It is so worth it!
Thank You So Much Miss calico! Yes it is!
*Song For The Day-Avril Lavigne - Innocence
Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: California
Posts: 2,643
Miss Calico, meet your twin by nature, there's nothing in your story that couldn't have been taken directly from mine. Thank you for sharing!
Signing in for another 24 hour at 5:40 a.m. in CA. 135 days today and counting!
Signing in for another 24 hour at 5:40 a.m. in CA. 135 days today and counting!
Member
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Alberta, Canada
Posts: 556
Great story Calico, I can relate to a lot of it.
Sign me up for 24 please.
Thank you Venuscat for the encouragement.
6:40a.m. MST
Sign me up for 24 please.
Thank you Venuscat for the encouragement.
6:40a.m. MST
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