Journey thru June - week 3

[Chillgirl]

Journey thru June - week 3

Wow - So great to see so many of us checking in today!!

Dill - I love your quote, Norman V Peale was one of the 1st ever books I read on positively 12 yrs ago.
I think the name Dilly Dally is fabulous, try to convince hubby...

Rusty - Pink lillies are my most fav flowers, their scent is just devine! Your story about couples remarrying inspires me but I really am ok with whatever life has in store, some people never meet the love of their lives, many of my friends admit they married and settled for 2nd best. For 15 yrs I had it all... And I actually have a date this weekend! :heart:

Sped - Fantastic that you didnt cave in yesterday with all the usual triggers, I really wish you luck tonight, often situations are never as bad as we build them to be in our head. Re the book, I would recommend it for recovery, i just thought most of it could have been a guide for anyone to a good way to live and I would have liked more specifically about addiction.

[Rusty]

Journey thru June - week 3

Chilli,

I wish you good luck on your date this weekend! I would never want you to "settle." I have never been married and I am 49. I could have "settled: 25 years ago and I didn't and I'm so glad!!!!!

[Lavande]

Journey thru June - week 3

Happy Humpday everyone!

It's dark & cloudy here this morning so I guess it's going to be an inside day!

Dill, I'm going to copy your quote & send it to Mr Lav. Boy does that ever apply to him!!!!!! Thanks!

Welcome home Shelley. Sorry to hear you founds things in such a mess, pretty I suppose! Glad you thought thru the urge to get smashed. Enjoy your peace & quiet while it lasts.

Sooty, good to hear your ankle is holding up! Maybe you can pass some words of healing wisdom on to LBH.
LBH, sure hope you are recovering

Red, 'spirit sucker' is the perfect way to describe my husband. His chronic negativity is his biggest problem. I have given him so many things to read & listen to on the subject but nothing seems to penetrate his thick skull.

Chill, I'm so glad that you are taking care of yourself physically & emotionally! I think you mentioned EFT a while back. watched a 60 minute teleseminar on the topic last night. It was great - wonder if I could get Mr Lav interested.........

Greetings Rusty, hope you are well today!
Wishing everyone an AF & Happy Humpday. I need to get to work now.

Lav

[spedteach]

Journey thru June - week 3

Rusty, I love Wisconsin. I used to live in Chicago and my sister had a farm in Poynette, Wisconsin (outside of Madison). I would spend every weekend I could up there.

Lav, what is EFT?

Boy am I procrastinating this morning.

[Chillgirl]

Journey thru June - week 3

Sped - Emotional Freedom Technique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMs0gdF_V60[/video]]YouTube - EFT Documentary Film -Try It On Everything
I havent used this for ages (thanks for the reminder Lav) I used to do it when I was feeling stressed and it would always calm me down

[ladybirdheart]

Journey thru June - week 3

I loved your analogy of the morning glories, Dill. I too have Heavenly Blue ones that I pull every year before they can bloom and enchant me into forgetting the outcome. They certainly have their place but not in the garden I have now. I am so happy you have a boat; I love all boats, from little Boston Whalers to big goofy looking cruise ships, they each have their own boat hearts. Take care dear Lav, things sound really sad with Mr. Lav and I hope there is a way for you to like him if he returns, it sounds awful not to be able to live comfortably either with or without one another. Rusty, you certainly are a sweetheart clear through, I am so glad you joined our little band of travelers. Welcome home Shell, I am so pleased you survived the Perfect Storm of your return, it inspires me to think of it. Red/Star, you also help me everyday, knowing that you are hanging in there for the big picture. It is good not be alone in this, alone would be harder. I seem to be able to string together lots of alcohol free time, but unlike many people at MWO I have never, ever had the sense (even if one does not consider whether it turns out to be correct in fact over time) of having had my ?last drink?. That does not mean I have to have one now, however, so I won?t. Sooty, thank you for inspiring me with your healed/almost healed ankle. This week has been so hard on me as I have never been one to sit or lie around, all of my pleasure, coping, meditative time involves some sort of moving. Even if I watch a DVD, I usually stop it at least once and do something else for a bit. I have not been able to step out into my garden let alone tend it; I have been trapped in the empty house and I can?t tend to that either. I have a fantastic audio book but I get really restless trying to passively listen to it in a chair or bed for more than thirty minutes. The only time I have been out was when Lord Bird Heart took me to and from work on Monday and while it was really good for me to have intellectual stimulation and make money, my ankle throbbed and looked like a grapefruit from riding in the car and being propped awkwardly on a trash can under a desk. I certainly look forward to getting better so I can walk and garden and take care of my outside creatures and go to my water exercise class and go to the grocery store and post office and park, and move everything that is stacked like a mountain in the aviary and garage back into my house. The little things that made up a day that could bore a brick are deeply missed by me every minute. Hi Techie, Rustop, and Chill (a date!) Love, Ladybird.

