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$250.00 a month
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Thats what I spend on beer and smokes. Sheese what a waste!!! Add it up over the years and my worst hangover doesnt compare to the wasted feeling I get thinking about all that squandered money. This time next year Im going to have $ 3000.00 I didnt spend!!!! Thinking I want to go to a AA...
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Dec 31 Meditation
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I found a good group
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I'm scrambled, dizzy and over emotional today. About 25 people. Nice folks, down to earth. Two speakers. I made it through the meeting fine, I shook hands an exchanged names with nearly all of them. At the end of the meeting, the moderator said if anyone wanted to joi...
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Welcome to the Guests! come on it
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I can see I am the only member online and there 4 guests, is there anyone that needs to talk?
Someone is usually on line and available if you need any help. Just make a Post, and someone will respond.
So to all the guests! Welcome
Toni -- Edited by Toni Baloney at 19:55, 2005-12-...
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How I made it into the arms of AA
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I'm Chris, alcoholic.
My Mother and Father met in a bar in Biloxi, Ms. He was 26 and she was 14. My Mother looked and dressed much older. She wasn't drinking. She was looking for someone to rescue her.
My Father was a sort of celebrity. Aside from being a cler...
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Some Days I still kick my own ass..all over the place..
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No Regrets Please!
Guest editorial by Dr. Laura B. Lyons
Since life does not have a rewind button, one of the most significant challenges that we face in the process of living is putting regrets behind us. Life does not provide a dress rehearsal for the real thing. The life we are now living is the...
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Daily reflection Dec 31
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First AA meeting
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Well that didn't work. Online and over the phone I was told the meeting started at 7pm. I got there at 7:01pm. I expected about 10 or 15 people, but found the parking lot jammed. Had to park across the street. Right next to the hall was a firehouse and across the street wa...
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hey
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Your presence is a present to the world. You are unique and one of a kind. Your life can be what you want it to be. Take the days just one at a time.
Count your blessings, not your troubles. You will make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong....
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Touchstones - I love this!
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
After we get a new understanding about ourselves we think, "Now I will never have to make the same mistake again!" But our lessons are usually not that easily learned. We have to get the...
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Gratitude
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I am greatful for/to;
That power greater than myself who, gave me a life.
All of my past experiances.
My Father who, abandoned me for alcohol.
My Stepfather who, physically and emtionally tormented me.
My Mother who, allowed it to happen.
My Grandfather who, introduced me to alcohol at...
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Daily Reflection Dec 30
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THE JOY OF LIVING  
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Yesterday..Today...And Tomorrow
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There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is YESTERDAY with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. YESTERDAY has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in t...
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Hi all
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Hi all. Hope you all had a great Christmas. Looks like I've missed a lot on the message board in the last two weeks, I'll have to catch up when I get back home to England.
At the Moment at I'm in Wellington, New Zealand having got married 2 days ago!
Another 2 weeks to go and I'll be home.
Best wishes to y...
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This is NO fun!!!!
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It is 12:10 in California, and I have been the only one this board for about 45 minutes.
I guess most of you live in the time zones where you are all snozzzzzing.
And it's no more fun, so GOOD NITE
Toni
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Attitude Adjustiiiinnnnggg!
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Hi to all,
just want to tell you, some of these posts, and esspecially your Post this a.m. Doll. Was remembering your share all day, thinking about how my background was so similar. anyway it threw me back to when I first got sober, I was thinking of those first few months in Recovery, the ones th...
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is anyone there?
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just wondering if anyone is there to talk to.
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!!!!!Don"t Forget!!!!!
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Emotional and Verbal Abuse
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Emotional and Verbal Abuse by Beth J. Lueders Denying someone access to other relationships. Taunting on the playground. Yelling degrading remarks. Downplaying accomplishments. Threatening to take the children away. From bullying and manipulative mind games to sexual harassment and elder c...
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Fell Short Of Victory
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I had a few drinks.. I feel bad about it, but I live in an area were we have 10 or so friends in the area.. They are all planning a big New Years Eve Thing... It is gonna be very hard.. I don't want to drink.. Just in the short time I have not drank. I feel better and my thinking is more clear..I know I will co...
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Father Leo's meditation
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Article re Depression
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When depressed, I experience:
Couldnt get it on the board..sorry..OOOPS!! There is a God!!
www.coping.org
-- Edited by Phil at 13:33, 2005-12-29 -- Edited by Phil at 13:47, 2005-12-29 -- Edited by Phil at 13:50, 2005-12-29
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Just sharing a bit of ES&H
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I thought since there are several NEW newcomers and I am a newcomer I'd share how and why I got my ass into AA.
I knew for many years I had a drinking problem, was I an alcoholic? I didn't know. I'm a single parent, have a home, a good job, everything I need, most of what I want, never been fired...
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Buenos Dias, Ya'll
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That Power Greater Than Myself has gone and done it again!
I woke up this morning figuring I'd be flying with the angels and he went and gave me one more day above ground.
Have a great day, or whatever kind of day you choose.
UR'E-BRO-N-AA, Chris B.
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Have The Best Day You Can Eh???
