One Step at a Time-December 2016

[Rusty]

GLASSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!1:yay::yay::yay: I have missed you! Merry Christmas!!!! How are you? How is your granddaughter?

SKENDALL....Wow, thanks for check in...I have missed you, too!!!! So glad Vivian is perfect in every way.

LIZ-GRRR....that co-worker has pulled this one too many times!

[NoraC]

((((((((((((Glassie)))))))))))))
So very, very, very happy to see you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NoraC]

Just had a crying jag at work. Not something to even get this upset about. But, it set me off big time. The foreman from the shop called me about something without telling me that he had already talked to my co-worker (boss's niece) who told him that she was going to talk to the VP (boss's daughter - her cousin). I get off the phone and find out that he had already talked to her. I am constantly in the middle and I am DONE. So, I'm crying & boss's daughter & her cousin are talking to me & I'm telling them that this happens all the time and I'm done. My boss walked in during the middle of it. I'm surprised he didn't take one look and turn around and walk out!.

Liz - thinking of you. :hug:

[paulywogg]

((Hugs)) Nora,that work situation sounds rough

[Lizann]

Aww Nora:hug: were you able to resolve anything? That is rough.

Glassy I have missed you! Welcome back. How are you? How is your granddaughter?

Skendall can't wait to hear what's going on with you! Fill us in.

Rusty yes she pulls this all the time. Our manager has spoken to her about it. She has a doctors note. Whatever. I put on my big girl panties and am dealing with it.

Thanks for thinking about me guys and keeping tabs on me. I'm doing ok. Don't know what I was worried about.

[Rusty]

Liz-She ALWAYS gets doctor's notes!! I guess those doctors don't mind if she "plays possum," they are happy to bill her for a doctor's visit. That will bite her in the butt some day. Soooo proud of you for not drinking!

Yawn...hi to everyone else. I am in Georgia and I get to leave early tomorrow. Right now, off to bed. Sweat dreams, everyone!

[Glass Half Empty]

Hi my lovelies
I’ve missed you SO much. Thank you for your welcome back!!

I’ve been crazily busy lately. I had a bad fall a few weeks ago, in which I fractured a vertebra and tore my sacroiliac ligament. In the same week my work was totally crazy, I put my house up for sale, bought a new car, had to deal with some major legal issues and had my first article published in an academic journal. But otherwise everything was pretty normal!

And my little Grandangel is just perfect and doing exquisitely.

I’m so sorry to hear a few of you are having work trouble. It’s a bad time of year for that!!!

[Lizann]

Hey guys.
Glassy you certainly have been busy. I'm so glad you're back. Sorry about the fall! Hope you are healing well and feeling better. Published? I'm impressed! Give that little grandbaby a hug for me!
Rusty, it's probably warmer in Georgia than it is here or at home!
A totally manageable day at work today! Had to stay a littler later than I wanted but Lucy was fine when I did get home. She's not used to not going out all day. She's such a little trooper. Did a little shopping with Erin tonight. It was fun since mostly all my shopping is fun. We stayed away from the mall and just went to a few stores.
Yawn! Me too rusty. Off to bed for me. Sweet dreams. Hope everyone else is doing ok too!

[NoraC]

Sorry for the quick post but I'm calling it a night.

Liz - you are doing an amazing job

Glassie - I am so sorry to hear about your injuries!! Congrats on your article being published.
I have missed you. :hug:

more tomorrow. Love and hugs to everyone

[NoraC]

Read a great blog today

Tired of Thinking about Drinking

One of the most important things you will do [in early sobriety] is learn to strategically avoid ‘overwhelm’—I use this word as a noun, it’s a thing on the horizon, like fog.
Your life is like a video game. You can see potential bombs, things advancing, that could blow up and throw you off course. Your job is to navigate them. You don’t walk right into a bomb and hope for the best. You don’t test yourself by repeatedly doing difficult or stressful things. Instead, you ask someone to carpool, you decline social activities, and you simplify meals.
Your job is to reduce overwhelm. All around you, there are lists of things to do and when you first quit drinking you are going to take it easy. You will shower once a day, try not to get fired, and skip everything else.
Thinking that you need to push or force yourself to do things is a holdover from your drinking time, when you were hungover and you made yourself do things to prove that you didn’t have a problem. You wanted to make yourself look normal. You took on more than you could reasonably do, so that you looked high-functioning, so that nobody knew how much you were drinking, and so no one could detect how you felt about yourself.

[Lizann]

Good morning! Erin texted me this morning, she has the stomach virus! Poor thing. Of course with all the fuss I made about Ann calling in watch me now get sick!
Heard from my guys and they are having a great time. They are coming home tomorrow night.
It's like 14 degrees here today and windy! I don't even want to go out! Going to put Lucy's flannel pjs on her. She loves being warm and cozy.
Have a good one, I'll check back tonight.

[NoraC]

Hope Erin feels better and you avoid it!

Pauly - where are you?

Hi to everyone. I'll be back after work.

[Lizann]

Hey guys, what a day! Went food shopping and while I was in the car driving home I get a text from my son in law. Erin went to the drug store to get some Gatorade and passed out! They were taking her by ambulance to the hospital. He's two hours away told him I'd meet him at the hospital. He told me one hospital. I was almost there when Erin texted and said they were taking her another hospital, I felt a little better having heard from her. She said she was dehydrated from the diarrhea and vomiting. So I head over to the hospital. When I go there they said she wasn't there and likely at another hospital! Long story short I best the ambulance there by like 5 minutes. She looked ok when I saw her, thank God. When I finally got in to see her she says "this isn't how I wanted to tell you, but I'm pregnant". Um, WHAT? She is 13 weeks along and they wanted to tell us Christmas. I started to cry. They gave her fluids and discharged her four hours later. She's fine, baby's fine. I'm going to be a grandma. I won't say anything to anyone till next week, so as not to ruin the surprise, but I had to tell someone! :sohappy:

[SoCali]

OM Gosh Lizann - I don't think I've ever posted to you or seen anything FROM you, nor do I know who Erin is but assume she's your daughter and that you're going to be a grandma so CONGRATS to you!!!! How very exciting!!!

[paulywogg]

Congratulations Liz!!!