24 Hour Recovery Connections Part 447
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Originally Posted by Mags1 
Bobbie, it would’ve have been great to have a security camera video the bear! 
then again you might be looking over your shoulder every time you’re in the back garden!
24 more here please
6.30am Monday
then again you might be looking over your shoulder every time you’re in the back garden! 24 more here please
6.30am Monday
I was kinda nervous last night going to bed. On our local FB page, the folks who live in the Canyon seem to accept the bears with no fear.
One woman wrote how the bear got into her house, then went into the kitchen. She was writing about concern for her new puppy. Yes, that would be a concern. But, how about us humans in the house?
I'd be FREAKING!
I also saw the bears on front porch areas, videos etc. My sweet Ken tells me the "they're more afraid of us" line...really??!!
I'm of the mind set that they are still wild animals, no matter how docile & non-threatening they appear.
Ok, enough on bears from me.
I'm checking in for my next 24.
Bobbi 
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That reminds me: Someone posted a pic of a bear after it had gotten into their jacuzzi outside....I was like Is that real?!? It was SO funny.....I think Twitter is where I saw it....
And I'll take another 24 while I'm here
And I'll take another 24 while I'm here
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Morning all. Its coming up to 9.30 am here in the UK. Please count me in for another 24 hours sober and clean. Congratulations to those celebrating a milestone, my thoughts and prayers go out to those suffering and struggling.
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Lots of love to you and your mum Red xxx
Glad you had a good day 1newcreation!
Hello Kev! So good to hear from you and I understand, I really do. This morning my daughters were aghast because I put the wrong leggings in the wrong drawers when I was putting away the laundry!! Shock. Horror. I told them to take it up with housekeeping. Because I am the housekeeper, cook, washer up, homework monitor, dog walker, agony aunt, referee, worker and finder of everything...… no one can find anything in our house except me and sometimes it all gets a bit much. Do you know what I do now when I feel like I'm going to explode? Nothing. I sit down and make myself a cup of tea and remember that none of this really matters. No one cares whether I mop the kitchen floor before I go to bed, when I get up or whether I mop it at all. No one's going to remember me for how quickly I wash up after an evening meal. Life is all about priorities. What needs to be done? What is essential? Reading with my younger kids at night is more important than having organised cupboards. Getting to work on time every morning is more important than cleaning behind the sofa. Maybe one day I'll get to the point where I've got everything under control but I'm a long way away from that right now. For now, I just do what needs to be done and I do my best. That's all any of us can do. And if you're feeling exhausted, you need to cut yourself some slack. Because if you become ill, you'll have to do less. Look at your timetable and see where you can make changes. And in my experience, people are much better at helping than I always like to assume. Sure, if they could get away with it, my kids and husband would happily let me do everything for them but when I ask them to help, they do. Often, they do things better than I do! Stay strong Kev... and ask for help. Suze, I sent you some photos of aardvarks yesterday and just realised I didn't say who it was from.... So when you see aardvarks on your phone - that's all me! 24 more please xxxx
Glad you had a good day 1newcreation!
Hello Kev! So good to hear from you and I understand, I really do. This morning my daughters were aghast because I put the wrong leggings in the wrong drawers when I was putting away the laundry!! Shock. Horror. I told them to take it up with housekeeping. Because I am the housekeeper, cook, washer up, homework monitor, dog walker, agony aunt, referee, worker and finder of everything...… no one can find anything in our house except me and sometimes it all gets a bit much. Do you know what I do now when I feel like I'm going to explode? Nothing. I sit down and make myself a cup of tea and remember that none of this really matters. No one cares whether I mop the kitchen floor before I go to bed, when I get up or whether I mop it at all. No one's going to remember me for how quickly I wash up after an evening meal. Life is all about priorities. What needs to be done? What is essential? Reading with my younger kids at night is more important than having organised cupboards. Getting to work on time every morning is more important than cleaning behind the sofa. Maybe one day I'll get to the point where I've got everything under control but I'm a long way away from that right now. For now, I just do what needs to be done and I do my best. That's all any of us can do. And if you're feeling exhausted, you need to cut yourself some slack. Because if you become ill, you'll have to do less. Look at your timetable and see where you can make changes. And in my experience, people are much better at helping than I always like to assume. Sure, if they could get away with it, my kids and husband would happily let me do everything for them but when I ask them to help, they do. Often, they do things better than I do! Stay strong Kev... and ask for help. Suze, I sent you some photos of aardvarks yesterday and just realised I didn't say who it was from.... So when you see aardvarks on your phone - that's all me! 24 more please xxxx
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1:48 am in California and checking in for another 24. I was having bad dreams, and now can’t fall back asleep. I can’t even remember exact details, just a feeling of something bad happening. I hate nights like that.
