One Step at a Time - February 2017

[actiongirl46]

Have a great day tomorrow Steppers!!

[NoraC]

How are things going AG and WF?

Liz?

[Wildflowers]

Blankie Fort Kitty :heartbeat:

[Wildflowers]

OK over here. Thanks for asking about all of us. Still not feeling great. My body doesn't want to follow my mind. Good, cause have days when both are out of order.

Could only think of one funny movie in recent months. Melissa McCarthy in Identity Thief. Tho, Bad Santa is a fave. :applouse: Not great at remembering lots of titles anymore. Thanks to Pauly jogging my marbles. New show stumbled on recently Fameless. It's a little like Betty White's Off Their Rockers. But, mainly with younger people. Don't know if you'd like. I'll have to go back & look at list AG & Pauly's recommendations.

Good job AG on another first. Glad you were able to spend time with your parents being AF. :smile:

Pauly, I cringed when you said that about drinking leftovers in restaurant. I did that at parties or at home. Not making fun of you. Use to be a bartender, then bar mgr, had easy access. Have always been amazed how in restaurants people don't finish their cocktails, wine, beer. Oh, do member drinking left over beer once with a ciggie butt in it. GROSS......lease:

Waves to all you fabulous Steppers. :hug:

[Wildflowers]

White Chicks, Bad Santa, Harold and Kumar. Have seen these & liked. Haven't seen Sausage Party. It appears that many of today's movies aren't near as funny anymore. However, Nacho Libre looks like a winner. Like Jack Black. Most recent viewing was, Nice Guy's with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling was so so imo. Daughter recommended Bad Grandpa, but didn't care for. Maybe wasn't in right mood. Did like Grandma's Boy.

OK. Good some of my marbles are still working. Lol

Sleep good....

[Rusty]

Good Morning, Friends!

Pauly and Wildflowers...chugging leftovers. Never did that, but I chuckled when WF brought up drinking a beer with a cigarette butt in it...it reminded me of the movie Caddyshack when Spaulding drinks all the leftovers at the dinner tables at the country club, then drinks a beer with a ciggie butt in it and barfs into some guy's Porsche! Hahah! Favorite movies: Caddyshack, Christmas Vacation (Chevy Case) and Uncle Buck.

AG...congrats on visiting with your parents AF!! GOOD JOB!

WF-you are sounding so strong...we are thrilled to have you here. Love the Blankie Fort kitty.

Pauly-let us know what the food allergy results are...I am curious!

Big hellos to Nora, Liz, Nursie, Glassie, Skendall, Cowboy and other friends...Happy AF Thursday!

[Lizann]

Sorry I have been AWOL! Busy with Chelsea and vendor appts:victorious: I do believe she has a photographer. Moving forward with that! Plus have been back and forth with Erin's MIL and we decided to have the baby shower at the firehouse in town on 4/22. I know Erin won't be happy about that but I feel like I need to let her MIL help me with this. We will make it nice and fun! Then my phone broke so I needed to get a new one, been spending a lot of time downloading data and such. There, I think that covers what I've been up to the last few days.

AG, you made it past 14 days:yay: sounds like you're doing great. Glad things worked out at dinner with your parents. You guys had me laughing with finishing everyone drinks, WF especially with the cig butt! I've never done it but I have thought of it. I have wondered how people could leave a half empty glass and longed to drink it, or even be able to leave a half empty glass!

Snowing here like crazy. Thankfully I don't have to work today. The hospital called and said we need to make every attempt to get there, seriously? Yesterday it was over 60 degrees out. We didn't even need coats! Anyway off to make pancakes for my little ones. No one went to work today. As much as I dislike the snow I'm happy to have my nest full.
Have a great day and I'll be checking in later!

[NoraC]

Morning. Glad to hear from you Luz. Enjoy your snow day.

Uncle Buck, grandma's boy, blazing saddles, it's a mad, mad, mad world and of course all The Thin Man movies.

