Alcoholics Anonymous

Bluehousegreen · Bluehousegreen

Hi guys, I don't know if I'm in the correct forum, I see so many different threads on here, but I figured I would give this a try anyway. I'm a man in my early thirties, and I have been drinking(but not actually getting drunk all the time) on a daily basis for six years. The reasons for why I wanted to give up...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

You should accept the things you can't change You should change the things you can't accept Th tricky bit Knowing which is which stolen from "Baby John"(th original 11 10 Men)

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. --Claude McDonald If we're to stay straight, we have to be prepared for peer pressure. If anyone tries to get us to use or do what we know is wrong, we have to be prepared. Whether we're prepared to walk away, say "No thanks,&q...

Mike B. · Mike B.

September 5 "My Higher Power works incognito, defying definition and requiring faith."

nezyb · nezyb

AA has led me on a spiritual journey, in search of a greater understanding of who I am and what my core values and beliefs are. Currently I am reading a book entitled "My Spiritual Journey", by the Dalai Lama. All of my life I've heard and read many of his quotes and affirmations, and when I saw t...

justadrunk · justadrunk

I use the line "you are where you're suppose to be" ALL. THE. TIME. It's my self talk - it's the talk I say out loud. It's my faith. My dear friend who is brilliant, and one I've known since my freshman year in college - is now a doctor and is terribly ripped apart these days with PTSD, and nearly s...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene

Angell · Angell

I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else to find this to be their truth as well; in fact, I'd be quite surprised if anyone did. There has been conversation recently, not for the first time I'm sure, about why 'God' allows bad things to happen to good people. Pappy had explained his view within the thread...

Fyne Spirit · Fyne Spirit

It's a well known fact that I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I've never understood that passage in the stories section of the big book where "acceptance is the answer to all my problems..everything is as its supposed to be" I shudder when I hear it and I guess that's because I have only ever hea...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

We are giving birth to ourselves. Let's be midwives to one another through this difficult, yet exhilarating, process. --Dudley Martineau Helping each other survive the traumas of our lives strengthens us. We can't be overwhelmed by any experience if we rely on each other for support as we walk thro...

Tanin · Tanin

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/01/us-swimmer-nyad-looking-very-good-after-...

bikerbill · bikerbill

Thought I'd better check in - been a bit busy, moved house, joined the property owning classes again - at my age! It's been stressful - broadband was down for two weeks - I've had a joiner working for me for a couple of weeks. Although I could do it myself, it's more efficient to get someone in who does this f...

Mike B. · Mike B.

September 4 "AA is spiritual, is the eye of the hurricane, is my refuge and my comfort."

Tanin · Tanin

Here's an interesting WaPa article I came across about alcoholism in America. The magnitude of the problem is enormous (behind only smoking and obesity in life-threatening consequences).But science is making some strides in addressing the problem, both in concert with AA and separate from. Of p...

Sober Strummer · Sober Strummer

Good Morning! A few recent posts here and events at work and home got me thinking. It feels to me like this new life, with my Higher Power and step guide for living, comes in layers. baby steps at work, gradual moves up, all with AA principles providing the power for them better relationships with wife, d...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A problem well stated is a problem half solved. --Charles F. Kettering Denial never really goes away, it creeps into everyone's life. We may admit we're powerless over alcohol and drugs but still believe it was the school's fault that we were suspended. Denial is especially dangerous for us, becaus...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude-the attitude of courage, frankness and good cheer. To think rightly is to create.." - Elbert Hubbard

Mike B. · Mike B.

September 3 "I had a really good reason for working Step Nine and making amends to my family and friends. I didn't want a parade of people at my funeral singing, 'Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!'"

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways." - Samuel McChord Crothers

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Listening and Sharing Let us review what others have said about listening and sharing: "To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." --Churton Collins "They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles....

Atropine · Atropine

Hello, i am new to internet chat eccept a bit when i have gamed online. I want to tell you something up front. I have been banned by my homegroup today. The police told me so. I used this group to sober up 3.5 years ago. When I joined it, my temp sponsor pointed at the old guy starting my new group ad said, &qu...

