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Caffeine.....
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Is anyone else a caffeine freak? Does it matter? I have been a caffeine guy since I started AA (about 30 years ago now) I ended up drinking diet cola, and it is my current acceptable drug. I tried to kick that habit a couple times, but really, is it that bad? Do we have to have something to take the place of t...
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Nature's Inspiration
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Here's a beautiful 4 min. clip that will inspire you ... ... ... Enjoy!http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/natures-inspiration-v/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-FR-_-11.02.12-_-NATImovie&j=23708&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&u=1034393&mid=7001668&...
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4 days and alcohol all around
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At a party with my daughter. Didn't realize there would be alcohol. Duh. So not easy. I don't feel like I can even talk to anyone. I just stayed in the bathroom for a while. My daughter is running around having a great time. For that I am grateful but I just want to go home. I feel paralyzed here.
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Hi ALL
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Just ben gone long enougth to take care of vrious medical and financial problems that flared up--know I missed a few things but that could not be helped. Love all, and Hope and Pray that all thooses that were in the path of Sandy made it out all right, without too much damage or despare.
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friend
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I just have to get this all out. My friend was diagnosed with lung cancer last week. She was given 6 months to live. She is in so much pain as much as I love her I wish it would end now. She is my best friend's sister This is someone I grew up with. Spent every holiday with. My immediate family is wonderf...
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Sponsoring a spouse
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Could I be my husband's AA sponsor? Thanks for any advice.
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hi...I'm new...again...
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So here I am sober,again. Don't know how many times I have to keep repeating this step over and over again! Sober for 5 years. Drank for 10 yrs. Sober for 2 yrs. Been drinking for 9 mnths and I must say I am just as bad as I ever was even though I tried to control it. Everytime I run to the liquor store to get that b...
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How are you hanging there? (unemployed)
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Hey. I came here for the first time in my life because I just wanted to share my feeling somewhere, where ever. And wanted to know how do you guys do to make yourself feel better when you are depressed and gloomy, in a bad circumstance, such as when you are being unemployed for a long time like 6 months...(i...
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Care packages for those in the storm.
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Well, when it comes to Global warming - sure! Fine - I live in Wisconsin! For me Global warming rocks my socks off! Literally! But the ugly truth is, even while I'm feeling super-dee-dooper about the possibility of a milder winter again this year, I know others are paying dearly. The ugly truth is:...
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Today's Gift 11-01
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Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so. --Emile CorieHow we think about the activities before us is very important. If we think cleaning the garage is hard, dirty, and no chance for fun, that's just how it will feel. We'll be tired before we even begin. However, if we approach it l...
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Full Circle...
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So, I was off again because of Sandy. My sponsor and I went to a noon meeting in a town near home. We were early. There was no electricity. It was in the basement of a local church. No food...Coffee etc... Damn if that meeting wasn't packed. Man, what an awesome meeting. People who have not had pow...
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still hiding today
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I'm still not ready to face my husbands family... 7 months now since he told them of my secret alcohol addiction. I skipped another family gathering today. I explained to my husband that I'm working on this, for our family, because I want us, and him and the kids all to have a normal family experience wh...
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To Mr David and those in the Northeast
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Still praying that you're okay from this storm ... It seems it was of historical proportions ... May God Bless, Pappy
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Today's Gift 10-31
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. --Mark Twain Which of the Twelve Steps teach us how to handle our fear? The Steps that scare us the most! For many of us, that would be Step Three, Step Five, and Step Nine. These Steps ask us to move from one place in our life to a new place....
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'Twas the Night Before Halloween
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No offence PC, ... I just thought this was hilarious! A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her. She asks him why he is staring. He replies: "I have a question to ask you but I don't want to offend you." She answers...
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Coyote
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I saw a coyote this morning. I hadn't seen any for ages and then the last few months I've been seeing them again. They are so awesome. This morning I nearly hit one. She ran right out in front of me. I was so relieved at first and then started playing out scenarios as to what I would have done if I hit her. I reme...
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90 Days!!! I can't believe it.
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AA is alive in my life. Today I get to be sober and live sober. What a tremendous gift. My sponsor gave me her 3 month coin at an open meeting tonight. My wife came and saw me get my coin. I have a support system of people in my life, I am so very grateful. God is great! Kathy
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This newbie feels like a fool
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Spoke up at a beginners meeting this morning. Apparently I was taking too long to get to my point because the facilitator shut me up and called on someone else to speak. Okay, I admit I was taking the round a bout way to my poing but, it was embarrasing and harsh. I feel like at beginners meeting there s...
