One Step at a Time - June 2016

[Lizann]

Happy Sunday morning all. Off to church in a bit, then to Erin's for Fathers Day lunch. How sweet is she? My parents are so excited to come as well.
Busy day yesterday. Running, pool, baby shower, shopping and just hanging out with the kids. Love it when Erin comes by!
Hope you are all enjoy your Sunday. Aihfl, thanks for keeping us up to date on things going on your part of the world, very interesting. I have never heard of the westboro loonies.
Glassy, so good to see you here!
And I'm off. . .

[Lizann]

AG, please let us know how last night went? So sad about the last game. I have been there and it does tug at our heart strings. New adventures are coming for sure.

[aihfl]

LOL! Dodgeball? Are you kidding me? I'd get hurt for sure. That is so fun!

Ne, I forgot to mention, my team is called the "Schweddy Dodgeballs!" For those of you who have forgotten or never knew, here is the Saturday Night Live skit from which we take our name:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f24_1356377603

[paulywogg]

That's awesome Aihfl!!!

[NoraC]

Happy Father's Day to all the Dad's out there. Hope you all are having the best ever.

[NoraC]

How is everybody doing today?

[Rusty]

Good Morning!

Fantastic weekend...fun birthday party for my friend and I offered to be the party photographer(thanks to you sweethearts who posted "Likes" on my FB page). The birthday girl only invited me and one other friend. Her husband and sons were there and it was just a blast. Yesterday was walking, and I had a friend over for a while. GREAT weekend! I MUST work on being patient with my mother. It is SUCH a struggle for me.

Long commutes every day this week so probably i will not be posting much.

Happy Monday to all.

[NoraC]

Morning - glad you had a fantastic weekend, Rusty.

Crappy day yesterday. Trying to shake it off and have a good one today.

Quiet around these parts.

[mama bear]

Schweddy Balls.......I had forgotten about that one! You just put a huge smile on my face, aihfl!! A dodgeball team would be a blast!
I don't watch the news...it's too horrific and depressing. Of course , the horror of Orlando could not be avoided.
Aihfl is right about gators. They are for more scared of us than we are of them. You will only see little ones around if Mama is near.
I think Disney had signs posted.....All my of lakes on properties have signs everywhere.
I have never heard of the talcum powder issue either. I never used it.
I saw your pictures sweet Rusty.
We had a quite weekend and Father's Day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GLASSY!!
Bret and I celebrate 25 years married Wednesday. When in the heck did that happen??
Mousies at the Dollar Store?? Ewwww.
Lizz - I am glad Erin is cooking for her daddy.
okey dokey...back to work.
Love you all to bits

[NoraC]

did i miss glassie's birthday?!?!?!?!?

[SKendall]

Morning. Glassie, Happy Birthday. Mama, you are celebrating your anniversary on my birthday. STILL in the 60's here. Mama, on Wednesday, there will be an eclipse as well as the summer solstice, ok maybe Tuesday, lol.

Haven't seen JC on the Army much lately.

We have 3 sets of bald eagles hovering above and screaming. They are staying which is unusual for them to stay nr. a populated area. In the high winds recently, an empty eagle's nest (aerie) was blown over and was full of cat collars. If a cat goes wandering here, it's gone for good. On my property we personally lost 3. The coyotes are more annoying because they howl in packs (a kill?).

Anybody started watching OITNB?

Rusty, when you're on the road, do you get to read books? Must get hard being alone in the hotel rooms at night.

I'm not going to address individually, but I think of you all.

Nora, I see you think we and the army should join up. I posed a similar question a while ago and didn't get a response. The other forum is expanding b/c it shows up on google search. Not quite as chatty as here, it concentrates on meds and not everyone is Al free.

You all are friends in my heart so I would hate to see that go away.

[NoraC]

SK - I don't know what the answer is. I have tried writing to administration and I know that other people have also written.
I have not had a response at all regarding the future of the forum.

I am sad because I have known so many of you for years. You all have been with me thru thick and thin. You've heard about the ugly and rejoiced at the good.

I was just thinking if we had a general place to post? Who knows. I hate to say that I feel like there's nobody out there that is interested in saving this forum. Meaning the owners of the forum.

[NoSugar]

I wonder what Ne would say about inviting everyone on MWO to theendofmyaddiction.org. The threads could have the same names, people could keep their usernames and if that site is "findable", maybe there would be new members. I joined that site as NS awhile ago but didn't find too many threads like the ones I read and/or post on here. Or, move en masse to Sober Recovery or something like that.

[NoraC]

NS - If Ne wouldn't mind, I would be happy to do that. If she doesn't mind if we start posting over there.
I think I already joined so I'll check it out.
I have been watching who's online here and it seems like there are never more than 3-10 real users on here at a time. The majority that say viewing are really, really old threads???

Anyway - I just have a feeling that we are going to wake up one morning and MWO won't be here anymore. I am paying a membership fee to offer support. But, never get a response.

[NoSugar]

It has been dying slowly for a long time, I think, with the rate increasing lately.
This is a very busy, moderated site that is very similar to MWO: The Alcoholism and Addictions Help Forums- by SoberRecovery.com
It is so large it is a little overwhelming but that might be a nice problem for a change.
Maybe people could look at that and at Forums - The End of my Addiction and we could see if there is any interest.