Class of September 2010
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Norfolk, VA
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Way to go, 04Hdcp. September must have been a tough month to seek recovery. The class is pretty small. Makes me more grateful than ever to have gotten and remained sober because I don't know how many attempts I have left in me.
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Congrats Squarehead and 04hdcp
I am at six months on the 21st of this month. I think thanks to you here on SR that I am recovered. Alcohol and smoking are out of my life, my thoughts, my dreams. I don't preach to others that smoke around me nor am tempted by it. It just reminds me how nice it is not to cough and feel bad from it. I have no issue being around drinkers and having a soda, jiuce or scotch and soda with atwist on the rocks, hold the scotch!
My wife still smokes moderatley and drinks her two every night. The whole time I was recovering there was and is a half gallon of scotch in the house, several bottles of cooking wine, and a carton of smokes in a cabinet. None of that has anything to do with me and my decisions. I am not even tempted nor think about them at all anymore.
I guess I am recovered. Never will I try to be a "normal" drinker. I now realize that I never smoked, only the cigarette smoked . . . I was just the sucker. Missing them would only be looking forward to having them as a factor in my thinking or desires.
That's where my head is at, and it is a comfort more than any drink can provide.
Seems I have a lot of peers that started like me, with just one day, last September.
My wife still smokes moderatley and drinks her two every night. The whole time I was recovering there was and is a half gallon of scotch in the house, several bottles of cooking wine, and a carton of smokes in a cabinet. None of that has anything to do with me and my decisions. I am not even tempted nor think about them at all anymore.
I guess I am recovered. Never will I try to be a "normal" drinker. I now realize that I never smoked, only the cigarette smoked . . . I was just the sucker. Missing them would only be looking forward to having them as a factor in my thinking or desires.
That's where my head is at, and it is a comfort more than any drink can provide.
Seems I have a lot of peers that started like me, with just one day, last September.
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Posts: 7,583
Carl
Glad you're still with us.
I had only one chance in me, I took it, and will never go through the drinking part or the stopping part ever again. I still use alcohol but only isopropyl for cuts and scrapes.
I had only one chance in me, I took it, and will never go through the drinking part or the stopping part ever again. I still use alcohol but only isopropyl for cuts and scrapes.
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Norfolk, VA
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Welcome, XWillowX, and thanks for the update, itchy. Six months is awesome. For me, 6 months was long enough to get a peek at what the sober life could be like. I like what I see, I like who I've become. I know that in many ways I had an easier path than some; none of the emotional turmoil some have gone through that might have rocketed me off course. But every day I don't drink is one that prepares me for those kinds of challenges.
Squarehead, hope you got your golf game in. It will be 78 in Tidewater; I will be mowing grass before Easter.
Squarehead, hope you got your golf game in. It will be 78 in Tidewater; I will be mowing grass before Easter.
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Norfolk, VA
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The September class might be down to us few.
Eight months for me. Not drinking, dare I say it, feels almost normal. Which probably means that I best stay vigilent. I don't want to feel so normal I think I can drink. Here's to you for making it this far. To any newbie who might read this. You can go months sober. It's not easy, but it's done.
Eight months for me. Not drinking, dare I say it, feels almost normal. Which probably means that I best stay vigilent. I don't want to feel so normal I think I can drink. Here's to you for making it this far. To any newbie who might read this. You can go months sober. It's not easy, but it's done.
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