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    Cross post, Cowboy! Have a great evening whatever you decide to do. Pizza sounds awful good tho.
    Dill

    Dont forget, you can: start late, start over, be unsure, try and fail AND STILL SUCCEED!

    If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.

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      May we all enjoy bringing in the new year when we wake up tomorrow morning because none of us sound like we'll be doing it at midnight.

      Rava, thinking of you guys today. Makes sense now with the grands.

      Mul, I've seen only one wolf in my many years in the mountains and he was about 100 yards away. I could see he had a large tracking collar on. I felt sorry for him having to pack that thing around for the rest of his life. Just seemed wrong to me.

      Knee seems a little better. Swelling is down and pain is manageable. Haven't tried it on a trail yet but I'm getting closer, I think.

      Waves to all my Cafe friends on the eve of 2024! I'll take another day of freedom.

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        Happy New Year cafe! We had a quiet night watching tv and eating shrimp cocktail along with cheese and crackers. I was in bed by 8:00 pm and it was so nice to wake up without a hangover.

        Rava, sorry that attending a funeral was in the plans but sometimes we have to do unpleasant things in life. Hopefully you got through it O.K.. I would try to be grateful that it's not my funeral!

        Ginger, I'd be careful with the knee before you go hiking on the trails; you don't want to mess it up now that it's finally starting to heal.

        Here's to 24 hours of freedom...

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          5:26am in Alberta, I'll have another 24 please, and thanks...

          In the last 24 hours, these friends have joined in for 24 hours of wellness:
          Jude58 Rava dill Ginger999

          Today is going to be a darn good day not to drink!
          Quitting and staying quit isn't easy, its learning a whole new way of thinking. It's accepting a new way of life, and not just accepting it, embracing it...
          Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Just get through today. Tomorrow will look after itself when it becomes today, because today is all we have to think about.
          Friendship is not about how many friends you have or who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life, said "I'm here for you", and proved it.

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            We did go to BP's last night, but no pizza. We had French onion soup, chicken wings, pizza bread, and cactus cut fries. Then we went over to the Lodge where bubba's mom is and joined in on a sing-along they had for all the residents for New Year's Eve. It was a fun way to spend part of the evening and the residents had a good time and so did Bubba and I.

            Quitting and staying quit isn't easy, its learning a whole new way of thinking. It's accepting a new way of life, and not just accepting it, embracing it...
            Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Just get through today. Tomorrow will look after itself when it becomes today, because today is all we have to think about.
            Friendship is not about how many friends you have or who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life, said "I'm here for you", and proved it.

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              Cowboy, that was a great way to spend NYE. Your talk yesterday about Boston Pizza put it in my mind to make a pizza at home, so that's what we did. I made the dough in the bread machine (channeling QW) and Mr. D concocted a sauce. We added the toppings and voila! Snacks in the evening while watching Vera on the Acorn streaming service we borrowed from the library. We channel surfed for a while looking for some NYE celebration worth watching but soon gave up on that! We hit the hay at 10:00pm.

              Jude, your snacks were the same as ours.

              Happy New Year everybody!

              24 more for all of us here on our 1st day of 2025!

              Dill

              Dont forget, you can: start late, start over, be unsure, try and fail AND STILL SUCCEED!

              If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.

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                Sounds like we came through another celebration unscathed! Happy New Year.

                We had snacks and played cards outside until 8p. Only three of the 8 of us imbibed and that was minimal.

                Definitely great to wake up with a clear head. I'll take another day of freedom!

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                  Good Morning Cafe and Happy New Year’s Day! Waking up clear headed with sore feet from wear heels all day yesterday. Cleaning the tiny home today and preparing to leave on Friday to head south. The funeral was sad but such a wonderful celebration of our friends life. He would be proud. Sad that it happened this time of year but as we all know death doesn't pick a day. I have one New Year’s resolution that I will probably break by Friday but i am gonna to try to stop snacking at night. I have gained about 5 pounds and need to rein it in. LOL. Hope everyone has a wonderful and sober day. 24 more please and thank you!

