SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information - 24 Hour Club Sign Up Sheet, Part 57, All Welcome

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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?

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Welcome to our Newest Members-

BHappy2014 - FormerBeerLover -SilentCinemaFan -tim68- 3777 -LeTheVerte -
mich78 - CapDB -ReadytoBeme79 - whatcouldbe -james186 - SunriseSky

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!

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All these cool cats signed in since 10 pm EST USA 5/8.
This list is now closed.

Thank You Miss calico for our Daily Roster!

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3777
abcowboy
abetterlife45
adams
adee
AG2013
airwick
AlcoholFree66
Alysheba
Applekat
aussieblue
AZliving
Babs1234
BarbieKen
Beanie25
BHappy2014
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BigTeddy
BradJustBrad
BuddinK
calichris
calico
CAPTAINZING2000
Carlotta
Cascabel
casinva
Chasingthedream
ChickChick
Coldfusion
courage2
CristinaN
DancingDiva
deeker
Discovery14
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FacingFuture
ForMeForThem
FormerBeerLover
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Gilmer
gleefan
Goat
goose333
grtgrandpa
halfvictory
hanita2809
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james186
jat14
Kaneda8888
kellbell123
Kisho
Kitkat331
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least
Levitz
liberated
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Marjoram
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mimi2014
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MrG
Mrsbee
nmd
nonna11
Odelle
Panacea
Rar
ReadytoBeme79
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Saskia
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shi
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SoberLeigh
Softjazze
SunriseSky
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Tetra
tgirl
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tim68
tootsl1
trudgingagain
venuscat
veryready
wehav2day
whatcouldbe
yukonm
ZeldaFan
zeppodog
zoey09

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

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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

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