JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

[FreeFly]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Unwasted

I just want to thank you for being a very BIG shining light on MWO. Your words inspired me when I first signed up and nothing's changed! Thank you :h

[Jolie]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

I would love to learn a language! Took 2 years of french in high school but don't remember too much. I can tell my dogs to "sit please" and "very good" in spanish (only because my daughter took it in high school). Doesn't something called "rosetta stone" teach you a language without actually taking a class?

Anywho - day 23 for me today - feeling strong and had tons of energy (even after working today). Came home and made cookies. Paula Deen recipe that actually called for 1/4 cup of rum - had to substitute all vanilla extract cause I didn't have any rum extract either! They turned out so-so. Funny looking though - cut them into heart shapes but didn't have anything to decorate them with except for little candy leaves (fall-ish for sure).

Sounds like everyone here is rolling right along - mylife - weekends are the hardest for sure - good idea knocking the first one out right away - the next one will be a breeze!

Freefly - I agree! UW has been a total inspiration - she's headed towards 90 days and that's a huge accomplishment!

lifechange - good for you on day 4!

Jenny - been here off and on for 2+ years and never saw anyone take the time to track how many days everyone was on - can't tell you how much it means to have someone else recognize our AF days!

Okay - off to pack lunches so I can get up at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow and start this craziness all over again! (wish I was old enough or rich enough to retire

Good night all!

[RingingCedars]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

FreeFly;1250398 wrote: Unwasted

I just want to thank you for being a very BIG shining light on MWO. Thank you :h

Copy that FreeFly. UW your encouragement, conversation and example especially during personal trials have inspired me as well. Well done lady!

25 days of no wine or cigs here.

Just do your best and if your best isn't cutting it--better it.

[scottish lass]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Agreed with all - UW is special. I keep feeling that I take so much from MWO and don't give much back - one day I hope i can reverse that.
Glad we have jammers hanging in and getting thru a January in one form or another! And lucky we have Jenny to keep track of us all!

[mylife]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

lifechange;1250340 wrote: hey my life!
my boyfriend is also spanish speaking-- from columbia.
i started taking classes awhile back and got pretty good (or so i thought) until we visited his family.!
i'm also trying to get back on track with that.
good for you.!! can you speak a little? is your husband willing to practice with you?

great on day 5 as well. i'm one behind you.

Hi Lifechange! I remember when my husband was my boyfriend and I thought I was pretty good at Spanish until I met his family! LOL. NOT. Anyway, I have to say fast forward 20 years and I should be fluent, but I am not. My husband grew up here since he was 8 so really English is his "second first language "- and we're both lazy when it comes to me practicing spanish!! It's hard! But I will say his father told me he was impressed the last time we were there that I'd learned Spanish - so I guess I'm getting there!! (At the time I thought - really? Okay!)

Jolie - I also took a year of french in highschool - I really loved that language. Someday I would like to get better at it.

UW - I have to say as well you have been a wonderful inspration for me. Thanks so much for all your efforts here!

SL - I am SO impressed with your success with all the stress you have been undergoing. Keep it up - I see fantastic things in your future!!

RC - Wow!! 25 Days that's awesome! I think I have seen you on the moderating thread. Are you planning to stop or is this part of your moderating plan?

So great to hear from everyone. I'm up ridiculously early due to work stress. (sigh) When can I retire??? LOL.

[Unwasted]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

jennyneric;1249197 wrote: :yougo: :yougo: :yougo: :yougo: :yougo: :yougo:

On the first week and rockin it!
Irie 1/21/2012
JennynEric-1/21/2012
Free Fly-1/20/2012
My Life-1/19/2012
Belle Started 1/14/12
Available - 1/14/2012

Double Digits!
Jane 1/6/2012

In the 20s!
Broken Halo-1/2/2012
Jolie 1/2/2012
Vini-1/1/2012
RingingCedars-12/31/2011
Hyper Nova start- 12/31/2011
Believer-12/31/2011
Canadian Gal-12/30/11
K9-12/27/11

In the 50s!
Scottish Lass-11/28/2011

In the 60s!


