One Year & Over Part 39
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: PA and Florida
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Way to go, Mags! You rock !!
FBL, I always enjoy that hump day vid, thanks.
IP, I hear you. I'm back to working about 25 hours a week and my "just going to blow this day off", or, "I'll decide as I go"...or, "I'm going with the flow"...or, watch a vid, read a book, cook a special meal things need to be planned. Not complaining - just adjusting.
ItchMan, you are messin in Drake territory with the shooting srarzzz...just sayin.
Hummm, hot a muggy today with a solid chance of storms...just another day in paradise.
Two newby's at my home group mtg the other night...one woman could not stop crying. Wow, does that keep it fresh!
Later - O's - must --------
Carlos
FBL, I always enjoy that hump day vid, thanks.
IP, I hear you. I'm back to working about 25 hours a week and my "just going to blow this day off", or, "I'll decide as I go"...or, "I'm going with the flow"...or, watch a vid, read a book, cook a special meal things need to be planned. Not complaining - just adjusting.
ItchMan, you are messin in Drake territory with the shooting srarzzz...just sayin.
Hummm, hot a muggy today with a solid chance of storms...just another day in paradise.
Two newby's at my home group mtg the other night...one woman could not stop crying. Wow, does that keep it fresh!
Later - O's - must --------
Carlos
Magsie
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: UK
Posts: 26,683
Evening overs
Thank you for all your well wishes.
I'm feeling very angelic today!
No worries, I still look right and left and right again when I cross the road!
Sassy, 5 am walk on the beach......heavenly.
I hope everyone coping with the heat! We're not used to it in England too much. When it does occur a lot of us are lethargic, can't do much...I was hoping for a thunderstorm but up to now been missing us.
Have a good evening overs. You wonderful people I'm privileged to call friends.
Thank you for all your well wishes.
I'm feeling very angelic today!No worries, I still look right and left and right again when I cross the road!
Sassy, 5 am walk on the beach......heavenly.
I hope everyone coping with the heat! We're not used to it in England too much. When it does occur a lot of us are lethargic, can't do much...I was hoping for a thunderstorm but up to now been missing us.
Have a good evening overs. You wonderful people I'm privileged to call friends.
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Scotland
Posts: 1,490
Mags - WTG on 3 years sobriety!!
Great chair and share today at a meeting - two chaps from Oz over visiting the UK for one of them to make some amends - 35 years after having left the UK! That is something special and I was glad to be there to listen
Great chair and share today at a meeting - two chaps from Oz over visiting the UK for one of them to make some amends - 35 years after having left the UK! That is something special and I was glad to be there to listen
One Day At A Time
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Midwest, USA
Posts: 2,054
Mags!! Congratulations! 
Itchy, now I'm feeling like my Ford Explorer is just a tad boring!
It's hot here, too. Back home after the family reunion trip and feeling grateful for my own bed and a/c. We spent some time in the water before finishing the drive today and we are all a bit sunburned despite copious amounts of sunscreen.
Feeling- the trip over for amends after 35 years is great! Awesome stuff.
I'll have plenty of reasons not to go to my home group tomorrow...unpacking, etc- so typing it here will make me accountable!
Glad to see your Avi FBL; he sure had an amazing and legendary career.
After some 14 months of sobriety and a lot of work I feel the obsession is lifted and finally I felt free to enjoy myself at this gathering. Through sober eyes, though...my family member who I am close to but haven't spent time with in some months is really spiraling and it was heartbreaking to see. Patterns of moderation, binge drinking, daily drinking, rinse and repeat. At this function he was completely blotto from the get-go and slept it off in the back of his friends parked car, missing 75% of the BBQ. I am so sad and wish I could get him to seek help...,
. But as we know it's so simple yet so hard to quit, and I am powerless over his decision to drink or not. 
Itchy, now I'm feeling like my Ford Explorer is just a tad boring!
It's hot here, too. Back home after the family reunion trip and feeling grateful for my own bed and a/c. We spent some time in the water before finishing the drive today and we are all a bit sunburned despite copious amounts of sunscreen.
Feeling- the trip over for amends after 35 years is great! Awesome stuff.
I'll have plenty of reasons not to go to my home group tomorrow...unpacking, etc- so typing it here will make me accountable!
Glad to see your Avi FBL; he sure had an amazing and legendary career.
