To My Secular Friends
Member
sorry you're having a bad time...i do aa but don't believe in god...I think thats suppose to only go on the secular 12 step thread...but wanted to let you know.
I understand your feelings about meetings...i get that way sometimes and it isn't always easy. There are ways to get alot of support from AA, but other ways work too...
I definately want to support all of you and feel like you guys support me most of the time (yeah i have bad days too
)
:ghug3
I understand your feelings about meetings...i get that way sometimes and it isn't always easy. There are ways to get alot of support from AA, but other ways work too...
I definately want to support all of you and feel like you guys support me most of the time (yeah i have bad days too
):ghug3
Knucklehead
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Davenport, WA
Posts: 4,005
I think I'm doing pretty good. Saturday, on my way to the post office, I passed a dead cat in the road just a couple blocks from my house. When I got to the post office, I found that one of my eBay items had been sent back by the post office for being .17 short on postage (my local post office had simply stuck a .17 stamp on it and threw it back in the outgoing mail ). I got a letter from my old bank saying I was overdrawn amounting to $110 in fees. My Paypal debit card had been using my old bank account from before I moved (small bank, no branch here) for backup funding and I had no money in that account. I changed my bank account for Paypal, but didn't realize that the backup funding source for my debit card had to be changed independently. That morning would have been the perfect reason to say [email protected]%* it, but I got on the horn with my old bank, and the girl reassured me that it would be okay, and would have a manager call me on monday. The manager called yesterday, and said she would remove the NSF fees as long as I send money to cover the amount of the withdrawals, which is in the works. I would have drank for nothin'! Yesterdays thread didn't bother me too much either.
Today is day 21, kind of symbolic because I did a 21 day inpatient treatment several years back. I believe I can make it through today (just don't **** me off
).
). I got a letter from my old bank saying I was overdrawn amounting to $110 in fees. My Paypal debit card had been using my old bank account from before I moved (small bank, no branch here) for backup funding and I had no money in that account. I changed my bank account for Paypal, but didn't realize that the backup funding source for my debit card had to be changed independently. That morning would have been the perfect reason to say [email protected]%* it, but I got on the horn with my old bank, and the girl reassured me that it would be okay, and would have a manager call me on monday. The manager called yesterday, and said she would remove the NSF fees as long as I send money to cover the amount of the withdrawals, which is in the works. I would have drank for nothin'! Yesterdays thread didn't bother me too much either.Today is day 21, kind of symbolic because I did a 21 day inpatient treatment several years back. I believe I can make it through today (just don't **** me off
).
Last edited by doorknob; 09-09-2008 at 08:48 AM.
things as it is
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: New York
Posts: 233
Hey doorknob...you are doing great.
A student asked the Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, why Japanese tea cups where made to be so delicate...so easily breakable.
"It's not that they're too delicate," he answered, "but that you don't know how to handle them. You must adjust yourself to the environment, and not vice versa."
I myself have to keep this in mind when it appears things around me become difficult. I can't control "things around me"...I CAN control my reaction to them.
Keep it up!
A student asked the Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, why Japanese tea cups where made to be so delicate...so easily breakable.
"It's not that they're too delicate," he answered, "but that you don't know how to handle them. You must adjust yourself to the environment, and not vice versa."
I myself have to keep this in mind when it appears things around me become difficult. I can't control "things around me"...I CAN control my reaction to them.
Keep it up!
Member
dk - remember how good you are doing right now.....might be something to bring to mind later when you might hit a rough spot....previously met challanges!
I'm doin ok...just trying to focus on the neat part of looking at new houses instead of freaking over all the work!!!!! but still doing the next indicated thing to move forward!
I'm doin ok...just trying to focus on the neat part of looking at new houses instead of freaking over all the work!!!!! but still doing the next indicated thing to move forward!
Knucklehead
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Davenport, WA
Posts: 4,005
Originally Posted by ananda 
So glad you are back DK :ghug
Truley missed your posts.
Give us some more lyrics if you have time!
Truley missed your posts.
Give us some more lyrics if you have time!
All you'd get is Eminem's first album today, maybe a little bit of the second.
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