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Old 05-16-2024, 02:26 AM
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Hey everyone

Lately I’ve been hooked on YouTube psychic tarot card readings for my zodiac sign….having to step away from that….even one of the readings told me I was watching too many of them

Happy to sign in for another sober weekend
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Old 05-16-2024, 02:33 AM
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Thanks Mags. I'm IN for another sober weekend!

As no-one has called it, I'll call SHOTGUN!
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Old 05-16-2024, 02:35 AM
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I also felt like I'd missed out on something by not seeing the Northern Lights. Than again, everyone who did so, seems to have seen them via a camera and a night setting for taking photographs. It doesn't seem as if many people actually saw them with the naked eye.
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Old 05-16-2024, 03:16 AM
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Originally Posted by DeplorableDog View Post
The truth is you didn't really lose anything. As an alcoholic the only way you can lose is if you drink.
Love this DD. So true. Congratulations on 316 days….50 days off a year and counting!


Congratulations on shotgun Robbie where we are you could see them with the naked eye. Right over our roofs. If I’d been awake. Funnily though I looked on security camera to see if it picked them up and it was just full of disturbances on it.

Hi Peke good to see you nice that you had a fun time and met nice new people.

Runner congratulations on 591

Thanks Hodd and Hi I’ve noticed us alcoholics are a good people without the drink.

Hi Purps! You gave me a chuckle about your YouTube reading.

Hi ZenCat good to see you.

Hope I haven’t missed anyone.

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Old 05-16-2024, 03:29 AM
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I also felt like I'd missed out on something by not seeing the Northern Lights. Than again, everyone who did so, seems to have seen them via a camera and a night setting for taking photographs. It doesn't seem as if many people actually saw them with the naked eye.
This is so true. All the pics on fb are through HD lenses. I saw them with the naked eye and they were just fleeting pink streaks. Nothing at all like the posted pics. 🤣
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Old 05-16-2024, 03:42 AM
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Thanks Mags
Timely thread as always.

I hate to have to say this but my latest obsession is weed. Pot. Marijuana.

My AV came in the side door.

What started as a small bit to fight some anxiety and get some motivation has turned into just another addiction. An obsession.

My addictive logic told me its used in the medical field for these issues.
It told me others use pills, given by dr., so what's wrong with using a natural product?
It told me I could easily get a prescription for medical Marijuana.
It told me how weed used to give me energy and motivate me.
It told me I can just do a little to get through.
It told me I would just take as needed.

B efen S

I am now stuck in the same addictive cycle I was with alcohol.

Not anymore.
Today is Day1


I too did not see the Northern Lights. Thanks to my obsession.
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Old 05-16-2024, 03:45 AM
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Felt crummy and laid down with Billie at 8, woke up at 3 am feeling a bit better. Took care of the cats and Billie, then took her out back to pee. Now about to go back to bed.

So glad I have my snuggle buddy to snuggle with when I feel rotten. She always soothes me, just by lying next to me, and feeling her warm soft fur.

I am reminded of my addiction to alcohol every day, when the memories of some of my actions come to me. I regret them deeply but am glad to know in my heart that I'll never do anything like that again.

Good OP Mags!
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Least- I’m sorry to hear that you’re not feeling great. It’s good that you listened to your body and that you got some rest. Dogs are great snugglers. Daisy is at my feet now,
I hope that you’re feeling better Lesh. Depression is the worst. I’m thinking of you. I hope that you check in with us soon.
Congratulations on day one Fish!
We’ve gotten some generous extensions from our main client at my work. I’m only part-time. But since the death of my colleague I’m working more. (She was only 43 and had a stroke). I had bike club last evening but even so I wasn’t able to sleep that well.
I have my book club tonight. But the hockey playoffs will be recording. Might only stay an hour or two. Not sure yet.
Hugs to all of you.
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least, I hope you feel better soon
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Old 05-16-2024, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by fishkiller View Post
I hate to have to say this but my latest obsession is weed. Pot. Marijuana.

My AV came in the side door.

What started as a small bit to fight some anxiety and get some motivation has turned into just another addiction. An obsession.

My addictive logic told me its used in the medical field for these issues.
It told me others use pills, given by dr., so what's wrong with using a natural product?
It told me I could easily get a prescription for medical Marijuana.
It told me how weed used to give me energy and motivate me.
It told me I can just do a little to get through.
It told me I would just take as needed.

B efen S

I am now stuck in the same addictive cycle I was with alcohol.

Not anymore.
Today is Day1
I was stunned when I initially read this a few hours ago. I am still a bit stunned reading it again. I consider myself a bit naive on this subject. If I wanted to do Marijuana or any other illegal drug I would have no clue where to go get it at. And I think I would nowadays be too paranoid to try any because how do you know it is not laced with fentanyl? I have read that marijuana, cocaine and heroin are all potentially laced with fentanyl by the dealer to give them more kick so people will come back and buy more from them. The only illegal drug I ever did in my life was back in my early twenties I did speed for a short time. That was when one could buy little minis and white crosses out of magazine classifieds as a diet pill. I used speed when I worked at a convenience store and fairly often had to pull a double and occasionally a triple shift. Good money but long hours. Problem with speed was you could stay up for three days straight but then you might go to bed Friday night and wake up Sunday afternoon. After a time or two of that I quit taking it.
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Old 05-16-2024, 07:33 AM
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DD, it's not illegal everywhere - and if it's sold from a dispensary, it most likely isn't laced. I'm not really condoning it, but it can be fairly safe. I know people who are using marijuana in limited doses for several reasons. I do not judge them. I would not do it, because I have decided I don't want to use anything that is mood-altering. And I also really did not like it the few times I tried it, wayyyy back in the college days. I'd also be afraid that I'd become obsessed with it, because, well, I'm an alcoholic and can't really be trusted not to go overboard. Sorry that you have fallen victim, fishkiller. Best of luck on getting clean of it. You can do it.