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For Mr. David
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first.) You know you are too old to Trick or Treat when: 10. You keep knocking on your own front door. 9. You remove your false teeth to change your appearance. 8. You ask for soft high fiber candy only. 7. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, and you lose your balance and fall over. 6. People say: 'G...
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Today's Gift 10-30
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Be strong and of good courage; be not frightened, neither be dismayed.... --Joshua 1:9 It has been said when we are at the end of our rope, we can do one of three things: let go, tie a knot and hang on, or splice the rope and begin again. Whenever we feel there's nowhere to go but down and nobody to turn to, tha...
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Irony
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Tonight I was sitting on my couch watching American Horror Story (great show, by the way) and had a thought that made me laugh: I started wishing DESPERATELY that I could be a "moderate" drinker who didn't enjoy drinking so much. I was thinking about how I wish so much that I could have just on...
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For all you East Coast Sandy victims...
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My thoughts, prayers, and HP are being sent your way...Not even Sandy can take your program... ((((hugs))))
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a 'One' word Aussie song
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The Quest
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Received a email from a old AA friend with the below story and poem. I hope you enjoy and find some meaning and inspiration in it.This poem, "The Quest", was written by a drunk, a sober drunk, who was sober about 5 days. I had twelve stepped Paul out of the French Quarter of New Orleans in 1...
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Day one is just about complete
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Today was harder than I thought. My brain really has done some kind of flip. I could barely throw out what I had left in the house. After 3 meetings today I still wanted to drink it. I threw out the whole bottle of vermouth. Didn't bother pouring it out. I knew that if I unscrewed it I'd drink it. I don't kn...
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Something Cool
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Listening/watching/playing along with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9r_kYpOvW8 Yeah I know it's not a bari sax....
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SANDY
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Batten down the hatches mateys!!! We just moved to south florida in May and didnt get much here except wind gusts.My boy is still up in PK new York,so we are keeping in tune with him.Hey David ,TAKE CARE MAN....Lets us know what sgoing on...............Peace in the East....
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 29, 2012 Quote of the Week "It's a simple program for complicated people" They say that this is a simple program but that it's very hard to follow. I heard this in the beginning of my recovery, but when I read the steps I didn't see why. In fact, the program seemed simple, and I...
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Today's Gift 10-29
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ResentmentOf all the negative emotions, resentment diminishes us the most. It brings unwarranted anger toward those who have something we want, and self-pity for ourselves. It drains us of the energy we need to change our lives and work toward goals. Resentment keeps us in a rigid judgment of who &q...
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the wrong meeting and a little insight.
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Tried to get to a meeting tonight because it turned out that even without having alcohol in the house I still wanted it. So, I get the courage to go and it was a men's meeting! But now it's time for bed so even the time I spent getting ready for the meeting, driving over there, and driving home took up time and...
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Simple Truths
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Sound up ... beautiful 3 min. movie clip to start the day off on the right foot ... http://play.simpletruths.com/movie/finding-joy/?cm_mmc=ExactTarget-_-MO-_-10.29.12-_-FJOYmovie&j=22157&e=rgpapaw@gmail.com&l=3516_HTML&;u=972606&mid=7001668&j...
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What does this mean to you?
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I would like to ponder something for a minute ... what does the following statement mean to you? If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. I think that if we spend the time learning and practicing the program and the principles of AA, we develop a 'reflex' to the presence of alcohol ... and tha...
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Itchy feet
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Something that came up in the drive home from a meeting tonight, and I thought I'd get some thoughts on it. I was talking to a newer member about how I'd spent my life looking for something to fill the void I had in my soul. Drugs, drink, woman, etc. Whatever would get me away from me I'd do to excess, but no...
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First Time on This Message Board
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Hello! I have been in the program for aoubt 18 months - trying to get sober for 3 years. I have yet to put together more then 30 days at a time; I will have a slip - that always end as one glass of wine and ends in drinking at work - driving - lying - and eventually me deathly ill to get back on it. One thing I do is...
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Tools Explained!
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Subject: Tools Explained DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatchingflat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in thechest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-paintedproject which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing c...
