Thursday, July 20

[Going Strong]

just checking to see if this works

[lorik]

Hey all! Phew it took a while but I think I'm registerd. Fun fun fun

[southernbelle47]

OK....I think I've got it!

I love the new format. Thanks RJ.

I'm glad that you feel better , Susan.

Lots of hot hard work happening down here. We picked, cleaned, froze almost 60 quarts of peas yesterday.
Had to work on the weeds today. It has rained 3 inches in the past two days....Finally...thank you..thank you.....thank you...
Tomorrow will be another canning day. Soup again, I think.... Looking forward to fall this year.
Baby boy gets married on Sept. 30!

More later....gonna go soak in my tub and listen to James tell me to let all my cares wash away!!

Nancy

[lorik]

In keeping with my "honesty is the best policy" mantra, I'm afraid I have fallen off my wagon .
It really came from out of nowhere since I have been feeling so great abstaining. Of course I ruined my birthday I know there is so much more to this drink problem than meets the eye. Why would I against all better judgement risk losing what I worked so hard for. I just read an interesting post from RJ on the holistic healing thread. Apparently an "extreme memory" may be one culprit. In other words, a kind of false memory about the addictive substance. This makes sense to me especially in light of my tremendous desire to be sober .

Thanks for letting me continue this road with you. I really want quality sobriety. I think I'm doomed to failure if I don't dig a little deeper to look at the "whys". Quitting is easy, it's the staying quit that's a little tougher. Somebody spank me please!

Lor

[Guest]

Yikes

This is Kris. I can't sign in and the post I did earlier in the day is gone. This may be progress, but I am not seeing it yet. I don't see anyway to find out what my password was...

[YoungAtHeart]

Finishing Day 3

Whew, Made It!

By the time I got home tonight, 9pm, I was hungry, lonely and tired, just missing the angry--and I had forgotten to take my topa. Even though I was feeling like I would love a glass of wine, I managed to forget that the liquor store was on the way home, so safely arrived home, and cooked a quick dinner. Fortunately, I never seriously considered having any! So now I'm just tired. Dealing with the vicissistudes (how's that there for a big darn word!!! )of this new board has diverted me from feeling lonely!

So sorry about your slip, Lori! I want to take a look at the thread that you mentioned; it sounds interesting. For all that there is so much that we can do to help now with the physical part of our problem, I really believe that there is a strong psychological piece to it too, and coming to terms with it is an important component of healing. Staying quit is really the hard part! Hang in there Lori!

Hugs to everyone else too! I'm too tired from figuring all of this out to do justice to everyone else's posts tonight! This is definitely going to take a few days!

Hugs,:l
Kathy

[sujul]

OMG!!!!
This is a tad overwhelming....
I think I'll have to save any further thinking for tomorrow....
In the meantime, hang in there, everyone--and in the immortal words of Scarlet O'Hara (shaking fist at sky):

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY!!!

:l
susan