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The price of dishonesty is self-destruction. --Rita Mae Brown
There once was a woman who told her husband what she thought he wanted to hear. She told him she was happy when she wasn't. She told him she liked his friends when she didn't. She tried to figure out what he wanted so she could do it for hi...
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Depression?
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Help!
I need any input that may help. I have been in recovery for almost 12 years. For the 12 years I have been actively going to meetings, and involved in almost every area of service that I can think of. The past 6 months or so, I have lost interest in attending meetings, my thinkin...
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More AA humor.....
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At lunch time, a recovering alcoholic decides to pay a visit to his new sponsee, who sells hot dogs from a push cart. "Make me one with everything," says the sponsor. The sponsee fixes up a hot dog with all the trimmings and hands it to the sponsor, who pays with a $20 bill. The vendor puts the bill...
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Daily Reflection Dec 29
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big book
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As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, se...
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Gratitude
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Hello to all on this Forum,
Just want to check in. Thank's to all that contribute to this Forum, I stumbled onto (Well not literally, that's what I use to do). Only 8 day ago, and I feel like I've been here a longer time.
I find this Forum a "Comfort". I told everyone that whe...
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Following Phil ;)
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A sponsor and his newcomer were at a meeting when the newcomer suddenly collapsed, went into cardiac arrest and fell to the floor. The paramedics arrived, performed CPR and brought the newcomer back to life. "My GOD!", said the sponsor. "I thought we had lost you". The newcomer looked up and told his s...
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Hospital Room.....302
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Subject: Fw: Fw: THE LADY IN ROOM 302 >>>> >> >>>Room 302 - Anyone who has ever had a loved one in the hospital >>>will enjoy this: >> >> A woman called a local hospital. "Hello. Could you connect me >>to >>...
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Not an "urge" but a "thought"
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I had dinner with a friend last night and he asked if it would bother me if he had a glass of wine. (He's not in the program, and doesn't need to be.) I honestly answered him "no, I don't mind." He poured 1/2 a glass, took one sip, put the glass on the counter and went outside to check the food on the grill...
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Daily Reflection Dec 28
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SUIT UP AND SHOW UP  
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i'm in chat
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I see you're still online, James,, so I went into chat.. if you see this and come in I'll be there,, if there is a long delay in posting... well.. we'll see if we connect.
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How Long HaveYou Drank
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I was just wanting to see an average of, how long some might have drank and how much on average. I am trying to see were I fit in to this group... Thank you and sorry for the question.. I just am curious... Thanks all James
P.s I tried the AA Chat no luck tonight..No one on??? GOD Bless -- Edited by jam...
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My second post
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I just had a question? I left a post about a young man I had read about in the local newspaper.
He was 30 years old and lost his battle to Alcoholism.. I am 32 and scared .. I have been drinking regular for the last 5 years and a twelve pack a night for the last 2 years..
My mother also died of cirrosis at age 4...
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Cheeerriieee --- Weennddyy
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Where are you? I miss you............Love and hugs, Doll
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Daily Reflection Dec 27
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Just starting
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I am just starting my steps to recovery. I am 32 years old and have drank for the last 5 years. The last 2 plus years it has been a 12 pack a night. I read an obituary 3 days ago about a young man , 30 years of age , he lost his battle with alcoholism. I quit drinking 3 days ago.
I don't have any shake...
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Medical intervention
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I heard that there is a new drug that could be prescribed soon. I think it is called Vivitrex - once monthly injection into the buttocks. I'm not sure how I feel about it. Does anyone know anything about this drug?
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Thanks to everyone
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I was looking at the calendar today and I can not believe I actually got this far without taking a drink! This program, the support from the people on the board, the face to face meetings and of coarse support from friends and family. I just can not believe it.&n...
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Risk
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To laugh, is to risk playing the fool. To weep, is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another, is to risk involvement. To expose feelings, is to risk exposing our true selves. To put your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk loss. To love, is to risk not being loved in retur...
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Contact with people you used to drink or use with
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I thought I'd bring up this topic- Most of the end of my using and drinking was alone, and I have little desire to have any contact with many of the people I did hang aroudn during those last years of active addiction- But I have one friend of seven years who seems to be able to control his using/drinking, fu...
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very depress
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I did it again!! I drank and I got drunk. I'm totally miserable today.I feel sick,I'm depressed and embarrassed. I just want to crawl in a big cave and stay there! Hopefully I can find lots of friends here that will keep me from being so bored and lonely than I might can stay sober.
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Just want to say Hi
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-- Edited by Toni Baloney at 23:27, 2006-06-30
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just checking in
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Hi: I added a little more to my bio. Hope radtk is feeling better this morning. Been thinking again of all the $ I could save If quit drinking, and smoking. $250.00 a month!!! Thats what Im spending. Not including the junk I won on Ebay. And I wont have to run to the computer for damage control on the dumb ema...
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Daily Reflection Dec 26
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Dont Quit
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DON'T QUIT!
When things go wrong as they sometimes will When the road you're trudging seems all up hill When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to sigh When care is pressing you down a bit Rest, if you must, but don't you quit. Life is queer, with its twists and t...
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Birthday
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300 days sober today; 1st Christmas that I can remenber being sober!!!!!!!!!!!
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