Hope everyone here is doing well, and hopefully I’ll be back to slumber land with some happy dreams in a bit.
Hope everyone here is doing well, and hopefully I’ll be back to slumber land with some happy dreams in a bit.
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Originally Posted by Pinky1
24 more please x
Originally Posted by BarbieKen
Mags,
I was kinda nervous last night going to bed. On our local FB page, the folks who live in the Canyon seem to accept the bears with no fear.
One woman wrote how the bear got into her house, then went into the kitchen. She was writing about concern for her new puppy. Yes, that would be a concern. But, how about us humans in the house?
I'd be FREAKING!
I also saw the bears on front porch areas, videos etc. My sweet Ken tells me the "they're more afraid of us" line...really??!!
I'm of the mind set that they are still wild animals, no matter how docile & non-threatening they appear.
Ok, enough on bears from me.
I'm checking in for my next 24.
Bobbi
I was kinda nervous last night going to bed. On our local FB page, the folks who live in the Canyon seem to accept the bears with no fear.
One woman wrote how the bear got into her house, then went into the kitchen. She was writing about concern for her new puppy. Yes, that would be a concern. But, how about us humans in the house?
I'd be FREAKING!
I also saw the bears on front porch areas, videos etc. My sweet Ken tells me the "they're more afraid of us" line...really??!!
I'm of the mind set that they are still wild animals, no matter how docile & non-threatening they appear.
Ok, enough on bears from me.
I'm checking in for my next 24.
Bobbi I cannot imagine having a bear in my closet. Although, there isn’t a single closet in this house that has a clean empty shelf for one to settle down on, so maybe that’s a good thing. Makes me think staying disorganized may be a good bear repellant.
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Originally Posted by Tictoc
Thank you venus i’ll have a read tonight. 
Been feeling very tired and the smallest things are making me grumpy. Feels safest in bed at the moment away from it all. But the month sober is in sight.. Its pay day tomorrow so maybe some retail therapy will do the trick.
Been feeling very tired and the smallest things are making me grumpy. Feels safest in bed at the moment away from it all. But the month sober is in sight.. Its pay day tomorrow so maybe some retail therapy will do the trick.
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Originally Posted by RedBerryJuniper
Holding steady. Terrible day with my mother sent back in intensive care in the middle of the night. She was doing so well. But since she was already at the hospital and they were watching her closely for sepsis, she might beat shock for the third time, but I don’t know. Staying sober and keeping faith that tomorrow will be better. You really do have to go a day or an hour at a time. I don’t want to drink. I’m going to try to go to work tomorrow but don’t know.
24 please
24 please
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Originally Posted by kevlarsjal2
Hi everyone! I have (again) not posted in ages and I'm sorry to bulldoze in with a big rant but I just need to get it out.
My head is spinning and I just want to drink so badly. I think I've overloaded my plate a bit again and feeling overwhelmed, alone and not supported is my number one drinking trigger. Generally I've been doing okay, I started working with a new sponsor a while ago, I'm overall very happy in my relationship, I love my living situation (sober room mate with a cute doggo)... the only real issue being my physical health. I still am in pain every day from the accident and surgery I had a year ago.
But things overall going smoothly and me feeling happy made me think I could take on more and more and now I'm crushing under the physical and mental exhaustion. I've signed up for 3 intensive study courses at uni this summer where you have 4 weeks for each course to get through and today the 2nd one started while I still am prepping for the exam from the first one wich I will write this weekend. in the past month or so, I think I took one day off and then another because I was in too much physical pain. The weather doesn't help, it's been up to 98 F / 37 C here lately and we don't have ACs in this area.
