Hi all, I am on day 12 and feel so good. Today is a beautiful day and I am going walking and treating myself to ice cream. I am tired today due to a listless night. Not due to wanting a drink but due to a pain in my back that I could not lay right to get comfortable.
I am going to go treat myself next week to going to the city that is about 45 minutes away to go to the mall and get my hair done for a wedding and to buy something nice. And while there I want to go to a meeting. So I will try to plan this to come out just right.
I cannot afford the gas now to go too many times a week but I feel I can get some meetings here and there as I go in that city. And in the meantime I have to get a real list of meetings here in my little town and in the city.
I am tired today from my back but it is a good day anyway.
Sorry about your back! I can empathize; I have a back which sometimes "goes out" and it is awful. In fact I felt a twinge this morning (sympathy pains or too much too soon of the exercizing?) The trip to the city for shopping and hair fixing and a meeting too sounds good for the soul. I went to our little farmer's market in the town square (on saturdays) for some good looking fresh produce and it was good for my soul. Take care of the back and have a nice rest of the day.
Well done on 12 days honey, im so glad you are feeling well. Ive not been too clever this week so not been posting but I have been reading and keeping up on your progress each day.
I think ive been through a bit of burn out from doing more than im used to, ive just done 10 meetings in 11 days and my head feels wonderful but my body didnt want to join it and decided to give me a chest infection instead. I know for me that missing my meeting last night put my head in a bad place, i didnt want to drink, I just knew it didnt feel right. Anyway, ive just got back from a lovely meeting and am feeling great and my infection seems to be improving too, although its very cold here and me being me didnt take a coat and then stood outside talking after the meeting had finished. Got a few well deserved tellings off off other members I can tell you lol.
Keep up the good work, you really are an inspiration to me. From somebody who didnt ever want to go to another AA meeting to actually looking forward to them. What a huge step in such a short time. Absolutely brilliant.
I am not sure why my back hurt but it may be the kinks somehow or maybe now I am starting to feel. I know I need to get working out more.
I went down to the store and had two photos done for my Mom of she and my Dads wedding photo that she misplaced and a photo of my Step Dad in Las Vegas with two tall dancing girls on each side of him in 2002. It took a bit and so I went shopping for a few things and new sheets.
And I walked at the little shopping center and got some ice cream and a few things at the store. I got home and am relaxing. It has been a nice day!
I get kinda out of sort when I dont attend enough meetings! Things, my head mostly, just dont seem to be right. I was always amazed at the "old timers" who keep going to meetings after 20-30 yrs. I can see now why they keep coming back. Keeps them sober and...you build new relaionships with people who care and love you and enjoy seeing you!
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Hi Lani, I wish we had meetings here more. When I was in Florida I had my pick of meetings and in the city 45 minutes away. But here in this small town they are far and few between.
Two more meetings just closed due to not enough people and they could not afford the rent. I have no desire to drink what so ever and I will be calling some people to see what they are doing to make meetings and I may be able to car pool.
I just wish I had a noon meeting everyday and right here in town. The sobriety level here in this town is very low. The people who run these places smoke a lot of pot and take pills. So I feel that is why the meetings have closed.
A place called where people met to eat and play pool and cards had meetings all day long throughout the day. It helped a lot but the people got caught smoking pot and selling pills so it got closed.
And many other meetings at the highschool got closed due to people smoking cigarettes on the property. We had them at the hospital and those are closed. It feels like a ghost town.
