Day 3 !

How the heck did that happen? It's already day 3 of mods!
I was just sittin here this mornin posting a joke... when all of a sudden I was rushing to get ready to head for town( appt w/ mechanic @ 11:00)

Next thing ya know it's 12:45... and I'm due @ work in 15 min!! "HellO" How long does it take to balance & do a front end allignment...W/an appmt?:rolleyes

Good ol Small towns! I made it to work, clocked in w/2min to spare(town is only about 10 blocks long), and I only had to go from the middle to the edge... But who should walk in for lunch @ 1:30? ...... The mechanic who had just worked on my truck!(and almost made me late)... So of course when he came in I said, "It's gonna be a bit of a wait... your waitress is still not ready....she just got here!"ol




"It is human to make mistakes. If we acknowledge we are human, we are defining ourselves as people who always have something TO LEARN(Thomas Edison failed to perfect the light bulb until his ten -thousandth try). We are saying we have to keep going if our plans don't work out right away (Walt Disney went bankrupt 7 times before he met with success).

"Thou shalt not be human" is the command of shame."....

"How can we be anything else? Why would we want to be?
I pray I will live comfortably with human limitations..."


at Still rainin here:rolleyes at
got to wear my favorite hat all day tho... till I had to work!!at

Hi All, Hi! St. Jude!

I Like you Meditation for the day, especially since shame is something we all seem particularly prone to feeling here at MWO, especially when we're not PERFECT! ol AS I, most assuredly, am not!!

Thanks for the good thoughts, Judie. Today will have a few drinks, I think. Lots to do around the house and last minute touches on the offices, so it will be good to kick back this evening and have a few glasses of wine (2-3).

Also, I WILL make time to plant my tomatoes!!! Yum!

Hugs to all
Kathy

Morning All! I definately slipped last night and first felt really bad adout it and wanted to just stay in bed all day but...I had to get up and take my 14 yr old daughter to a school event at 6:30. She had downloaded a song and played it in the car there....I'm sure you all know it, "A Little Less Conversation" Elvis...We played it really loud all the way to school. Then I listened to it all the way home again and decided it was going to be my new theme song.

"....A little less conversation and a little more action....all this aggrevation ain't satisfaction in me...."

OK...what happened last night was very scary, but it's over right? Now move on and have a great day and start over. I don't really know how much I drank cause Eric was drinking too and he was pretty buzzed. I think I had 4 glasses of wine. But...absolutely NO food since lunch. All I do know is I WAS drunk. But I didn't blackout.

Here's what I need to work on now...crisis=bottle I need to replace the wine with something else in that instance.

One more thought...I think God allows things like this to happen just to help you realize it CAN all change in an instant. Last night I was literally thinking at one point that my life as I had come to know it was over when thinking of the possibility of not finding Jen.

Thank you all who were here chatting with me last night!! You are all so special to me now...my new best friends!

Many Hugs!
Hope

BTW....I drank all my drinks for tonight AND next weekend last night...:eek oops!

Morning humor: go to "Laughing Out Loud" and see my post there...you will LOL! I gotta say I definately have a "Gangover" ol ol ol

Morning all and raining here, too. Pouring, in fact. Which is good cuz my pool needs to fill up and I can't use my well.

Best to all and wish me luck today - I have to attend a family BD party for my boyfriend's father - 80 years old - big occasion - and I always feel very uncomfortable around them. Have done a few foolish things in front of them, as they have me, and they are quite the drinkers. I have been trying to avoid that situation so I don't fall off the wagon. Well, going to listen to the CDs and try to keep myself calm.

Everyone have a great day.
Rock
P.S. Hope, don't be hard on yourself. Sounds like you have the right attitude to me. I totally agree that God lets these things happen - or lets us do these things to ourselves - to remind us of how different things CAN be. I don't know who Jen is and I am sorry I was not in chat when you were last night but I hope that worked out. I too am a wino and bottle does equal crisis - I'm still working out how to not take the vacation in a bottle and find something more productive and calming ... it's a battle against the bottle but eventually we will find our ways out.

if you need one. I enjoyed it - got in the email from a friend. Hope to talk to you all later today. Rock
PS Judy, hope you are feeling better. Rest up.

Now I'm "Really up" ...this morning...The other post was my after work, "before I go climb in Post"....This is my "I'm up & havin my tea post"ol


A completly inebriated man was stumbling down the street with one foot on the sidewalk & one foot in the gutter. A cop pulls up & says "I've gotta take you in pal, you're drunk"

Our wasted friend asked the officer, "Are you absolutely sure I'm drunk?" "Yeah, Buddy you're drunk, I'm sure, now lets go"
Breathing a sigh of relief, the wino says "Thank God, I thought I was broken or bent":rollin

Hmmn, seems I know that feeling ....:eek

Hang in there Hope sounds like youre already getting back on track. Must of been pretty scarey for you last night though... I know how it feels if my doggie is missing for a while, I can't imagine having your child missing...:( Sure glad you found her safe & sound! Have you guys figured out a better system of checking with each other? I know when I was a kid, we always had pretty free run.... around the area near home(which is miles of beach & Mts) we used to cover a lot of ground! There's a lot more houses around that area now than there was then... but thinking back on some of the places we'd go hike & play... if anything would've happened.... we were so far out & away, the only person wouldve found us for days mightve been a wild goat, or deer!
Guess i really had it pretty good growing up here!:D

Hey Rock, good luck @ the B-day party. I know how family get togethers can sometimes feel like more of a "job" than a pleasant experiance. But who knows, you might just have fun!




"There's a great temptation in our society to hire people to solve our problems. Some problems just can't be hired out- no matter how inadequate we feel about solving them ourselves & no matter much $$ we have to buy help. The need for personal grow this one such problem. No one can rescue us from OURSELVES. Our own personnal growth is our own responsibility. Either we take on the job or we don't- it's as simple as that!"



And on a lighter note...just like I was telling my Hubby this mornin...."A hard on does not count as personal growth!":rollin Well...:rolleyes ol :b hee heee

Happy Day 3!

Thank you so much ladies for being here and so supportive. I appreciate each and every one of you.

Judie, your meditation this morning was just perfect! Thanks!

I had 3 drinks, rum and cokes last night with water in between and floated to bed so many fluids. I overdid at physical therapy and had planned on one drink or two but decided 3 would make me not care how much I was hurting. The water helped the process of not heading into half the bottle but I still have to wrap my head around the fact I reached a point where I just didn't care. :(

Hope, I am so sorry you had such a scare. Yes, it is upsetting losing a child. Lost my oldest at Magen's Bay one time. Freaked me out because he could swim before he could walk but the tide can take you in a moment and he was only 3. Last time I left his Dad in charge of him for quite some time.

Ladies, I don't even know how to go to the chat room or how to email people as soon as I try to it won't let me. I registered as a local user, maybe you have to be global for it to work?

anyway, tonight no drinks. Gotta run my part timer came in the office.

Hugs to all,
Mary

hey everyone..happy day 3 of mod month and day 5 of the program for me.. well lets see...last night was another surprising one...only 2 glasses of wine at the pool and i played tennis with my kids and hubby...cant remember the last time i did that....Went home and put the kids to bed and didnt pour anymore wine...shocking again...especially for a friday....Watched a movie..ate an orange????? something healthy and went to bed....I really cant explain how different this friday was from any friday i have had in SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
long...and that is putting it midly...i cant begin to put into words my gratitude for this board and this program..i just pray everyday that this is real....i thanks so much for all of you....I love the quotes and thoughts and blessing I receive here every day...XXred