AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

[jennyneric]

Good Morning Abbers!

I've never started us before so I'm a little nervous! LOL

Back later! Have a great AF day! Thursday is my fav day of the week!

[Marshy]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Thanks for getting things started Jennyeric - you beat me to it!

Cassia - following your mention of overindulgence on cheese the other day - I discovered this cheese this time in France.
Tome des Bauges cheese, fromage, cheese. Cookipedia's cheese Wiki.

O.M.G. Absolutely delicious. I'll have to get to a specialist cheese shop here to see if I can find it.

Zoom, zooming still - have a good day everyone!

[greeneyes]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Jenny...:H:H

Thanks for the start! I used to like Thursdays too.... but now I like trash day.

Stuff to do today.. then into town late afternoon for some errands and a member's preview party at the Art Museum for the new exhibit "Who Shot Rock & Roll" ( a photography exhibit from 1955---) I think it'll be a good exhibit and their parties are always good. I have a ticket for one of the curator talks. They have great food, cash bar (which is nice so people aren't going for free booze), a DJ playing some early music and then a band later.

Off to a stretching class in a bit. I had an awesome 4 mile walk at the river yesterday - the weather was SO perfect!

HAve a great day!

[greeneyes]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Marshy, that cheese is similar to .......what?

I had a cambazola phase and almost OD'd on it served on ginger snap cookies. I'm such an addict.

[Mstall]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Morning Abbers!

I get to go to the eye dr this morning so i can get a script for computer glasses at work. This is long overdue and i'm looking forward to being able to see without tilting my head up with my regular glasses. my neck will thank me.

hot yoga tonight and i'm really excited for it. had to miss it last weekend because of another snow storm.

have a wonderful sober Thursday all!!

^^^^sending stork vibes for Lav^^^^^

[Jolie]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Good morning all!

Didn't get a chance to post last night so if nobody minds, I'd like to go back to the theme of yesterdays thread and why we picked the sobriety date we did.

So we get a long break from work over the Christmas holiday - of course drinking every day but now typically starting sometime afternoon until passed out by 9:00. Had a confrontational phone call with my future daughter-in-laws mother. By the time she "hung up" on me I was furious! Of course - what did I do? Well I just reached into the fridge for that bottle of wine that ironically, my future daughter-in-law gave me for Christmas. Finished it off, cried, ranted, went to bed and woke up feeling like crap. Thinking back to the night before, I realized that had I been completely sober, I could have handled the conversation a little more maturely but man she ticked me off!!!

The next day I decided I never wanted to NOT be in control again. Don't get me wrong - I've known for a long time (back when I originally came here in 2009) that I needed to cut back not only for health reasons but for all the other reasons that just make sense. Today, after being sober for 51 days, I realize I can't go back again. Don't want to go back again. Feeling a little stronger every day and thanks to all you people here, I'm winning!

Feeling grateful to each and every one of you who have shared your thoughts with me over the past couple of months.

Have a great day everyone!

[universal]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

YB!!! (can't remember who likes that so much but thought I would use it again! LOL)

Had an awesome sleep last night! Therapy appointments and then a couple of AA meetings today. Running around but feeling clear headed and great!

Having my coffee and hubby is STILL driving me friggin crazy again today. Honestly - I think it must be the planets or something this week because I am so irritable when it comes to my home life.

Thank god I have therapy this morning! LOL

Love you guys!

[AAthlete]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Morning guys and happy Thursday! Lot's going on today, but its great to be approaching it sober and content!

Wow - I just read the stories from yesterday as well, and they are pretty powerful... Mine was I had actually passed out on couch (in my clothes) while my wife was at school. She came home to find my son sleeping next to me, and was understandably upset that if anything had happened to him (wandered off, needed something) I wouldn't have been ably to do anything about it.... So, the conversation switched the next day to her taking my son and leaving because she couldn't trust me to do the right thing (I was also a habitual alcohol hider/denier), and I new at the point that I had a choice to make... I was off to AA the next day, and after a few bumps in the road was on my way. Amazing how the memories come back when you put it down on paper..

Anyway, saw this quote this morning, and thought I would share as it somewhat reminded me of everyone's stories. Took me a minute, but I really did have three personalities when drinking, and I had to figure out which one I really wanted to be!