[dill]

Journey thru June - week 3

Morning Glory ~ Heavenly Blue



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[Chillgirl]

Journey thru June - week 3

Dill they are stunning! I know nothing about flowers but I have the same ones in lilac climbing through my ivy, didnt know they were called "morning glory"!

[sooty]

Journey thru June - week 3

Hello all and happy humpday. I've had no internet all day so this might be a quick one in case it goes off again.
These flowers that you are all getting romantic about - are they convulvulus? We have them in great abandon and they strangle everything if they are allowed to - but my flowers are white. Beautiful but lethal - just like some of us
Dill - hope you find a name for the boat - did you check out that 10,000 boat name site I mentioned? Surely you'll find something on there - otherwise Morning Glory sounds good to me :H
I've had a great day, the weather is beautiful at the moment and I can't get enough of it -
I've been walking lots and my ankle is killing me - but I will not give up! LBH hope you soon recover, believe me I know how awful it is to be laid low ...but you will overcome.
I've gotta go now cos Mr S needs my laptop - we may have a weeks holiday when we bring daughter back from uni on 2nd July and he needs to do some research ....
Take care everyone - see you tomorrow
love Sooty

[dill]

Journey thru June - week 3

Chill, I don't know what that flower is that is growing in your ivy. I may be morning glory or as Sooty said, convolvulous. It's beautiful though.
Sooty, still no boat name. I know, we are pathetic! Yes, I did check out the 10,000 boat name website. That really was cool and gave us some good ideas. But, we still haven't chosen on. I think we might be making a bit too much of this, but, we've never owned a boat before, so we want to do it right!
Sped, awesome job on getting through the perfect storm. I don't know that I would have navigated those waters nearly so well!
LBH,

I too have Heavenly Blue ones that I pull every year before they can bloom and enchant me into forgetting the outcome. They certainly have their place but not in the garden I have now.

Precisely! .... The same goes for me!
Chill, how do you get the photos to show up in the post? I have wanted to be able to do that forever! Just never could figure out how.
Lav, I'm glad you liked the quote. I hope Mr. takes it to heart.
Rusty, "Sober Seas" is a good pick! I don't think Mr. D would go for it though.
We had our grandson over today. What a fun day. We got our paddle boat out and put it in the pond for him. He loved it! I took some pictures, of course. I actually took one of our water lilies. I haven't downloaded yet, but I will share if there is a good one. The water lilies always make me think of you, Shelley! You are right here, just steps away!:H

[Lavande]

Journey thru June - week 3

Good afternoon all!

I couldn't logon this morning - is everyone else having a problem too?

The weather is rather decent today for a change so I'm trying to enjoy it while it's here. I'm walking around wondering if the half hearted invitation I received to go out to dinner tonight is actually going to happen! Mr Lav is flying somewhere tomorrow for a 4 day seminar & won't be around this weekend. Who knows? I sure as hell don't know.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful AF Thursday.
Lav

[dill]

Journey thru June - week 3

Hi Lav! I couldn't get on either. I wonder if the site was shut down? I'm curious now as to whether your dinner invite panned out? And more curious as to who will mow?!! After all this rain, the grass is knee high!

Sped, The picture is kind of tine, but here are my water lilies:

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[sooty]

Journey thru June - week 3

Hello all, in between iffy internet and Mr S commandeering my laptop I haven't had chance to get on here all day.
Chill I think your flowers are convolvulus - get rid of the darn things they will kill whatever they grow around.
Lovely day here again, hoping to go for a walk tomorrow with our old friends - it'll be about 5 miles and the ankle hasn't gone that far yet!
Hope you're all having a good day.
See you tomorrow
love sooty

[Lavande]

Journey thru June - week 3

Good evening folks,

Yes Dill - had my dinner 'date'. Nothing special except that it was the first time in 9 weeks that we've eaten dinner together. His mood was decent, he acted like a 'normal' person! He is flying to St Louis tomorrow, flys back Tuesday so the grass will have to wait. We haven't had as much rain as you've had I think. That's all I can tell you for now.

My oldest brother was rushed to the hospital last night in severe respiratory distress. His Dx is pneumonia & emphysema. Maybe now he'll consider quitting - he's been a heavy smoker since forever!
My SIL has called 3x today. They are in Michigan & there's not much I can do from here.

I hope everyone has a peaceful night ahead.
Sooty - watch that ankle

Lav

[Chillgirl]

Journey thru June - week 3

Good Morning Gang

Lav - I hope your Brother will be ok, its so hard to see people we care about self inflict illness on themselves. I have a dear Sister who is not even 50 and who's live is curtailed already due to obesity, smoking and alcohol.

Yesterday with this site being down for 8 hours highlighted how many of us depend on checking in on a daily basis and I see it was especially hard for those struggling in the early days of sobriety as they are so reliant on each other for support. It reinforced to me how we are making a difference here, we do actually support each other in a way that warms my heart. When asked what would solve the worlds problems the Dalai Lama answered "compassion", with the amount of compassion I see on these pages Im proud that we are contributing to solving the problems in this little corner of the world.:l