Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

[KateH1]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

OH! Yeah........love your ideas, WW!

Bootsie, sorry to have you worried.................I am just busy doing a lot of other stuff, lately! Good stuff and still happy to be a non-drinker!! Glad you are working on your health, girly!! Keep up the good work!

OK.....gotta go do my chores so that I can chat in a while!!!

Love to All!
Kate

[Ripple]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

F is for FREE

no Rip on the list? wots up with that? no room for ripples? :sulk:

[Determinator]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

Wonderworld, your thread idea looks great to me!

I slept in this am.

[mya]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

I have cleaning to do but I will try my best to be there

[Thankful]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

I am so excited!!!!

WONDER, WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN??? I thougt I was going to have to send the troops out looking for you!!! Never do that to me again!! Do you hear me???

Ok....crazy lady has gone again and Thankful is back. :H

I'm so excited!!! I thought no one loved me any more!!!! I was beginning to think I was going to be the only one there!! Oh, my heart is just singing.

Ok now how do I set up a room? :H

Ripple, hun, I am so sorry. I'm embarassed :blush:. I figured as fast as this place has grown I would end up forgeting someone and that's why I added the following to the bottom of the post. It really was not done on purpose, I swear.

Love and hugs to anyone I might have missed. It was not done on purpose, I promise.

We usually wear togas and I'm sure with your sense of fashion, you can throw something together last minute!

Love, Me
:l

[wonderworld]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

should we 'get a room' ? he he

[Thankful]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

I just wanted to take the time to thank all of you who made it to chat this afternoon. I really needed to re-group with you and it meant a lot to me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

To all of you who could not make, I hope you can the next time we try this.

Kate ~ thank you for starting the room, even though you couldn't stay long!

WW ~ love yout ideas for this and the new thread. I hope people really appreciate how much you care about not only all of us, but the new members as well. You are really reaching out to so many and you are changing lives. I think you are amazing and I am proud to call you my friend.

Love to all....

Love, Me
:l

[bootcampbarbie]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

i do belive i missed the toga. hope you all had a beautiful time. i was thinking of you. i think a healthy thread wonder that is committed to going for 30 days sober is a great place. there are many of those out there already but i think something with a good solid standing as in "soberland" and no drama zone. yes that would be beautiful.
i think a place where people could come to initate practices for "sober" living. not just check in on how many days they have. but what are the changes you are initiating to replace that old way of being.
and i do believe that ol det had 80 days whoop whoop and i just realized i celebrated 120 days which means kate is somewhere to come for bday time.
so with that in mind we are marching forward and i can't even beileve i have 4 months. can you believe that? wow, thank ful i practiced extreme self care and went to spa after class and had a long massage and a nap. today i'm on a new program of up at 5 a.m. to hike dogs and study every day for 2 hours as this month is cram time for broker test in june. so, it's showtime for barbie.
love to you all

[bootcampbarbie]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

whoop whoop today is actually my bday. whoop whoop hello 120 days hellooooooo. whoop whoop let's all celebrate sobrietyland.. have a beautiful day everyone....

[KateH1]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

Happy B-Day!!! Bootsie!! Hooray!!! 120 Days.........Awsome! Yep, I am right on your heals......8 days behind you if I remember correctly???? I remember, I thought OK....I wish I could go to Lenair, but, since it is not possible at this time..........I will tag along on bootsie's barbie boots!!! I also used a "treasure of wisdom" that I learned from our dear Starlight Impress. She said, we cannot stay sober unless we change our former way of living and thinking! Bingo!! For me, it was not "instant", nor was it, nor is it, without work, but it gets easier every day......I concentrate on Life, ups, downs, stress and peace and joy .......all of life and I do it all as a non-drinker!! woop! woop!!

To all my special friends that have shared, and continue to share your own sobriety journey.........I love and treasure all of you!!!

XXX Kate

[wonderworld]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

Wah!!!!!!!!!!! :upset: Me too!!!!