"Wherever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is." -- William James

[Lavande]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Has anyone seen a stork? Anywhere?

Really, this is getting tiresome for me - just imagine how my daughter feels!

GM Jenny!

Marshy, I love, love, love cheese but have to stay away from most of it now. I have grown into a lactose intolerant old lady :upset:

Greenie, a 4 mile walk sounds so nice but not in the snow.......
I heard some rain is on the way so maybe it will wash away this latest snowfall.

Greetings Mstall & Jolie!
I am happy there will be no more drunken phone calls in my future as well Jolie

Time to go feed & water the hens.
Have a great AF Thursday everyone
Lav

[LVT25]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Hello friends,

Our winter weather is back, at least the temps have dropped again. But we are closer to spring and that is a good thing!

Mstall--I'd be curious to hear more about your computer glasses. I have bifocals, but my near vision is much worse than my far vision. When I am on a roll doing books, my head is constantly bobbing and it is hard on my back and neck trying to look out of the bottom of my glasses!! If I just wear regular reading glasses--that doesn't work either! Please share!

Jolie--I had to reach back into my memory bank and try to recall what made me decide to order the book My Way Out. I guess it was the deep down gut feeling that I really wasn't the person I knew I could be because I was drinking and smoking too much, I felt like crap much of the time. I found the book and I was interested in learning how to control my drinking. I read the book and joined this website early in 2008. It took me about 6 months to realize that the moderation deal wasn't working. The straw that broke the camel's back was when against my better judgement I spent the day in the bar with some friends during an annual celebration. Hubby and I had separate vehicles which we drove home about 9pm. The next day we found out the police had set up a "safety" check point shortly after we left. We both would have spent the night in jail. I was leaving to sponsor our youth group mission trip to Texas the next day. It would have been a nightmare had we been caught. As it was, I felt like shite--had to pack and then try to rest and drive the 20 hours to Austin. I told my husband, that was it--I obviously could not control the alcohol (or the ciggies) and I was done. It was a good time to quit--being unable to drink on this trip. My plan was to stop for 30 days, then it turned into 60, then 90. My quit date was June 1, 2008. On Sept 5, my in laws were here visiting, and they are big drinkers, it was my son's birthday, I was stressed, crabby, and thought what the hell....so I drank, and I smoked 2 cigarettes. I was so mad at myself. A couple of weeks later we had friends over for our anniversary, I had a few beers, they just didn't do much for me except make me want to smoke, so that was the last time I've drank any alcohol. So, instead of being able to say June 1 is my quit date--I have to wait until September. (Sorry you asked???):H

Ok, I really need to get busy on this bookwork!!!! Good news!!! (I think) Last I heard, by sister is going home from the hospital today!!!!! HUrrrraayyyy!!!!!!!!

[LVT25]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Hey Greenie (or anyone) have you ever heard of Doreen Virtue? She posted on Facebook on yesterday about envisioning ourselves cloaked in purple light to keep the negative vibes away. So I'm trying that, and I downloaded some meditations from Audible.com and am looking at getting one of her books. Just curious.

Amazon.com: Advanced Search - Doreen Virtue: Books

[greeneyes]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Yes I have. I enjoyed a telecast by her a while back. Her purpose is to teach us about communicating with our angels. I've not read any of her work, but she seems to be well regarded by the people in the consciousness shift arena.

Great new about Terry!!

[Gaia]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Watch this.

Wrong-way drunk driver gets 15 years at emotional sentencing | 9news.com

I am so grateful that my last drinking episode was not hers.

Bless us all for being blessed.

[Marshy]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

greeneyes;1065331 wrote: Marshy, that cheese is similar to .......what?
.
Hmm. Difficult to describe taste, isn't it? Smooth like a camembert but tastes older and richer and less creamy than that. And quite smelly. I looove a smelly cheese.

Lavande;1065351 wrote: . I have grown into a lactose intolerant old lady :upset:

Can that happen??? Oh no!

I hope the stork is winging its way to your daughter

[Cassia]

AF Daily~Thursday Feb 24

Hi all.

Just a quick fly by. I have eaten cheese every day this week. Not a lot but I jut love it!!!

Xx