Class of June 2016 Support Thread Part 5
 

last part here

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...rt-4-a-20.html

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PART FIVE that means the thread has been going for awhile, yay!

Forgot to mention I went to my annual physical a couple of weeks ago. Dropped 14 pounds, every blood marker in normal range (including a couple of liver ones that had started to go off the reservation last year). As Donald Trump (who I do not like) would say -- #winning !!

Day 119
 

Look at us graduating and junk to a new thread!!!

Day 119 for me and everything seems so normal now. Can you believe 4 months ago our lives were completely different? On a old normal Monday morning I would be feeling really crappy here at work. Hungover from Sunday football watching and eating crap food. Nope, I ran yesterday morning, cleaned house a bit, went to a soccer game, grilled steaks, bacon wrapped jalapenos, grilled corn on the cob and made wild rice for dinner. We had a wonderful Sunday night, even washed my hair and straightened it and got ready for the week. Oh and I even got a nap in yesterday afternoon. Life feels good yall to be a normal human finally.
I still get those weird feelings of, "something is missing" type things. I know it's the AV talking to me but I just eat chocolate in place of that. I've never been a big sweets person but I've bought Halloween candy 2xs already and been through almost all of it. GEEZ!!! Thankfully I'm on a running kick or I'd be in major trouble.

Happy SOBER Monday guys!

That sounds really great soberforme. Well done.
Unfortuantely i had a bit of a slip up this weekend but learned from it and moving forward again. Hello to all the june class.

Day 135. I start my new job next week and I am experiencing a renewed sense of hope; something that I haven't felt in a decade. I am certain that I was suffering from depression but was unable to separate it from my drinking. Was I depressed because of the effect of alcohol abuse or was I drinking to self-medicate the depression? A bit of both I'm sure but it doesn't matter now. By cutting out the booze and taking antidepressants, my mental health has undergone a remarkable change in 4 months even though my circumstances didn't change. It was all about brain chemistry and a distorted perception of things.

Hello Folks! Thanks for the new thread, Dee.

I was the last guy on here last night, and the first one on today. How bout that?

Not much to say today. Busy at work for the foreseeable future. Good and bad, I suppose. Day 106.

WL: Look at you :c011: I'm so happy for you! Your post made me smile and congrats on the new job! Life is good and even better doing life sober!

If you guys dont mind I would like to consider myself still à bit part of the june classe. Folks if things have gotten hard for any of you lately dont make my mistake.
Your all inspiring !!

You're always welcome here man! Just jump back on with both feet!

I'll second vman, don't drink no matter what! (And by all means, stick around vman! Get all the support you can get from everywhere you can get it! Hiding I find is part of my addiction, not part of being sober.)

I managed to get through September with about a third of the days sober days. On day 5 now, and I'm feeling like October is it. Had a talk with my wife, and I find i just have to keep reminding myself of the obvious (how will I feel tomorrow, I have a fatty liver, i hate memory loss, i feel great not drinking, etc.)

Congrats on the job WL! You are doing amazing.

Day 107. Got a lot riding on some very important meetings this afternoon. Big time stressors, but I'm dealing with it.

Day 121
 

Day 121 for me and the urge is gone and my life is different. It does not include alcohol at all. My husband still drinks but not nearly as much as he used to thankfully. Anytime he does drink it's grosses me out to smell it though. It literally makes my stomach turn to smell it. *GAG*

Work has been stressful lately and we have people leaving left and right causing me to be more of a dumping ground by my director. Pretty frustrated but I'll survive. My tenant is supposed to be out by 10/31st still owes me some rent for this month. I'm at a loss when it comes to this crap, I'm trying to keep the peace since it's the final month but I'm so afraid he will not be gone on the last day of the month. Grrrr

Thankful I'm sober and dealing with things with a clear head though. I'm so stressed out though I feel like I could just cry.

Another day nearly done.
Have to drink lots of water !
Does anyone know Toulouse in the class ? :)

Are you talking about this?

Toulouse Cafe and Bar ? A distinctly Parisian French bistro with locations in Dallas, Houston and Austin.

Nope I think referring to Toulouse where Concorde first flew from in 1973?

