24-Hour Recovery Connections Part 26
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,323
Hi Everyone.
Today makes 54 consecutive sober days. This is scary territory for me...Because i haven't made it past this day (LITERALLY the 54th day) in my past couple of attempts.
I'm here today though! Looking forward to day 55 tomorrow!
Today makes 54 consecutive sober days. This is scary territory for me...Because i haven't made it past this day (LITERALLY the 54th day) in my past couple of attempts.
I'm here today though! Looking forward to day 55 tomorrow!
Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,323
Thanks for the encouragement. My morning at work has breezed by...Actually pretty busy...Life of the IT support guy
Lesson learned...Never tell a user that you'll be on their computer for X amount of time...Always leave it open-ended.
I told one person i would be on their computer for 15 minutes to run updates..That 15 turned into 50 rather quickly...lol
You're right guys...Today IS just another day. Nothing scary about this.
I got this.
Rock and Roll SR.
Lesson learned...Never tell a user that you'll be on their computer for X amount of time...Always leave it open-ended.
I told one person i would be on their computer for 15 minutes to run updates..That 15 turned into 50 rather quickly...lol
You're right guys...Today IS just another day. Nothing scary about this.
I got this.
Rock and Roll SR.
learning to live
Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 1,665
Hellllooo Everyone!
Signing up for another 24 hours of growth that are possible because of sobriety
Prayers for all struggling.
Congrats to everyone because being sober today is a victory.
High five to all milestoners.
Have a lovely day. I hope you enjoy the quotes as much as I did today
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
“Some things just couldn't be protected from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”
“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of **** that the universe revolves around.”
“Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.”
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”
“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”
“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.
Whoever I had become had to die.” (that one brought tears to my eyes)
“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at recovery. Although perhaps I was just running away again. I returned to Glasgow, planning to say a final goodbye to Anne and get out of her life, but ended up drinking with buddies in the Chip Bar and never seeing her. I called her instead to say I was moving to London and told her she could have the house and everything else we owned, which wasn't much. I think she was as relieved as I was that I was leaving town for good.”
“If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.”
Hugs and love all around to my FAVORITES!!!
Signing up for another 24 hours of growth that are possible because of sobriety
Prayers for all struggling.
Congrats to everyone because being sober today is a victory.
High five to all milestoners.
Have a lovely day. I hope you enjoy the quotes as much as I did today
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.”
“Some things just couldn't be protected from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”
“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.”
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of **** that the universe revolves around.”
“Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enliven company. Be careful about up-grading too far to single malt Scotch: when you are voyaging in rough countries it won't be easily available. Never even think about driving a car if you have taken a drop. It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.”
“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.”
“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”
“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.
Whoever I had become had to die.” (that one brought tears to my eyes)
“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at recovery. Although perhaps I was just running away again. I returned to Glasgow, planning to say a final goodbye to Anne and get out of her life, but ended up drinking with buddies in the Chip Bar and never seeing her. I called her instead to say I was moving to London and told her she could have the house and everything else we owned, which wasn't much. I think she was as relieved as I was that I was leaving town for good.”
“If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.”
Hugs and love all around to my FAVORITES!!!
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Coquitlam B.C.
Posts: 3,760
"When one door closes another opens:
but we so often look so long and
so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open
for us."
Alexander Graham Bell.
here for another 24 more.
but we so often look so long and
so regretfully upon the closed door,
that we do not see the ones which open
for us."
Alexander Graham Bell.
here for another 24 more.
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