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    AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

    Good Morning, Absters! I am starting the thread but have nothing inspiring or interesting to kick off with! I think that's how it is somethimes when you are just plugging along, eh Cinders?!

    I wonder if there is a difference between plugging and plodding, because today I feel more like I am plodding along.

    Well, anyhow, I am thinking of all here who are going through family issues, and aging parents issues and am sending you strength and prayers. I'm one who went through that period of caring for my ageng parents while I was still escalating my drinking. I think I did OK, but I could have done much better.

    Today is our 32 year wedding anni.! I am in a reflective mood. Lots of years to look back on!

    Have a great day, all.
    Dill

    Dont forget, you can: start late, start over, be unsure, try and fail AND STILL SUCCEED!

    If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you will find an excuse.
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    #2
    AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

    Sniffing and waiting!

    OK, I see how you do that now! Marking and running sits there as the post while you edit! I am so clever to figure that out! Slow, but I got there nonetheless.

    Congratulations on the anniversary dill! That is quit a time span to look back on. I know there are many heartwarming smiles in there.

    I'm in a reflective mood too. It has to do with my own anniversary, the AF one. It's an odd one as it marks the beginning of one thing and the end of another.

    I have the experience of aging parents with and without alcohol. Either way, it's difficult.

    Most people walk or work out or swim before work. I'm going to weedeat.

    HAve a good one! Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood are on PBS tonight on Great Performances. That should be good.
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    Thoughts become things..... choose the good ones. ~TUT

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      #3
      AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

      Good Morning Abbers,

      Dill, some days are like that. Mags and I talk about it. Plodding is okay, though. It still means forward progress. Congratulations on 32 years. Hubby and I just celebrated our 34th. I was out of town at the time, of course.

      Good Morning, Greenie!!

      I am doing really well. The Baclofen is helping me a lot and I am not having the huge tiredness others experience with it. I am sober, which in my case, is huge. I am just not as good as the rest of you guys with this fight. AL whips my butt occasionally. However, today I am huntin' for bear and plan on winning. I will get up tomorrow, check in with my friends here and plan on winning again. It is the only thing I can do.

      I am really grateful all of you are here. Your kindness, your own battles and wins, your understanding of this fight and the occasional kick in the rear from my friends help keep me going.

      Love,
      Cindi
      AF April 9, 2016

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        #4
        AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

        Morning AFreedom Riders!

        Just checking in - still AF and not counting the days daily...I catch up on the tracker every few days. That is a step! AS I have said, I do not know if this is forever, but I will stay AF until I know I can have a glass of wine and its not to 'use' it for some other purpose - may or may not happen.

        My laptop got hit by an 'lacrosse ball that was flying illegally in my living room" - need I say more? While I send it off to be repaired, to the tune of $400 (ehmm), I will be enjoying the exclusive use of the lacrosse ball owner's new iTouch (which, by the way, he will not be enjoying).

        Otherwise, I am just enjoying everyone's journey and learning so much from each of you - thank you for that. Now, I need to focus on getting this body container in tiptop shape.

        Great Day to All!

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          #5
          AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

          Good morning, Abbers!

          Dill, congrats on 32 years of marriage! WOW! (that is all I have to say )

          Hello to the rest of you that already posted and those to come.

          I completely aced my Occupational First Aid yesterday. 100% on the exams and the practical on the floor. I was a happy AFM. Not to mention the instructor was soooooooo bloody gorgeous! Very good as well, I might add. Oh, and then I found out that he was married; now divorced to a girl I went to school with and whom is a facebook friend. Small, small, world. Anyhoo... Now I start my courses online. I am looking so forward to getting into the medical field. Plus the flexibility of doing this mainly online means I can maintain my work life, etc. What an option!

          Love you all, and have a good day! (Does anyone else feel like today should be Friday???) This week was busy, but I swear it should be Friday!

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            #6
            AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

            HG--I'm sure it's not funny to you, but I had to chuckle about your lacrosse ball incident!:H:H:H Is he paying for the repairs on your laptop too?

            My day started out getting the cows back in and repairing more fence for the flood, which put me about 3 hours behind schedule, which carries into today. My day ended with another bad thunderstorm with golf ball size hail that finished off most of the crops. Some can be replanted, but it is a pretty big loss financially especially for our tenant. My garden really took a beating, but luckily I hadn't put out the new $3 plants I just bought. I think I'll leave them inside over the weekend. Back in the good old days--this would have been a really great excuse to get drunk.

            Have a great sunny, sober day my friends!:h
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              #7
              AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

              Morning everyone and Dill congrats on the anniversary!

              As I read though the posts this morning I can't help but notice all the positive things that are happening in people's lives, and I have to think a lot of that is due to your efforts towards getting any staying sober (and being happy about it). It really is amazing how much is possible when you turn thoughts and energy to something other then booze!

              Keep up the great work everybody (and those yet to come)!
              Sobriety Date: June 15, 2007 -- "It's not having what you want, It's wanting what you've got...."

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                #8
                AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                top of the Thursday ABlanders far and wide!!!!!!

                Huge kudos to you Dill on 32 years! DX and I just made 11 and sometimes it seems like just yesterday we were on our honeymoon.

                Cindi I love your bluebird avatar picture

                AFM, did you ace your test after giving the instructor mouth to mouth? LOL just kidding hon! well done. we recently completed our CPR cert after talking about it for years.

                TG, you ok?

                ok at the risk of sounding not very macho......I really enjoyed watching 'so you think you can dance' last night with Dx on the telly. some amazingly talented athletes and really creative choreography.

                when I was boozing I was not nearly the happy person I am now. I was still the same guy, but my glass was half empty (in more than one way) and I viewed life through a very dirty and distorted lens. All I can say is another AF day is a day in heaven.

                be well my friends!
                nosce te ipsum
                (Know Thyself)

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                  #9
                  AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                  Hi everyone! Glad to hear everyone doing so well.

