I want to share my gratitude with all of you...for God, for my Program, for my family, for my friends, for all of you here and the beautiful and simple things in my life...that I use to take for granted. As a lot of you know I live in SoCal and I didn't even realize how lucky I am to live down here by the beach...I took a walk today down to the pier and smelled the salt air and saw the magnificient ocean...today is turning out just how I like it...I woke up without a hangover, did my grocery shopping, did my laundry, will pamper myself this afternoon, will hit the 5:00 pm meeting and then will get together to have dinner with my clean and sober boyfriend....I am truly blessed...life is simple today and life is good today. Oh, and by the way that pic is of the pier within walking distance of my apartment.
C - Hope you can add some of your thoughts to the Step One post...glad to see you are on here tonight. My BF worked all day then got sick tonight with a bad headache so we didn't go to dinner...in the old days that would've just pissed me off (like it is his fault, anyway)...now I just want to see how I can help him...instead of thinking about me, me, me! How are you doing? Are you having a nice weekend?
Just got home and relaxing before the b/f comes home( good sober alone time with you guys!) I'm super tired and am going to contribute tomorrow (Sunday ...day off) after my morning meeting and when my brain is not operating at 1/2 speed.Maybe reread the 12 and 12 for some thoughts.
I'm glad you started this up...its good to keep us alkies focused on the task at hand ,less chance for drama to pop up. And there is good sobriety here,needs to be shared.
Things are going great! The job is awesome,I'm selling product like crazy and making all my goals(that keeps corporate happy w/ me) and I've got great news...my boyfriend proposed and I said yes....so now I'm engaged!!! We ordered the ring and we pick it up next week!
Non of this would be happening if i hadn't got sober and started working the program of AA.
Congratulations on your engagement...how exciting...yep, the Promises will materialize for us, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but definitely in God's time...glad to hear everything is on the up and up for you!
Hello folks.. C, congratulations!! and good luck. VW, thanks for sharing your day with us, I hope your bf feels better. That does look like a beautiful place to live. Personally I love the mountains, but I must admit the older I get the beauty of the water is very relaxing, and God knows I love relaxing! lol I'm not much for the beach, but I do enjoy an ocean view. I think I'm realizing it isn't so much the warm weather or the beach as it is I just don't like crowds and the hustle of being around alot of people. Thats why I guess I've always prefered the country or the mountains. Plus I love fishing in a mountain stream. Anyway, hope you all have a plesant Sunday, it's all good.
Wow VWGirl, beautiful pic! You are truly blessed;) Hope your boyfriend is feeling better! LOL...you sound like me...in my drinking days, i would've been like," What a jerk, how dare he screw up my plans like this!" Jeez, it just hits me so hard sometimes when i remember how ruthless and selfish i really was! :( Thanks again for sharing a little part of you with us;) p.s. I have NEVER seen the ocean, not any one of them. I would love to someday!
Congradulations on the engagement Avondale Girl all the best for you both.
VWGirl hope your boyfriend headache is better, try lightly touching his forehead and around sides of his forehead with 2 fingers in circular motions and tell him to concentrate on his favourate colour healing around the painfull area as well.
Hey Jayde get yourself to the ocean the serenity is great.
Hey Everyone and I hope everyone is enjoying their day so far.
Living by the ocean is really a neat thing, but I really only noticed what a beautiful spot I live in not so long ago (I'm waking up!) However, it is very congested here, and I don't plan to stay here when I retire, but who knows what God has in store for me. My Mom, her husband, my sister, my daughters and my boyfriend all live here. So will see (I can retire in 8 1/2 years, not sure I will though). ~ Bob, I love the mountains too, haven't been camping in sobriety yet! Any of you who come this way, well let me know and I can show you around!
I kinda just wanted to throw this out there...I started dating my BF at 4 months of sobriety met him at our local Alano club...he is quite a bit younger than me, but we started dating, he has a little more time than I do...and have been dating for over two years now. When we first started dating, I would have gladly moved him in with me....but I prayed for God to take hold of our relationship and do for me what I could not do for myself. Thank God we live separately ~ I enjoy having my own place...I enjoy his companionship and I like to go on dates; but I have a 15 year old daughter who now lives with me 100% of the time and I have to model appropriate behavior for her...he has a Grandpa that he lives with who is on the brink of alzheimers disease (we think) and needs a lot of care. So what does this all have to do with Recovery, well we both turned our will and our lives over to God in regard to our relationship...and we are being of maximum service to our families, not the self-centered, pleasure seeking, ego-centric people we use to be...just wanted to share that..not sure why. Sometimes it just feels good to get stuff out.
HI everyone! VwGirl..great post!! Sounds like life is treating you good. Your post reminded me of something that happened early in sobriety the first time. I was in a meeting and I heard someone say no relationships for the first year. I leaned over to the woman next to me, who has many years sober, and asked her does this mean I have to get a divorce? Well she laughed. I said what the hell is so funny, I am serious...lol she said no you don't. I just didnt have a clue about anything, it was my first AA meeting I had attended. Anyway I do know people that got together early in sobriety and is was just disastrous, just like I know some that it worked out for.
Hi Gina, thanks for the post... I too, misinterpreted so many things about the Program when I was brand new, thankfully my Sponsor showed me the way and still does. I know the relationship thing is just a suggestion too, however what is being revealed to me is that there are loving, caring, hard working men out there who are clean and sober, and I found one and it is enabling me to let the walls down ever so slightly and being with him has actually taught me to respect myself and love myself, but hey its progress not perfection...thanks again!
thankfully my Sponsor showed me the way and still does
LOL- those darn sposnors anyways! Thought of something Waybe B said a while ago in his talks- those sponsors, must go to sponsor school or something! LOL Thank God for the sponsors! Mine has this quirky way of just telling me to shut up, quit overthinking END OF ARGUMENT. LOL
Your mentioning your sponsor triggered a smile, thanks/
Hi again, I have grown to really care and love my Sponsor I will see her at the 12:00 Nooner meeting today. But in 5 weeks she is moving to Tennessee, I cried when she shared last week, which surprised me, me cry over someone leaving...in the past I'd be like "so what ~ I don't need ya anyway"....now I've learned how to care about myself, my family and friends and have true feelings towards others. I'm still gonna keep her as my Sponsor, but I will be working with another woman here too, she goes to my Women's Stag meeting and works for the Corp. I do....
Hi all great pic VWGirl. Sorry to hear you are losing your sponsor - but on the positive side now you have a nexcuse to visit Tennessee!
this weekend was VERY hard for me, but did have some positives. I finally went and got my eyes checked after 8 months of procrastination. Feels good to be taking care of business again.
Also, my H has been extremely supportive this time round, talking me through some cravings, not drinking or even bringing alcohol in the house. He went out to drink Friday night with his mates but that was it. He's been great.
On friday night I bought myself flowers. What a great thing to do. They looked so nice in the house, and made me smile each time I walked by and saw them.
I was anxious and panicky most of the weekend but feel a lot calmer today, also the heavy depression seems to be lifting today.
wonderful to read about everyone's positive stories and thoughts online. Idgie