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update...
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Hey everyone, just wanted to drop anote tosay I am doing well. All the kids fed bathed and sleeping and I am about to sit down to watch the Vampire hunter. I wanted to see it when it was in theatres but never got the chance so I picked it up today just for tonight. All my friends at various Halloween parties b...
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I didn't squeeze her brains out or slobber all over her face.
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I just hugged her gently, and kissed her softly on the cheeck. Respectfully - it was about her - not me. And then it was about us, and I was loving myself through loving her. -- Edited by justadrunk on Friday 26th of October 2012 12:16:55 PM
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sandy
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Anyone else in her path, CT here. I'm prepared, we learned from last year, twice with out power for 5+ days. So, 5 days of food, a good weeks worth of wood, all flashlights checked and new bats on hand. Candles ready. Even a hotel booked for the week if it gets that bad. Only thing into do yet, which may be dif...
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My 1st Hunt
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My sweet husband invited me to go hunting with him this year. I Couldn't believe it...the first time ever! I never thought he'd be willing to share his 'guy time' with me. And being the thoughtful man that he is, he even gave me an opening day present. He calls it 'The First Timers Lucky Hat'. I'm so fort...
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Recent Medical Results are in!
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Recent Medical Research ResultsRecently, scientists for Health Canada suggested that men should take a look at their beer consumption, considering the results of a recent analysis that revealed the presence of female hormones in beer.The theory is that drinking beer makes men turn into women. T...
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The Mechanics Of Dealing With Anger Part 2
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Twenty some odd years ago I was attending a usual Sunday 11 AM meeting of AA, a regular meeting at Indian Rocks Beach, Fl. There was a then young lady there, fairly new in the program, maybe a year, who told me that she always enjoyed listening to me because of the high minded remarks that I made at the meet...
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Addiction - Surrender - Recovery. Adagio for Strings - Op. 11 Samuel Barber
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This isn't a sad song after all. To me it feels like living with alcohol addiction - surrendering to it - and the calm of recovery. I listened to it laying on the floor in the middle of the room with my surround sound on my freshman year in college. It was one of the first times I drank and felt music differ...
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Peanuts
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I'm the farthest away from being humble. At least I can see it. At least there is a direction. At least I can ask Him for help today, so that's nice. That's still progress for me. Thanks for hangin in there with me, for the support, and for never giving up.
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Daily Reflections ~ Global Sharing & 24hrs a Day
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The only thing that matters is that he is an alcoholic who has found a key to sobriety. These legacies of suffering and of recovery are easily passed among alcoholics, one to the other. This is our gift from God, and its bestowal upon others like us is the one aim that today animates A.A.'s all around the g...
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The Mechanics Of Dealing With Anger Part !
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Am I an expert in this fieldOf Course Not .. An Expert. .Hes someone who lives in the next town. I will say however that coincidentally I have been consciously working on dealing with this very personal matter almost 39 years now, about the same time whence I stumbled into AA got sober and gratefully st...
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Wow! It's a jungle out there!!
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I am not supposed to worship the people, pomp, things, money, the world, the Big Book, even AA. I am only to worship God and Truth. So keeping that in mind, it's a jungle out there! And it depends on where I go, too. Sometimes I have to be really gentle with myself and put myself in places where people are mor...
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Daily Reflections ~ One Ultimate Authority & 24hrs a Day
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For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 132 When I am chosen to carry some small responsibility for my fellows, I ask that God grant me the patience, open-mindedness, and willing...
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Inevitable Return
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Good morning, everyone. I woke up today and had a revelation that probably most people here already know. This is: the reality that alcohol's damage is caused by much more than just what happens when we are actually drunk. I never really understood this until very recently. When I was younger, I use...
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Bad News
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I got some very bad news today; a 46 year old friend of mine when into the ER Tues for back pain. She has cancer in her spine, it has spread everywhere. I want a drink so fucking bad I am shaking. My mouth is literally watering when I think about it. I thought that was just an expression. I didn't know it a...
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Obsession With Trust
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I used to be obsessed with trust. Seems like people were always letting me down, and I was always seeking someone totally trustworthy. Whenever I trusted I got hurt. If I didn't trust, I lived a life of paranoid existence, always believing everyone was out to get me. It was sort of like alcohol... a...
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