Angell · Angell

I spent the day at a fair yesterday while my wife was working a booth. I am sometimes really not good around other people; yesterday was one of those days. I allowed someone to push a button and I responded with all ego. It was, in retrospect, so ugly and very disappointing. I will do better in the futu...

gonee · gonee

Many thanks to God and my brothers and sisters on this forum. This success is a tribute to you for caring and sharing with me. My online meeting with you any time of day and night, across huge time zones, has been such a blessing to me. I am closer to you then many who I meet face to face every day. The 1st day I c...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I have to laugh at the times Ive knocked myself out over a tough spot only to find out afterwards there was an easier way through. --Robert Franklin Leslie We receive messages throughout the day that tell us ways of doing things. The door to the store says, Pull. The red light tells us not to drive throug...

Angell · Angell

At 10:11am this morning I had just entered a pawn shop looking for a home phone...ours went kaput three days ago and money is tight so I thought I'd try there first. I know it was 10:11am because my cell phone rang at that moment. It was a man in the program who had the good sense to call before he relapsed...

jmcorygun · jmcorygun

I was speaking at a meeting last Monday on Step 11, and this came out my mouth, "It is impossible for an atheist to hate God." I have no idea where it came from, whether I read it or heard it somewhere. For years in sobriety (dry drunk) I hated God, and tried to be an atheist, as well (no hypocr...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Constant togetherness is fine But only for Siamese twins. --Victoria Billings Newcomer I heard someone in recovery say, "I dont have relationships, I take hostages." Everyone laughed, but it left me feeling insecure about how to evaluate my own relationships. How close is too close? S...

Random68 · Random68

When I first discovered the 12 steps in another program, 15yrs ago, I had a question come up whenever I heard another person's trials, tribulations, stories. No matter who it was talking or when, I began a comparison game. I only did this much of.... And they did so much more/different/worse/less...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. --Sir Winston Churchill How many times today will we think or say, "I wish I knew what was going to happen"? We can find contentment in the knowledge that God will take care of us, regardless of t...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience" - Eleanor Hibbert

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I have posted this before, with very few comments, but I want to repost it because I find such 'inspiration' from it ... I don't know if in the past whether others could not afford the 3 1/2 minutes to watch it or they were just not in the mood, who knows ... This short clip really does say a lot to me and makes m...

betterthanyesterday52 · betterthanyesterday52

I am again coming to you guys for help, as there is no one at the meetings I feel comfortable talking to about this...tomorrow I get to pick up my 90 day chip. Haven't missed any meetings for all those days and feeling quite good. I love the meetings I have been going to and there is only one women's group dur...

Mike B. · Mike B.

August 30 "Happiness or tragedy might just depend upon a slight sign of recognition, a nod of the head or perhaps a friendly smile."

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

A young man learns what's most important in life from the guy next door. Over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday." Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days. "Jack, di...

Jerry F · Jerry F

and I'm smiling. My wife told me tonight that her eldest son called and announced his 24 year clean and sober which just makes me smile out loud. When my wife and I met in program and on our first sit down at her home where I was gonna be fed mexican style soft tacos (it wasn't force fed that's for sure) J wa...

Col · Col

I have recently found myself pulling away from AA. It began at around the year mark. I am an isolator- always have been. I don't trust people and I generally keep them at arms length. I thought I was working really hard at overcoming this. If I am honest with myself, I have not. I am still holding onto this f...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus

Mike B. · Mike B.

August 29 "Not only ... could spiritual experiences make people saner, they could transform men and women so that they could do, feel, and believe what had hitherto been impossible to them. It mattered little whether these awakenings were sudden or gradual; their variety could be almost in...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"It requires the eye of wisdom and bravery to see the radiance of a dark day, and impart its brightness to the world." - Ella E. Dodson

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Reflection for the Day In a very real sense, we are imprisoned by our inability or unwillingness to reach out for help to a Power greater than ourselves. But in time, we pray to be relieved of the bondage of self, so that we can better do God's will. In the words of Ramakrishna, "The sun and moon are n...

