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I hope everyone had a good day today.  This day usually brings reminders of sadness, but today I kept myself busy being constructive. As everyone is out hitting the sales, going fishing, camping, BBQing or whatever they do on long weekends, I stayed home and worked all day on a project.  The phrase "happy Memorial Day" is an oxymoron that I find disturbing.  To me, every day is Memorial Day.  I dealt with it by keeping busy building a loft bed, staircase and storage closet underneath the bed and stairs.   Tomorrow I'll finish the project and start on something else.  I'm pleased with myself that despite lots of negative memories and emotions, I wasn't tempted at all to plan a trip to the liquor store.  That's progress!  At times, thinking like a sober person comes naturally...other times it takes effort!

Jerricka



-- Edited by Coogi on Tuesday 26th of May 2015 12:28:11 AM

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Hi Jerricka. Yes, ANY holiday can bring mixed emotions. That was especially true for me when I was fairly new at sobriety. But that has certainly changed over the years, and this Memorial Day was really good for me. I got sober in southern California many years ago and then moved about 400 miles north, up here to the San Francisco bay area when I was about six years sober. I really missed all of my friends from those early meetings, but we do still get to stay in touch and that's what I did this Memorial Day weekend. Some of my old friends come up here every few years to go camping a few hundred miles north of here near Eureka, in the Humboldt County redwoods, and they invited me to drive up and meet them for the weekend. That area up there is absolutely gorgeous. It was really good to see them again, share old memories and get each other caught up on what's new in our lives. In some ways, looking back on those days of my early sobriety in SoCal seem like just yesterday and sometimes it feels like a a completely different life. But I guess the point is that, as I've stayed sober, I've been able to build up an entire history of new sober memories, some recent, some from years ago. Time puts all things in perspective, and looking back, I wouldn't change a thing. BTW feel free to update us with some pix of the house in its new location! 



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