AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

[Lavande]

Good morning Abbers!

Up bright & early with the Twins :H

The windows are all fogged up this morning.......humid out there!
I will be looking for some inside projects today. Hope the day goes fast - not great to be cooped up with all this dog breath :H

Wishing everyone a great AF Sunday!

Lav

[mario]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Hi lav.

Here,s To another alcohol free sober day. :-)


Just chillin out here myself,

[universal]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Hi guys, Sorry I haven't had time to catch up on everything. It's been crazy here at the trailer with 2 kids and a puppy. 2 days ago my higher power tested me for sure. The puppy was seriously psychotic and my daughter was being a mouthy little brat. I was like, is it wrong to strangle the dog and cut out my childs tongue? LOL - however I survived. That would have drove me to the bottle before but I just prayed and said please give me strength to get through this day. It worked wonders!

I'm reading the book White Oleander. I absolutly love it and cannot put it down. If you have never read it, I highly suggest getting it! One of the best books I've read in years.

Kennedy's dad has picked her up now so it's just me and the dog for the day. Calling for thunderstorms which is just fine with me. I like thunderstorms up here. I veg on the deck under the awning and read or stay inside and watch a movie. Either way, keeps me occupied and serene.

Hope everyone has an awesome AF sunday!

[papmom3]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

I want to go stay with Uni!! I could use some serious vegging out serene time at a lake somewhere. congrats on getting through your test Uni-you did good!!

Very rainy, slightly muggy here in the Northeast. One of my downspouts was disconnected (forgot to put it back when I mowed on Thursday) so I'm sure I have a minor flood in the basement. Not motivated to go look. It will dry up.

I got up very late (8am) and have lazed around after cooking a wonderful egg breakfast. Read the entire paper, watched CBS Sunday Morning and now I really should feed the troops. I think I will give some love to my house and do as much cleaning as I can before going to my sis's house for dinner. I think the cleaning will help to disappate some of the restlessness and turmoil I've been feeling lately (can't possibly be due to ODing on Klondike bars ).

Hope everyone has a great Sunday-Lav-try to relax and enjoy the ITs if yu can. See the love, not the destruction. You are one cool mom to do this for you kids!! :l

[papmom3]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Hey Greenie-a new avatar for you!!

[ItsJustMe]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Good morning all!

Finally got the carpool thing worked out for the youngest. I wish I could follow all the advice given to me on MWO. DG and I had a conversation in the past about worrying. I am a worry wart! So, when our carpool family dropped out last week I became a nervous wreck. After all, how can we get our son from school if we are both working. I worried about it Thurs, Fri, and Sat. Mrs. IJM just sat back and said everything will work out. That pushed me into another dimension of worry. How can she be so calm??? Well, last evening, a family from the school that I don?t even know called and has the exact opposite problem from us. Then another family called with a similar issue. Short story, not only do I have a carpool to get our son home every day, I only have to pick up kids in the morning two days a week!

The smoked beef was great last evening. However, I tried to do baked potatoes on the smoker for the first time. That was an experiment that was not as successful. They needed a bit more time. Oh well, it was still a good meal. Today I have to plan out our menu for this week and go to the grocery store. I?ve been cooking really healthy stuff during the week. I?ve eaten so much fiber that I am crapping out wicker furniture.

Det, great that you finally checked in. I have a similar issue but not as long. My bride is headed out in the morning for three days at the lake with a friend. However, I don?t think that I will have a lot of time to think about AL while she is gone with school starting back and a pretty heavy work load.

DG, you totally cracked me up with ?Blue Moon?. I was in a frat boy back in the day and did some pretty crazy stuff. However, the sororities on campus were pretty tame ? at least the side I saw of them were tame. I wish I could have gone to the dog training. I love watching drama as long as it does not involve me.

Uni ? sounds like you don?t have a lot of time to think of AL. After all that I think I would be the psychotic one!

Pap ? your morning sounds awesome. I think you have inspired me to take a relaxing day and not get into too much trouble.

Good morning Lav and Mario and the rest of the gang.

IJM thought of the day: Why didn?t Tarzan have a beard?

Have a great Sunday Everyone!

[Kaslo]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Reading this thread this morning, and finding Deter safe and sound on yesterdays thread gave me a real boost this morning.

Everyone sounds so blissful. I had a rough night, keep waking up thinking of what I am going to write in this paper I have before I head north. Basically, it was an explosion that was supposed to kill birds, but I couldnt find any. Huge quantity of toxic gas, searched twice, high and low, nada. In May right after, and again in June. Normally I would find a feather, a knuckle bone, but all I got were bits of thread, half a styrofoam cup, a cig butt, that kind of thing, in a search all the way around for 250 square meters around the skid site.....not a sausage. Anyway, I think they (the engineers and modelers) might have over estimated the volume, and I learned from talking to the tech who suited up and shut the thing down, that a handle on the pump blew and hit the steel ROOF (not accounted for in the model) making a clang that could be heard 4 kms away. .... I think that caused an alarm and flight response....the gas being heavier than air never intersected with thier air space. thats my story anyway. Make sense to y'all???

Also I dont have concentrations in plant tissue that resemble the volume of the explosion.....hmmmm.

Get out yer pencils. I gotta go back and piece it together some more. I wish I could sit by the pool today. If I am good and finish I could do it.

IJM I SO look forward to reading your posts, you are a dear man, and funny as hell, and we are SO lucky to have you.

Everyone have a great AF day. even waking up 10 times thinking of this and that, I felt tired but not that awful shite-like illness we all know so well.

So worth it.