LOL I guess I was way off! LOL

Yep I was talking about the city not the bar :)

I delinked the bar site guys - not only is it a commercial link...but it's not the kind of link we want here, lol :)

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thanks dee. I think it was some harmless fun but deffo dont want to be promoting a bar... even saying it is funny though.

I know no harm done Vman - it's a commercial link anyway which is verboten.

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Whoops sfm - but I did find it funny though. . .
Yesterday was a nightmare. Stayed over at the husbands 'bolt hole' and he leaves for work at 5 am. I got up at 6 am to find myself locked in! He left a note to say he would pick up the keys from our home later in the day, idiot had locked the door and taken the keys. I did try to climb through the window but even with the weight loss, there was no way I could get through such a small gap. My phone battery had died and I was stuck inside until 3 pm when he finally came back, after he had been to our house to collect the keys, that were in his pocket! My worst nightmare is being locked inside somewhere, I reacted badly, afterwards I realised I must have looked like a scared cat when it has been locked inside somewhere for days! I am trying to laugh about it now but still find it hard to. The anxiety keeps rising up :( His reaction was not great and it has made me question once again our relationship. If he can't understand the fear he could at least understand that it is real and not me just being melodramatic. Anyway, today I am at home where I am free :)
I need to get my ass into gear. My job won't start until January now and I can feel the days drifting by. It's over 4 months since myself and all my colleagues were made redundant and I need to start feeling like I am doing something with my life. I am also conscious of the weather changing and I know the short days are impending. I am not great in the winter and I need to make sure I make the most of what daytime we have. Any ideas??

Day 122
 

Good morning June peeps!

It's Day 122 for me and life is normal! I pulled out the Halloween stuff and have my porch decorated for the up and coming trick or treaters! Bummer that it falls on a Monday this year though. Unfortunately in Texas it still feels like Summer, today's high is 92. I call BS on this, ready for the chilly weather to kick in so I can start cooking Fall meals and fatten us all up.
Its funny how when I first stopped drinking I looked forward to going to work so I could keep my mind focused on something other than the thoughts of drinking. Every hour counted in the start of this journey. Now, I can't wait to have vacation time and be off for the holidays just to relax, sleep, exercise, clean house, cook holidays junk just anything other than work. I'm so thankful I reached this point, I really did not think that 122 days ago that I would ever be at this point. I was on a huge downward spiral when I started this and never ever realized I could actually be NORMAL! I haven't been normal since I was 17 and I'm realized how much I missed because I drank so much all the time.
Anyhow that was my little journal entry for the day! Where is our norms??/ We're missing people!

Happy SOBER Thursday!

-Yeah i didn't even realize that place was a bar sorry guys I had to google it, never even heard of it.

I would freak out too if I was locked in a house, I would actually be pretty pissed about it. JG- the weather change, seasons and all that is going to be a weird thing for me too. My go to in the winter is drinking and eating. I went on pintrest and pulled up non alcoholic festive drinks the other day to get ready for it. I'm looking forward to peppermint hot chocolate and also just trying new drinks to consume in place of my normal beer. I don't have alot of suggestions on helping you get through since I'm right there with you. All I can offer is ((HUGS)) and know that when things get real just login here because I seemed to always be here ya know. Positive thoughts okay! Holidays are going to be extremely difficult but I'm glad we're this far in and have alot more self control than before.

Yow, JG. Sounds harrowing. I would have been pretty friggin' angry when all was said and done.

Day 109. Hope everyone has (has had) a happy sober Friday!

Hello new to this group. I hope u are all well. Been following different forums for awhile and never joined. Seen the month i quit in so thought i wld pop in. :)

Hope0603- welcome to the board!!!
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Hi Hope! All the regulars too.

Things are about the same for me, 122 days done now. Watching my A&M guys put the hurtin' on Tennessee here. :)

Day 126
 

Good morning peeps!

Day 126 for me and everything is still the same here. I'm exhausted but that's only because my dog kept me up all night and I have to be in the office by 6am. No fun!

Hope everyone has a Sober week and we start seeing more June people check in on here. It's been super slow lately.

I don't post in this thread as much as I did in the early days, but I'll always be a June 2016 guy and will always greatly appreciate the camaraderie and support we shared when we were starting out.