AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

[Cinders]

Good Morning my friends.

Today is Friday the 13th and my son's 30th birthday!!

I don't have much else to say right now. Had a great meeting last night and the discussion topic was focus, so it blew me right out of the water when I read AA's post after I got home.

I hope you had a nice birthday, Mary. If you are like me, a sober birthday is a great birthday.

Lots of love to all my abberoo friends.

I'll check in as people log on.

Love,
Cindi

[Marshy]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Morning Cindi (lovely avatar!) & all to come

A sunny spring morning here. Lots of daffodils coming out in the park I live next to - and at the moment lots of police out there searching in the bushes for god knows what. The delights of city life...

I'm chugging down my fifth cup of tea before heading off to work. Have a good day everyone.

[charlee]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Morning all
I have already chugged my 4th mug of coffee.....Have to be at work a bit earlier, so I am rushing around trying to get a small load of laundry done beforehand. I love an empty hamper!!!

Friday the 13th....not much new on the homefront...My eldest, who broke his leg back in November is going in for day surgery to get all the hardware that was put in removed...luckily he has a roommate to bring him to and from so I will pop in for my "mommy visit" a bit later this afternoon....Doesn't matter how old a "mommy visit" is a good thing.....

Hope everyone has a great day....

[greeneyes]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

ABBERS!

I like Friday the 13th. The different reactions of people are amusing. I'm having dinner tonight with a GF right after she gets off work. We go to a sushi place for the early bird special. She loves it that I don't drink and tells me so.

Off to the hole!

[retteacher]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Thank you all for the b-day wishes. It was quiet but great, & I ended it by going to an AA meeting. We'll celebrate tomorrow w/a small family dinner.

I'm doing well. I'm finding the meetings very helpful. I totally identify w/what everyone says. Previously, I had thought that going to Alanon (I've been a member for many years) was enough. But AA has an entirely different focus.

Today will be a sober day. Hubby is taking me out to lunch.

Mary

[Mohun]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Good morning all. A real treat to be on page one out here in the Pacific time zone. Another hangover free day and a good nights sleep. No coffee yet (I like to check in first).

I took this week off on vacation. I didn't really do anything, but it felt good to give the brain a rest.

Mo.

[Lila]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

hi everyone
I overslept this morning!! Bad luck???
Yesterday, I was tempted to go to the liquor store, but I thought people here would somehow *know*. So I didn't and the rest of the evening went on rather quickly, and here I am - another day!
Lila

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Happy Friday the 13th!

Mary, I'm glad you had a nice birthday and that you will celebrate with your family tomorrow. Enjoy that manicure!! I can't believe I waited to discover the joys of manicure / pedicure until this late in life. Boy was I missing out! Have fun with hubby at lunch too.

Cinders thank you for starting us off today, and Happy Birthday to your son!

Marshy - I need to go out to the yard to see if some of the daffodils we planted last fall are trying to pop up. The weather has been so strange with warm spells (warmer than avg.) then cold spells (much colder than avg - it was 17 degrees F this morning!) We planted 320 bulbs so I sure hope some of them made it! I loved your post yesterday about mentioning "oh and I quit drinking too.." to the person at the gym. It's easier than we think sometimes. I've gotten pretty comfortable saying that, especially in situations where someone asks about my weight loss. (work out, diet, no more AL...)

Charlee it must be nice to start getting the kids "up and out" where you can just make the mommy visit without taking on all the responsibilities that come with kids!

Greenie, all I can say is EWWWW for sushi! Just reading about it screams "Friday the 13th!!" to me.

This cold is sucking the wind right out of my sails. Something interesting occurred to me last night. I went to bed very early (even for me!) by 5PM. I should have laid down earlier than that but kept puttering around my office not being in much of a mind set to accomplish anything. I did stay in bed until after 6:30 this morning which is rare. I started waking up - then going back to sleep around my usual get up time of 3AM. I felt lousy so stayed in bed, but was feeling really really guilty about having gone to bed so early and staying in bed so late.

At some point it occurred to me that I might have been reacting as though I was back in the days of perpetual hangovers. One of the reasons I think I stayed a "functional alkie" as long as I did was putting an immense amount of guilt and pressure on myself to get my ass out of bed and push through the day no matter how lousy I felt. Almost like a "punishment" that somehow justified the "means?" I don't know. But I need to get past that since those days are over, and be kind to myself when I AM sick and DO need to just rest - and not feel guilty about it. (My functional-ness, new word, was pretty non-functional there at the end. I'm thinking more of how things were in my 30's and into the early 40s' before I basically shut down and didn't do much of anything but drink)

Anyway...always more work to do and it's interesting how these random things pop up when you least expect them. My promise to me is that I will be kind to myself until I am over this cold, and take one day at a time only doing what I feel I have the energy to do and not pushing myself to do more if I don't feel up to it. For now I'm feeling pretty good - at least rested and not dripping snot constantly with the aid of a "non-drowsy day time cold pill." I plan to go to an AA meeting at 10:30, then we'll see about Curves after that. I should probably be considerate of others, and stay out of Curves and keep my germs to myself.

From yesterday - TG, I think I missed saying hello to you and wanted to make sure to congratulate you on Day 4 yesterday and hopefully you are on to Day 5 today. In then end this HAS to be a personal decision and I'm really proud of you for hanging in there regardless of what your Mom and BF may decide for themselves.

