When I am not drinking, I tend to get down and do nothing. I thought I would make this thread to list things I do each day. This might encourage me to do more. What I did today (Sunday, December 11th, 2011).
1. 2 loads of laundry (they are still drying)
2. Made bed
3. Cleaned litter box
4. Took our garbage and recycling
5. Got library stuff ready to take back tomorrow and christmas letters ready to mail off.
6. Went to market and got apples, grapefruit, garlic and diet coca cola.
7. Swept front hall.
8. Massaged coconut oil onto my bird's plucked areas, joined a bird board for help with my aggressive cockatiel.
9. Slept most of the day.
10. Handed out a few christmas cards...
and did not drink. All very small things. More tomorrow, maybe. Take care.
Took care of Bizz, Went to my Office, bank, lunch. Spoke with two of my sponsees, daughter, wife and a Rehab about bringing more meetings in to the feelowship. Now still getting work done, chairing meeting tonight, meeting with my network before and after meeting for good talks and fun in recovery. then going to the gym, home by 11:30pm Bring Garbage out, maybe catch a tan in the tanning machine. Up tomorrow for another Great Priceless day is Sobriety..... AMEN
pink, most days I don't think about drinking at all, so it's easy. As long as one of my triggers doesn't get hit, it's relatively easy, I guess, for me. I feel almost guilty getting praised for not drinking when it's relatively easy compared to some of the people here who struggle so much and deserve that praise. What is the problem is that when I tell myself it's no problem because I don't crave alcohol, and then I drink... then I get into trouble, or get physically hurt or get into risky situations cause I black out and get crazy. Pretty much every time, So I need to be aware of how insidious it is. Unlike a lot of folks here who seem to struggle with wanting to drink all the time, I don't struggle with wanting to drink that much (when I do, though, it's pretty overwhelming). But if I get complacent and do drink, I am in *trouble*. But so far since I have quit nothing has triggered me so refraining hasn't been that hard. Does that make any sense?
Hey Lex...You seem like you have a pretty good idea what alcohilism is about. You mentioned you weren't really ready for meetings..I love them myself. But have you read the Big Book yet?? It's the why, how and when of what this program is about. I know when I was very early in my sobriety I studied that book..Read it a couple times...And I still love to read it. If you haven't...You really should.
I tell myself it's no problem because I don't crave alcohol, and then I drink... then I get into trouble, or get physically hurt or get into risky situations cause I black out and get crazy. Pretty much every time, So I need to be aware of how insidious it is. Does that make any sense?
Hi Lex,
Yes what you say makes sense. You are what is called a periodic or binge drinker which is just as serious as a chronic. It's not how or how much we drink that makes us a alcoholic, it's what it does to us when we do drink
Even though it is insanity for them to drink, given the same usual insane results that follow drinking, it is easier for these types to deny the gravity of their problem. We have a mental obsession(trigger) followed by a physical allergy (can't stop once you start).
Our program of action and design for living, removes the problem and puts us on a path where we do not wish to drink provided we maintain our spiritual condition.
Like has been said, we need to go to AA meetings, get a sponsor and work the steps. The hole in our lives was filled.
Page 44 Big Boook of AA
If a mere code of morals or a better philosophy of life were sufficient to overcome alcoholism, many of us would have recovered long ago. But we found that such codes and philosophies did not save us, no matter how much we tried. We could wish to be moral, we could wish to be philosophically comforted, in fact, we could will these things with all our might, but the needed power wasn't there. Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.
Lack of power, that was our dilemma. We had to find a power by which we could live, and it had to be a Power greater than ourselves. Obviously. But where and how were we to find this Power?
Well, that's exactly what this book is about. Its main object is to enable you to find a Power greater than yourself which will solve your problem. That means we have written a book which we believe to be spiritual as well as moral. And it means, of course, that we are going to talk about God.
-- Edited by Rob84 on Tuesday 13th of December 2011 12:06:03 AM
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"There ain't no Coupe DeVille hiding in the bottom of a Cracker Jack Box."
I went for a morning walkto Granville island with the gf, baby and the dog. Then I threw the tennis ball fir the dog until my arm was about to fall off. Then I went to work and stared at a computer until I was half blind. Then I came home and had spaghetti.
Now I'm in bed posting from my phone.
It was an action packed day...well not really, but right now calm days are what I need mist I think.
1. Went to my buddy's house and brought him some food and cleaned out his rat cage (it was really stinky) and fixed some of the bars on it with the pliers so it fits nicely.
2. Signed petitions on www.thepetitionsite.com and earned butterfly rewards. Also signed up my buddy and also signed him up at myfitnesspal.com .
3. I woke up late again so the "day" was short. I tend to wake up at 7 or 8 pm lately and go to sleep at 9 or 10 am.
4. Didn't drink OR smoke. :)
So far today I:
1. Posted about my aggressive, anxious cockatiel on a bird site and gave him a bath (he got oil on him so I need to get some unscented Dawn and give him another) and also looked up supplements for birds to make him calmer. I have hope for him! 2. Emailed my buddy about making me some "bird bread" so he and Oskar eat better. 3. Did stuff on the petition site. 4. Did some chores (still have more to do!). 5. Came here (duh!).
Today will be slightly stressful as I see my "therapist" for the last time (she has always stressed me out a bit so I am happy it's the last time, but I don't know if I am getting a new team)- also have to run some errands for a friend. Finish some chores. Then the day is mine to read, write fiction,
OT- my aggressive cockatiel, Sebasjenne, he feather plucks a lot, right? For the 6 years I have had him (it's psychological, he was abused before I adopted him from a shelter). Anyway, just recently (yesterday!) I gave him some bread- he never ate bread before, but this bread had dried out, was rock hard, so I tried it and he is RIPPING IT UP and seems to have forgotten about plucking! YAY! :)
