Hi there Chris ~ so proud of you for 8 days of sobriety, way to go...I hear ya about what you are thinkin' about what others think about you at AA meetings, but for me, I was told early on it's not my business what anyone else thinks of me...I was also told do not let anyone "take your seat there" you see it took me 20 years to get one year...and I don't suggest that to anyone...we are all in this thing together and I know my own Sponsor will "fire" Sponsees if they can't do the deal because it is exhausting for her as well....and she has a lot to give, but it tells us in the Big Book if one is not ready and willing we should move on to the next person that is ready to surrender. But, you are doing terrific, do you have the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions book, if you don't I think it might help you out tremendously.
Here are the instructions to post a pic:
FOR EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO POST THEIR PICTURES ON THIS WEBSITE.
I will try to give the easiest instructions possible. It took me a total of 5 minutes from start to finish...
#1 - You need a website to upload the pictures from your computer to the Internet. Go to http://photobucket.com and register. Everything is free, free, free!
#2 - Once you register (takes 2 minutes). Then you hit the 'browse' button on the screen and find the pictures on your computer that you want to upload. One at a time you upload them. Each time you find the picture you want to upload to the Internet, just click SUBMIT
#3 - Lastly once all your pictures are uploaded to Photobucket. All thats left is to add then to the addictions website here. All you do here, is type your message as normal...HERE IS THE TRICK PART, AND ITS THE LAST THING YOU NEED TO DO..
**Go BACK to the photobucket website. Go to your album where it lists all your pictures. Under each picture you will see THREE things (URL, TAG, IMG) and beside each of them is a long address,link, bunch of words :) All you do is COPY ALL the WORDS in the [IMG] area. Just highlight all the words, copy them and then simply paste them to your message on this site. Thats it!!
SO everything is fairly straightforward, the only thing I found trick was the last step of seeing the pictures on this website...Like I said, just copy everyhing in the [IMG] area and simply paste it all here. When you are done, just click POST and the pictures will automatically load!
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Peace & Serenity, VWGirl
Thankyou VWGirl, I here what your saying. Especially the part don't give up your seat. I spoke to a woman who has 23 yrs on the AA hotline a couple of wks. ago. I was doing that stupid thinkin again. I went to AA 5 yrs. ago & I only stayed for 2wks. I must have heard something I liked cause I went back 2 1/2 yrs. later & I stayed for 6 wks. I guess what hurt the most was I saw others who'd been there about the same amount of time,shorter time & longer times. Who also relapsed on more then one occasion their sponsers didn't dump them. I spoke to one of the woman who I witnessed this happening to. I told her what happened to me & she must have spoken to my Ex- sponser about it. As I received a call from her and I chose not to return her call as I beleive she was not being honest with me. I continued to go to meetings but was not treated the same by some of the popular woman. I felt like I was in High School again. I didn't want to participate in clickes. The old timer on the phone explained to me that possibly my sponser hadn't been sucessful with her other sponsee's & this was her problem not mine. My problem was giving up my seat due to hurt feelings. And that I should get over it because I'm there to get sober. I do understand that sponsers have the due right to fire sponsee's. Without going into more details I don't feel I fit that bill. I'm glad the oldtimer had more details & felt that I had been mistreated. She shared some stories with me about herself & it helped alot. I think I will make it a goal of mine to find a meeting this wk. Anyways, I'm rambling on now. Thankyou for respondind & giving instructions on how to upload pics. Have a wonderful day!
Love, Chris
Chris, Yep, I can so relate to your experience in AA, but remember it is "principles before personalities"...remember we are all just a bunch of drunks at AA trying to or staying sober....in my opinion some people have a real gift for Sponsorship and there are those who don't have it to give...but they can find service to others in various ways, Panels, driving a newcomer, etc. I was sponsoring a young lady who went back out and wanted me to continue to sponsor her when she came back to the Program and I had to say no, because I have a lot of stuff going on with my daughter.