Mike B. · Mike B.

August 28 "Not drinking is the first requirement for joy; the second requirement is gratitude."

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

"Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change." - Joe Konrath

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well: devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. --Florida Scott Maxwell In our quiet moments we dream of the gifts that accompany being loved and imagine ourselves as alway...

justadrunk · justadrunk

As a child - it didn't bother me much to swim in mucky waters... filled with seaweed or blood suckers or whatever else I didn't want to really know about. I'd get a bucket of tadpoles and drag them back up to the house several corn fields away, only to be told by my mother to TAKE THEM BACK!!! I loved all 125...

Angell · Angell

At the moment my beloved wife is upstairs shooting up. She relapsed two days ago though I just found out an hour ago. She is on parole and the consequences of a dirty UA is life without parole. She says that she wants to quit tomorrow and is willing to go to a meeting tonight. Of course, addiction has he...

turninggrey · turninggrey

My wife and I have been agonizing over moving the family closer to my work. The kids are 11 and 13, and it is tough moving. My wife and I made a lot of military moves over the years, and had settled into my current house for 10 years. We have made a lot of friends here in South Carolina, but if I move to Fla, I can...

Pythonpappy · Pythonpappy

Okay boys, ... Here we go ... A blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She'd seen many books on the subject and finally getting all of the necessary tools together, she made for the ice. After positioning her comfy footstool, she started to make a circular cut in the ice. Suddenly, from the sky, a voice boo...

Zoomtopz · Zoomtopz

at 1st . You put your whole self in........... me thunk you get th drift........

Random68 · Random68

Yesterday was my Friday. It had a rough start that I conquered and perservered over until by the end of the day I was all smiles. But I had that thinking in the back of my head. That stuff that allows me to make a choice before I can't make a choice. The Little Voice (vice) was saying, "Just a lil'bi...

