Gold Plated Cadillac Problems really, aren't they. Just feeling a bit fed up wi myself and a bit lonely. looking after a mate's dog for the weekend and she (the Dog - a Scottish Deerhound) seems to have a mind of her own. She's big enough to sleep where she wants, which turned out to be in my bedroom (I tend to leave doors ajar), already walked her twice this morning and now she's asleep on my office floor. She woke me at half five for a walk and a chat, we went out again at half eight.

The owner has gone to the seaside with her kids and 2 other dogs, I've got the deerhound and another friend of hers has one of the cheeches. So no company for me this weekend other than my brothers in the fellowship, so really that's OK. Got a sponsee coming round teatime for Spaghetti Bolognese and sponsor time before the meeting, which is a good un, work is under control, still not smoking, still deliberately losing weight, still no desire to drink (might have been removed, you never know!).

Just had a chat with my Mum, she tell's me my Daughter is in America, done Disney World, then having a tour round, Seattle, then Portland and then Maine, so that's good, she's seemingly enjoying life. She hasn't heard from my Lad though since he went up to see her last week, so no news there other than what I glean from his facebook, which seems to be one of his toes is mashed up and he drinks a lot.

Got my mobile phone bill, went over my call allowance by 400 minutes, so that'll be £150 please (ow!).

Ex wife has asked me to change my standing Order from her savings account to a current account - I think she's been taking solictors advice, or am I being unduly suspicious? Trawling t'internet for a cottage in Skye for a week in June, fancy some time away, maybe even time away on my Jack.

So look at that lot and reflect Bill, just how much you can do and deal with when you're sober. What would this be like back in the drinking days. The dog would probably have shat in the lounge, tea would be vast quantites of whatever had alcohol in it, I wouldn't be interested in my Mum's, Son's or daughter's life, I'd be ringing the ex wife up to snarl and sit at her, I wouldn't pay the phone bill and would have a week away making star shapes on the front lawn. and I'd be really sick, lonely and miserable. Would probably have lost my job by now for good measure.
Heyho, this too shall pass, in fact it's getting better already.

I'm right there with you, not really "Gold Plated Problems" per se, but gold plated solutions

 

I work 100+ miles away a few days a week, last year my car blew up on the side of the road 100 miles away, long story but replaced the radiator, replaced the thermostat but cracked or warped the head, I had to buy a new car after dropping a ton of money trying to save the old one, it took about 2 months to finally die, finally had to tow it 100 miles home (kinda pricy) then couldn't pay my rent on time but  my landlord lives a few blocks away and was driving by and saw a new 4runner in the driveway so would knock on my door and scream at me to pay my rent, he thought I was taking advantage of him, it turned into 2 months of living hell, he thought I was blowing of rent just to buy a nice car, so he would stop at my house and scream at me a few times a week while I tried to explain I was doing the best I could, I couldn't work without a vehicle and I was giving him $$$ as fast as I could, he  literally didn't even care if I had money to eat or not, he would say give me ALL your money and you can come to my house if you are hungry, I'll feed you, your car blowing up is not my problem...it was horrible

This week it happened again, the 4runner overheated and blew up so there I was on the side of the freeway 100 miles away from home again, I had been paying this roadside assistance plan through my insurance and found out it was utter crap, it wouldn't pay to tow a minibike halfway around a cheerio, thus began 18 hours of nightmare, cost all the money I had in my pocket

Bought a new car and was able to pay for it all, I have 2 weeks to rustle and hustle quite a bit of money for rent and bills, but managed to get the car towed home (100 miles AGAIN) and sold both old cars, that covered half the cost for the new car and gave my whole paycheck to cover the rest of the cost, I have a few dollars to eat and time to try  to hustle for the rest of the money

 

If I was drinking this would have been a train wreck of epic proportions, as it is it's a bump in the road that is mostly in my rearview mirror, I went and picked up my paycheck a day early just now, signed the whole thing over and deposited in this guys account, now I'm not going to say I didn't have some emotional difficulty with all of this, phone battery dying on the side of the road as steam blowing out my hood blah blah blah, but it's behind me now, rough week but the trick now is to keep it in the past where it belongs and concentrate on today and the next few weeks to try to muster the extra money to now pay my bills, since ALL that money is gone and my main employer is taking 2 weeks off for spring break/Easter, gonna be tricky but not undo-able

 

I do have to say My job helps with that a little bit, problems that aren't going to kill me helps me keep it in perspective after a day like this

-- Edited by LinBaba on Friday 15th of April 2011 01:26:51 PM