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                    Sounds like everyone had a pleasant NYE !

                    We did as well...... though not without temptation. Our friend had brought over some egg liquer and my brother had bought a small bottle of champagne and bottle of alcohol free wine. I ended up adding a small splash of the egg liquer to my coffee for flavoring, and to drink with dinner I made myself a spritzer with the alcohol free wine, cranberry juice and a dollup of champagne (very tasty). I know some people would consider this drinking, but for me, if I'm doing it purely for taste without getting any sort of effect / intoxication I don't consider it as such. I realize that it gets into the territory of a fine line or a slippery slope so to speak, but I was always the kind of person that didn't think drinking was worthwhile unless you got a proper buzz (3-4 beers and a couple shots of whiskey was a light drinking night for me), so the line to me seems pretty clear. You might say this is dangerous, that I'm dancing with the devil, and maybe I am, I don't know. But it also might show how far I've come that I can handle some tiny amounts like this purely for taste, that I can go right to the edge without going over; maybe it's the ultimate test in a way (because I'm not gonna lie, of course there was a part of me that still wanted to grab that bottle and chug, but not giving in to that impulse in the end is the key).

                    And hope everyone has a good year ahead!
                    Last edited by Mulburry; January 1, 2025, 10:23 PM.

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                      Be careful Mulburry, alcohol is cunning. Of the many times that I've relapsed, it often started with just one glass of wine. I thought that I'd be fine but several days later the cravings for booze became unbearable and I would inevitably start drinking "full-time" again. For me, even a little bit of alcohol awakens the devil that is addiction.

                      Glad that everyone had a good New Years Eve with no hangovers the next day.

                      Who wants to join me for another 24 hours of freedom?

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                        Tread carefully, Mulburry. I know you will. You have come to far to let it slip away.

                        Off to my volunteer job.

                        Another 24 hours of freedom for all of us here, please and thank you.
                        Dill

                        Dont forget, you can: start late, start over, be unsure, try and fail AND STILL SUCCEED!

                        If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.

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                          5:25am in Alberta, 24 more please, and thanks...

                          In the last 24 hours, these friends have joined in for 24 hours of wellness:
                          Jude58 dill Ginger999 Rava Mulburry

                          Today is going to be a darn good day not to drink!
                          Quitting and staying quit isn't easy, its learning a whole new way of thinking. It's accepting a new way of life, and not just accepting it, embracing it...
                          Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Just get through today. Tomorrow will look after itself when it becomes today, because today is all we have to think about.
                          Friendship is not about how many friends you have or who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life, said "I'm here for you", and proved it.

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                            Have a safe trip back south tomorrow Rava, funerals are always hard to attend but so worth going and showing that we care.

                            Don't dance with the devil too often Mulburry, don't need you getting back together with that dance partner. Glad you got through it okay though.
                            Quitting and staying quit isn't easy, its learning a whole new way of thinking. It's accepting a new way of life, and not just accepting it, embracing it...
                            Worry about tomorrow, tomorrow. Just get through today. Tomorrow will look after itself when it becomes today, because today is all we have to think about.
                            Friendship is not about how many friends you have or who you've known the longest. It's about who walked into your life, said "I'm here for you", and proved it.

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                              Good morning Cafe. Mul, I agree with the others to tread lightly and carefully but you know where it leads and I am confident that you won’t slide back into that black hole. I consider myself California sober because I still occasionally use gummies. My drug of choice is always alcohol. So I technically fight that every day. The gummies do not sit the same with me as alcohol and I can take them or leave them whereas alcohol draws me in. We are all here because of our weaknesses and we always get the support and strength from each other. Hope everyone has a great and sober day! 24 more please and thank you.

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                                Slept in! I'll take another day of freedom.

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