Tuesday 19 August

[Doggygirl]

Wally, congrats on Day 6 AF. You are on your way!!

Charlee, thank you for your nice note. Any further thoughts / happenings WRT daughter in law from the Italy trip?? For her sake as a young woman with her life in front of her, and of course your son - I keep hoping that she was just letting her hair down. But it's hard to ignore the signs when we *know*........yikes.

OMW I am pea green with envy over you and 4tbz with your vegetable gardens!!! Next spring will be my first sober one as an adult, and by golly and I'm gonna have a garden come **** or high water. In good news, the farmers market I thought was not going to be operating this year IS. It's really close to my house too. So I bought a 1/2 bushel of tomatoes this morning - should be enough for about 6 quarts. Bought a few other things just for meals this week. Produce in the grocery stores has been HORRID here this year. It was nice to see the first edible looking green bean for 2008.

If you all have any EASY canning recipes for things like salsa, or anything involving zuchini (sp) please share. I use the method passed down in the family for at least a few generations for basic tomato canning, but have never ventured past that.

LOL Beck - I'm glad this 90 days has flown by for you!!! That's too funny. For me, I thought the first 10 were a lifetime sentence in hell. I thought 30 would never end. The next 30 was a bit smoother. The last 30 went by pretty fast. Have fun getting your kiddos all ready for school. And HUGE congratulations to you Beck on keeping your sobriety through so much upheaval this summer with the move, etc. etc. You are such an inspiration to me.

cindi I hear ya on that procrastination!!! I applaud you for handling this business travel like you do. Thank you for your nice note!!

Caysea congratulations on 96 days. Your post rings true with me. I think that is great advice / info for people just getting started, or really at any point under this 90ish day mark. At least that's been my experience too. I bet while you were on your rafting trip, you WISHED you were home instead so you could get some cheerleaders on your 90 day anni. Because come on. Internet cheerleaders are SO much more exciting than a real life rafting trip, right??? So.....here are your Married Man Cheerleaders approved by a whole panel of MWO wives..



Gotta go tackle those tomatoes.

DG

[Determinator]

Happy Tuesday ABland!

Loppy huge hugs for you dear XXXXXX so very well done.

Doglvr....how you doing?

Yeah for DoggyGirl on the big 90 (you don't look a day over 29) LOL

Caysea, fun chatting last night

be well everyone....zoom zoom

[startingover]

Loppy, just read your post and it made me cry!!!
I can so understand how you felt, I am going on my first AF holiday soon and the thought scares me too.
You did great. You have inspired me THANK YOU!!!!!!

[Janice]

Congratulations DG, you're doing good. love Janicexxx

[DogLvr]

DG - I am so proud of you - CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS HUGE MILESTONE!!! 10 wimpy days before you're in 3 digits!!


Loppy - I know how proud you must feel - kicking al's but on your vacation!
I made it through last night fine - I think I am just emotional trying to figure out this "relationship" with alcohol that I have - I read about that phrase in some other posts. I am trying to figure out what made me finally come to the point of thinking/knowing that I had a problem. I look back at the 21 years since I started drinking - and how I thought I was always surrounded - or surrounded myself with - (not quite sure on that front) people who really enjoyed drinking.

DET, 4TB and Beck - thanks for the notes - reading your posts all really help me when I'm struggling. I haven't tried the Valerian Root.

I hope everyone has a great night - I'm trying to get it together.