Good Day Booze Busters!!! It's Day 42 AFHF here, and I am very happy about that! Business is slow this week which is a nail biter, but not unexpected with the 4th of July holiday on Friday. Lots of people will be on vacation this week and next. I need to make a much longer, and more formalized Honey-do List for Mr. Doggy. He goofed off a lot yesteray which is OK - he was very busy the latter half of June, but now it's time to get last falls leaves off the deck and stuff like that.
(I'm sort of kidding - lord knows I good off a LOT! But I'm sort of not kidding too) We are supposed to get some severe storms today. I hope we don't get high winds - the kind that take our trees down.
Gelgit - it's great to hear the 400 more people are helping. I hope your weather holds and the fires are out soon - and especially I hope the smoke is clearing. I'll have to look up English Bulldogs. (I'm not an expert on all the different breeds!) We recently had a guy with 3 American Bulldogs start training with us. He is involved in weight pulling (these dogs are really strong!) and wants to get into something called Iron Dog competition which I also know nothing about. I guess that sport involved protection work, and he says the folks he trains with in the "Iron Dog" community don't know what they are doing in the training - and that can be really dangerous when it comes to protection work. So even though we train for Schutzhund, he wants to work on the protection part with our training who is very experienced and knows what he's doing. (sorry for long story!) Do you miss showing dogs? That's a whole world unto itself, isn't it.
Hannah, how was the patio party and fireworks?? Hope you had fun. It's hard to believe so many restaurants and bars seem to NOT have Tonic in your part of the world. Do they all have Club Soda or some type of sparkling water? I often drink club soda with a couple of lemon wedges squeezed in. You could add a little sugar or artificial sweetner if the soda alone isn't to your liking being "not sweet." Or you could order club soda with a splash of juice such as cranberry or orange or whatever - that wouldn't be nearly as sweet as straight juice. (I'm getting thirsty thinking about a glass of 1/2 and 1/2 club soda and cranberry juice! - that would look pretty served in a wine glass with a couple of ice cubes and a lemon twist.....)
Pamina I am laughing at my vision of you and the mouse!!!! We use those sonic repeller things during the winter in our camper. Winter before last we had mice move into the camper and believe me they made a horrible mess. We're lucky they didn't cause more actual damage. But last winter those sonic things must have worked - NO evidence of mice this spring at all during cleanup. Keep us posted - hopefully your visitor is gone by now!
louise - congratulations on Day 32!!!! I'm sorry to hear that you are bummed over relationship things. I hope you can work it out. We ALL deserve to be happy in addition to being sober. I too wish some things were "magic." Hang in there!! Keep working on "you" and I really believe the other stuff will eventually come to the table to be dealt with in the right timing.
sothankful - 109 degrees??????? GEEZ that's hot. That would take the energy right out of me. I hope you have a powerful air conditioner and a good book!! Congratulations on 3 AF days!! Keep plugging along - WE CAN DO THIS!
Teardrop, I'm so glad you feel "good in yourself" this week. That is wonderful news. I hope the group sessions go well for you and make you feel even stronger!! Hope you get some pictures of your son before he heads off to prom so you can share.
I didn't get my quarter end accounting done yesterday (shame!!!) so I MUST finish that up today and get it off to the accountant. Especially since bad weather is predicted, I will work out early!! In fact I think I'll get ready to go very soon and be done with it.
Have a great Booze Bustin' Day everyone!! No drinkin' for me...that's for sure.
DG
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