Back to work

[Lizann]

How about "The Proposal". With Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds? My favorite!!

[Lizann]

Physically exhausting day! Helped hubby shovel snow. We had about 8 inches. The snow was too heavy to snow blow at the foot of the driveway where we got plowed in. What a work out! Baked some brownies, cleaned the house and made some pork chops for dinner. It's freezing outside and I worry about the roads tomorrow. I am working and Mark has to travel for business about an hour away, ugh! My almost 88 year old father shoveled by his house today and insisted we not come over to help. By the time myBIL made it over there it was already done. So stubborn he is, I was pretty upset about it. Mom says he's feeling good and accomplished, I sure hope there's in more snow. We need to find someone close by his house to help him out. A neighbor did help him snowblow a bit, but he was already almost done!
Anyway hope you all enjoyed your day. Have a peaceful AF night!

[NoraC]

Hard to imagine shoveling snow. :egad:


Hope everyone has a fantastic Friday.

See you in the fort!

[actiongirl46]

Late check in for me! I was super busy today with work and a basketball game.

My friend asked hubs and I to join her at an Irish pub for Trivia. So we went to that too! I felt pretty good. This time (maybe because it was later?? my cravings go away at 9pm, I've noticed) I didn't even feel a little pull on the drive to the pub. I had a great cup of hot tea AND vanilla bean ice cream. It was really good. Plus, we came in second! Not bad.

No one asked why I was drinking tea. There was a woman about my age that was sitting at the bar. She got really loud and crass. Seemed a little wobbly. I had to take a hard look inside myself and say, is that what you want to be???

Sigh. That is not who I want to be . . . Onward!

[NoraC]

Happy Friday all.

I want to thank AG and WF and everyone else for sharing here lately. Our regular peeps and all our visitors have given such great information. It has really helped me. :love:

It reminded me that I'll never have only one or even two drinks. All or nothing for me. And the times that it was only one or two, it was such a struggle. So thank you for that reminder. It made me think about all my tools. And I am making sure that they are still in place.

The thing is that it really does get so much better. It stops being in your head all the time. So, it's easy to forget about why we're here. Well, not forget......but, not be as vigilant? Anyway, I have pulled out my toolbox. Been reading my journal and adding to it. Been collecting many positive thoughts and writing them down. Remembering to take time for me. Doing all the things that I need to do to stay the best me I can be.

Thank you all for being here with me. :heartbeat:

[paulywogg]

Nora,I shoulda pulled out my toolbox yesterday but I was just so pissed off at the world I wanted to escape, now what do I have? Baggy eyes,dehydration, regret, embarrassment, the shakes,its always the same,escape for a bit but left with the shits the next day,I think I need to not count my days,seems I trip myself up when I hit a certain point, maybe I get cocky or something, think I crossed the finish line,grrrrr,I hate this crap

[SoCali]

Pauly, I'm right there with you - need to FIND a toolbox...LOL! Speaking of which, WHERE is the toolbox here, by the way? I went to the "just starting out" but can't find it.

Nora, do you have a physical journal or do you journal online? I've never been big into that sort of thing and wonder if I'd ever really want to READ the drivel I'd likely end up writing but perhaps I'm missing the entire point of journalling altogether - perhaps the very act is somehow helpful and/or cathartic? I'm just curious because a lot of people suggest keeping a journal through this whole sobriety thing. Perhaps right NOW, when the memory is so fresh with my inability to moderate (after more than two months of sobriety), journaling now might help me later if I ever start thinking I could moderate again...? Like you Pauly, maybe I got cocky - quitting was simply not that hard for me and I never had "cravings" or tough moments in the evening where I thought "Jeez - I have to have a drink!" so, after a few months I think I too got cocky and thought "this has really not been a big deal - maybe I CAN moderate!". Which. I. Can. NOT. Point being, maybe journaling NOW may help me in the future...?