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	Advice on Withdrawal? (Preview) Hi guys, I don't know if I'm in the correct forum, I see so many different threads on here, but I figured I would give this a try anyway. I'm a man in my early thirties, and I have been drinking(but not actually getting drunk all the time) on a daily basis for six years. The reasons for why I wanted to give up...	Bluehousegreen	10	596	Sep 5, 2013 by Tanin
	??? athiest , serenity prayer ??? (Preview) You should accept the things you can't change You should change the things you can't accept Th tricky bit Knowing which is which stolen from "Baby John"(th original 11 10 Men)	Zoomtopz	5	372	Sep 5, 2013 by mandm
	Today's Gift (Preview) Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. --Claude McDonald If we're to stay straight, we have to be prepared for peer pressure. If anyone tries to get us to use or do what we know is wrong, we have to be prepared. Whether we're prepared to walk away, say "No thanks,&q...	Pythonpappy	3	392	Sep 5, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) September 5 "My Higher Power works incognito, defying definition and requiring faith."	Mike B.	2	254	Sep 5, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	A stop along the way..... (Preview) AA has led me on a spiritual journey, in search of a greater understanding of who I am and what my core values and beliefs are. Currently I am reading a book entitled "My Spiritual Journey", by the Dalai Lama. All of my life I've heard and read many of his quotes and affirmations, and when I saw t...	nezyb	6	448	Sep 5, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	You are where you are suppose to be. (Preview) I use the line "you are where you're suppose to be" ALL. THE. TIME. It's my self talk - it's the talk I say out loud. It's my faith. My dear friend who is brilliant, and one I've known since my freshman year in college - is now a doctor and is terribly ripped apart these days with PTSD, and nearly s...	justadrunk	21	612	Sep 5, 2013 by HTW
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene	Pythonpappy	2	286	Sep 5, 2013 by Sober Strummer
	Why bad things happen to good people - an opinion (Preview) I certainly wouldn't expect anyone else to find this to be their truth as well; in fact, I'd be quite surprised if anyone did. There has been conversation recently, not for the first time I'm sure, about why 'God' allows bad things to happen to good people. Pappy had explained his view within the thread...	Angell	10	600	Sep 5, 2013 by Angell
	A FINE LINE BETWEEN ACCEPTANCE AND DENIAL (Preview) It's a well known fact that I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I've never understood that passage in the stories section of the big book where "acceptance is the answer to all my problems..everything is as its supposed to be" I shudder when I hear it and I guess that's because I have only ever hea...	Fyne Spirit	17	917	Sep 5, 2013 by Fyne Spirit
	Today's Gift (Preview) We are giving birth to ourselves. Let's be midwives to one another through this difficult, yet exhilarating, process. --Dudley Martineau Helping each other survive the traumas of our lives strengthens us. We can't be overwhelmed by any experience if we rely on each other for support as we walk thro...	Pythonpappy	1	302	Sep 4, 2013 by Mike B.
	Diana Nyad Never Gives Up (Preview) http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/01/us-swimmer-nyad-looking-very-good-after-...	Tanin	7	403	Sep 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Eyup, s'meeeeee (Preview) Thought I'd better check in - been a bit busy, moved house, joined the property owning classes again - at my age! It's been stressful - broadband was down for two weeks - I've had a joiner working for me for a couple of weeks. Although I could do it myself, it's more efficient to get someone in who does this f...	bikerbill	10	571	Sep 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) September 4 "AA is spiritual, is the eye of the hurricane, is my refuge and my comfort."	Mike B.	1	283	Sep 4, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	More About Alcholism (Preview) Here's an interesting WaPa article I came across about alcoholism in America. The magnitude of the problem is enormous (behind only smoking and obesity in life-threatening consequences).But science is making some strides in addressing the problem, both in concert with AA and separate from. Of p...	Tanin	10	785	Sep 4, 2013 by Jerry F
	Layers of sanity - The Flapjack Syndrome (Preview) Good Morning! A few recent posts here and events at work and home got me thinking. It feels to me like this new life, with my Higher Power and step guide for living, comes in layers. baby steps at work, gradual moves up, all with AA principles providing the power for them better relationships with wife, d...	Sober Strummer	14	700	Sep 4, 2013 by Mike D
