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Okay, just one more ... The Library
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A guy is looking for a place to sit in a crowded library. He asked a girl in a university library: "Do you mind if I sit beside you? The girl replied with a loud voice: "I DON 'T WANT TO SPEND THE NIGHT WITH YOU!" All the students in the library started staring at the guy; he was truly embar...
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I can't complain
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This relates to Tasha's thread about gratitude. My sponsor often responds "I can't complain" when I ask him how he is. I laugh at that because I know I used to be a professional complainer. I know that for me, I CAN complain but I have to make an effort not to. These days, it's become less of a...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/12
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Acts of love are what will bring peace to your life and to the world.~ Dr. Lee Jampolsky
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Sunrise Quote - 10/11
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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.~ Emanuel Swedenborg
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Today's Gift - 10/12
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Misery is optional.We may have learned to be miserable, but we can choose to unlearn it. Though we can't control what happens to us, we can determine how we will interpret and react to what happens. We can moan about the things we don't like, using them as excuses for self-pity ("poor me"), o...
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A 5th Step
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Aloha my MIP family...just had to share a warp event from this morning. I have been taking an A/A (cross addicted) person to my morning AA by the Bay meetings both Saturday and Sunday versions. He doesn't have a whole lot of time; some and the desire and willingness. This morning just before I picke...
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This is Neat ... Beer Bottle Band
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Click on the link below. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NkbZlautuUc?rel=0
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Little Boy with a Question
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Q: 3-year-old boy examined his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom', he asked, 'Are these my brains?' A: 'Not yet,' she replied.
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Little Johnny
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My Favorite AnimalOur teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, "Fried chicken."She said I wasn't funny, but she couldn't have been right, because everyone else laughed.My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken is my favorite animal.I told my dad what...
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Gratitude thread
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Yeah - everyone around here got pretty sick of hearing how wonderful my life is. Guess what. It's still wonderful - and I'm not sick of hearing myself say it yet I'm grateful for you guys especially- reading this! My kitty - that he doesn't care that I keep calling him by my old cats name by mistake - and...
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Today's Gift - 10/10
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Persons who habitually drink water become just as good gourmets about water as wine drinkers on wine.--Alexandre DumasHow fortunate are those among us who have the ability to turn things around - to transform liabilities into assets. Life deals them lemons: they make lemonade, lemon pie, candied...
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Checking In
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It will be 1 year on October 21st that I have been sober. I have had an emotional year with many good and bad turns. My husband and I separated then reunited things got better for us and then he was diagnosed with ampullary cancer. He underwent a surgery called the whipple. During the last 4 month...
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Grapevine
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October 10 "AA is not an 'insiders' kind of Fellowship, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of thousands of AAs worldwide. We'll help any drunk anywhere, any time."
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Letting go of resentments
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Sometimes no matter what I do I still say, well you did this or that. How come you never get punished
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Grapevine
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October 9 "I am not automatically entitled to succeed in everything, or, indeed, in anything. I am, thank God and AA, no longer a superior individual, but simply a sober individual. My Higher Power and I can take it from there, working together that I may do the best I am able to do and realize w...
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Today's Gift - 10/9
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When am I manipulative?Without understanding our motives, we can easily lapse into behavior aimed at manipulating others. Sulking is a means of letting others know we are displeased and forcing them to attempt to win our approval. Flattery is a false expression of approval that we don't really fee...
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Today's Gift - 10/8
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Your DestinyWatch your thoughts,they become your words.Watch your words,they become your actions.Watch your actions,they become your character.Watch your character,it becomes your destiny.
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Love for Roger (pappy) thread
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How is this day Roger? Been thinking of you and praying like crazy! So grateful for you. Love you
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My husband tried to kill me
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A few days ago I drank a bottle of wine and went to bed. I woke up and overheard my husband complaining to someone that I was drunk again. I became angry and started shouting at him and grabbed him. He stabbed me. I ended up in the hospital and he ended up in jail. We have been married over a decade and he has n...
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Today's Gift - 10/7
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Taking it easyEasy does it. Pushing does not help our program; it only causes more pressure within us. "If it doesn't work," we have thought, "get a bigger hammer." But if we only wait for the opportunity, we will be given the opportunity to work out each of our difficulties.It i...
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I'm home
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Just got back from my Navy Reunion "in Seattle" Got to some F2F meetings & a couple of th guys did not drink . One US guy , is a friend of Bill , but I did not know if th Aussie was . Great 3 week hol to th US . Looking fwd to Mobile Alabama next year.
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Grapevine
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October 7 "Through doing the Steps and receiving love from my AA family, my perception of life has changed. Once my thoughts changed, so did my actions, then, finally, the results."
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Sunrise Quote - 10/6
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Everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when theyre right and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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Working and staying sober - any advice?
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Hi all, Im new to this board an AA; sober since September 15th this time and for good.A little background on me without going into too much detail. I have been an alcoholic since the first time I had a drink which was about thirty years ago. For the first few years it wasnt much of an issue because I was unde...
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Question about chips?
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During my first week of AA I went to three different meetings. At all three meetings the question was asked if anyone was in their first week of AA, I raised my hand at all three meetings. Because I accepted a white chip at the first meeting I attended I did not go get one at the second or third meetings. Thes...
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Grapevine
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October 6 "The five H's combine into a powerful formula for success. Starting with Hope, passing through Honesty into a gracious Humility, we become Human again, taking our rightful places in society and, by living a well rounded life, develop an integrated personality free of the stresses...
