24 Hour Club Sign Up Sheet, Part 58, All Welcome!
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Hello, 9:15ish here in Chattanooga and danced and jumped in puddles from a very unexpected huge downpour while the sun was big time shining today with my 3 year old grand daughter.....never saw the rainbow other than the little girl in front of me......24 more, please..
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: South Bay, So Cal
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. Oh, it's hot hot hot.....gonna be hotter the next few days! Meeting Day today, 26 years celebrated too! I really enjoy listening to how other AA-ears are doing 'it' ODAAT. I'm here to add my name to our ever growing list of folks committing to sobriety, 24 hours at a time. Thanks HP & AA.
. Bobbi
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24 Hour Club Sign up Sheet Part 58, All Are Welcome!
Won't you please join us in a simple promise to stay clean and sober
for the next 24 hours.
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!
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Welcome back to those returning!!
Congratulations!
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Bubovski would like to share his story with us today. Bubovski has lived a really hard life but he has come through it with such a positive message.
Hi, My name is Bubovski,
I was raised by two war widows who were quite disturbed.Mum would beat herself black and blue, hold knives to
her throat,and burn herself with matches.She and Nana would argue continually with the former physically
violent at times.
I remember as a little boy a little girl saying to her friend..."he hasn't even got a father".My father had died P.O.W.
on the Burma Road. Kids can be cruel and I inhabited the local madhouse.
At fifteen Mum has a love child to a local businessman: a married man who of course denies paternity. She is over
fifty now living as a drugged up recluse. At sixteen I leave "the nest", socially alienated, shy, and depressed moving
into numerous undesirable rooming houses.
Actually I started drinking at fifteen, in a park, with the local postman trying to get me drunk. Out there in Liquorland
alone it was a whole new ball game....I tried amphetamines, was awake for three days, and was sure I was dying.
Thank God I have never touched them since.
AS for my character defects let's start with a few: indiscretion, lust, vanity, laziness, impatience, stupidity to name
but a few.In my teens and twenties I was predominantly hetero but opted for bi-sexuality, living for a while with a
notorious Sydney male prostitute. Any sense of shame was well doused by my drinking and peer pressures.
At around twenty three, I moved to Tasmania, kind of to get away from myself.My heavy drinking persisted, I got
married, and it lasted less than a year. Guilt relating to past sexual behaviour (I was about 33) and indiscretions
too, I believe greatly impacted here.
Back to Melbourne and I go from bad to worse for about almost ten years. I involve myself with married women,
prostitutes, and even group sex and swinging to a much lesser degree. Thank God again for that. Strangely, living
with a woman, I would be faithfull, suggesting a need for stability and love. My last such de facto encounter (1 was
about 33) was with a violent alcoholic woman. Things got so bad that I moved out of my own house; though she did
pay me rent.
Worried somewhat about the booze I visit a doctor who puts me on benzos. I end up addicted to them for 35 years,
and with 2 addictions instead of one.
The seventies rolled on in the same disastrous manner,but a few subtle changes were occurring.I was wondering more
and more as regards to my crazy behavior and life style. I began to read quite a lot of self help literature, psychology,
philosophy, and even managed to get into University as a mature age student. It is quite amazing how poisoned by drugs
and alcohol one can be, and still remain, a functioning alcoholic.
In 1978 I married again, a very quiet Catholic woman and quite the opposite to me. We are still together to this day.
This venture lead to a good deal of stability and some improvement in my behavior, but there were still major problems.
It was 1994 when I fist got into de-tox and discovered AA. I had blown .19 lost my licence and looked like losing my job.
Washing tranquilizers down with white wine is never productive within the work force. At re- hab they told me I was the
worst benzo addict they had come across. I figured they said that to everyone!
While I was in no way hostile to the five week program, I took few of the essentials on board, as I entered my early fifties.
On discharge (almost twenty years ago) I started attending both AA and NA meetings and after about six months of sobriety
decided I could become a "normal drinker". A slow learner indeed! Actually I did manage to avoid serious drunkenness, but
was walking the proverbial mine field, listing my drinks, timing myself etc.
I even invented the standard drink glass. Like a medicine glass (285 ml) it marked various wine spirits and other alcoholic
beverages in what constituted one standard drink. The patents attorney had given me a funny look, but laughed all the
way to the bank. The two hundred and something I paid for a search revealed that my invention already existed in the U.S.
Goodness someone else as silly as me.
Down the track to Jan 2013, still on benzos, antidepressants, and alcohol an event lead me back to AA, a new attitude,
new convictions, and at 70 years old some degree of desperation. Coming back on board I was really hungry for that elusive
something I had missed.
Now benzo free almost 10 months and almost one year sober I am able to see considerable change for the better in me as
a result of my endevours here with SR and externally with AA. In the main I see my belief in a higher power for the good,
understood as genuinely as I can, as the catalyst I needed.
This, along with engaging one day at a time, and the spiritual motivation I obtain from meetings has really set me in the right
direction.
The family I always lacked has become manifest with other addicts as we share our stories, listen, empathize, and try to help
one another. Sure I get annoyed, and others get annoyed by me. But doesn't this happen in the best of families.
I am on a life time learning curve, one day at a time, and this is something I am quite
happy about.
Thank You Bubovski for sharing that moving story, glad you are part of the SR Family!
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