Hello absters and happy Sunday! (or whatever day it is in your part of the world!)
I love the energy on yesterdays thread and that sure helped dissipate whatever remained of my Friday Funk! Special welcome to any new AFers - I hope you will jump right on here and introduce yourselves!
From yesterday....
Deter I hope you didn't catch anything at the skankadelic motel. Porn flicks are sort of funny. Most women I know wouldn't "like" doing much of that especially for no paycheck.
Greenie, I say rock those power tools! I think a power saw should be on your wish list as a divorce present.
AFM, let us know how the shopping went. LOL I bought a copy of Vogue magazine at the grocery check out counter last week thinking I would check out the fall fashions. I don't read those types of magazines very often. I am shocked looking at both the fashion articles and the pics in the ads trying to figure out who would actually wear that stuff. I need to get my hands on a Sears Catalog I guess to determine what 'real people' might be wearing this fall!
Mary I hope you had fun at the wedding. You comment about throwing up made me think of a wedding in my past that I just cringe about. I drank a lot on the way there and drank a ton while there. I fell down on the dance floor crashing into the "front line" of the band. I think my skirt ended up over my head. My boss was there. Never was a word said after that event but of course I was mortified. It is SO good to know that I am free of that nonsense for today, and that there is hope I can never end up there again. Those memories are so important to counter the "glammed up" images of drinking that surround us sometimes (and the AL conjurs up in my head - he doesn't even need a picture in an ad - he makes up his own ads)
Lavande and AFM - congrats to you both on the NF success! Lavande I too quit smoking with the help of Quitnet (that's what made me search a similar site for drinking and I found MWO!). There was a "club" there called 40 + Quitters - a very fun group. I couldn't have ditched the Nic without their help. Good for you!
Dill - LOL over your library adventures! I use the library on-line system to reserve books and renew them. I had no idea about downloading audio books though! I'll have to see if my library offers that now that I am in 2009 with an iPod. I wonder how the whole Kindle thing will affect the libraries? Anybody here using a Kindle? Seems pretty expensive at the moment... Also - I like your new avi pic. What kind of flowers are those?
Pamina - the EFT looks interesting. I have book marked that link. Hope you got lucky at the sales yesterday. I am interested in what you might have seen regarding fall fashions!
LVT - my hubby sounds a lot like yours. All doom and gloom about the national politics. I am weary of listening to it. We will all just have to deal with what comes. I wish Mr. D would channel the energy he spends ranting to me into writing his congress people - actually DOING the only thing that CAN be done about it. I sure can't change it! Mean time, I like my garden too although it was more fun before it stalled. I was a bit sad yesterday because the little Butternut squash I saw on Friday (and was going to photograph) was gone. I'm not sure why that vine is having trouble making actual squashes - it's got plenty of flowers on it. Tell me more about Kale - what kind you grow and what you do with it? Mr. D wants me to grow some and I'm like HUH??? What's that??? I wish I could have taken a Camaro ride in the parade with you!
The sun is nowhere close to being up yet but I can already tell that the mood o meter has a good reading for today. I will hit one of my favorite AA meetings this morning then hit the cardio machine at the gym. Then I am going to adventure to a nearby town to a farmers market where there is supposed to be a vendor with fresh eggs. I have been looking and looking for fresh eggs and not finding any. I know there have got to be people around - they are just hard to find. I hope I get lucky!
It feels SO good to be up early and without a hangover. In the old days I would be so miserable that I would be unproductive the whole day sort of nursing and recovering from a week's worth of daily hangovers that I had "pushed through." The sober life is good. I need to always remember what it used to be like so I can fully appreciate what life is like today.
DG
I love the energy on yesterdays thread and that sure helped dissipate whatever remained of my Friday Funk! Special welcome to any new AFers - I hope you will jump right on here and introduce yourselves!
From yesterday....
Deter I hope you didn't catch anything at the skankadelic motel. Porn flicks are sort of funny. Most women I know wouldn't "like" doing much of that especially for no paycheck.
Greenie, I say rock those power tools! I think a power saw should be on your wish list as a divorce present.
AFM, let us know how the shopping went. LOL I bought a copy of Vogue magazine at the grocery check out counter last week thinking I would check out the fall fashions. I don't read those types of magazines very often. I am shocked looking at both the fashion articles and the pics in the ads trying to figure out who would actually wear that stuff. I need to get my hands on a Sears Catalog I guess to determine what 'real people' might be wearing this fall!
Mary I hope you had fun at the wedding. You comment about throwing up made me think of a wedding in my past that I just cringe about. I drank a lot on the way there and drank a ton while there. I fell down on the dance floor crashing into the "front line" of the band. I think my skirt ended up over my head. My boss was there. Never was a word said after that event but of course I was mortified. It is SO good to know that I am free of that nonsense for today, and that there is hope I can never end up there again. Those memories are so important to counter the "glammed up" images of drinking that surround us sometimes (and the AL conjurs up in my head - he doesn't even need a picture in an ad - he makes up his own ads)
Lavande and AFM - congrats to you both on the NF success! Lavande I too quit smoking with the help of Quitnet (that's what made me search a similar site for drinking and I found MWO!). There was a "club" there called 40 + Quitters - a very fun group. I couldn't have ditched the Nic without their help. Good for you!
Dill - LOL over your library adventures! I use the library on-line system to reserve books and renew them. I had no idea about downloading audio books though! I'll have to see if my library offers that now that I am in 2009 with an iPod. I wonder how the whole Kindle thing will affect the libraries? Anybody here using a Kindle? Seems pretty expensive at the moment... Also - I like your new avi pic. What kind of flowers are those?
Pamina - the EFT looks interesting. I have book marked that link. Hope you got lucky at the sales yesterday. I am interested in what you might have seen regarding fall fashions!
LVT - my hubby sounds a lot like yours. All doom and gloom about the national politics. I am weary of listening to it. We will all just have to deal with what comes. I wish Mr. D would channel the energy he spends ranting to me into writing his congress people - actually DOING the only thing that CAN be done about it. I sure can't change it! Mean time, I like my garden too although it was more fun before it stalled. I was a bit sad yesterday because the little Butternut squash I saw on Friday (and was going to photograph) was gone. I'm not sure why that vine is having trouble making actual squashes - it's got plenty of flowers on it. Tell me more about Kale - what kind you grow and what you do with it? Mr. D wants me to grow some and I'm like HUH??? What's that??? I wish I could have taken a Camaro ride in the parade with you!
The sun is nowhere close to being up yet but I can already tell that the mood o meter has a good reading for today. I will hit one of my favorite AA meetings this morning then hit the cardio machine at the gym. Then I am going to adventure to a nearby town to a farmers market where there is supposed to be a vendor with fresh eggs. I have been looking and looking for fresh eggs and not finding any. I know there have got to be people around - they are just hard to find. I hope I get lucky!
It feels SO good to be up early and without a hangover. In the old days I would be so miserable that I would be unproductive the whole day sort of nursing and recovering from a week's worth of daily hangovers that I had "pushed through." The sober life is good. I need to always remember what it used to be like so I can fully appreciate what life is like today.
DG
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