Grendhar

Decided to order the Allen Carr book as well.

Grendhar

Woke up, large cup of coffee, cleaned my apartment for a couple hours. Headed out grocery shopping soon.

Other than that not much to say at this point in the day.

tabasco

Both are good books. Both "knock" AA somewhat, but don't let that stop taking the good content and adding it to your AA stuff too. Good luck.

Grendhar

Painted my desk. Bought some food. Tried to buy a brand new vacuum cleaner, got it home to find it was used, covered in dirt. Returned that pretty quick.

Girlfriend is gone to work for 5 hours. Will be reading SR and doing small projects around the house.

Grendhar

Made it through the day.

OneIsTooMuch

Cool deal. That's the ticket. Make it through each day without drinking. Give yourself an "attaboy"!





I really liked a lot of what was in the Carr book. I read various approaches and use what speaks to me and leave the rest.

Grendhar

Been up for a couple hours. Going to have another beer free day!

Grendhar

Rational Recovery book showed up today. I am excited to read it.

Soberwolf

Enjoy it Grendhar

Grendhar

Started this thread on a day 1. May as well continue using it. Day 2 today. I had drank at a restaurant at 4 days.

But I have some newfound hope. It feels like something clicked in my mind today.

Grendhar

Day 2 completed.

Getting tired of saying the same days over and over again, I've definitely said day 2 before.

But I am feeling positive and going to read SR for a while and then my RR book before I go to sleep.

Is there any way to edit my first post on this thread?

Dee74

After 15 mins only mods and admins can edit posts. What kind of edit were you looking for Grendhar?

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Grendhar

I think it would be better to just leave this part:

Hello.

I'm creating this thread as a place to post updates without having to create a new thread every day.

Dee74

to be honest I think it's fine as it is...

I can't break up your initial post into two and keep the original dates...and I don't want you to lose day one

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Soberwolf

Hey Grendhar

Grendhar

That's not day 1 anymore.. but I didn't want to make another thread and spam up the forum any more.

However, I guess it will be okay. Minor. If people are anything like me they'll go to the most recent posts for an accurate idea of how I'm doing.

Thanks Dee.

Grendhar

Hi Soberwolf

Dee74

OK I get you now...but it will make things less clear if I edit the detail in that first post cos people like me replied to the detail

you're not 'spamming up the forum' anyway. It's all good

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Grendhar

Alright.

Grendhar

Always thought it was odd that I seem different. Most of the stories I have heard have the same theme.

They started drinking .. and gradually over time started drinking more and drinking became a problem. My father was like that. He was obsessed with it from day 1 but over a 30 year span gradually needed more.

I see that in myself in the sense I am starting to need more than I used to but what I find odd about me is I didn't waste any time. I started drinking alcoholically from the very beginning.. from the first beer I wanted to drink as many as I could until I got sick.

I'm 27 years old, I started drinking at 21. I don't have the years of drinking most people have .. But in that short period of time it has taken over me.