Stay sober this weekend July 24!
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Join Date: Mar 2014
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Originally Posted by LBrain 
i SET YOU UP FOR THE 500TH POST oLIVE, YOU'RE WELCOME 
I forgot Bim lurks in the shadows waiting for 500...
Have a great day all.
Over and out.
I forgot Bim lurks in the shadows waiting for 500...
Have a great day all.
Over and out.
I belong to another forum and we are on roll #4000+. On the roll, it is automagic at post #501. So people lurk for hours waiting. The entire first page of the new thread is full of gifs that relate to the (now dead) old thread.
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Midwest
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You guys are all CRAAZEE!!!
Brief downtime here. After rush rush rush to get here. No photos on way in. I'm sure you're all disappointed. I think I'm the way back I will again take side streets like yesterday and stop at a garden place that I spotted. In rapidly regentrifying area so probably not cheap but had cobalt blue pots in window
Brief downtime here. After rush rush rush to get here. No photos on way in. I'm sure you're all disappointed. I think I'm the way back I will again take side streets like yesterday and stop at a garden place that I spotted. In rapidly regentrifying area so probably not cheap but had cobalt blue pots in window
Earth Child
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Posts: 2,004
Am scared ...tonight will be the first time ever av been on a bus without my husband being there if i take a panic attack
also it will be the first AA meeting i have gone to in months
my husband is stay at home he dont like hanging about and wait until the meeting is over
i need to start doing this for myself otherwise id be scared forever
also it will be the first AA meeting i have gone to in months
my husband is stay at home he dont like hanging about and wait until the meeting is over
i need to start doing this for myself otherwise id be scared forever
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Texas
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I'm so sorry about your beloved granny, tetra! She'll always be in your heart.
Granny's are so special and you are so blessed to have had such a wonderful and close relationship with her.
Sao...sounds like a neat gig!
Congrats to all the present and future shotgunners. Is it bad I don't even aspire to it? I'm never up early enough and I'm not very good at lurking.
Granny's are so special and you are so blessed to have had such a wonderful and close relationship with her.
Sao...sounds like a neat gig!
Congrats to all the present and future shotgunners. Is it bad I don't even aspire to it? I'm never up early enough and I'm not very good at lurking.
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 174
Hi Everybody -
I just wanted to check in to let you know I'm still here, and I read the forum often although I don't post too much. Whether you are doing well or struggling, I hope you all keep posting.
Real quick - I am now in Week 2 of the Intensive Outpatient Recovery program I checked into. Overall it has been very positive, enlightening and helpful. I go to the evening program, which is comprised primarily of other professionals who somehow managed to sorta balance work with alcoholism. And by "sorta", I mean barely - much like myself. If I have one take away this early into the program it is this:
If sobriety sucked nobody would do it. It's not just about not drinking/using. I think that's where I have consistently gotten caught up. I viewed the idea of quitting drinking as deprivation. It was all about what I can not have, without any focus of what would replace it. So basically... there is a new, undiscovered "me" out there. It's one that has - in the most literal, medical sense - been held back by alcohol. I want to see what this me is.
I just wanted to check in to let you know I'm still here, and I read the forum often although I don't post too much. Whether you are doing well or struggling, I hope you all keep posting.
Real quick - I am now in Week 2 of the Intensive Outpatient Recovery program I checked into. Overall it has been very positive, enlightening and helpful. I go to the evening program, which is comprised primarily of other professionals who somehow managed to sorta balance work with alcoholism. And by "sorta", I mean barely - much like myself. If I have one take away this early into the program it is this:
If sobriety sucked nobody would do it. It's not just about not drinking/using. I think that's where I have consistently gotten caught up. I viewed the idea of quitting drinking as deprivation. It was all about what I can not have, without any focus of what would replace it. So basically... there is a new, undiscovered "me" out there. It's one that has - in the most literal, medical sense - been held back by alcohol. I want to see what this me is.
Giving up is NOT an option.
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Western Wisconsin
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Scram - you summed up exactly how I feel. I also did an intensive outpatient program - I learned so much. I truly feel that without it I might not be sober. I started it in December and graduated from the aftercare, less intensive phase 2 weeks ago. Best thing I ever did for myself.
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: London
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At least it shows you can cope with the bus ride QAF so it wasn't a complete waste of time
Congratulations Scram. I find that substitute activities are essential for me as a single person because the alternative is to dwell on not drinking and that leads to wanting the stuff
Well done for graduating from your aftercare programme MLD
Congratulations Scram. I find that substitute activities are essential for me as a single person because the alternative is to dwell on not drinking and that leads to wanting the stuff
Well done for graduating from your aftercare programme MLD
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