	Today's Gift (Preview) A problem well stated is a problem half solved. --Charles F. Kettering Denial never really goes away, it creeps into everyone's life. We may admit we're powerless over alcohol and drugs but still believe it was the school's fault that we were suspended. Denial is especially dangerous for us, becaus...	Pythonpappy	2	252	Sep 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude-the attitude of courage, frankness and good cheer. To think rightly is to create.." - Elbert Hubbard	Pythonpappy	1	271	Sep 3, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) September 3 "I had a really good reason for working Step Nine and making amends to my family and friends. I didn't want a parade of people at my funeral singing, 'Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!'"	Mike B.	1	412	Sep 3, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways." - Samuel McChord Crothers	Pythonpappy	2	326	Sep 3, 2013 by Sober Strummer
	Today's Gift (Preview) Listening and Sharing Let us review what others have said about listening and sharing: "To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." --Churton Collins "They that will not be counseled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap you on the knuckles....	Pythonpappy	0	289	Sep 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Im brand new to this forum. (Preview) Hello, i am new to internet chat eccept a bit when i have gamed online. I want to tell you something up front. I have been banned by my homegroup today. The police told me so. I used this group to sober up 3.5 years ago. When I joined it, my temp sponsor pointed at the old guy starting my new group ad said, &qu...	Atropine	20	803	Sep 2, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Ego (Preview) I spent the day at a fair yesterday while my wife was working a booth. I am sometimes really not good around other people; yesterday was one of those days. I allowed someone to push a button and I responded with all ego. It was, in retrospect, so ugly and very disappointing. I will do better in the futu...	Angell	8	574	Sep 2, 2013 by Tipsy McStagger
	25 years sober in AA. (Preview) Many thanks to God and my brothers and sisters on this forum. This success is a tribute to you for caring and sharing with me. My online meeting with you any time of day and night, across huge time zones, has been such a blessing to me. I am closer to you then many who I meet face to face every day. The 1st day I c...	gonee	19	2395	Sep 1, 2013 by Tanin
	Today's Gift (Preview) I have to laugh at the times Ive knocked myself out over a tough spot only to find out afterwards there was an easier way through. --Robert Franklin Leslie We receive messages throughout the day that tell us ways of doing things. The door to the store says, Pull. The red light tells us not to drive throug...	Pythonpappy	3	279	Sep 1, 2013 by gonee
	Twelve Step call (Preview) At 10:11am this morning I had just entered a pawn shop looking for a home phone...ours went kaput three days ago and money is tight so I thought I'd try there first. I know it was 10:11am because my cell phone rang at that moment. It was a man in the program who had the good sense to call before he relapsed...	Angell	8	539	Sep 1, 2013 by Tanin
	It is impossible for an athiest to hate God (Preview) I was speaking at a meeting last Monday on Step 11, and this came out my mouth, "It is impossible for an atheist to hate God." I have no idea where it came from, whether I read it or heard it somewhere. For years in sobriety (dry drunk) I hated God, and tried to be an atheist, as well (no hypocr...	jmcorygun	9	477	Sep 1, 2013 by Sober Strummer
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde	Pythonpappy	0	278	Aug 31, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) Constant togetherness is fine But only for Siamese twins. --Victoria Billings Newcomer I heard someone in recovery say, "I dont have relationships, I take hostages." Everyone laughed, but it left me feeling insecure about how to evaluate my own relationships. How close is too close? S...	Pythonpappy	0	332	Aug 31, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Far enough down? (Preview) When I first discovered the 12 steps in another program, 15yrs ago, I had a question come up whenever I heard another person's trials, tribulations, stories. No matter who it was talking or when, I began a comparison game. I only did this much of.... And they did so much more/different/worse/less...	Random68	7	564	Aug 31, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. --Sir Winston Churchill How many times today will we think or say, "I wish I knew what was going to happen"? We can find contentment in the knowledge that God will take care of us, regardless of t...	Pythonpappy	2	275	Aug 31, 2013 by Sober Strummer
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience" - Eleanor Hibbert	Pythonpappy	2	281	Aug 31, 2013 by Sober Strummer
	Inspiration 365 Days a Year (Preview) I have posted this before, with very few comments, but I want to repost it because I find such 'inspiration' from it ... I don't know if in the past whether others could not afford the 3 1/2 minutes to watch it or they were just not in the mood, who knows ... This short clip really does say a lot to me and makes m...	Pythonpappy	1	537	Aug 30, 2013 by mrpeel
	How to Handle Stuff at Meetings (Preview) I am again coming to you guys for help, as there is no one at the meetings I feel comfortable talking to about this...tomorrow I get to pick up my 90 day chip. Haven't missed any meetings for all those days and feeling quite good. I love the meetings I have been going to and there is only one women's group dur...	betterthanyesterday52	34	795	Aug 30, 2013 by betterthanyesterday52
