AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

[papmom3]

W A K E U P ! ! !

My wonderful friends!! You know it's late if PM3 is starting the daily thread! :H

Just wanted to tell you all how wonderful it is to wake up every morning and know that I have a whole group of friends to touch base and check in with and share. I've been on a lot of forums and have made some friends (esp in the pap world) but you guys are something very special. I was never one to have a group of girlfriends(I'm not leaving you out G-can't call you a "GF" but you are an integral part of this group!) that I was close to and now I do!! I feel that if we had a meetup it would be like we've known each other all our lives!!
Just wanted to let you all know how grateful I am that I have you in my life.
:l:h

[Guitarista]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Hiya PM3!

Wow, you're rockin' it today! And yep, i'm a big girl.
Keep on the path. Bravo!

Have a great day/night everyone, a safe, sober, and magical one in fact.

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Good morning / evening / afternoon / time warp everyone! P3 thanks for kicking things off today with such a nice message about friendship! Hello G. In my opinion it takes a very special man indeed to qualify for the GF group. :l

I am awake a ready for the day! AA, leads group, Curves, Weight Watchers. My weigh in is going to stink today. It should have been my 6th week of maintenance to qualify for lifetime membership. There is something about maintaining my weight that messes with me mentally. I'm more than 2 pounds over my goal so I will not make lifetime today. My first instince was to not go. But since I WENT to WW in the first place because I have such trouble with maintenance, I probably need this meeting more than any other I've attended so far. So I'm going. The good news is that I am still 6 pounds below where I was when I started WW so who knows where I would be by now if I had kept moving in the wrong direction. I don't need the health problems and other things (i.e. depression) that would come if I gained all this weight back. So. BGP's are on. (not the titanium ones though - they weight too much. I've got the feather light BGP's on today!)

One thing is for sure. My ass was as wide as Texas at the end of my drinking career, and I'm not going to drink my way back to Texas today!

DG

[greeneyes]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Morning fabbies!

What a great post to start off with papmom!!! Thank you!! :h I completely agree with what DG said the other day about you and your sobriety. You wear it well!

Hey ho G you can be my GF anytime!

Plodding still but in a forward direction. DG, yes... FH need not have one single thing here he thinks he can lay claim to and I'm working towards that. Not to far to go! I had to root through some receipts from last year and ran across "that" time period.... Bunch of receipts for wine, wine, wine. One was wine and ice cream. It actually made me feel sort of sickish - I could almost smell it. :yukko: Funny how I tried to fool myself by drinking wine instead of vodka. Now that I think about it, I was even doing the abnormal bottle disposal again. UGH!!! M3 maybe THIS is the memory that is bugging me. 10 months (again) on Thursday.

Guess I'll get on down to the river and look for my mojo. It may or may not be there but ONE thing is for sure.....

Have a terrific AF tuesday! Hi DG

[Guest]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Mr G, I see on your profile you are 98! Holey moley........

[Lavande]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Morning Abbers!

Greetings papmom, G, DG & greenie!
You know you'll find your mojo down at the river greenie

I'm showered, dressed & ready for my big day at the zoo! Just waiting for the kids to pick me up.
Will check in later.

Wishing everyone a terrific AF Tuesday!
Lav

[momof3]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Good Morning Abbie Dabbies,

PM3 You rock. You really do. You are doing an awesome job and I am proud to be part of your circle of MWO GFs.

DG, I have a similar thing going on for me with exercise/running as you do with Weight Watchers. I keep dancing around going to that next level if you know what I mean. I think there is a part of me deep down that holds back. One thing for sure, I know that both of our asses will never be as wide as Texas.

Greenie, it seems like the stuff that we have to deal with comes in phases and at unexpected times. I am sure that your mojo is alive in well inside of you. Just think, when we drank, we didn't notice those subtle shifts in our psyche. We just drank right through them! As the Universe said this morning in our daily note. You're the greatest. You're truly the greatest. Yes, it's probably is best to get the last of FH's items out of your house. And then do some sort of cleansing ritual to be done with what remains of him. I have used Native American smudge before to do such things.