                  LVT...bummer about the storms!! That is your livelyhood, is it not? I guess the positive side, is no lives (animals or humans) were lost. The weather is a gorgeous 80 here...so I can't complain.

                  Det...my husband loves "so you think you can dance" as well, so it's not THAT unmacho (word?). He refuses to sit thru "Dancing with the Stars", but the athletes on sytycd are so talented, I wondered after last weeks show how they will keep us entertained for the rest of the show?

                  Dill, congrats on 32yrs...I made it to 22yrs the first time and am on my 4th yr this time around!

                  Hope you all have a wonderful day!

                  R2C
                  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. --Confucius
                  :h

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                    #10
                    AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                    Hi everyone

                    Just a quick check in before chauffering duties bekon again. Congratulations on the anniversary Dill, you too Cindi and Det. We will be celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary in August. Hard to believe. I feel I am living life fuller now than I have in years, maybe the years wont pass so fast lol!!

                    Got to go, catch up later.

                    Rustop

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                      #11
                      AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                      Hello all! Special congrats Dill on 32 years. WOW!! Hopefully you and Mr. Dill have something special planned by way of celebration. Maybe some of that mouth to mouth that Det was mentioning??????? And thank you for the earlier definitions of plugging along. Funny how we can hear things and even say them ourselves for years and never bother to REALLY see what it REALLY means. Now plodding? I think I get plodding.

                      Greenie I need to check the PBS lineup here tonight - hopefully the programming is the same everywhere! Thanks for mentioning that. When is your sober anni? I know it's about time for peppermint ice cream long or short....I hope I didn't miss it!

                      Cindi that is really good news about the Balcofen. Never give up!!

                      HG, you sure have a way with words!! :H I'm glad I'm not the LaCrosse Ball Owner in question....

                      AFM - congrats on 100%! You sound so great these days. I'm really happy for you!

                      LVT you are sure getting more than your fair share of shit weather this year. I too am glad the humans and animals are safe, and am very sorry to hear about the crops. Yes, in the old days this would have been a great excuse to drink - even for me, drinking over events many states away...... (I really was pathetic with that....) Glad you are hanging in there!

                      It really is amazing how much is possible when you turn thoughts and energy to something other then booze!
                      Perfect AA...

                      Deter Mr. D and I were talking just this past weekend about how our drugs of choice (me booze, him pot) left us BOTH paranoid and depressed even when we *thought* we were being happy and carefree. Looking back it's hard to imagine how such a vast difference between the imagined and real is even possible, but it sure was.

                      Mean time, I think I need to Tivo SYTYCD if Deter AND Mr. R2C like it!!!! (hi R2C!)

                      Still in wait mode with Dad but he thinks he will not be released today. I spoke with him around noon and they are doing 3 procedures today and he hadn't had the first one yet. So we are guessing tomorrow - I can't imagine them keeping him over the weekend.

                      So what do you all do with turnips? I picked some today and am undecided - I would like to try something new. Any ideas?

                      ETA: Hi Rustop! Congrats on your pending anni. 25 years is a long time too! Hey - if you figure out how to make time slow down, please clue me in, OK?

                      Have a great day all...

                      DG
                      Sobriety Date = 5/22/08
                      Nicotine Free Date = 2/27/07

                      One day at a time.

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                        #12
                        AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                        Evening all

                        Congrats on all the anniversaries, that's a lot of shared lifetime.

                        Sorry about the self-centred post, but I really startled myself today. The good news is that I didn't drink. The bad news is that I wanted to. Very badly. Worst it's been this year.

                        I had a weird counselling session and that set me off. I was talking about the problematic relationship my sister had with my mom and how I fear she'll try to replicate it with me. She isn't actually doing it and I'm not my mom. But I somehow tapped into my reactions to an old pattern and worked myself into a state. Then I got angry with myself for being unable to shake a fear of what today amounts to an imaginary situation. Only last week the counsellor had been saying I'm doing really well with my recovery. Today she told me to be patient. I was not the least bit interested in patience. I wanted all those feelings sorted instantaneously. They receded while I was at work but the minute I got out, I just wanted to head for the nearest pub and the first pint of cider, to be followed by at least five. Not good. It doesn't help that central London is full of AL adverts. I felt the need to physically remove myself to another location, so that's what I did. There will be sales on this weekend, and I decided to go check out potential buys in advance. I wouldn't normally spend 2 hours in department stores in the evening, but hey, it distracted me and I didn't drink!

                        Now I've written up this post I'll dive into bed, and tomorrow is another day. Phew!

                        Thanks for listening...

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                          #13
                          AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                          Pamina, so glad you recognized the danger and steered yourself out of a potential binge. well done!
                          nosce te ipsum
                          (Know Thyself)

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                            #14
                            AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                            Pamina, that's a success story if I ever heard one. GOOD ON YOU!!
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                              #15
                              AF Daily - Thursday - June 18th

                              Determinator;638811 wrote:
                              AFM, did you ace your test after giving the instructor mouth to mouth? LOL just kidding hon! well done. we recently completed our CPR cert after talking about it for years.
                              LMAO! I soooooooooo wish. Bad, Bad, AFM!

                              Due to protecting the health of Attendants, and the Patient; we have pocket masks for such a task and not to mention we practiced on "Annie" the dummy doll. hahaha She clicked pretty loudly with each chest compression.

                              If I were asked upon to be his patient for practice, and lets say that he was pretending to give me mouth to mouth; I would've probably pulled his head down and gave him the tongue! :H

                              OK, enough of that.

                              (But it is true. I probably would have!)

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