	Grapevine (Preview) August 30 "Happiness or tragedy might just depend upon a slight sign of recognition, a nod of the head or perhaps a friendly smile."	Mike B.	1	308	Aug 30, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	A Great Short Story about 'Time' ... (Preview) A young man learns what's most important in life from the guy next door. Over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Belser died last night. The funeral is Wednesday." Memories flashed through his mind like an old newsreel as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days. "Jack, di...	Pythonpappy	3	430	Aug 30, 2013 by Jerry F
	Good time flying by (Preview) and I'm smiling. My wife told me tonight that her eldest son called and announced his 24 year clean and sober which just makes me smile out loud. When my wife and I met in program and on our first sit down at her home where I was gonna be fed mexican style soft tacos (it wasn't force fed that's for sure) J wa...	Jerry F	8	392	Aug 30, 2013 by Pablomoses
	I need this fellowship AND want it (Preview) I have recently found myself pulling away from AA. It began at around the year mark. I am an isolator- always have been. I don't trust people and I generally keep them at arms length. I thought I was working really hard at overcoming this. If I am honest with myself, I have not. I am still holding onto this f...	Col	11	621	Aug 29, 2013 by Stepchild
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus	Pythonpappy	4	400	Aug 29, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Grapevine (Preview) August 29 "Not only ... could spiritual experiences make people saner, they could transform men and women so that they could do, feel, and believe what had hitherto been impossible to them. It mattered little whether these awakenings were sudden or gradual; their variety could be almost in...	Mike B.	1	291	Aug 29, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "It requires the eye of wisdom and bravery to see the radiance of a dark day, and impart its brightness to the world." - Ella E. Dodson	Pythonpappy	1	371	Aug 29, 2013 by Mike B.
	Today's Gift (Preview) Reflection for the Day In a very real sense, we are imprisoned by our inability or unwillingness to reach out for help to a Power greater than ourselves. But in time, we pray to be relieved of the bondage of self, so that we can better do God's will. In the words of Ramakrishna, "The sun and moon are n...	Pythonpappy	1	298	Aug 29, 2013 by Mike B.
	Grapevine (Preview) August 28 "Not drinking is the first requirement for joy; the second requirement is gratitude."	Mike B.	2	298	Aug 28, 2013 by Sober Strummer
	Sunrise Quote (Preview) "Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change." - Joe Konrath	Pythonpappy	4	361	Aug 28, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Today's Gift (Preview) I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well: devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. --Florida Scott Maxwell In our quiet moments we dream of the gifts that accompany being loved and imagine ourselves as alway...	Pythonpappy	1	390	Aug 28, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	Swimming in seaweed. (Preview) As a child - it didn't bother me much to swim in mucky waters... filled with seaweed or blood suckers or whatever else I didn't want to really know about. I'd get a bucket of tadpoles and drag them back up to the house several corn fields away, only to be told by my mother to TAKE THEM BACK!!! I loved all 125...	justadrunk	6	467	Aug 28, 2013 by Jerry F
	As we speak... (Preview) At the moment my beloved wife is upstairs shooting up. She relapsed two days ago though I just found out an hour ago. She is on parole and the consequences of a dirty UA is life without parole. She says that she wants to quit tomorrow and is willing to go to a meeting tonight. Of course, addiction has he...	Angell	12	527	Aug 28, 2013 by Rob84
	Been B U S Y. Exercising the "Giving it to my HP" power. (Preview) My wife and I have been agonizing over moving the family closer to my work. The kids are 11 and 13, and it is tough moving. My wife and I made a lot of military moves over the years, and had settled into my current house for 10 years. We have made a lot of friends here in South Carolina, but if I move to Fla, I can...	turninggrey	5	417	Aug 28, 2013 by turninggrey
	For Mike B & MrPeel --- Let's go Blonde!!! (Preview) Okay boys, ... Here we go ... A blonde wanted to go ice fishing. She'd seen many books on the subject and finally getting all of the necessary tools together, she made for the ice. After positioning her comfy footstool, she started to make a circular cut in the ice. Suddenly, from the sky, a voice boo...	Pythonpappy	10	493	Aug 28, 2013 by Pythonpappy
	a place ofchange (Preview) at 1st . You put your whole self in........... me thunk you get th drift........	Zoomtopz	2	328	Aug 28, 2013 by davep12and12
	Impulses (Preview) Yesterday was my Friday. It had a rough start that I conquered and perservered over until by the end of the day I was all smiles. But I had that thinking in the back of my head. That stuff that allows me to make a choice before I can't make a choice. The Little Voice (vice) was saying, "Just a lil'bi...	Random68	9	465	Aug 27, 2013 by Random68
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