Applekat

List 20 things to do, under $5, that don't involve drinking:
1. Eat a yummy snack
2. SR
3. Wrap our xmas presents (THOSE cost more than $5!)
4. Take kids to playground to blow off steam
5. Visit Target (hmmm, $)
6. Pick a family movie and head down to our movie room
7. Write some emails
8. Text family members to catch up - ask questions about them
9. Set up some alone time out for myself
10. Message a friend to get together
11. Make an involved treasure hunt for kiddos
12. Guided meditation session
13. Board game time with kids in front of the fire
14. TV show
15. Hike
16. Read
17. Bake Chocolate Chip cookies
18. Bubble Bath
19. Library
20. Sleep (what?!)

Bobbieka

Just finished 18.

Thirteenth

Hi AK! I'm afraid I'm not much of a dancer though. Kinda of like a double left footed mule, perhaps.

And hello everyone. Congrats on 175+ Bobbie and almost nine months PJ and Upstairs. Also to any others on milestones with which I am unaware.

Sorry to hear of so many struggling, which is what I'm doing also. Went on a Thanksgiving bender as I had five days off which never happens - I fear time off for just that reason. Perhaps when I am really rooted in sobriety I can do something nice. I don't know if I'm waiting for a "rock bottom" moment or what but I'm sure taking my sweet ass time getting there. Still fighting though.

Best wishes to all for more sobriety, less struggles, peace and happiness.

Applekat

Thirteenth - I hear you on the "waiting for rock bottom" possibility. Just check my SR join date. I've had tons of sober days but I always fit in those eff-it days (or weeks). So clearly I'm still waiting on figuring out the missing puzzle piece. But we're here! Wishing you peace tonight as well, friend.

Thanks, March, for helping me get through Day 2 once again.

PhoenixJ

21- donate blood (I gotta free bickie B. AK and 13).

Bobbieka

A free what?!?

Looked it up. Biscuit. American cookie. Good idea and good deed, Phoenix.

PhoenixJ

Biscuit- 'bickie, bikkie, bickie- whatever). I think you colonists call them, ummm- sesame street...monster...Oh got it! A cookie.

PhoenixJ

Obviously I did not read the whole post. Then again, I do have a beard.

Thirteenth

You see Bobbie, I looked up bickie before I posed the question...

I always fear giving blood out of a concern for being found out, but also for wasting a drive's time and money - then they test it and maybe have to chuck it on account of my alcoholism. Weird dichotomy there. Well, maybe not exactly a dichotomy, but close enough.

I have a beard too PJ, but damn the gray...who the hell am I kidding it's Santa white at this point.

PhoenixJ

Ridgy Didge, it was a great little bikkie, fair dinkum! Strike me, it wasn't.

Kayak63sc

20 things to do besides drinking that's less than $5

1. Read a book
2. Take a walk
3. Lay in the hammock and stare at the beautiful night sky filled with stars
4. Go for a paddle in my kayak
5. Sit in my comfy chair and watch Bogart movies
6. Play catch with my dog
7. Decorate the sky with Colors and fly one of my beautiful kites.
8. Go hiking
9. Sit next to a creek relax and dream
10. Call and talk to my momma she always makes me smile.
11. Work in my wood shop
12. Taking my bass boat out ride around do a little fishing
13. Eat some ice cream and carrot cake
14. Say my daily prayers
15. Go mountain biking with my boys
16. Have a barbecue with all my friends and family that are sober
17. Read the big book and daily reflections
18. Make sure I check in Daily and say hello to my sober recovery friends
19. Write some poetry
20. Take a nap because I'm tired after doing all this stuff

samantha14

Morning!! Wow - some really great lists!! Let's give it a try....

1. Make myself a cuppa tea
2. Go for a run/walk
3. SR
4. Read
5. Nap (this never happens...but a girl can dream)
6. Play a mindless computer game
7. Meditate
8. Yoga
9. Visit a park
10. Snuggle with Charlie
11. Go on an adventure
12. Hang out with my daughters
13. Date night (if DH pays it's less than $5 for me right?)
14. Call/visit a friend
15. Watch "Drop Dead Fred" (it's my favourite movie)
16. Put on some awesome music and dance!!
17. Visit the library
18. Treat myself to a Starbucks and wander around Chapters
19. Go thrift store shopping with the girls (it's like treasure hunting - they love it !)
20. Make myself a cuppa tea (oops...said that twice)

Well I'm off for a full day of classroom training at work...woot...but first a stop at the gym....i may not meet my step goal today Bobbie but I have to try!

Happy hump day!!

Dee74

welcome bebrave

Hopefully some of the MIA Marchers will check in

D

Purplrks3647

ME TOO!!! With all of these great ideas from our lists, we should have plenty to do once we all get together for our reunion!

Ok, time for Purps to get up and do this.

Purplrks3647

Wishing a fabulous day for my fabulous friends!

Pelagic263

I like the lion meme, Purplrks.

One of my kitties got into a catfight two weeks ago and wound up with a giant vampire bite on his neck, which abscessed, and cost me $186.

Gotta love them kittiecats though. He's a black and white marvel. An athletic thing to behold.

Stay sober everyone. There's no other way.

ManInTheArena

I have not watched that movie in years. Definitely a classic.

Trying to get my head together before a busy day. Some headphones and Mark Knopfler should help.

Happy Hump Day!!

PhoenixJ

20-
-Documentaries on everything. Blackadder. Monty Python (nobody expects), Recovery comedy- any brit drama, crime, forensic, dark comedy.
- Art- with anything, anywhere to express, feel, learn, create and be at peace. A pencil and the back of a use envelope works for me
-Gym stuff- an empty milk carton is a 2kg dumbbell.
- Meetings- SMART and AA
- Botanical Gardens
-State art gallery
-Markets
-SR
-10000 steps (done 2 this week plus 1 smash it gym, bit sore 2nite)
-People watch/profile while walking- I make it like a brit drama- that person is a.....
- Creative cooking with raw, basic vegies (no choice on that one)
- Write/journal
- Learn about myself
- Google complete crap on anything that appears in my head.
-Keep, review. add to and cross of stuff on a bucket list
- study something new
-Do not drink
-When walking - an act of appropriate kindness for a stranger. Like giving a homeless man a ciggie when he is begging for money which would be spent on alcohol. (cannot afford to buy food for others)
- give blood
- Every day- clean, sort, file, budget- do something different.
-Do an activity completely out of your comfort zone- growth.
- Gardening
-Work out how many hours you spent on drinking a week and make a plan to replace that number with positive activities.
-If you drive- catch a tram or a train to somewhere different for a picnic.
-Sleep in your bed the other way around
- Go for another walk and pretend you are the normal one and everybody else are secretive alcoholics.....think that is about right....

Applekat

My husband does a beard at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

OK, he really just "doesn't shave" during those periods. Doesn't get to full beard status.

Good morning, day 3 (again).
I guess I need to fix my attitude about this.
Good morning, my last day 3 ever!!

Everyone have a great day. My first decision to make this morning was French Vanilla or Peppermint Mocha creamer. My second decision is whether to send my son to pre-school with pink tinted eyes but no pain/itchiness, etc.

I've never seen Drop Dead Fred.

Bobbieka

Love this.

I stopped last night and bought vodka. I looked at it for hours. Had trouble sleeping. Woke up at 3 am and poured it out. I don't know why I bought it and that scares me. The smell was pretty gross. Who'd have thought. Anyway, felt the need to fess up.

Love you all. Day 178. Thank God.