Ireland in TWO DAYS! I'm very excited. I will post some pictures when I return in two weeks.
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Old 05-16-2024, 07:43 AM
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(((Least)))
(((Leshar)))
Hoping both of you feel better soon.
Glad to be going into the weekend sober.
Have a great day all!
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Old 05-16-2024, 08:22 AM
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DD, it's not illegal everywhere - and if it's sold from a dispensary, it most likely isn't laced.
I think I live in one of the few states it is still illegal in. I think maybe a doctor can prescribe it. All one has to do is cross the east or west state line to get it though for recreational use. I have been in both of those states multiple times in the last year and have never considered getting any. I believe there is a hefty penalty for bringing it across the state lines.
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Old 05-16-2024, 08:59 AM
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It's still illegal where I live, too, but I am very close to Minnesota, where it is legal for recreational use. 24 states have made it legal now, with more to follow, I am sure. I have mixed feelings about legalizing it. I won't elaborate. I just know that if it becomes legal in my state, I won't be touching it.
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Old 05-16-2024, 09:28 AM
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I read they may not be here again for another twenty years so I checked a trip to Iceland. Not that I’d go but I checked anyways. Why was I acting like this.
Thanks Mags! Just been reading a beginners history of Iceland. In 1755 it was so cold there was year-round pack ice off the north coast and west coast. The population fell to <47,000

"Why do birds suddenly appear
every time, you are near"

Karen Carpenter sang that in the 1970s and as I tried to eat my vegan sausage roll outside Greggs the bakers surrounded by pigeons, I knew just what she was on about.
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Old 05-16-2024, 09:39 AM
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Old 05-16-2024, 10:08 AM
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fishkiller congratulations on day 1

Saou, interesting topic to read. The pigeons aren’t shy are they.

Hi kensie good to see you

Marty,ooh not long now. Have a great holiday! 🇮🇪

Least hope you’re feeling better when you wake up.

Peke Condolences, your colleague was young when she passed. Must’ve been a shock to everyone. Hope your extra hours are manageable. Sorry you didn’t sleep well last night. Hope tonight is better.

Sun’s come out. It’s been an on/off rainy day. Hopefully the sun will stay a while.


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Old 05-16-2024, 10:17 AM
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Hello Weekenders,

Hi Aly, thanks. And many thanks to all those on last week's thread who supported and encouraged me.

Zen, yes, I'm doing the "as if" stuff, just trying to push through and accept the deep sadness when it comes over me, and be grateful for when it breaks and I might laugh at something I heard on the radio, or some such thing. I am most definitely not going to veer from my gym routine. Keeping on moving. I'm going on an urban walk/coffee meeting this afternoon with my hiking group.
Thanks, Mags for the thread. I am in for a sober weekend!
Love to all!
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Sun’s come out. It’s been an on/off rainy day. Hopefully the sun will stay a while.
I'll hope with you for a sunny day

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Zen, yes, I'm doing the "as if" stuff, just trying to push through and accept the deep sadness when it comes over me, and be grateful for when it breaks and I might laugh at something I heard on the radio, or some such thing. I am most definitely not going to veer from my gym routine. Keeping on moving. I'm going on an urban walk/coffee meeting this afternoon with my hiking group.
Thanks, Mags for the thread. I am in for a sober weekend!
Love to all!
Thank you for checking in Leshar. It may help to "name" the emotions that compose your deep sadness. Single out one mood to examine its specific cause. As you know depressive moods are as varied as there many. Having them all clustered f-ed up makes it near impossible to apply a precise treatment practice. This is the small step approach, work on one mood at a time. Can you think of one mood (mood word list) you can work on? No worries if you are not up to recovery work now, maybe think about it

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Thanks Mags
Timely thread as always.

I hate to have to say this but my latest obsession is weed. Pot. Marijuana.

My AV came in the side door.

What started as a small bit to fight some anxiety and get some motivation has turned into just another addiction. An obsession.

My addictive logic told me its used in the medical field for these issues.
It told me others use pills, given by dr., so what's wrong with using a natural product?
It told me I could easily get a prescription for medical Marijuana.
It told me how weed used to give me energy and motivate me.
It told me I can just do a little to get through.
It told me I would just take as needed.

B efen S

I am now stuck in the same addictive cycle I was with alcohol.

Not anymore.
Today is Day1


I too did not see the Northern Lights. Thanks to my obsession.
Fish

Cross addiction (exchanging one addiction for another) is more common than people in recovery think. I spent 9 years collectively in sober houses. I have seen people with ten years sober while strung out hard on pain pills taking a anniversary cake. A friend of mine quit smoking rock and became an alcoholic. So you are not alone Fish, this happens a lot.

OK Day 1 Good

Stick around, post before you pick-up, and you can do this. We are here for you man
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Old 05-16-2024, 11:43 AM
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Thanks Mags
Timely thread as always.

I hate to have to say this but my latest obsession is weed. Pot. Marijuana.

My AV came in the side door.

What started as a small bit to fight some anxiety and get some motivation has turned into just another addiction. An obsession.

My addictive logic told me its used in the medical field for these issues.
It told me others use pills, given by dr., so what's wrong with using a natural product?
It told me I could easily get a prescription for medical Marijuana.
It told me how weed used to give me energy and motivate me.
It told me I can just do a little to get through.
It told me I would just take as needed.

B efen S

I am now stuck in the same addictive cycle I was with alcohol.

Not anymore.
Today is Day1


I too did not see the Northern Lights. Thanks to my obsession.
(((fish))) ❤️❤️

With you every step. s
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