Today I can- a simple thread
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: SoCal
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Today I ate healthy meals and stayed on my weight watcher's plan and didn't over-eat out of drunk hunger. Tonight, I can actually sleep, not pass out, and I won't have to make myself puke up bile in the middle of the night. Life is good!
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Join Date: Oct 2016
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Today I can be ill (I have some bug) and actually ask someone to drop me in a couple of things I need, instead of just pretending I am ill (either drinking or hungover) and refusing all offers of help, because I am hiding this fact from people.
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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1. I drove my car to attend a routine yearly health scan, at midday; that I've missed for the last six years.
2. Later, I'll drive myself to the vet's surgery to collect my dog at 6pm.
I'd be over the drink/drive limit by midday and multiple times over by 6pm, therefore I couldn't drive. So today I can do a simple thing, like sitting in my car and driving myself at any time of day. I am no longer a self-imposed prisoner in my home, due to listening to the AV.
2. Later, I'll drive myself to the vet's surgery to collect my dog at 6pm.
I'd be over the drink/drive limit by midday and multiple times over by 6pm, therefore I couldn't drive. So today I can do a simple thing, like sitting in my car and driving myself at any time of day. I am no longer a self-imposed prisoner in my home, due to listening to the AV.
Reach Out and Touch Faith
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: On a Sailboat
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Today I can celebrate the Cubs going to the World Series instead of drinking my sorrows over the Dodgers loss. It was the Cubs after all that started my family legacy of loving baseball through my grandfather who was two years old the last time his Cubs won the World Series.
As a teen he moved out to California and didn't have a team until the Dodgers moved here in the 50s. Ever since then Vin has been a family member to three generations of our family.
I love the fact now I see the glass half full instead of half empty as alcohol made my whole world so depressing.
As a teen he moved out to California and didn't have a team until the Dodgers moved here in the 50s. Ever since then Vin has been a family member to three generations of our family.
I love the fact now I see the glass half full instead of half empty as alcohol made my whole world so depressing.
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Missouri
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Today I was able to take care of my 89 year old Mom's needs and be there for my son when he needed me for a simple errand but both big deals to me when I would usually be hiding in my room with alcohol
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: UK
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Today I'm grateful for my family and my dogs here together with me on holiday and we are all happier than when parent(s) used to drink! The sun is shining and we are off walking along the coast path
Driving my wagon of hope through beautiful views on my road to myself
Driving my wagon of hope through beautiful views on my road to myself
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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Cooked a meal from scratch. Roast pork, baked red cabbage and red onion, new potatoes and courgettes with tomatoes and spices.
So thrilled to be cooking again. It's been a long time.
When drinking, it was the instant gratification monster in charge. Frozen pizza, ready meals, crisps, biscuits and chocolate.
So thrilled to be cooking again. It's been a long time.
When drinking, it was the instant gratification monster in charge. Frozen pizza, ready meals, crisps, biscuits and chocolate.
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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Just sat, soaking in the glory of the colours and shapes of the autumnal leaves. Hanging by threads, rotating in the breeze, becoming detached, then spinning to the ground in all their glory.
Where have I been all my life? Not present, that's for sure. Plus, transfixed by the low sloping sun, catching the cobwebs on the grass and spinning off rainbows.
Then I looked up, heard a noise and amazingly, it was the sound of a crow, flying overhead. I could actually hear it's wing beats! All of my senses are so much more acute since stopping drinking.
This planet has such miraculously simple beauty and I've been blind to it.
Where have I been all my life? Not present, that's for sure. Plus, transfixed by the low sloping sun, catching the cobwebs on the grass and spinning off rainbows.
Then I looked up, heard a noise and amazingly, it was the sound of a crow, flying overhead. I could actually hear it's wing beats! All of my senses are so much more acute since stopping drinking.
This planet has such miraculously simple beauty and I've been blind to it.
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Collect the autumnal fallen leaves from the ground. Bag them, hoping they'll turn into compost for next year.
When drinking, I'd leave the leaves on the ground, destroying the grass beneath due to loss of light. Eventually the earthworms would drag them underground, as the surface turned muddy.
When drinking, I'd leave the leaves on the ground, destroying the grass beneath due to loss of light. Eventually the earthworms would drag them underground, as the surface turned muddy.
Reach Out and Touch Faith
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: On a Sailboat
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Today I am having a late night study session with pizza. When drinking I didn't have much of an appetite and couldn't afford the pizza anyway. And there is no way I would be able to study and comprehend my courses in Constitutional Law and Counterterrorism
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: South East England
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Today I am grateful that I woke up without a hangover and hating myself for being such a loser. I am present in my own life and I have choices. I don't have to stumble along in the darkness anymore.
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