In the 70s!
Pinecone 11/12/2011
Unwasted

In the 80s!
Running 4 Life-11/3/2011

In the 240s!
Drifty Alison-5/21/2011

If I missed anyone, got anyones date wrong or they are not here anymore let me know and I will correct it. Good job to us all and a Super Sober Sunday!

Bumping

[Unwasted]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Good Morning Jammers,

First, let me say thank you guys!:lilheart: So sweet of you to tell me I'm inspirational......can't tell you how good that made me feel to read your posts! That's what I love about it here - total strangers who really "get" how hard this is and can understand what we're going through. I've read so many long-timers' stories who say they owe their sobriety to this site. I know that's true for me, and I am so happy to hear that I might be a small part of what helps others overcome this terrible struggle.

Wow, it's great to see lots of successful stuff going on here! I'm on day 72 and just couldn't be happier. Even though we had a big storm that woke me up during the night, I was able to fall back asleep and wake up refreshed and rested. That would never have happened in the old days - I would have been awake at 2-3 a.m., full of anxiety and just gotten out of bed then. I would have dragged around absolutely exhausted feeling borderline sick all day, the day passing excruciatingly slow minute by minute. I would have been angry at what I'd done to myself by drinking, etc. etc........you guys know the drill.

Anyhoo.........I had to chuckle when I read the Spanish speaking stories. I went back to school late in life (30s) to finish my degrees. Originally I thought I wanted to get a PhD which required some heavy duty prowess in a language. So, I took lots of Spanish in school. My last course, I was actually in a high level conversational class. Every other person in the class was a native speaker. I was in way over my head. Would you believe those sweet people rescued me?! Several girls said come to our dorm room, and we'll help you. So I go, and they help me actually rehearse a conversation (this was going to be a class test where we had to carry on a conversation for some period of time with other students). I could never have done it impromptu and without what they did for me I don't see how I could have passed that class. I made straight As in everything but Spanish, but with their help I made a B. I will never forget that kindness! Sorry, long story...............

CG - 28 days girl....and you are rockin! I think you have the toughest situation here because of all the social drinking in China. You seem to be weathering it, though. Let us know how it's going.

Irie and Lifechange- day 5!! Jolie, day 24, RC, day 26 (and cigs too yay!) - great stuff everyone. Jenny, hope you're racking up some days too. SL, are you coming up on 60 days?! Milestone - woohoo!

My Life, Hyper, Free Fly :l - so glad to see everyone is still on a roll. R4L 83 & Alison (our lead AF racker-uppers)

Red - thanks for the beautiful quote!

The latest with me guys, is that I'm juicing - drinking lots of healthy organic drinks that I juice every day and feeling absolutely fantastic. I've also jogged 3 miles a day for the past week..........so I'm feeling very healthy! Also cooking from scratch.......bread, gnocchi, chocolate mousse.......yum.

Now, the biggest fun thrill of all.............drumroll...........we are getting a swimming pool. I live in a place where summers are brutally hot, so we finally bit the bullet and spent a chunk of our old age money. They actually started digging yesterday..................so excited!!

Well, sorry for the excruciatingly long diatribe today kids...............hope I didn't miss anyone!

Sending everyone peace and strength..........

..............and, oh,................let me know if you want me to change the chart in any way. I know Jenny will update again on Sunday, but I can be an interim updater during the week.

[K9Lover]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Hi Friends!

I am just catching up...wow, everyone is busy and sounding good. I took a sick day yesterday, finally decided to give myself a day to rest. It's not like my job is rocket science, it carries on without me. LOL

Day 30 for me, and as I posted in the Nest, I don't really have feelings either way about it. I've been here, done this before. I think I made over 100 at one point. BUT...I'm just plugging along, trying not to dwell on it. I haven't had any cravings or anything. I don't even feel a "tug" at the store when I'm standing right next to the beer (why is the bread right next to the beer?) In fact, a couple of times I watched people picking up a 6 or 12 pack, they reminded me of me. You could tell they just got off work, probably pretty responsible and respectable in their lives, but just can't make it through the evening without their drinks. Made me happy I didn't have to grab a 12 pack.