Thankful I'm so grateful you got us together in chat this weekend . It felt so good!!!!!!!!! I've missed you! And thank you for saying such nice things about me :l - it takes one to know one!!!! (and p.s. whenever I see pink roses now I think of you). Hope to see Liv around again soon - wah!!!! And Believe gets a giant spanking (okay and then a hug). Miss you guys!!!

And love the way you laid it out there Kate and all . Life is indeed getting better all the time - pain and all (thinking of that Beatles song - " I have to admit it's getting better, a little better, all the time.....").

"initiate their practices of sober living" - wise wise words Boots. And a crystalline guiding principal for new thread - (leave it to the West Coast vision quester!). I'm thinking that's what it REALLY comes down to at the end of the day, no? (ater the initial physical withdrawal anyway - yuk!!!!!!!!!!!!). It's all transition and transformation in one's "practices of living" from there. Not just holding your breath and hiding from AL and counting days, as you said. And really, we could be talking about ANYONE who wants to be AF for 30 days - not just people new to MWO. The "Inn" thread was kind of like that - remember? A healthy sober refuge.

And Happy 120 !!!!! We're like WAY OLD friends now ha ha ha lmao fell off my barbie chair. Big hugs. You are KICK ASS!!!!! And one day (maybe even soon) we will meet and I'll get to give you a real hug!!!!! Yay!!!

So proud to be among this group of beautiful non-drinking friends. Love you guys! :h

WW xox

[Determinator]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

Happy Happy Birthday Bootcamp!!!!!

ok, looks like I have to go back to school and learn how to use a clock. d-oh! somehow managed to miss chat in spite of all my preparations for it.

well, all is good in the high desert...Dx is having a ball on vacation and I'm in bachelor mode and trying not to dirty anything lest I have to clean it LOL

[bootcampbarbie]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

oh you are the funniest det... so so funny. i want to take a vacation. hubby just got back. i'll take a day here and there. i'd rather like that. maybe i can swing that so, yes ww i certainly agree. practices for life in daily living in soberland. whoop whooop. i even broke out some new tea from good earth and chocolates to celebrate said bday. whoop whoop. oh i think i'm going to take a bath like a really yummy one and read a book even. oohh sinful i say. sinful....
yes, please start that thread because honestly i would then go in and post and such to assist folks in that thread. but i'm having a hard time out in the threads trying to post to those that want to go af and then spending good amount of quality thought and response and then get back oh well, yeah i'm going to see how it goes or mod it. which is way fine but i want to be able to contribute to healthy living to those that actually want that. hope that just made sense. my challange is that i can't tell who really wants that. healthy soberville down to the souls/soles. hahahahaahaha love to walk it
okay all love and hugs. maybe i should go to the gym

[Thankful]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

Goodmorning all!

Boy, I am exhaushted this week (and it's only tues!). lol I'm going to try and be good with the coffee this week. Sticking to herbal tea hopefully. Bought a new one the other day - Kombucha (made w/ oraganic green tea). It is so good. Suppose to be good for the immune and digestive systems. I just know it's tasty.

You know, "Sober Living" is a great thread title! lol

Hope everybody is well today. Sober Living - let's live the dream!

Love to all ~

Love, Me
:l

[wonderworld]

Day 31 and Beyond: Hello, I'm a non-drinker

Good man Det !!! Missed you Sunday- next time you have to bring TWO gourmet snacks!

And I hear you Boots and Thankful - I'm thinking that if we create that healthy atmosphere - including how we relate to each other on the thread (no drama), I think anybody who really just wants trouble, will just get bored and go look somewhere else. There will always be bouts with AL no matter what (we KNOW the numbers are not in our favor - even the Lord Jesus Christ himself could not have stopped me from some of those last drinks), but maybe with the loving positive atmosphere, we can help keep the damage to a minimum during the 'learning experiences' (I had this experience with the Inn thread also). And those who find out in the process that they really are not serious about quitting right now will not want to stay after a while, I don't think. But yeah - those losses to AL can be very depressing and frustrating to me too. Part of why I haven't been spending too much time in those threads lately. I hate that beast. Having said all THAT (!)..........I guess we'll give it a go?!?!?!

Howz about : Day 1-30: Hello Sober Living

Love you guys!:h
WW xox