Kaslo

[momof3]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Good Morning All,

Looks like everyone is facing hot and humid weather today. I don't mind it much myself. I started out my day with doing yoga in a 95+ degree room; I was soaked with sweat from head to toe....LOVE IT! Now, I'm headed to the pool with the kids and I hear the pool is about as refreshing as a hot bath:H

IJM, I am very impressed that you are so involved with your children's carpools, etc. Most men I know, including my husband, don't get involved with such details associated with their children. I am a worry wart too and I carry all of those little details in my head until they are resolved. My husband, not so much! Good news is I don't obsess over it as much as I did when I was a drinker. Yoga and exercise gets me out of my head and helps with my anxiety level too.

Kas, the work you describe sounds like looking for clues to solve a mystery. Very interesting.

Uni, little things such as you described used to send me on a bender too. Well, everything would send me on a bender really. I drowned my anxiety/sorrows with alcohol when I couldn't cope with something. And, when something good happened, I would celebrate by drinking.

Papmom, Love the upgrade on Greenie's avatar.

Mario...always fantastic to see you here.

Hello to all to come.

M3

[Determinator]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Wooof! Woooof wooof! ABerooooos!

Dx and i are watching the west coast regional dog agility show, and I've never seen some of these things before. Jack russell hurdle, and now.....dog surfing! I had no idea. oh man I want a dog so bad. sniff sniff.

Kas, sounds logical to me. at any rate I'm glad you found the other half of my styrofoam cup.

Uni, enjoy the thunderstorms. I love dramatic weather.

for some reason this reminds me of an exercise we did in an outpatient class I was attending on emotional intelligence. they asked us to write down our favorite or most interesting 'weather event'. and I was the only one in the class that chose 'meteor strike' as my weather phenomenon of choice. then the teacher revealed that this is answer is supposed to be reflective of our sex life. ??!!!! when they got to me in the class and I told them my choice there was dead silence and some interesting looks. then I just burst out laughing and they all did too.

be well peeps!

[4me]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Hello all, I am trying to get into the newbies nest and when I click on the link the page is blank. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know!

[Lavande]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Just checked the Nest ~ it's fine.
Try logging in again 4me

[papmom3]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Hi 4 Me-it took me a few tries but I finally got in. my internet has been wacky all day tho so I'm not sure what I was experiencing was the same as you. Keep trying tho and good luck!!

Deter-TMI I think :H!! Get a dog-get a dog!! Think about how nice it will be to have that cold nose snuggling with you when DX is away!

Kas-makes perfect sense to me! It must be hard to write a report that says "nope, nothing bad happened-no kill site" when your whole job is to make companies pay for ruining the environment or is that too simplistic? anyway, go with your gut and many years of experience. They got away with it this time-next time maybe not so lucky.

Ugh-hot and humid! I can't do the simplest thing without dripping in sweat! Finally had to turn the 2 room ACs on but not helping when I'm working in the non AC room. Blech. Although I didn't manage to love my house into extreme cleanliness I did finish packing up all my mom's china and have emailed my sis asking if I can bring it over tonite. Now last time we talked she didn't remember agreeing to take it but I assured her she did. Hopefully she still wants it. If not, it's going up into the attic and I will talk to the family about putting it up on Ebay. It's mine so i can do what i want with it but I still want their blessings. So now my dining room is only half a junk room :H. I still have pink wine/water glasses to pack up but need special boxes for those. Then i can finally get my sewing supplies into the china cabinet and work on creatively and inexpensively (read free) turn my DR into a sewing room. Too bad it's open to the LR so that will be a feat to accomplish.
god I hate being hot but I hate shoveling snow even more. Can't we have Autumn forever?

[Doggygirl]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Hi 4Me and welcome! I don't know how to help you with the problem you describe, but you are certainly welcome to post here if you are just trying to get through the day sober! That's what the rest of us are doing too!

Lav, thatnks for starting us off today. I'm :H over the indoor "dog breath" remark. That reminded me of some road trips I would rather forget! (well, forget the breath smell part anyway!)

Hi mario! Cound me in for some "chillin'" today too.

Uni, I want to come up to your place with P3 so we can all do some chillin' together!!! I am so happy that your tools are working so well for you through the real situations and ups and downs of day to day living.

P3, sounds like you had a very nice relaxing morning. Dont' do TOO much cleaning, OK? Love the new avatar for :crowned:!!!

Greenie - LOL imagining you holding up your skirt with your elbow! :H

IJM - trust me - I used to worry just like you. Life is better now that I make a conscious effort to have faith that things will all work out once I do what can be done, and there is no further action possible or necessary on my part. Try it! You'll LIKE it!!

Kaz - your work does sound very interesting. Environmental detective work it seems.

M3 - You are doing so great with your exercise. No further back problems I take it? I need to get off my ass.

Det - you and Mr. Doggy would get along great on so many levels, but your love of dramatic weather is one of them. He sets up like he's going to watch a theatre production when "weather" is rolling in. "Storm Chasers" is on his Tivo. :H

Well, I'm feeling suitabl motivated now to get off my ass and go for a walk. That is all. Enough laziness already. One thing is for sure....there is no room for AL in my life today!

DG

[greeneyes]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

Did I say painting trim sucks? No? Painting trim sucks.

[Lavande]

AF Daily ~ Sunday 8/7

I agree Greenie - painting trim does suck
I didn't paint the trim in my bedroom...just the walls. I didn't even do the tray ceiling because I wanted it left white-ish.

Deter - you NEED a dog!
A thunderstorm is moving in & with the very first clap of thunder the two Goldens & my Piggy Swissy started barking & barking. The fourth dog, my mutt went to hide in my shower ~ which dog would you like to have :H :H

Talked my daughter into helping me drag 200 lbs of chicken feed home this afternoon. The YB is on the disabled list & my son is in Texas this weekend. So between the two of us we got the job done

I am ready for some pleasant weather - this summer has been just as harsh as last year. So is this the new norm???