Lav, I was struck by what you said about your husband yesterday...how you drank to keep from feeling lonely...that it probably for the best that Mr. Lav is gone. Dynamics sure do change when you stop drinking. I've know/heard of many marriages that have dissolved once one person quits drinking.

Mr. G. I noticed that people have been talking about one of your songs. I missed it. Where is it?

Hi Lilly bit and all to come.

M3

[Guitarista]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Lilly'bit;942410 wrote: Mr G, I see on your profile you are 98! Holey moley........

Hiya Lilly!

Age shall not weary me, for i feel timeless! Well, that's what i keep telling myself.
L8tr gater's!

[Chillgirl]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

momof3;942445 wrote:
Mr. G. I noticed that people have been talking about one of your songs. I missed it. Where is it?

M3

I want to know more!! What does a 98 sound like?

[momof3]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Hey Chillgirl, Guitarista. Cross posted.

[greeneyes]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

momof3;942445 wrote: Lav, I was struck by what you said about your husband yesterday...how you drank to keep from feeling lonely...

I really get that. I did too. And maybe I because I didn't want to have to deal with not really wanting to be there.

[Marshy]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Hello all,

Papmom - what a nice message. I think it's a huge help to have somewhere to check in. It made me feel accountable when I first came here. I started out on the ODAT thread when I could only string a couple of AF days together, then moved on to a great thread that DG used to "run" called Boozebusters which was
:b&d: :b&d:
and now here.

Greenie - moving forward is good, plodding or not. Can you swim in the river?

Lav - have fun at the zoo.

Mom3 - I've been slacking on exercise since joining my new gym, although I've been out of London quite a bit too. Just had a call from yet another personal trainer offering me a free session so I've booked that for next week hoping it might give me a bit of a kick.

I'm meeting my new friend that I met on holiday tonight for drink and film (Inception - her choice, not mine!). I'm really liking getting to know her. Yesterday I had a crisis of confidence about why she would want to get to know me. I don't remember thinking that sort of thing when I drank. Or maybe I just drank instead of thinking about it. Anyhoo, I'm looking forward to tonight but a bit nervous too.

[momof3]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Hey Marshy,

Will be thinking of you tonight. Just be yourself and all will be well!!

[greeneyes]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Marshy we'll all be sitting in the row behind you. :H

River comes from the dam and is VERY cold so not really.

Hey guess what I found at the river. Not my mojo, but close. I found a little pink tank top for my headless barbie and it says "I'm FABULOUS" on it. To bad I didn't find BGPs - she'll just have to go commando or wear it over the evening gown. :H

It's a full moon, in case you're interested.

[Jewel]

AF Daily Tuesday Aug 24

Hello,

I haven't been here in quite sometime. When I was last here I don't think that I gelled well with a couple of members, but hey, I was still drinking... or sobering up... one or the other. Can't remember if that is any indication of what was back then. Sorry to whomever I offended back then.

I really want a lifetime of sobriety. I am starting off with 30 days so I don't overwhelm myself at first. Set small goals. I really don't forsee much of a problem to commit. I am just simply tired of drinking. I don't drink as much as I use to. I use to get hammered 3 times at least a week. To the point of black out. I now drink once every week or two; not to the drunk stage... it just makes me hungry and tired. I take very good care of myself in many ways. Drink lots of water, get lots of exercise, eat well. I need to cut out the 'drinking' part of my life as it is doing nothing for me. I haven't enjoyed it for a long time. I am proud of my accomplishments with the not getting drunk often anymore. But I need to tweak the last bit where I am not drinking at all anymore.

So, I hope you don't mind my joining you fabulous gang of people. I read lots online but really wanted to make sure I commit to sobriety before jumping in. Day two for me. I did drink on Sunday with my mother. Although it was a nice visit with her, it really made me more resolved to get it out of my life because of the way it makes me feel. The buzz isn't even fun anymore.