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Class of August 2021 Support Thread Part 9 |
Hot dang, SHOTGUN! 🎊🪅🎏🪄🤓 |
Thanks Dee In Cambodia, it’s hot here! |
LHW, that was GREAT planning! Did you get asked by friends about wine? I’m sure they’ll be sad to lose you as a drinking partner, so it may come up in the future. i would take waking up at three any day just to do what you did for a young sober social gathering. ANYTHING but drink. I have club soda with a twist of lime, or ginger beer (strong ginger ale). Daytime is iced tea. Or water. The club soda drink is no calorie and filling, thus taking out the H of HALT. I bet when you wake up you’ll feel SO good about your choice of self love and care. https://i.postimg.cc/hj2L824q/83-B74...C3-A1257-F.jpg My plane mocktail https://i.postimg.cc/pLQnYsk1/7-E108...-E29-ACE83.jpg Baby roo at wildlife center https://i.postimg.cc/cLGnnp7n/79757-...526-FDD585.jpg Black neck stork, females have yellow irises, males have all black eyes. https://i.postimg.cc/C5ZqGY6j/E28375...16491-C2-F.jpg Rice paddy fields and flooded pastures on approaching the airport in Cambodia. |
Great posts, Free and LHW. We know the cool kids don't drink- but that isn't the consensus just yet... LHW- I spent many a late night just prowling this site- and I don't regret a minute of it. So much better than the old days of waking up with the "3 AM panic" which I force myself to remember from time to time. Just in case. Good work, LHW, and it is work- isn't it? But worth all the rewards. Free- I love your pics- your trip is certainly one of a lifetime, and how wonderful is it that you will remember every minute? Fantastic. I had a drinking dream last night. It was a good thing, now that I look at it with Venus's perspective. In the dream I don't recall making the choice to drink, I just was, and it was almost a surprise that I felt drunk- and then panicked- I had to start all over! I rushed to the sink, poured it out and washed the glass, and as it clinked on the counter, I woke up. True relief washed over me. A dream. A nightmare, I guess. Not real- I'm still here. Have a good day, class. |
Wow, Viking. It is a powerful dream when you hear the clink of the glass. :) And yes, I believe that dream was telling you how important your sobriety is to you, how sick it would make you feel to lose that. :) |
Awesome pics, dear Free, but the kangaroo made me sad. I am insanely homesick. |
I can't imagine losing it right now, Venus, but I do know it can happen. All the energy and effort of being happy got to me today- I'm exhausted. There must be some middle ground. I'm not used to being the most positive person in the room, I live amongst some pretty serious negative Nellies- only now am I noticing how antisocial and pessimistic my friends can be (not all of them, mind you) but it's an EFFORT to keep positive around so much outright nihilism. And then the Queen died. Game over for today. |
You are more social than I am, so you have to deal with the negative nellies. Kudos to you, love. I just cannot anymore. I don't have time for woe-is-me-people :) I am broken hearted over the Queen's death, as are millions all over the world, but I am mindful that she was 96. As we say in Aus: she had a good innings. And she will live in our hearts and minds forever. ❤️ |
I have Talenti. I think I'll make it. Me and my double Dutch chocolate are going to hit up some Hulu after a rousing game of Frisbee with Harley D. RIP Queen Elizabeth, it sure was a good run. |
Good morning all. Lisa, I'm hoping that you are feeling better this morning after a challenging day yesterday. Agree wholeheartedly with what you said about dealing with negativity. Returning to the workplace (even the virtual workplace) has reminded me that there are plenty of folks out there who don't see their glasses as half full. One of the areas where I seem to be improving is not trying to internalize other people's negativity and trying to fix it. That's quite a relief actually. Lynn, awesome pics! Sorry that I'm not posting as much. Still trying to figure out how to manage my time. Day 86 and all is well. Looking forward to the weekend. Football season is here! |
Originally Posted by ClearPath64
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Woohoo on day 86 CP! Fall is quickly approaching here in PA and while I’m not much of a football fan it does add to the atmosphere and give us a reason to get together with people which is nice. Work was a bear this week and I’m spent. Viking and CP I hear you on the negativity front. A couple of people I work with are just doing the bare minimum and overall not very engaged. And management is not really anywhere that I can tell, but you know I’m not privy to a lot of the conversations so I don’t know everything that goes on. I’m just trying to remind myself it’s not my responsibility to fix everything! SS how are you doing? |
Awaiting retesting for Covid. 5 of us quarantined and sent home on their own dime. Awaiting okay to enter India and Africa. The stress about it is yucky. love to all! |
Ooof Free sorry to hear of the Covid stress! I’ll be hoping for a negative. |
Hope you can continue your travels Free D |