After some 14 months of sobriety and a lot of work I feel the obsession is lifted and finally I felt free to enjoy myself at this gathering. Through sober eyes, though...my family member who I am close to but haven't spent time with in some months is really spiraling and it was heartbreaking to see. Patterns of moderation, binge drinking, daily drinking, rinse and repeat. At this function he was completely blotto from the get-go and slept it off in the back of his friends parked car, missing 75% of the BBQ. I am so sad and wish I could get him to seek help...,
. But as we know it's so simple yet so hard to quit, and I am powerless over his decision to drink or not. 
Magsie
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: UK
Posts: 26,683
Morning overs. Another hot one in the uk. Just pulled a few tomatoes from my plants for my friend at work. I saw an unusual tomato plant, well unusual to me , called totem. The tomatoes are quite big and very nice but some critter is getting to them before we do! We are spraying but obviously this critter is tough!
Dharma, sober eyes, yes, it's so much different, and though your heart goes out to your family member, you're right, they've got to want sobriety.
Lots of talk of alcohol at work yesterday . With the weather being hot it wasn't a long cold lemonade but booze, like that would quench their thirst! Ooh, perhaps I am a tad cynical there, didn't mean to be. But that is the culture here. Alcohol for thirst, any excuse. Lol.
I'm at the stage in my life, or maybe it's just sober awareness, I ask myself when I wake up 'what day is it?' If I can't remember I trace yesterday's steps to get a clue. Is anyone else like that? Am I just getting old or is this normal?
Right, I'm jumping in the shower and getting ready for work. See you later overs.
Have a good day.
Dharma, sober eyes, yes, it's so much different, and though your heart goes out to your family member, you're right, they've got to want sobriety.
Lots of talk of alcohol at work yesterday . With the weather being hot it wasn't a long cold lemonade but booze, like that would quench their thirst! Ooh, perhaps I am a tad cynical there, didn't mean to be. But that is the culture here. Alcohol for thirst, any excuse. Lol.
I'm at the stage in my life, or maybe it's just sober awareness, I ask myself when I wake up 'what day is it?' If I can't remember I trace yesterday's steps to get a clue. Is anyone else like that? Am I just getting old or is this normal?
Right, I'm jumping in the shower and getting ready for work. See you later overs.
Have a good day.
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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I am finding as time goes on Dharma, that my decision is having a cascade effect in my family. My brother-in-law announced that he no longer drinks "like Suze", and one of my nephews keeps a very close watch on himself now.
I never thought I could be any kind of example for anyone, well, not a good example, that's for sure.
Perhaps you will have a chance to spend a little more time with your relative, and maybe he/she will see that you are happily sober. You never know.
I never thought I could be any kind of example for anyone, well, not a good example, that's for sure.
Perhaps you will have a chance to spend a little more time with your relative, and maybe he/she will see that you are happily sober. You never know.
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Originally Posted by Mags1 
Morning overs. Another hot one in the uk. Just pulled a few tomatoes from my plants for my friend at work.
I read pants instead of plants....
One Day At A Time
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Midwest, USA
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Thanks, Suze. It's my brother, my only sibling. Maybe it hurts so much because it's like looking in a mirror, or more like a crystal ball into the future since we know how badly this disease wants to destroy us. All I can do is pray, and be a good example. I did my share of recovery talk, but he doesn't want to hear it now.
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Mags, it sometimes takes me all day to figure out what day it is today - and then the same thing happens tomorrow 
I like to think of it this way: over the years our brains get so stuffed with information that retrieval time is much longer.
Dharma, so sorry about your brother. It must be heartbreaking to have a sib who can't learn from you. Addiction is such a heart-breaking thing.
Hi to all!
I like to think of it this way: over the years our brains get so stuffed with information that retrieval time is much longer.
Dharma, so sorry about your brother. It must be heartbreaking to have a sib who can't learn from you. Addiction is such a heart-breaking thing.
Hi to all!
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Good morning, afternoon, evening all!
Going to be 95 F (35C) here through Sunday. I really need to spend time outside cutting my lawn and firing up my burn barrel to rid myself of huge piles of yard debris. Perhaps this is not the ideal time for these endeavors!
Have a great day everyone!
Going to be 95 F (35C) here through Sunday. I really need to spend time outside cutting my lawn and firing up my burn barrel to rid myself of huge piles of yard debris. Perhaps this is not the ideal time for these endeavors!
Have a great day everyone!
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