Weekly AA Thread - Nov. 5 - Nov. 11

[Doggygirl]

Weekly AA Thread - Nov. 5 - Nov. 11

Hi all!

BG - thanks for that link. Interesting site. I think it's great you are considering new training for a new profession!

Mary - you are right on about stinkin' thinkin'. It can creep in for any of us.

Sol - sounds like you had a fun road trip!! And lots going on in life. It always works out so much better sober, doesn't it?

Phil - I'll have to check out that movie! We saw the new James Bond movie Friday night. LOL - I am not into "rugged" 007. I miss "debonair" 007.

Catch - For me it was a real victory to realize that when I feel "off" for any reason it's far more about what's inside me than what's inside someone else. I am the one person I DO have control over, so this gives me hope that I can work on these feelings (that make me unhappy) and become a more peaceful and tolerant person with time and effort.

Hello to anyone I missed, or anyone lurking, etc.!!

Heard from a sponsee who had gone absent for a while. It was hard to be patient and just leave it up to her, but I'm glad I did. She didn't relapse but just got busy with life. (she was reunited over the last year with all 3 of her children - so understandably her life got progressively crazier!) She is missing the serenity and connection with other "adults" () that she got through AA. It will be nice to have her back and active again.

It's so wonderful that the doors are always open. It takes all of us doing our part to make that happen. I have not been doing as much these days due to school work, but need to remember to keep doing my part to the best of my ability as time moves on. Sometimes that will be more than other times.

Have a good day one and all!

DG

[bettygirl]

Weekly AA Thread - Nov. 5 - Nov. 11

awesome story about your sponsee, dg! it almost made me tear up...good for her.

i found another cool site called "in the rooms" if anyone needs any more support. it's for people in recovery or anyone interested in it. i don't want to say this place isn;t wonderful, but it isn;t all about recovery, like that one is.

can;t wait for my sunday night 90 minute meeting...i am finally feeling comfortable hanging out after meetings and just talking to folks. i have been so isolated for so long, that my social skills are a bit off!
hope everyone is well...see you next week!

[bettygirl]

Weekly AA Thread - Nov. 5 - Nov. 11

obviously i need to find the ' key instead of the ; key! i don't watch my hands when i type and that is what happens, inevitably!

[MntGirl]

Weekly AA Thread - Nov. 5 - Nov. 11

:new::thanks:Bettygirl... going back to school for me was so hard, but after my divorce I knew i had to do it. I worked in the bar business for so long, i loved it, but obviously was not a good thing for me. i was 38 when i returned to school & i too felt my job prospects looked over me, unless it was to manage a bar, but well, i had to quit that 10yrs of oblivion.
going back to school was scary, i felt that being so much older would be a detriment, who wants old when they can have young & fresh?... i have found that now my age, life experience AND my schooling combined has made me a hot job prospect over the younger folks.
I will be done in Aug & plan to do a graduate certificate course in NonProfit Mnagaement. I do alot of Non Profit/Educational organization work now and that would only further my credentials...
On the AA note, this is why i do not go to meetings. Smal town i live in, and never fails i run into someone i know...we should be supportive of one another, not bashing them for their own personal gain on the'outside'. the meetings too seemed to veer off. my last sponsor ended up with 'feelings' for me. i understand you delve into some deep personal stuf, but REALLY!?! Aside from private counseling, to which I do not have time or $ for, i have decided to take this route. I ve done it before, i will do it again. i just have to keep on doing it!
Doggy girl...I DID tear up about your sponsor. I hope to finally be reunited with my oldest 2 children, a dream come true.
Iam very happy to find this forum

[bettygirl]

Weekly AA Thread - Nov. 5 - Nov. 11

i couldn't go to aa when we lived in small town nebraska for the same reasons...it was almost too intimate, and i didn't want all those people to know bout me, because in that town, sad but true, EVERYONE talked shit about everyone else...blech. that's when i got so deep into my drinking, i was so isolated and sad/lonely...EGAD IM GLAD TO BE OUT OF THERE!!!! even though i know wherever you go, there you are, it really does feel different living somewhere where everyone isn;t all up in your business and so damn judgemental. i don't know how many times we were called "dirty hippies" and "communists" in that town...not that those things are offensive, but we aren;t either! ok, maybe a bit of hippies, but we aren;t dirty LOL! and i guess i am kind of socialist...hmmmmm, maybe i should look at myself more closely!!! HA!