ChrissieB

Signing up for another 24 thank you calico for sharing your story you are doing brilliant. Giro D'Italia in Northern Ireland amazing athletes. 22.30 x

AlcoholFree66

7.50am here on Sunday - Mothers Day. I'm being cooked a beautiful breakfast by my daughter and life is really good sober.

AlcoholFree66

Another 24 hours please.

Kaneda8888

Another 24 hours pls ! It's 7:56am here

aussieblue

24 more for me.

7.58 am in Auss.

Marymacsmith

Good Saturday eveyone.... I am in for 24 moe please. 3:06 pm la, ca

BuddinK

6:50 in Key West

SolitaryThinker

6:54 pm another 24 NY

savarna

Sober today
731am
West Australia

deeker

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!
NewLeaf 4 months!
Siesta 6 months!

efra7 1 year! woohoo!


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 in 2 hrs 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



Prayers for the people affected by the devastating tragedy in Kenya.

Anyone who would like to share their story, and has 6 months or more....
PLEASE send them to venuscat, May 18th will be my last day but we
would like to continue this special tradition. ♥

CAPTAINZING2000

Hope everyone has a great weekend

liberated

To my other beautiful SR moms, Have a great mothers day tomorrow! I am here for another 24!!!!!

james186

In for another 24 please! Day 4 01:25 uk.

TempeBrenn

In for 24 on Saturday at 8:51pm. THANK YOU SO MUCH Calico, as others have said, it is my story too. Only I don't have 8 months YET! Prayers for all on our journey. And Happy Mothers Day to those who celebrate.

nonna11

Just got in ....24 more please.....geez

deeker

Welcome To The 24 Hour Club!


Glad you could join us on Mother's Day. Please join us in a simple promise to
stay clean and sober for the next 24 hours.

I think today the greatest gift we can give our Mothers is our full
attention free of alcohol and or drugs.

Just post your local time and commit! Please sign in only once daily as
this is mainly a sign up sheet that will make up our roster. Thank You!



Welcome To Our Newest Members-BHappy2014 - FormerBeerLover -SilentCinemaFan -tim68-
3777 -LeTheVerte -mich78 - CapDB -ReadytoBeme79 - whatcouldbe -james186 - SunriseSky-
RylianH - Softjazze



Congratulations!

tim68 1 week!
Peacehappyness 1 week!
BHappy2014 1 week!
Kizzer49 1 week!
Addi 1 week!
LoftyIdeals 1 week!
greenturtle 2 weeks!
tornrealization 2 weeks!
joshlyman 2 weeks!
gatorgirl67 3 weeks!
3777 4 weeks!
lunachild 30 days!
1stepup 30 days!
DancingDiva 1 month!
Grateful11 1 month!
NewLeaf 4 months!
Kisho 4 months!

erfra7 1 year! Woohoo!


If I missed your special day, please let me know in a pm.

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




All these special people many of whom are Mom's signed in since 10 pm EST USA 5/9

Thank You Miss calico for Today's Roster!

This list is now closed!


1newcreation
3777
abcowboy
abetterlife45
adee
AG2013
airwick
AlcoholFree66
Alysheba
Applekat
aussieblue
BarbieKen
Beanie25
BHappy2014
BradJustBrad
BuddinK
calichris
calico
CAPTAINZING2000
Carlotta
Cascabel
casinva
ChickChick
ChrissieB
Coldfusion
courage2
CristinaN
DancingDiva
DaneK
deeker
Elseware
erfra7
ForMeForThem
FormerBeerLover
Gakx
Gilmer
gleefan
Goat
Grateful11
grtgrandpa
HDrosebud
Heartfan82
huntingtontx
james186
jat14
Kaneda8888
KimsFriend
Kitkat331
Kizzer49
least
liberated
lommey
Mags1
Marjoram
Marymacsmith
mimi2014
Mountainmanbob
NewLeaf
nmd
nonna11
Odelle
Panacea
Rar
ReadytoBeme79
rove27
RylianH
Saskia
savarna
shi
Siesta
SnoozyQ
SoberLeigh
Softjazze
SolitaryThinker
StormiNormi
Tang
TempeBrenn
Tetra
tgirl
tootsl1
tornrealization
trudgingagain
Try18
venuscat
wehav2day
yukonm
ZeldaFan
Zencat
zeppodog
zoey09


Everyone may begin signing in again for the next 24 hours. Roster will be
posted 24 hours from now at 10 pm EST USA 5/11.



A Mother's Love- Lyrics and Song For The Day


Thank you for watching over me
All of the sleepless nights you lay awake
Thank you for knowing when to hold me close
when to let me go

Thank you for every stepping stone
And for the path that always leads me home
I thank you for the time you took
to see the heart inside of me

You gave me the roots to start this life
and then you gave me wings to fly
And I learned to dream
Because you believed in me

There's no power like it on this earth
No treasure equal to its worth
The gift of a mother's love

Thank you for every sunlit day
That filled the corners of our my memory
Thank you for every selfless unsung deed
I know you did for me

Thank you for giving me the choice
To search my soul till I could find my voice
And I thank you for teaching me
To be strong enough to bend

You gave me the roots to start this life
and then you gave me wings to fly
And I learned to dream
Because you believed in me

There's no power like it on this earth
No treasure equal to its worth
The gift of a Mother's love

I thank God for a Mother's love
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On this day I also want to acknowledge those
whose Mother's have passed.

I pray that you will be comforted today and feel
the warm loving spirit of your Mother close by.

God Bless You!


*Song For The Day- Jim Brickman - A Mothers Love



Prayers for the people affected by the devastating tragedy in Kenya.

Anyone who would like to share their story as a part of the 24 hour club post
and has 6 months or more....

PLEASE send your story to Miss venuscat. May 18th will be my last day but
Miss venuscat would like to continue this special tradition. ♥

Happy Mother's Day!



If ever unable to locate the 24 Hour Club, Go To Search on Blue Tool bar and
type in Newcomer Daily Support Threads and click Go. This is Part 57

BarbieKen

. Another nice Spring day here in my hometown. I believe I will check in for another 24 hours of my recovery. Big Book Meeting.....fantastic! Tomorrow mornings meeting my hubby has been asked to lead. He's at an H & I Panel meeting right now.
Bobbi

abetterlife45

I'll take another 24, please.
9:37 in Texas

Zencat

7pm CA
In for 24.

hiddenzebra

21:55 here and still warm. Just wanted to mention how nice it was to have another sober day, free of hangovers and withdrawals. Another 24 sounds good to me

Calico- thanks for sharing. I may be younger, but your story sounds familiar in many ways.

Great post Deek

Happy mother's day.