I also mentioned in the Nest that I put up last years calendar next to this years, I'm very visual so I need to SEE things. Last January I had 11 sober days. Onward and upward this year, right? I think it was last March-May that I really thought I had this thing licked, so I will be extra cautious this time as I approach 80, 90, 100 days. Yikes. I'm going to my new doctor on Monday so I hope to get a full year of Antabuse from her. If she's actually taken the time to read the medical records I dropped off, she'll see that I really am trying. This will kind of be intersting to see if she has actually read up on me before I arrive!

RC - You are doing so awesome...no wine AND no cigs is very, very amazing. I am still struggling with the cigs, but have managed to cut down, since now I'm tracking how many I actually have in the day. (Yet another calendar...lol). When I get down to 3 per day, that's when I will go straight to zero. Hopefully by mid-February.

I've rambled enough...everyone have a great day!

xoxo
K9

[WineWrangler]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Had a great nights sleep last night, after 25 days I think the alcohol is finally out of my system. Now the objective is to get it out of my brain. I really haven't had cravings to drink, its sneaks up on me when I least expect it. Reading here daily has been a huge support, and I thank everyone. Its going to be nice today and I think I'll go for a bike ride after work almost nice enough to go kayaking!
Take Care WW

[lifechange]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Kayaking???
lucky dog!
it's freezing cold here--i almost forgot my gloves this mornig for my 40 min. bike ride to the elem. school and then to work. even with the gloves my poor fingers froze.

sometimes inhaling the super cold air and then exhaling -- and being able to see it relaxes me.
it's somehow very quiet. but i would love to kayak again.

day 5 coming to an end here.
good night to all---

[Unwasted]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Now the objective is to get it out of my brain

Me too Wine Wrangler - let's hang in because I feel sure we can get there after studying many other long timer posts.........just takes time. I'd rather try to have patience with trying to get al out of my head than be hungover every day........lesser of the evils!

Best to everyone here - hope you all are achieving your AF goals! Day 73 for me!!

[WineWrangler]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Good Morning, hope everyone is feeling better and learning not to be afraid of sobriety. I'm learning to replace my drinking times with positive things. Went for a bike ride along the marina yesterday evening at sunset, and also enrolled in a weekly photoshop course yesterday. Times past when I new I had to stop drinking I just worked all the time (15 hours a day), hope we can all find a balance in life without alcohol.
Keep Up The Effort WW

[mylife]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Hello All,

I just love this thread. Really, what a great group of people working together to achieve this goal.

K9 - CONGRATULATIONS!!! I know you've been to 30 days before - I have too - a couple of times. But I think we get stronger each time and you sound so positive and committed. This can be a new way of life for us.

UW - you are doing AWESOME. You sound like a new person. That's my inspiration to keep working at this until it clicks!!

Winewrangler - Kyaking!! Hmmmm that sounds like fun.

Lifechange - I've been thinking about getting in to biking. I used to be a runner until I had to have back surgery and they said no more. Maybe I'll give it a shot over the weekend and see if it takes.

Have a wonderful AF day all!

[DriftyAlison0]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Nearly lunchtime here on my day off from college classes. I am af and I have not drank to this point in Jan. and I pledge to not drink today. I love my af life. I have a aunt's daughter who lost her mom to cancer in Feb. 11 and now her dad is dying and he is an alcoholic. I feel so bad for her to be losing both parents within a year of each other (and if he dies before the 9th not even a year). Makes me grateful to quit drinking when I did. I had my fun and had plenty of time to know that drinking is not for me. Thank god for my sobriety and for my af life!

[scottish lass]

JAMMIN JANUARY KICKOFF FOR A SOBER 2012 - NEWBIE SUPPORT THREAD

Just finished two day regulatory audit at work, and survived I think, but long two days - so ready for good nights sleep!
Well done K9 - 30 days is great, even if you have been there before - you have done it again!
Yep UW - coming up on 60 days, and can't quite believe it!!
Thx MyLife - and yes, this is a good strong thread of a good group of people helping each other succeed - I like it in the Jam!
Well done Drifty - yes, there are sad reminders of why we are doing this and hoping to beat what others are suffering!
WW and life change - well done for the attitude, it really does help!
OK - off to get the girls to bed, then hitting the sack! Night all