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Wisdom of the Rooms
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October 6, 2014Quote of the Week"You Have to Feel to Heal." Before recovery, I would use just about anything not to feel. Drugs, alcohol, relationships, food, TV -- the list was endless. Without tools to deal with my feelings, I was uncomfortable and afraid of them, and they often bec...
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What would a person look for in a sponsor? What expectations?
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Meet together, AA meetings, phone calls??? Daily, weekly - good or bad days?? I just realized I'm planning. But I am, I think working on part of the solution. lol Okay if you have any suggestions I will take them with an open mind. Just for today!!!!
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International Convention of AA/Atlanta, Georgia/80 years old!
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I have just registered for and booked hotel accommodations in Atlanta GA, for the 2015 International Convention of Alcoholics Anonymous. It will be held on July 2nd -5th at the Georgia World Congress Center, 4 minutes from Centennial Olympic Park where a great 4th of July fireworks display will b...
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Today's Gift - 10/6
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It only takes one person to change your life - you.--Ruth CaseyChange is not easy, but it's absolutely unavoidable. Doors will close. Barriers will surface. Frustrations will mount. Nothing stays the same forever, and it's such folly to wish otherwise. Growth accompanies positive change; deter...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/5
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A mans reputation is what other people think of him; his character is what he really is.~ Jack Miner
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AA Anniversary
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The calendar reminds of my AA anniversary. I am grateful to God, the AA program and all its members for my sobriety. There's no way for me to do it solo. It's an amazing thing, really.
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life changes
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So at the end of july I was paid off from work. I was going to scrape by on the payoff until pension time.
In the intervening coiple months I've near finished renovating the house. I took a lodger in (not doing that again) and told myself I was on a gap year.
a week ago I bought a thiers-issard le dandy strai...
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Today's Gift - 10/5
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Doing our bestPerhaps we are saving our best effort for the "big break." When such and such happens, then I'll give it my best shot. What we don't realize, however, is that success comes from doing a lot of little things well. Learning to live means learning to manage all our daily responsib...
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How does one become a "winner" ?
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Hi, My name is Brian and Im an Alcoholic. Ive been attending meetings for a while and I want to win. Booze really turned me into a person that was just awful all around, and I don't want that. I once had a really good life and I dont have that right now. Im doing my best to stay sober and Im trying to beat thi...
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AA meeting on Tuesday 9:00 est.
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Did anyone attend? I tried several times but chat room was empty. Just making sure it's not me
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humor
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I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless man who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner.I took out my wallet, extracted ten dollars and asked,"If I give you this money, will you buy some beer with it instead of dinner?""No, I had to stop dr...
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Young Adult Struggling
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Being only 22 years old, I am having a hard time struggling with what I think may be an addiction. Everyone I know drinks but I find myself obsessing over it. I don't know why, or how to make the obsessions lessen. I feel like I am way too young for this. I feel like I should be able to drink with my peers but not...
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Just can't live like this anymore
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Haven't been to a meeting in years due to shame and apparently a feeling like I can do whatever I want with no consequences... that feeling has got me in trouble so much in my life. I feel like I've been a tantruming toddler for the last four years and now I've drank myself into a situation (a handful of sit...
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struggling hard
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I am a 46 year old Mother of three wonderful children. I am married and three years ago my Mother came to live with us in the later stages of Alzheimers, I had to quit my sales job, I had a very serious anxiety attack. I was always a partier but my drinking got out of control. I then got a DUI early this year. ...
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Today's Gift - 10/4
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The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.--Sebastien R. N. ChamfortWhen we first started going to Twelve Step meetings we were often stunned to hear so much laughter. But we soon learned that a good hearty laugh or a joyful smile is as important to our recovery as all the serious iss...
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Struggling
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I realize this is a contraversial issue, but I know it helps to talk about my problems and maybe help someone else along the way. Was on Celexa for 10+ years and my first 6 + years of sobriety. Celexa- Depression & Anti Anxiety medication. Also, used for OCD. Last Spring, it seemed to stop working...
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Sunrise Quote - 10/4
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Dont be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.~ Belva Davis
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Today's Gift - 10/3
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The salvation of man is through love and in love. --Viktor FranklThe panhandler on the busy street corner reels forsaken. The elderly woman whose phone doesn't ring stares through a gap in her drawn drapes and wonders if she's been forgotten. And awaiting the prayed for visit from a potential foster...
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Welcome to the site tlcstuff2005
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Glad to have you with us. Tell us about yourself.
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Grapevine
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October 2 "Keeping a Tenth Step journal about my day-to-day life, my relations with other people, and the stuff that still roiled around in my head helped me see patterns in my thoughts and behavior, which I could discuss with my sponsor. And once I began to sit quietly, reflect on what I'd wri...
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Sunrise Quote - 9/20
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A curious person who asks questions may be a fool for five minutes; he who never asks questions remains a fool forever.~ Vern McLellan
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Today's Gift - 9/22
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If there's a harder way of doing something, someone will find it. -- Ralph E. RossWhen we used alcohol or other drugs, we did most things the hard way. We could turn a simple task into a day-long project. We could turn a simple problem into an argument. We were creative giants in doing things the hard way!...
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ADVICE I GIVE MYSELF JUST FOR TODAY
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I was looking up to the heavens...communing with the gods....not even paying attention to where I was going... I stepped into a pile of Great Dane size...dog crap. I remember something that I heard....proceed through life, following your own path...Birds wit S**T on you don't even bother to wip...
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Grapevine
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October 1 "A sincere attempt to exercise the first ten Steps brings into play some of the finest virtues in the human character: humility, hope, faith, honesty, courage, and sincerity."
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