Thanks, Bodhi. Coming up on 45 days and feeling the focus and confidence returning. Falling asleep immediately and squirrely feeling during day is gone. Today was my first real comeback day in the gym, huge step. 90 minutes hard core circuit training and just pushed through the stiffness and creaky joints. I am mindful that picking up a drink in mid-July, it took me almost 2 months to get my mojo back. And that was only being out there 13 days. Being sober and being in shape are sine qua nons for me. I don't want to ever return to the other side. |
SS, sounds wonderful! For me, it has taken almost a full year after being out 26 months of stop and go, half A$$ed trying. So glad you are feeling better and sleeping well. 45+ days is GREAT! Many more on trip are Covid +. Awaiting our results. Most people are asymptomatic. That’s the scary part. This new strain is very mild, so it’s worse than telling someone with a symptomatic cold to go home. But, I get it, so much of the world has to sift through truths and world politics on their own with this pandemic. So glad we have trip cancellation and trip interruption insurance. |
Passed. Figured this was our seventh test. 🎉🪅🎊🥳🤓❤️ |
Great news Lynn! Let the adventure continue. Your pictures are WONDERFUL! Can't thank you enough for taking us along for the ride. |
Free, wow! How nerve wracking but glad you passed. Viking, agree. Just cannot with the negative nellies. I saved this quote/page from FB recently about this chapter of my life being called “invite only” because it’s my turn to live a life that supports my highest good, etc. I was thinking it said something about surrounding ourselves with people who lift us up but that’s not exactly what it says. Still, that’s kind of how I am thinking about it. I don’t have to share my energy or power on someone else’s victimhood—and I can break out of my own. At least, that is what I feel in this moment. It comes and goes. LHW, good on you for staying sober. Sounds like I missed a lot—again! But nice to check in when I can and see how everyone is getting on. I’m doing okay over here in still-hot TX. I think I checked in about some of the stuff going on here, which is/was just some brutal times with the kids, finding out bad news about loan forgiveness (this one turned out to not be as bad as I thought), and most saliently right now, crap with the law firm I retained to try and help me but instead berated me for needing help. Similarly to above, I know I have choices. I’m not sure if I will continue with them (to save money) but I do know I am going to confront the attorney and tell her what the experience was like for me. I don’t have control over what she does with it, and I don’t have to know what I will ultimately choose as a course of action, but for my own dignity I want to tell her it was totally not okay. And that’s all I have to figure out for now. Hope everyone has a lovely sober weekend ahead! |
Originally Posted by SouthernSober
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Being sober and being in shape are sine qua nons for me. I don't want to ever return to the other side. |
Hi NL, I saw that you were logged on here and figured that we were cross-posting. So glad to hear that things turned out better than expected with the loan forgiveness, and I hope that you get the same outcome with the law firm. Your perspective sounds spot-on to me and you absolutely should convey your experiences with the attorney. I really admire everything that you have done, and are doing, to manage your major life transition. Never would have been possible without sobriety, right? |
Hey LHW, thanks for the shout out to my beloved KC Chiefs! As Bodhi mentioned, football season really does seem to bring people together for a common cause, even if that cause is kind of silly in the whole scope of things. Sometimes I have to shake my head at people that go a little 'over the top' in their fanhood (I have some in my family), but it's mostly just good fun. We have a very passionate fan base around here and the city really rallies around the team. Win or lose. I imagine that Philly is the same way. Good to catch up with everyone. The weekdays have been crazy, but I have a little time to breathe on the weekends. Welcome back to the real world James. |
Free, I’m glad to hear your able to continue your travel adventure! SS, sounds like you got a good gym session in and are getting back into a groove. When I drank back in December it set me way back. Once I had that first drink which truthfully started with just a sip of my husbands drink and then my husbands boss sent a bottle of champagne to our room as a congrats gift and I popped that open and felt like well I’m already drinking I might as well keep going I’ve already broken my promise to myself, screw it. A big case of the F*** its. Being back in that trap cycle was awful. The worst part of it though came afterwards with the depression, the shame, and the craving to still want to drink (ughhh). I call it the emotional hangover. It took me a long time to shake that off and get to a decent head space. I hope I never forget that feeling and how easy it is to slip back into the trap and get back out. People don’t ask me much why I don’t drink anymore but if they do I just say I can’t stand the hangover but what I’m really referring to is the emotional hangover I described above that lasts weeks even months. |
Amen! So appreciate the understanding and open arms here. Going to airport in Siem Reap in 15 minutes. Will post more on plane if we get wifi. Go MaHomes. (Chief qback) |
Whew! Great news, Free! CP - I am a Chiefs fan living in an Eagles household. 🤪 |
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