Class of February 2016 Part 15
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Originally Posted by Optimist4ever57 
I have so many recipes saved on Pinterest, it would take me 25 years to make them all. I love coooking shows as well, but I do cook a couple times a wek. My grandson and I have been making sushi at least once week. That was a new experience for us and he's amazed as to how much mo.ey we save by making it ourselves!
Maybe you can pick one day a week and try a new recipe?
Maybe you can pick one day a week and try a new recipe?
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Originally Posted by PHRD
SandaS when is 3 months for you? Lets do this! Mine will be May 28th I think. Day 40 Applekat! We are killing this! Oh it was fun for my old drinking buddies to call out my not drinking last night. I gave them the whole platelet story but in a couple months Im just going to say I realized how much better my life is without it. lol
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Originally Posted by OldTomato
Will do OOTT. 
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Here's my personal victories.
Yesterday I was up at 5 a.m. to get to my conference. These are optional, but attended by colleagues and peers. In the past, I've blown off morning sessions or not gone at all because I was drunk the night before and couldn't get up the next day, and I'm sure this was noted by my colleagues at times.
Yesterday I was up and alert for the conference and attended every mintue of it, and even spoke during the afternoon session.
During breaks I walked (Fitbitted) around the airport, and walked past numerous airport bars. I didn't sneer or laugh at the people I saw drinking....I mostly felt sorry for them. There was no AV because I never got drunk at any of those particular bars and because even at my worst I wouldn't drink during a professional conference. Mostly I just felt glad that the days of getting a drink in a bar are past me. I felt no longing or pull whatsoever.
BTW, alcohol is sooo effing pervasive...it even played a role in the conference yesterday...the speaker had a running joke about "happy hour" during his presentation, and people would joke and laugh about it. I thought it was sort of pathetic, although I assume my colleagues are normies, or people who can drink normally and not obsessively like I did.
Yesterday I was up at 5 a.m. to get to my conference. These are optional, but attended by colleagues and peers. In the past, I've blown off morning sessions or not gone at all because I was drunk the night before and couldn't get up the next day, and I'm sure this was noted by my colleagues at times.
Yesterday I was up and alert for the conference and attended every mintue of it, and even spoke during the afternoon session.
During breaks I walked (Fitbitted) around the airport, and walked past numerous airport bars. I didn't sneer or laugh at the people I saw drinking....I mostly felt sorry for them. There was no AV because I never got drunk at any of those particular bars and because even at my worst I wouldn't drink during a professional conference. Mostly I just felt glad that the days of getting a drink in a bar are past me. I felt no longing or pull whatsoever.
BTW, alcohol is sooo effing pervasive...it even played a role in the conference yesterday...the speaker had a running joke about "happy hour" during his presentation, and people would joke and laugh about it. I thought it was sort of pathetic, although I assume my colleagues are normies, or people who can drink normally and not obsessively like I did.
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Originally Posted by Outonthetiles
BTW, alcohol is sooo effing pervasive...it even played a role in the conference yesterday...the speaker had a running joke about "happy hour" during his presentation, and people would joke and laugh about it. I thought it was sort of pathetic, although I assume my colleagues are normies, or people who can drink normally and not obsessively like I did.
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I already ran this morning and I am doing yardwork, then coming back inside now and then to get coffee. I assume I'm going to make the neighborhood newsletter month. I can see the headline: Neighborhood Shocker!! Drunk Bachelor on Elm Drive Takes Out Recycling and Does Yardwork, AND HE WAS SOBER AND FULLY CLOTHED!
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Good morning. Day 66. I'm going to smoke some salmon today for a dinner party I have to attend this evening. Lots of folk will probably notice that I am not drinking. I have not yet decided what I am going to say to them.
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Hi Badger, I'm you'll figure out the right thing for you to say...what feels right.
I'm off to the barn with my daughter to play with the horse. It's cold here with an inch of snow that fell last night...but it's sunny! :-)
I hope everyone has a good day today!
I'm off to the barn with my daughter to play with the horse. It's cold here with an inch of snow that fell last night...but it's sunny! :-)
I hope everyone has a good day today!
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Originally Posted by Badger07
Good morning. Day 66. I'm going to smoke some salmon today for a dinner party I have to attend this evening. Lots of folk will probably notice that I am not drinking. I have not yet decided what I am going to say to them.
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Originally Posted by Outonthetiles
I already ran this morning and I am doing yardwork, then coming back inside now and then to get coffee. I assume I'm going to make the neighborhood newsletter month. I can see the headline: Neighborhood Shocker!! Drunk Bachelor on Elm Drive Takes Out Recycling and Does Yardwork, AND HE WAS SOBER AND FULLY CLOTHED!
A GOOD kind of shock.
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Originally Posted by JL2014
Today I'm gonna try buffalo chicken dip. I don't think there's much of a recipe though. It's supposed to be "great". It's got cream cheese in it. I don't think I can go wrong , right??
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Originally Posted by SansaS
We should start a recipe a week in this thread. Someone posts a recipe and we make it. Sort of like a book club but a recipe club lol
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That movie Ed Wood looks good. I love Tim Burton movies. I could use new ideas for vegetarian meals as my daughter is vegetarian. OOTT It unbelievable how pervasive it is. I watched a movie a couple weeks ago and it had drinking and shots throughout it. It was a drama/romance and wasn't needed at all. :-/
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Hello there.
It was only last night that I learned about these "class" threads, and how beneficial they can be. Well my sober date from alcohol is February 17, thus is this the group I should start participating in????
It was only last night that I learned about these "class" threads, and how beneficial they can be. Well my sober date from alcohol is February 17, thus is this the group I should start participating in????
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