Mo and "No!" Thanks for the update. I was laughing about the bed time story. Around here, a lot of 'pack rank' shit happens around the bed. Go kitty!

Narilly congratulations on 3 weeks!

ETA: Good morning Mo and Lila! Mo, I think it's nice to take time off and just stay home sometimes. No rat race of travel, which sometimes can be as tiring as work! Glad you enjoyed it. Lila - good for you taking a pass on the liquor store. Whatever helps you stop those thoughts long enough to NOT act upon the impulse is a very good thing. Glad to be on the team of angels in your head!

I'm a bit out of it so my apologies if I am forgetting anyone! (non-drowsy my butt)

DG

[narilly]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Thanks DG!
I love Sushi, Green Eyes, and Hey- I will be eating sushi in Mexico next week. Last night I went to watch one of my favorite old time bands and I did not drink! It was great. I was a lot more quiet and reserved but it was fun. Usually I would be dancing and going all crazy...how embarassing. Anyway, Happy Sober Friday Everyone!

Happy Birthday Mary! Mo- you better get some coffee...

Talk soon aberoos - (love that saying)
Narilly

[LVT25]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Good morning friends. DG, I don't know how you caught my cold over cyberspace, but my apologies! I know EXACTLY how you feel--you're right, be kind to yourself and get your rest and drink plenty of AF fluids!!

Interesting start to my day. Our 2 big calves got into the corn (got the gate open) and helped themselves to about 50#! It's like candy to them, but also toxic in large amounts. So hubby had to leave work and go to the vet, get supplies, and come home and help me treat them. I won't go into detail about that--but it involves a long stomach tube and mineral oil!!
Anyway, I hope they don't get sick, it's lucky my son found them when he did chores this morning. I feel kinda bad, because I blamed him for leaving the gate open, which is probably not the case. Will text him an apology at lunchtime.

Have another county meeting with the alcohol prevention team for teens. Should be interesting as we have a guest speaker. I was also involved in a discussion at the church youth group the other night concerning the dangers of drinking. Didn't get too deep, but there is plenty of it going around, and with prom and graduation coming up, it is always a concern....

Buffy thankfully is napping right now. The only thing she has destroyed so far is a big plastic bowl (full of scraps for my compost pile-yuck!) and a tube of chapstick. Hopefully she didn't find any stray m & m's in hubby's chair last night. I just wish I had her energy. I'm trying to teach her some manners while she is here, but unfortunatley haven't been home long enough.

Ok, off to the showers for me, my schedule is totally thrown off today with the calf crisis!

Have a good Friday the 13th all! :h

[Determinator]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Happy Friday 13th ABenators far and wide!!!!!!

been a wonderfully pleasant day so far, and my sense of smell/taste is coming back! woooo wooooo!!!! DG are you at the "everything tastes like cardboard" phase? I just hate that!

Mary, I have noticed something wonderful about your posts. while your goals have always been right on, you used to sound somewhat tense and anxious, but lately you have come into a more relaxed and accepting state which is wonderful to see. Bravo to you, you deserve it.

hmmmm sushi on Friday the 13th is bit like pushing your luck eh? LOL. I like sushi but Dx looooves it. I should get her out to the sushi bar soon come to think of it. I used to hate going out to sushi because they had a crappy wine selection. how selfish is that? good grief.

be well everyone and all to come

[speedster]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Cindi today is my husband's birthday as well!

I'm headed to a dog agility trial later this afternoon. I was so excited about it this week, but am now feeling low on energy. I thought it was allergies, but now realized I have a cold. I just got over a very mild cold. Nothing like back-to-back colds.

It's cold, cloudy and damp too. LOL

I'm happy to hear everyone is doing well. I hope I have internet access this weekend, not sure though.

Have a great AF weekend.

[Accountable for Me]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Good morning!

My service provider was down this morning here and at work! Eeeks! It made me realize just how dependent I am on the internet.

Nothing much to say. My bitch sister left her husband apparently at the end of February. My mother phoned me and told me all about it. So much for her 'so' called perfect life! Now she is really going to get a taste of what it is like to raise two small kids on her own. I laugh.... she always said I was a piece of shit because I am a single mom who had a drinking problem. Well, looky here. She is a single mom with a drinking problem.

KARMA BABY, KARMA!

I am having a great day! I wish you all a great day too!

[Lila]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

AFM
I know what it is like to hear mean, uncalled for words from siblings. Especially sibs who could not POSSIBLY manage on their own like we do!!
I am having a Not Too Bad day! Sun is shining, and that is great!
Lila

[Accountable for Me]

AF Daily - Friday March 13!!!!

Oh, Lila, I cannot even tell you how I am feeling at the moment..... seriously. It is about time she grows up and that nothing is predictable and lasts forever. Reality is knocking at her door right now.

Believe me, it goes beyond mean and uncalled words in my case. I almost lost my kids, I have lost employment due to her phoning my past employer, and .. She turned me in for something a few years ago.... she is beyond mean!

It is a good day after all! I am glad that you are feeling great as well!!!!! Whoo hoo.... onwards and upwards. I have the inspiration to really excel now!