Class of March 2011 Part 23
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Aussie....so sorry to here about your friend...cancer is a horrible disease.
Still kicking along here....my friend that I quit with on this go around didnt hang in there...I am feeling so good and alive that I cant look back...My advancement in my career keeps me so busy that falling back into old habits is not an option and I am happy about that....I dont miss it...my Pop didnt realize i had quit again ....last week he fixed me a drink after fishing I pored it out and fixed a virgin cocktail...just as satisfied and no guilt...Almost a month back into my good habits and losing weight also..it is a win win.
Sorry I dont get to check in as much as I use to....but like I said work doesnt allow down time anymore while I am there....if I do have time to get on...I am in the arcade winding down. Love ya all and glad to see everyone is Living there lives the best they can. I will check in soon.
Peace
Dave
Still kicking along here....my friend that I quit with on this go around didnt hang in there...I am feeling so good and alive that I cant look back...My advancement in my career keeps me so busy that falling back into old habits is not an option and I am happy about that....I dont miss it...my Pop didnt realize i had quit again ....last week he fixed me a drink after fishing I pored it out and fixed a virgin cocktail...just as satisfied and no guilt...Almost a month back into my good habits and losing weight also..it is a win win.
Sorry I dont get to check in as much as I use to....but like I said work doesnt allow down time anymore while I am there....if I do have time to get on...I am in the arcade winding down. Love ya all and glad to see everyone is Living there lives the best they can. I will check in soon.Peace
Dave
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Friday fun!!!! Thank you Mirage....LOL....I jumped on here and was reading threads from about this time last year...then I said wait a minute....they are talking about the 4th of July....I am getting old....Miss ya all and still going strong!
Dave
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I'm so sorry about your friend, Aussie. Way, way too young. 
Congrats on your progress, Dave! Woo-hoooo! Keep it going - it gets better!
Mirage, I was over there Saturday and thought of you! My niece had a graduation party, then we visited my daughter's college roommate at Station 885 (a restaurant there) ... her family owns it. Have you been there? It was good!
Congrats on your progress, Dave! Woo-hoooo! Keep it going - it gets better!
Mirage, I was over there Saturday and thought of you! My niece had a graduation party, then we visited my daughter's college roommate at Station 885 (a restaurant there) ... her family owns it. Have you been there? It was good!
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Congratulations Dave and PBC.
Well it's official "Man Flu" is worse than any other , my husband had it last week and then I caught it from him , I have never been so sick in all my life with a flu , I have totally lost my voice and my husband is loving that . We were going away for a couple of days when we got sick but we just aren't up to it.
Dee this thing is raging down here , I hope it doesn't come up your way.
Well it's official "Man Flu" is worse than any other , my husband had it last week and then I caught it from him , I have never been so sick in all my life with a flu , I have totally lost my voice and my husband is loving that . We were going away for a couple of days when we got sick but we just aren't up to it.
Dee this thing is raging down here , I hope it doesn't come up your way.
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Congrats on 21 months, PBC! Wow, time flies. Nope, never heard of that restaurant before. Hope you had a good time over here! I just looked it up, you were not far from me at ALL! Like 15 min. 
Oh no, feel better, aussie!!
Bummer you couldn't get away like you'd planned.
Oh no, feel better, aussie!!
Bummer you couldn't get away like you'd planned.
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Some days I check in to SR and it depresses the hell out of me and today is one of those days. I read posts by people I haven't seen here in a while and find they have been back drinking and are now struggling to get sober again others who have been here all along posting and suddenly boozing again. Today I feel like just giving in again and I can't see that anyone ever really gets free of alcohol . I am not safe with it and not happy without it.
Sorry this thread has turned into Aussie's whingers thread.
Sorry this thread has turned into Aussie's whingers thread.
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Aussie, there are people who never relapse. At my AA meeting, there are 3 who have over 45 years sober, several with over 30, and even more with 10-20. It can be done, and I plan to do it, too. I am not going to let anyone else's lapse become a cop-out for me to do the same ... instead, I'll do what the successful ones do. I'll keep going to meetings, work the steps actively, read sobriety literature, work on my spiritual health, and work with others to help them to recover, too.
If anyone can do it, you can do it. And life is BETTER without it, honestly.
You know one lie I finally figured out that I had believed? I had believed that, if I were to relapse, I could "get right back on" the wagon the next day wherever I left off.
Psshhht.
I've learned that that's NOT how it works.
If I were to relapse, I'd get sucked back to "start" again. I'd have to go through those agonizing first few months all over again when it was SOOOOOOOOOOO HARD. I'd fall faster and harder than before (for emotional, mental, and physical reasons related to this disease), and the climb out, if I made it at all, would be even harder than before.
I DO NOT WANT THAT. No. No. No.
If anyone can do it, you can do it. And life is BETTER without it, honestly.
You know one lie I finally figured out that I had believed? I had believed that, if I were to relapse, I could "get right back on" the wagon the next day wherever I left off.
Psshhht.
I've learned that that's NOT how it works.
If I were to relapse, I'd get sucked back to "start" again. I'd have to go through those agonizing first few months all over again when it was SOOOOOOOOOOO HARD. I'd fall faster and harder than before (for emotional, mental, and physical reasons related to this disease), and the climb out, if I made it at all, would be even harder than before.
I DO NOT WANT THAT. No. No. No.
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Originally Posted by aussieblue 
Some days I check in to SR and it depresses the hell out of me and today is one of those days. I read posts by people I haven't seen here in a while and find they have been back drinking and are now struggling to get sober again others who have been here all along posting and suddenly boozing again. Today I feel like just giving in again and I can't see that anyone ever really gets free of alcohol . I am not safe with it and not happy without it.
Sorry this thread has turned into Aussie's whingers thread.
Sorry this thread has turned into Aussie's whingers thread.
I haven't taken a drink in 8 years plus - I don't miss it and I love my sober life
it's absolutely possible for you to one day say the same.
Don't give that idiot AV any oxygen
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