Happy Valentine's Day, Abbers!:h
Working in a flower shop for this holiday makes me happy that it will be OVER today!! Ugh! Never left until 10:00 p.m. Still exhausted. Won't be that late today, as it will end when we close around 5:30 or so. But the chaos will be worse, I guarantee it!!
And I had to be gone for 2 1/2 hours for meeting with attorney and then court. Definitely believe the attorney is completely focused on himself and can't stop talking about stories of other clients. Anyway, I got just what he said I would. We followed him to the court house, and he met with the police chief, I guess, and then we went into the court, which was already in session. After a guy who was asking to go to jail for two days to avoid paying a fine for something--not economic, but a matter of principle--a guy in an orange jail suit was released on bail. Guess he had beaten some people up. Then I was called. I had seen Barny Fife (this is what a friend calls the chief) in the hall and just ignored him. My husband managed to say "hello" to him. Anyway, the judge was very nice--even said he'd had an issue himself and congratulated me for going to rehab. Then Barny spoke. He was very nervous, and he was shuffling through papers and told that I had gone to a citizen's home and yelled at him, drove over his lawn (untrue), was stopped and officer smelled alcohol, etc. High BAL. Then he said that I'd been convicted in MA--not true, as the lawyer had told us when we met with him. Placed without finding, but I had to nudge attorney and get him to correct that. I think he (Barny) did it on purpose. Judge was concerned about that, but I still got 18 month suspension--12 if I complete alcohol school, $930 fine, Interlock after a yr, etc. Still can't figure out how this is considered a first offense and aggravated was dropped, and yet I could have had 9 months as a minimum suspension and got close to the maximum of two years. Anyway, it's over, and I was calm through it. I will have to work on the resentment thing about the chief. The husband of the friend who owns the flower shop is a former NYC cop, and told me that the cops here are crazy and he has had a few encounters with the locals himself. Have way too much power, he believes.
Enough about that for now. Mr TDN is a mess, but more about that later, too.
Best thing--I didn't even think of a drink. Furthest thing from my mind, and I pray that continues.
Bear--I was so happy to see you back!! Maybe when you see what has happened to me--something I certainly never expected--it will help a little in choosing to be AF. You can't count on hitting bottom without something awful happening to you or somebody else. Your disease will keep telling you it won't happen, but it can.
I want to thank all of you for your support :l It has kept me going and will keep me going ahead. I just hope that I can help others in their struggle to get free of the demon.
Hope to check in later tonight.
Have a great AF day!
TDN
Working in a flower shop for this holiday makes me happy that it will be OVER today!! Ugh! Never left until 10:00 p.m. Still exhausted. Won't be that late today, as it will end when we close around 5:30 or so. But the chaos will be worse, I guarantee it!!
And I had to be gone for 2 1/2 hours for meeting with attorney and then court. Definitely believe the attorney is completely focused on himself and can't stop talking about stories of other clients. Anyway, I got just what he said I would. We followed him to the court house, and he met with the police chief, I guess, and then we went into the court, which was already in session. After a guy who was asking to go to jail for two days to avoid paying a fine for something--not economic, but a matter of principle--a guy in an orange jail suit was released on bail. Guess he had beaten some people up. Then I was called. I had seen Barny Fife (this is what a friend calls the chief) in the hall and just ignored him. My husband managed to say "hello" to him. Anyway, the judge was very nice--even said he'd had an issue himself and congratulated me for going to rehab. Then Barny spoke. He was very nervous, and he was shuffling through papers and told that I had gone to a citizen's home and yelled at him, drove over his lawn (untrue), was stopped and officer smelled alcohol, etc. High BAL. Then he said that I'd been convicted in MA--not true, as the lawyer had told us when we met with him. Placed without finding, but I had to nudge attorney and get him to correct that. I think he (Barny) did it on purpose. Judge was concerned about that, but I still got 18 month suspension--12 if I complete alcohol school, $930 fine, Interlock after a yr, etc. Still can't figure out how this is considered a first offense and aggravated was dropped, and yet I could have had 9 months as a minimum suspension and got close to the maximum of two years. Anyway, it's over, and I was calm through it. I will have to work on the resentment thing about the chief. The husband of the friend who owns the flower shop is a former NYC cop, and told me that the cops here are crazy and he has had a few encounters with the locals himself. Have way too much power, he believes.
Enough about that for now. Mr TDN is a mess, but more about that later, too.
Best thing--I didn't even think of a drink. Furthest thing from my mind, and I pray that continues.
Bear--I was so happy to see you back!! Maybe when you see what has happened to me--something I certainly never expected--it will help a little in choosing to be AF. You can't count on hitting bottom without something awful happening to you or somebody else. Your disease will keep telling you it won't happen, but it can.
I want to thank all of you for your support :l It has kept me going and will keep me going ahead. I just hope that I can help others in their struggle to get free of the demon.
Hope to check in later tonight.
Have a great AF day!
TDN
ray:
I will no longer give the BEAST any power over me - he can go straight to hell.
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