Hi All, Today is day 10!! I feel real good and have had a wonderful week. I went to my oldest granddaughters Ty Kwon Do testing and she went from white belt to yellow belt. She skipped over one. The instructor said that was very unusual. Her pattern was wonderful and she kicked a board in half making it look so easy. She is doing so well. She is 12 yrs old. I am proud. My 6 yr old granddaughter did hers the night before and went to purple. She had been doing it for a couple of years now. My oldest son their Dad did his testing but he wanted his wife and I and the kids to go home not to make him nervous. I have to check to see how he did.
My twin grand sons who are 4 start tonight. I look forward to seeing them also. It has been a nice week with the children and my sons and daughter in law
The days of drinking can add up to mean NOTHING and less than that. But the days of being sober in all ways can add up to mean EVERYTHING!!
I decided to call AA and ask about meetings here. We have one at noon on Tuesdays and the rest past 6 at night. So I am going to one for 7 pm tonight. We have one a night plus the noon one on Tues and a few on Thurs and Fri and a couple on Sat but they are all at about the same time. Like one is at 6:30 and one at 7:00 so although three may be offered in a day it is all together.
I lived in the city about 45 minutes away and they had about 10 a day at all hours. I liked that back about 17 yrs ago when I first came back to Vermont.
But it is too far for me to drive at this time of my life. So I will do these meetings and go from there. I do have qualms about AA here due to people who smoke pot and take pills and to me are not sober people. And my sponsor had told all my business.
I had gone to meetings in Florida for a year and those people would not even accept pain meds for surgery. Like knee surgery etc. And they followed the rules very closely about what being sober really meant.
I do not want this jaded attitude I got from experiencing these things. Also as I was talking to the lady who called she said a woman from an intensive alcohol program I was in would be at a particular meeting.
This lady ran the group but was always late like 45 minutes and does pills and pot. She had messed up my file and just on a fluke she had me put a paper in it myself one day and I read it. She had put that I had done heroine and cocaine at age 14 yrs old!!!??? And a few other things that were absolutely untrue.
I asked her about it and she said the computer had messed up my whole file. I got some people who are the head people to look at it and they said that the computer would not do that and asked how the computer knew my families names.
So she got fired due to all of her problems plus messing up other people's files also.
So I opted to go to a different meeting than the one this lady suggested. I do not want to deal with that lady. And she is friends with the sponsor who spread my business.
I am rising above all this and going to get what I need and leave the rest. I feel it will all work out. This time around I feel totally ready and willing to do things that will help me get sober in all ways. Time
Take care and I will let you know how it goes. With love Rosie
I'm so glad that you are still loving sobriety! It's great, isn't it?
'This time around I feel totally ready and willing to do things that will help me get sober in all ways.' ... Wow, that was exactly how I felt when I came back to AA and it is working for me!
Keep on one day at a time.
Take care,
Carol
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss
Hi Carol, I went to the meeting and a nice woman sat beside me who had said she drank some coffee and had not drank it until she went to stop drinking. And she said she felt everyone seemed to drink a lot of it so she went for it but had drank so much of it yesterday that she felt full of anxiety and ready to pass out.
I thought she had been sober a long time and was going to ask her for sponsorship but at the end of the meeting she thought the same of me and come to find out she was 17 days sober and yesterday I was 10 days.
So I hope as we go along we can still support each other. It was nice to have the jump start here on the forum with the newcomers and me as a newcomer (old comer I should say) and it helped me to relate to her more.
I relate to this time around. I feel life has happened in such a way this past eight yrs with the living death of the abusive relationship combined with starting to drink at the end of it that I just appreciate life twice as much.
