AF Daily - Sunday August 30th

[dancelot]

AF Daily - Sunday August 30th

LVT25;705137 wrote: Ok, I'll try again. First, Peace, I know we live near each other so we are in the same boat garden wise!! I got mine in late this year, then floods, hail and now the unseasonably cool weather......while others are enjoying their ripe tomatoes, mine just sit there, green as can be! I love autumn as well, but I'm not quite done for summer yet, so would love to send it south and west for you guys!!!

I have spent way yonder too much time around drunk people this week! Frankly, it is quite exhausting, actually. Trying to join in conversations when apparently when you don't drink, you become invisible. Trying to keep smiling and laughing while listening to the same story for the 2nd or 3rd time. Listening to SIL and company proudly profess that they will never give up "their" alcohol--no matter how much they want to lose weight! To watch people drink themselves into oblivion and try so hard not to be judgemental--that was me not that long ago! Watching hubby get so drunk he doesn't undress before bed, and staying nice and thoughtful with guests even though their main priority seems to be drinking and smoking--no regard for my time and energy.......

I'm glad this week is over. I'm so grateful to be sober, and not wasting my day feeling like crap!!

Watching others drinking is so enlightening. Like seeing my old life dramatized. Almost like I am in a different life now, looking in. Does anyone remember a movie with Albert Brooks and I think Meryl Streep where they die and before they get to heaven they have to prove their case, and are shown films of all their previous lives? It was a comedy, by the way. Sort of like that, but fortunately I'm still here!

[hulagirl]

AF Daily - Sunday August 30th

Aloha All! Fall? What is that? I try not to think about the regrets I have in life. They go waayyy back. High School. College (big time regrets there), Early marriage, small kids, and on and on. I am not sure how to get over that. Now that my kids are college age how can I expect more of them than of myself at that age? I have kept a lot of secrets from them. I don't think I saw the value in telling them I lost my virginity at age 15, was an alcoholic by age 19 and flunked out of college twice. I don't know. It seems like the people I work with don't have such "interesting" pasts, so these discussions don't come up. I don't think I would tell them this either. How have you handled your drinking challenges with children? But for today, I will think not of the past but of the future. Like tomorrow and the week ahead. Got to get ready by planning.

[Marshy]

AF Daily - Sunday August 30th

Determinator;705131 wrote:

Marshy, burning stolen cars? oh my. you live near Broadwater Farm?

:H Not quite that bad! No, there used to be problems with teenagers nicking cars and driving them round the park I live next to, then setting fire to them. Then the council blocked off the road into the park and they couldn't do it any more. Duh. I was always amazed at how easy it must be to steal a car, never having tried it myself...

How embarrassing about your friend's wife! Geez. Hopefully she'll be more tactful when she next meets someone who doesn't drink for whatever reason.

[Cinders]

AF Daily - Sunday August 30th

Det,

I am sorry you had such an embarrassing moment.

But it is a funny story. :H:H

Yeah, our Higher Powers have to have a sense of humor. They have been dealing with us for the last however many years!!

Love,
Cindi

[peacenik]

AF Daily - Sunday August 30th

wow lv...eeesh! i don't know how you mantain your cool! i have such a low tolerance for any sort of rudeness and am apt to snip back at people when they are being jerks, drunk or sober..so kudos to you for being so tolerant. but man you're right, it is so exhausting being sober around drunk folks, and rather embarrassing...maybe you should get out the video camera just "for fun" to "preserve the moment" and show them later just how stupid they are acting!!!

dance, i used to live in austin tx and i know how extreme the humidity and heat is...i don't think i would have survived without the bars and coffee shops that i used for their a/c (and maybe their beer)!

:H

det wow, she must not be aware of the annonymous part of being an alcoholic!!!!

[Lavande]

AF Daily - Sunday August 30th

Evening all,

Mstall, congrats on your 23 days, that's great!
Please do yourself a favor and go to: www.quitnet.org
Signup there, it's a free support group, a lot like this one. I found quitting the smokes to be much, much harder than giving up my wine habit. I am 103 days smoke free today and am still plagued with smoking thoughts, no kidding...... it is a real Bi...ch! Logging onto the Q everyday and making my pledge to remain smoke free really does help. I feel I'm getting by one day at a time, sometimes one hour at a time. I rarely get a drinking thought anymore and when I do it passes quickly. Wishing you good luck!

Marshy, we all have those days from time to time, now it will be someone else's turn, ha ha.

Maisie, glad to hear you're feeling peppy now. Now that I'm finally sleeping better, I feel more energetic as well, thank God!

LVT, sometimes computers just suck.........

Wishing you all a safe night, see you tomorrow.