On top of that my boyfriend has an extremely stressful week, preparing to travel for work the next 3 weeks and just now he got a bad cold and I ended up having to take care of him, while also doing all of the household and cooking myself and having no one to give me a hand.
I was getting through the day okay until after dinner when I had made him tea and given him a head massage, then read another chapter of my uni book and when I went back into the kitchen I saw that no one had done the dishes (well, I could've known since he went straight to bed after dinner) and it hit me how exhausted I already felt. I also just wanted to go to sleep and to have someone to take care of things and me not having to think about them. Again it's me who has to be responsible and check if lights are out and dishes are done and leftovers are put into the fridge and tidy up around the house. All on top of having pain and doing crazy hours for uni. It's so tricky for me to see and set my limits and I feel like society is making it extremely hard for women cause somehow we're still expected to be the ones taking care of everyone and everything and manage the household while also working on our careers whereas it seems like men aren't expected to do all of these things at the same time.
I know that it's me who's making the decisions in the end and so it was me who put myself in this position and I'm not asking for pity or anything, I just feel quite overwhelmed with tasks and responsibilities and like there is no one right now to help or who asks how I am doing and it frustrates me so much and reminded me of the days where I was busy until late night, fuelled by booze and then needed even more of that to calm myself down so I could get to sleep. Argh, I'm so angry about this and so frustrated that I am seemingly in the same situation again.
Hopefully I can look at this a little more clear headed tomorrow and figure out some necessary changes.
My head is spinning and I just want to drink so badly. I think I've overloaded my plate a bit again and feeling overwhelmed, alone and not supported is my number one drinking trigger. Generally I've been doing okay, I started working with a new sponsor a while ago, I'm overall very happy in my relationship, I love my living situation (sober room mate with a cute doggo)... the only real issue being my physical health. I still am in pain every day from the accident and surgery I had a year ago.
But things overall going smoothly and me feeling happy made me think I could take on more and more and now I'm crushing under the physical and mental exhaustion. I've signed up for 3 intensive study courses at uni this summer where you have 4 weeks for each course to get through and today the 2nd one started while I still am prepping for the exam from the first one wich I will write this weekend. in the past month or so, I think I took one day off and then another because I was in too much physical pain. The weather doesn't help, it's been up to 98 F / 37 C here lately and we don't have ACs in this area.
On top of that my boyfriend has an extremely stressful week, preparing to travel for work the next 3 weeks and just now he got a bad cold and I ended up having to take care of him, while also doing all of the household and cooking myself and having no one to give me a hand.
I was getting through the day okay until after dinner when I had made him tea and given him a head massage, then read another chapter of my uni book and when I went back into the kitchen I saw that no one had done the dishes (well, I could've known since he went straight to bed after dinner) and it hit me how exhausted I already felt. I also just wanted to go to sleep and to have someone to take care of things and me not having to think about them. Again it's me who has to be responsible and check if lights are out and dishes are done and leftovers are put into the fridge and tidy up around the house. All on top of having pain and doing crazy hours for uni. It's so tricky for me to see and set my limits and I feel like society is making it extremely hard for women cause somehow we're still expected to be the ones taking care of everyone and everything and manage the household while also working on our careers whereas it seems like men aren't expected to do all of these things at the same time.
I know that it's me who's making the decisions in the end and so it was me who put myself in this position and I'm not asking for pity or anything, I just feel quite overwhelmed with tasks and responsibilities and like there is no one right now to help or who asks how I am doing and it frustrates me so much and reminded me of the days where I was busy until late night, fuelled by booze and then needed even more of that to calm myself down so I could get to sleep. Argh, I'm so angry about this and so frustrated that I am seemingly in the same situation again.
Hopefully I can look at this a little more clear headed tomorrow and figure out some necessary changes.
We need to replace our dishwasher, until we’ve done that I bought a ton of paper plates, they save some of the mess. I’ve also told the kids If you use it, you wash it, that helps.
You don’t have to do it all. Talk to Uni and see if it’s possible to drop or delay one of your summer classes, your sanity is worth it.
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