venuscat

Vinny love ~ Amazon UK has the Cadbury ones. You can order them and have them in 2 days!!!! ♥

And not to sound egotistical, well it might, but your wife is right love.

Altruism is the key to my happiness.....well, a big part of it....it's a long story, but something very serious happened to me when I was 16 and I was well, changed. I felt I was given a gift and then I proceeded to waste it by getting wasted for so long.

Now I am just grateful every day that I am able to follow my heart instead of my hungover head.

Zanna

It's no yolk! Shoppers furious after supermarkets begin selling Easter Eggs three months early - Mirror Online

I still can't get used to you being awake 'at this time of day' Suze

venuscat

Ha Zanna....awesome news headline.

And neither can I.....well I can, but my head is still in Aussie time.
I don't like being a day behind.

Zanna

Time travel - shame you can't get the Aussie Lotto results though

venuscat

Kind of feel like I already won the lotto. ♥

MLD51

I am very late to this party. It's very quiet at work so I just read the whole thread - Congratulations, LBrain and Sao on your sobriety milestones!
Nice to see you, Trach!

Good to see that we all made it through the holiday. It's really just another day to me, but people do make a big deal out of it. I spent New Year's eve at my best friend's (boyfriend??) cousin's house. It was just 6 of us, pretty quiet, but with plenty of laughs. We had great food. I was the only one not drinking, but these are not super heavy drinkers and it didn't bother me a bit. It was my fourth sober NYE.

We are in a very nasty cold snap where I live. It has not been above zero (fahrenheit) here for several days now. It's tempting to just stay home, cozy and warm, but life goes on and things like getting to work still have to happen. I had all of last week off, and was sick for a good portion of the week before, so it does feel strange to be at work.

For this new year, I'm working on being kinder to myself. I still beat myself up a lot - I have not fully gotten past how horribly I behaved at times when I was still drinking. I've always had a problem with negative self-talk, so I'm trying to be aware of my inner dialogue and stop myself when I start to call myself a loser in my head. My sponsor knows me pretty well - without knowing I had made a decision to work on this, she got me this book for my 3 year soberversary.

Stop Being Mean to Yourself: A Story About Finding The True Meaning of Self-Love by Melody Beattie

So I'll be reading that, for sure.

Gilmer

I didn’t do much housework and wasn’t very participatory in my household for many years—first I was depressive, then drunk all day.

When I sobered up, I began a true inner recovery. Now I’m very engaged with my family and achieve what I need to achieve.

The problem is that I try to be the Energizer Bunny, going and going during every waking hour!

I don’t have a naturally physically energetic personality, so the excessive action really wears me out. I feel as though I’ve got something to prove.

I need to find the happy medium this year.

saoutchik

The Weekender thread does run all week as in this day and age many people do not work a standard 9-5 Monday to Friday and well... just because

MidnightBlue

I feel so weird.

As if I've been sleeping for, like, 30 years, then suddenly woke up and have no idea where I am, what I am doing here and what to do next.

I've been living so long in survival mode. I just don't know how to live once I've survived.

venuscat

I relate to that completely.

And Nick is always asking me to stop, take time for myself....I don't quite know how to. I know I need to though...we need to recharge. s

venuscat

And I get that completely as well....it has been over 3 years now, and I still feel like a babe in the woods sometimes....darling, use your recovery tools....one foot in front of the other. One step at a time. You will work it out.

♥

saoutchik

Morning everyone, it is the tail end of storm Eleanor here so a windy start to the day.

STDragon

Morning!

Gilmer

Good morning, everyone!

MidnightBlue

Morning, weekenders!

The gym is finally open after the New Year break. So going to hit it in an hour or so.

I feel like my muscles have atrophied already)

LBrain

Happy New Year to all. Spring is just around the corner, the days are getting longer - up here in the northern hemisphere at anyway. Soon time to think about starting seeds for the garden, dusting off the camping gear - unless your are a sadist who likes to camp in freezing weather - and preparing yourself for the rebirth that spring brings with it.
Spring has much more meaning when you are sober on its arrival. To many of you, this will be your first real spring in a very long time. You have the opportunity to view things and actually SEE the changes that take place. Go into the new year with the resolve to make it the most special year of your life. Be part of the rebirth, experience it. Stay sober my friends.

venuscat

Oh what a beautiful post LBrain..... ♥♥♥♥♥

MidnightBlue

Hi, LBrain. Great post!

I am back from the gym and almost all my gym-maniac buddies were there.

Still feel lost in reality. Gym is the only place which grounds me.

See you)

venuscat

(((Midnight))) ♥

saoutchik

Good post LBrain, I am very much looking forward to Spring.

I have finally got a new desk at work, my old one was borderline antique. I am easy pleased.