yukonm

Signing up for 24 hours drink and drug free. 8:39am in Jacksonville, Florida.

Congratulations to all celebrating milestones today!!

venuscat

This is a list of everyone who posted their commitment to stay sober in the last 24 hours: 9 am EDT ~ 8.59 am EDT....(ish ).

It is awesome to have every single one of you here with us!

1newcreation
abcowboy
ardy
aussieblue
Awake61
Babs1234
Bailey3
badgerden
bandicoot2
BarbieKen
BarrelCactus
BeckoningCat
BringingBackB
Bubovski
Canadian Koala
CeeFarro
Chaisson
ChloeRose63
Citrus
Coldfusion
CrossYourHeart
DaneK
Daisybelle
Dee74
Delilah1
dizzybee
Endoftheday
erfra7
Erratic
fishkiller
FormerBeerLover
freedomfries
Gabe1980
gatorman
Gilmer (RIP)
Goat
goose333
Hevyn
IcedVoVo
jimmyJlover
joandmelandhan
John65
julietUK
Kaneda8888
kenton
kevlarsjal2
Kris47
least
LillianGish
listae
Lostmyoffswitch
lyddie
Mags1
mystified
neferkamichael
Neoo
Nic233
nmd
Noam19
NoGoingBack
Optimist4ever57
PhoenixJ
pinkbutterfly20
Pinky1
PurpleKnight
Purplrks3647
Quincy
quitter62
Rainman1
Ravel
Red78
Reid82
Saskia
SeaSlug
SnoozyQ
Sober369
soberista
SoberLeigh
Sobertoday54
Soberwolf
StartAnew68
stargazer016
Stubbs16
Sunflowerlife
Teetotaler56
tgirl
theVman31
Tinker B
TiredCarpenter
tomls
Treesofgreen
TrueNewGirl
Tynesider22
Upstairs
venuscat
Vinificent
WaterOx
whopper
wiscsober
Willow68
yukonm
Zanna
zeppodog

Onward together!


Thank you dear abcowboy.

wiscsober

1

alright checking in at 0813 for another 24 hours of sobriety Summer Time.

lyddie

Another 24 for me please

erfra7

abcowboy,
I like this part.

I needed my past and I needed my mistakes to get me where I am now.

24 more please.

let's have a wonderful sober Saturday

SoberLeigh

Count me in, Please.

Lots of love to all.

IcedVoVo

For the first day of Summer in Texas, it absolutely delightful! 70 degrees with rain. Very rare this time of year. It’s been at least a month since it did, and many mornings and evenings have been spent dragging hoses and sprinklers around in the heat. The ground was cracking and the grass was trying to go dormant already! So I’m listening to the gentle English rain on my tin patio roof, elevating my knee, listening to some Classical and thoroughly enjoying the first day of a three-day weekend. Did quite a bit of cooking, laundry and tidying until I looked down and saw my knee was swollen agaIn.,one month to go. Just stop. It’s a torn meniscus...I’ve already walked 5000 steps and it’s killing me! Enough.

Why not enjoy the lovely rainy day and put the trouble of the week behind me? I couldn’t sleep this week. Things are really getting rough here with COVID. I may have to get laid off. So much anger, sorrow, fear in the air. I wanted to come here for some peace and fellowship. I can’t just carry on as normal—I need to work extra on my recovery, which sometimes means just be. I want to run from my own head and see who I can support and connect with. Have you ever had the rock-tumbler head? I am ruminating. It won’t help. Ready for some positive recharge. Now that I’m sober I can have real relationships, and have resilience I didn’t have when drunk. If there’s a money crunch ahead I’ll be ok. I’ve been poor before, actually broke so this doesn’t compare. No more worry.

Time for a movie or maybe a documentary. Or maybe some pure trash. And stories in a spiritual book that put my mind at ease. It’s a great book. I am so grateful for you and this beautiful rain. Renewal.

Gratitude. So grateful to be sober today. Instead... I would be hungover, and dragging into the shower because I couldn’t go to the beer store on Saturday morning without being clean! Somehow that made it ok. I was clean! Probably sweating, red-faced and bloated but I was clean! And I could proudly open the glass door and grab the beer because I was clean.

Soon I would be driving as fast as I could without drawing attention to myself..so I could hurry up and get home and get started again.. My internal dialogue starts to ramp up once I get in the car to head home. It would usually go like this:

‘Ok just a few more minutes and I can slam one down and get to feeling human again. Maybe I’ll cook today. NO! A tractor! I’m stuck behind a tractor on a 2-lane road...argh! . I really need to get home sooner. This is a day off and I do NOT have time to waste. My head is pounding and the beer is beginning to sweat through the paper sack because this is taking forEVER! Why won’t this farmer pull off and let me pass! It’s Saturday and my day off! Why?!! I deserve this! Can’t he pull over and let me pass? I could just open one while I’m driving so I don’t have to wait, but I don’t do foolish stuff like THAT anymore..I’ve outgrown that. jeez... Isn’t there a farm road he can take? I can already taste it. I’ll feel so much better and I won’t drink even half of what I did last night... maybe a third or a quarter at most. Ill feel much better tomorrow morning.,I’ll watch a cooking show so I do something productive while I’m drinking. Yes I’ll make this enjoyable and I deserve it. Everyone else is drinking. Well maybe not at this hour but it’s good to start early and stop early. It will be just fine..’

well you know how that turned out. Every single time! And on Sunday you HAD to wait till noon because of the laws. I am so grateful to be healthy and free of that awful routine. Thank you so much.

love and hope you’re having a great weekend

🥰 we definitely do this together.


xxxx

Babs1234

Icedvovo.,..so glad to hear that is behind you...just remember you are not alone...
I'll take another 24
Babs:👍

Hevyn

So proud of you all.
I'll take another 24 sober ones please.

TiredCarpenter

Great quote abcowboy.

Thanks.

NoGoingBack

Thank you for being here folks 😊

1 month today and it’s good to see my name on the list..

Funny kind of day today. Helped my neighbours put a shed together, drove into Nottinghamshire to go for a woodland walk, had Chinese food as a treat.

Fathers day tomorrow and I know I won’t get anything from my boys and that hurts. Normally I’d be drowning those feelings with vodka.

Not this time. My ex partner has flatly refused mediation which I’d hoped would be gentler on everyone, and much less expensive financially.

So my next step is an application to court, which will take time and not be very pleasant. My solicitor reckons in the region of £1000 if the hearings go smoothly. Money I wouldn’t be able to save if I were still drinking and drugging...

Also, I know that if the court requires drug or alcohol testing, I’ve nothing to fear anymore.

Emotions are all over the place, mental health isn’t the greatest but I’m pressing on.

Last day off tomorrow then work on Monday morning, it will be what it is. I just need to go gently and with kindness and thoughtfulness.

I’ll take another 24 hours of sobriety please, because really there isn’t any alternative .

Sending peace and love
James

Kaneda8888

Checking in for 24

Bubovski

Willow00

Sunday morning and 24 more please ❤️

aussieblue

Count me in for 24
Beautiful morning here , storms forecast for this afternoon.

7.51 am in Auss.

IcedVoVo

Happy one month, James! 🥳 I hope all goes well with the courts.

xxHugs

V

itsmaria

Signing up for 24 sober hours. 7:49 pm in the Six.....(that is Toronto, eh)

whopper

Checking in for 24.

whopper

My name is there! Thanks for everyone's support

Quincy

May I please have another 24 hours with a side of catching a fish? Thank you.