Class of December 2012 - Part 14
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: BC
Posts: 410
Hey all, just stopping by for the best part of the year here. Things going well, work has been less stressful, moved a bunch of things that used to drive me nuts to another person so that's been great. Just getting ready for hockey season and getting as much golf in as I can before they shut them down, then hopefully we get early snow and can hit the hills.
Hope everyone is hanging in there and doing alright.
Hope everyone is hanging in there and doing alright.
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NYC
Posts: 19,047
Hey Gonzo, good to see you! And that you're doing well. Enjoy some late summer golf -- sounds like fun to me!
I'm good. Working at work and also working there on keeping myself well away from other people's grand ideas. Never met a grand idea I could get behind.
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I'm good. Working at work and also working there on keeping myself well away from other people's grand ideas. Never met a grand idea I could get behind.
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Olde England
Posts: 528
Hey All, just popping in to wish you all a Happy Christmas, still on the wagon and grateful for it! Been a 6 year roller coaster and AA has proved to be the keel against the storms
Thanks for asking me "so what are you going to do differently this time?" Courage2 - was a lightbulb moment I often share about xxx
Thanks for asking me "so what are you going to do differently this time?" Courage2 - was a lightbulb moment I often share about xxx
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Posts: 34
Wow that year flew by
Hello fellow class of December 17.Wow it’s been a year....not the best year in terms of anxiety and panic attacks but slowly they are getting few and far between. Caffeine is a big no no no now which I miss but it just sets off my anxiety and makes me jittery. Life’s been good learnt some new healthier habits,got a new job and this jan I’m quitting smoking my last bad habit. Hope you all have a cracking Christmas and are being good to yourselves xx
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: NYC
Posts: 19,047
Hi dear Livlib -- this is the class of 2012! Old-timers here. You're welcome of course, but maybe here's the link to your old friends? https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...ml#post7071595 (Class of December 2017 Support Thread Pt 6)
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: BC
Posts: 410
Hey gang,
Just swinging by, been keeping busy here. Usual work stuff, little skiing, missing golf but only 8 weeks out from that so I'll survive. Still deal with the bi-polar but it's in check mostly, anxiety has been better, have been more comfortable taking my nephews out on my own without constant fear something will happen and will be 'my fault'. Not really much on the go, no news is good news I guess really.
Hope every one is hanging in and doing alright.
Cheers,
Ryan
Just swinging by, been keeping busy here. Usual work stuff, little skiing, missing golf but only 8 weeks out from that so I'll survive. Still deal with the bi-polar but it's in check mostly, anxiety has been better, have been more comfortable taking my nephews out on my own without constant fear something will happen and will be 'my fault'. Not really much on the go, no news is good news I guess really.
Hope every one is hanging in and doing alright.
Cheers,
Ryan
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Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 59
Hi guys, this is AliceTW from the old days. I can't remember my log in details so I started a new account here in January this year.
I've seen most of you since being back, but I didn't realise that the old class threads were here. It's been good to read back and see people dropping in to say hello, and still get and give support.
6 years since the class, wow. I saw that I dropped in in 2016 for two posts then disappeared.
In a nutshell (that's a walnut shell
) I was sober from Dec 12 to around, I think November 2014. I remember the night I relapsed pretty well, especially the conversations I had in the lead up, to myself mainly, but also my (now) husband. It was a bad night.
I think I probably tried to quit a lot, but just drank more and more, after that. Got engaged in December 2014, married in October 2015. It was a really nice wedding, we got married in New Zealand, photos on a glacier.
Had an amazing job opportunity come up in 2016. I applied for the job in 2015, an 18 month recruitment, only 3% of applicants go through. That was my last check in here, pre medical. Got the job, moved interstate late 2016, and the first thing I did when I rolled into my new town was to buy a carton of beer. I was pretty much unsupervised in Melbourne that year, without husband to see my drinking. Got back to daily drinking, work was stressful beyond belief.
I didn't get through the training for work, got let go and moved back home at the end of 2017. I still get periods when 'm devastated that I didn't get through, I've never failed like that before in my educational/vocational career before.
2018 I was more aware of my drinking, and heading more towards the right mindset that I had in 2012. New job, doing well. Cut down to drinking 'only' 3(ish) times a week. Took up smoking (after 9 years off them). October/December was something of a free for all, daily drinking, or near to, getting it 'out of my system' (any excuse to drink to excess, right?). Mostly just drinking to black out the misery and disappointment of 2017, and to try and ignore the 25 kilos I'd gained since 2015.
Decided to get healthy in 2019. Quit booze, though had a one night slip/blip on the 11th. Cut down the cigarettes a lot, and think I'm ready to say goodbye to them in February. I've started eating less junk food (down 5kg now).
So that's me these last few years. It's good to see you guys, and find the December thread again.
I'm kind of, but not really, in the daily thread for January 19, I don't have a PC anymore and don't log on as often as I'd like to. Good to come home to December 12.
I've seen most of you since being back, but I didn't realise that the old class threads were here. It's been good to read back and see people dropping in to say hello, and still get and give support.
6 years since the class, wow. I saw that I dropped in in 2016 for two posts then disappeared.
In a nutshell (that's a walnut shell
) I was sober from Dec 12 to around, I think November 2014. I remember the night I relapsed pretty well, especially the conversations I had in the lead up, to myself mainly, but also my (now) husband. It was a bad night. I think I probably tried to quit a lot, but just drank more and more, after that. Got engaged in December 2014, married in October 2015. It was a really nice wedding, we got married in New Zealand, photos on a glacier.
Had an amazing job opportunity come up in 2016. I applied for the job in 2015, an 18 month recruitment, only 3% of applicants go through. That was my last check in here, pre medical. Got the job, moved interstate late 2016, and the first thing I did when I rolled into my new town was to buy a carton of beer. I was pretty much unsupervised in Melbourne that year, without husband to see my drinking. Got back to daily drinking, work was stressful beyond belief.
I didn't get through the training for work, got let go and moved back home at the end of 2017. I still get periods when 'm devastated that I didn't get through, I've never failed like that before in my educational/vocational career before.
2018 I was more aware of my drinking, and heading more towards the right mindset that I had in 2012. New job, doing well. Cut down to drinking 'only' 3(ish) times a week. Took up smoking (after 9 years off them). October/December was something of a free for all, daily drinking, or near to, getting it 'out of my system' (any excuse to drink to excess, right?). Mostly just drinking to black out the misery and disappointment of 2017, and to try and ignore the 25 kilos I'd gained since 2015.
Decided to get healthy in 2019. Quit booze, though had a one night slip/blip on the 11th. Cut down the cigarettes a lot, and think I'm ready to say goodbye to them in February. I've started eating less junk food (down 5kg now).
So that's me these last few years. It's good to see you guys, and find the December thread again.
I'm kind of, but not really, in the daily thread for January 19, I don't have a PC anymore and don't log on as often as I'd like to. Good to come home to December 12.
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Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 59
Please do, courage, I'm going to put a post in the tech area to try and change my log in. I actually couldn't even remember what my log in name used to be when I re-joined, and Alice suits me more. Tori is from my middle name, Alice was from the quote from Alice in wonderland: The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things"
"To talk of many things"
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