SaTiT

Don't be so hard on yourself..you're doing good.
At the 90 marks..that's when it started hitting me.lol
what now ???

Little things..
There's plenty of little things you can do.
Clean out your junk draws..change the furniture.
Go buy new shoes..You know..walking in new shoes..a new life.

I got new shoes recently.lol

You know... little things add up to be big things..just like our problems.
it's neutraul.

A grain of happiness everyday turns into a mountain full of happiness
in a life time.

little good things adds up to be a lot of good things.

That's why I do stuff backwards....
I still have the same traits...god hasn't removed them.
God removed the defects of them. Just applying it in a posistive way.

Will...some people think..if you dig yourself in hole..you have to claim out.

I dig myself out or I dig a path out..lol

Captain Kirk

Well, I guess I could start by going to bed early and getting up in the mornings (rather then at 5pm). And I suppose they're be no harm in changing the people who I hang out with (except I'm no good at making new friends. I don't think I've made any friends in the past 10 years!) and the places I hang out in. I've also got to find a job. Maybe after christmas I'll subscribe to the gym or swimming pool too.
All the above probably amounts to a start, right?

SaTiT

Yeap...

there you go...change your body clock.
That's what i had to do...cause i had to catch up on my sleep.lol
stilling up days at a time at the casino. :rof

Rusty Zipper

aldo, as SaT mentioned.. one huge brain fart!

fart, change, then action...


SaT, that was one of the best splainations of spiritual development i have herd yet!...

calfritch

hey aldo - sounds like we have the same patterns!! i stay up until 4 or 5am and dont get up until 2 or 3 in the afternoon. but for me, thats the life of an unemployed writer!!! and changing that pattern is a lot harder than i thought it would be. but filling my awake time with working out and cleaning the house, cleaning out closets and stuff like that helps take the mind off the things we dont want to be thinking about. since most of my friends do work, i dont get to hang out with them during the week so thats a lot of alone time which tends to suck but thats what TV and video games are for!!!

Captain Kirk

hi my friend!
how ya doin? i seem to remember you wern't having such a great week last week between one thing and another.
it's amazing the similarities between our situations!
i've been trying to change my sleep/wake times for about a week now. i figuered out if i get up half hour earlier every 2 or 3 days it shouldn't be too much of a burden upon me.
that's good tht you're keeping active between cleaning your house and working out and everything. i'm feeling so lethargic
it's 4.30am so i guess i'll start making my way to bed now. still i won't get to sleep for another couple of hours at least as i like to listen to music in bed (plus if my neighbours are doing it, which they probably are , it prevents me from hearing their savage noises)
once again, thanks for sharing.

Captain Kirk

Well I did get up early today, 8.30am in fact. That was good. Except I then went directly to the slot machines for 4 hours :chatter
I've got to get myself locked up in jail or detox or a monestery or something.:praying

Rusty Zipper

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

hey aldo... if we dont change... we'll be beg'n for change!

Captain Kirk

Friends I'm thinking about the onion/garlic thing today.
I went to play the machines and now have no money left and I have no food left at home and 2 cigarettes to last me all evening. I'm still not at gambling rock bottom though
If I start peeling the onion, or dismanteling the cloves of garlic what do I need to look for? I havn't really understood this.
If I look deep should I find a fundamntal problem within myself and once I've adressed that will I be ok?
Or am I missing something about this whole onion/garlic thing?

Captain Kirk

I've been elaboarting the garlic/onion thing a bit more.
I've seen it in another way: When we stop drinking we removed the first layer of the onion. But the onions still their, albeit just a little smaller. So we need to do something else to remove the next layer. And then the next, and the next etc. ect.
Have I got it now?

Rusty Zipper

aldo our friend... thats it!

start peeling!

just the garlic, in time, you may add the olive oil...

aglio e olio!

more good wishes...

rz'a

Captain Kirk

then we'll add the peperoncino then all we'll need will be some spaghetti :rof
thanks buddy.

Captain Kirk

I've never been a great fan of A.A. I always thought that if you wanted to quit drinking you could do it on your own.
However the onion thing has made me think about A.A. The layers of the onion are the A.A. steps, right?
Maybe I'll consider giving A.A. a go.

Rusty Zipper

aldo some can and do aldo...

i'm not one of them...

i needed pampers when i started recovery...

48 years of do'n it my way...

nope, show me a new better way i said...

payback...

awesome beyond my wildest dreams...

aldo, give A.A./G.A. a shot!

wad'a ya got to loose?

good wishes coombah!

rz'a! lol

SaTiT

it's your onion..do whatever you want with it.

mmm...onions, garlic, spaghetti...
that's narly recovery suace...lol