AF Daily March 29

[Determinator]

well shiver me garlic cloves I'm starting a daily thread? no way!

hope you are all doing great, have to be quick this morning...off to starbucks then on to the shooting range for day 2 of my class. wooooooo fun! learning lots and I'm so darn sore.
never be doing this with a hangover let me tell you.

be well my friends

[Accountable for Me]

AF Daily March 29

My goodness it is quiet over here!

It looks to be a beautiful day outside! We have had enough rain lately... so the sun is very welcome!

Nothing much to report. Watched tv for most of the afternoon after taking the little one to a birthday party. Pretty lazy!

Have a great day everyone!

[hulagirl]

AF Daily March 29

I'll join the early birds today! Woke early to windy rain. Just hope that this doesn't stay around for more than a few hours. Wow, a full day ahead. Feels good.
Aloha!

[retteacher]

AF Daily March 29

Hi Everyone: I just got back from a meeting w/my sponsor. It's an added responsibility to have to report to a sponsor about what's going on. I wouldn't want to report any drinking. Anything at all that keeps me from drinking is a very good thing. Hope all is well w/all. Mary

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily March 29

Hi all! Wow everyone must be sleeping in today. Happy AF Sunday! Thanks Det for getting us off to a garlicky start today. Sounds like you are having fun with your buddy. I'm with you - these days I have a very hard time imagining doing anything the least bit physically or mentally challenging with a hangover. Makes me exhausted just thinkin' about it. How on earth did I manage to function all those years????? I suppose it's no wonder that for the last 10 years of my drinking, I went quickly from a high functioning professional sort to a "leave me alone with my bottle" prisoner in my own home sort. I think the drink / hangover&work / drink routine finally wore me out. I'm so glad to be done with that way of life.

Hula, I didn't think you guys ever had shitty weather in Hawaii!!??!! You are dashing my fantasies of your wonderful home state. Hope you are enjoying a lazy rainy day.

AFM it is snowing here but I'm glad you are having a gorgeous day - you had your share this winter! Sounds like the birthday party was fun for little one.

Yes Mary - it would be bad enough having to fess up to drinking here. I would want to do it even less with my sponsor or the folks I'm getting to know at AA. Tough Love wouldn't begin to describe it.

Yesterday we finally noticed that the daffodils we planted last fall are starting to come up! And with those little green sprouts came more snow LOL! Only about an inch is sticking on the ground. I would imagine it won't be around very long. It was pretty to see the while world this morning though. Much better than the "gray" of a rainy early spring day. So I'm sort of glad it wasn't 3 degrees warmer or something like that LOL!

Figure skating is over except for the wuzrobbed and wuzgifted arguments among the fans. Well, and the exhibition gala this evening. For me, I'm spending the rest of the day doing my homework on this health crap so I can try to make some informed decisions next week. I'm REALLY glad I'm not hungover for this task.

Have a great AF day!

DG

[meditation mama]

AF Daily March 29

Good morning Abbers!

I'm having a lazy morning... I MUST get my booty up and get some laundry done.. I am SO procrastinating!

Spent the evening talking to a friend in Italy. I have the travel bug!

Alrighty, I'm off to do some Sunday chores so I can come back and play with my MYO friends..

xoxox

MM

[retteacher]

AF Daily March 29

Not drinking is a whole lot less complicated than drinking & constantly worrying about it:
-who's going to notice?
-what am I doing to myself?
-what do I have to cover up?
-etc.

To think I used to drink to DE-STRESS! It just added stress to my life.

Mary

[Kirova]

AF Daily March 29

My day's been fairly quiet -- except for my run in rainy, raw weather (yuck). I'm procrastinating on a bunch of things, despite it being a perfect day to tackle a number of in-house chores (laundry being one of them). Ah well. At least my head is clear! Peace, friends. :h

[narilly]

AF Daily March 29

Hi guys!
No hangover here either- Yippee!

Woke up to about 2 feet of new snow today. Crazy weather we have. Had to get up and shovel the walk and the car before I went for my fabulous step workout. Wow, my butt is going to be sore!
Hula- I am just a little jealous of your weather.

Way to go- starting the thread Deter.
DG- how do you remember what everyone is doing? You are so good.

Love y'all,
Narilly

[narilly]

AF Daily March 29

Mary- I am with you totally on the 'not worrying about drinking' thing. We are FREE!

[ready2change]

AF Daily March 29

Happy Sunday everyone! I went to an AA meeting this a.m. I am so glad I did. If you are interested in reading about it, I posted on DG's "Early thoughts about AA" thread.

So I'm off to walk the doggie and get some more chores done. Hope everyone has a super day!

R2C

[LVT25]

AF Daily March 29

Hello friends!

Logged on earlier this morning and was so happy to see a visit on the 30 days and beyond thread from my old friend Living Free! Hopefully I can get her over here to tell us all how well she's been doing.

Busy week/week-end leaves me feeling totally drained! All I want is a nap! The social events I attended were a little boring without alcohol, but then again, they might have been a little boring with it too. With me-food replaces all thoughts of alcohol at these deals. Especially wedding cake. Hubby even went to the cake table and brought us each some!

The highlight of the weekend was watching my youngest son win 2 out of 3 wrestling matches. I still think that is one of the main reasons we have kids...so we can experience that feeling of pride in our hearts.

Life is good.:h

[dill]

AF Daily March 29

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Not drinking is a whole lot less complicated than drinking & constantly worrying about it:
-who's going to notice?
-what am I doing to myself?
-what do I have to cover up?
-etc.

To think I used to drink to DE-STRESS! It just added stress to my life.

That is so true. Today I have been remembering one of those times where drinking caused me stress, both at the time and then much later. At the time, we had guests over to the house. It was cutting in to my drinking time, so I was resentful. It was an old colleague of my hb's and his lady friend. I decided to have a drink to relax before they arrived. Of course I didn't stop there and I drank surrepticiously, pretty much the whole afternoon. Then of course I had to be conscious of how I was acting and how I was talking, blah-blah-blah. I decided I didn't like the lady-friend, but of course I couldn't tell you why the next day. I was polite, of course, no scene or anything like that. It's just that she never really had a chance with me because I really wanted to be with my "best friend".

That was last summer. Only recently has the thought occured to me (as I have been accumulating much more AF time and success and am seeing lots of things differently) that maybe I wasn't as slick as I thought I was: maybe they could tell I was behaving oddly. Now I worry about whether or not they suspected I was drinking and I worry that if they did suspect that, what they must think of me. Geesh. Who needs this kind of stress? I sure don't.

[peacenik]

AF Daily March 29

hi everyone!

sounds like we all have spring fever...except hula girl in paradise

we are waiting for a spring blizzard to come in, i think this weather is bringing me down...i feel so tired and cooped up...dang it, what can you do!?

we were out to dinner last night and i felt great not drinking any wine...normally half our bill would be my wine expense.

have a good one kids.

peace

[hulagirl]

AF Daily March 29

Well, you know what they say...No rain, no rainbows. And I'm not talking about the weather. (translation: when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!)