Day 733
Today I reflected on many things… the most intriguing was something my son shared with me.
“Dad if a tomato is considered a fruit… then is tomato sauce actually a smoothie”?? My mind was blown hahaha… A grateful recovering addict today.
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Let it out Brian. Let it out. I’m glad you feel comfortable with us to let it out. It must be really hard to let go. That’s really got to hurt. Hopefully you are learning that you can let go of all the pain. I’m also glad God can be there to help and give you the strength you need.
And by sharing I know you given many on here pause to think. The reality is addiction can kill anyone of us. You got to work on it and treasure it.
You got me thinking of this verse from the Bible.
Matthew 13:44
“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field”
Our kingdom of heaven is sobriety and we better fucken treasure it.
God Bless you my friend.
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How’s this for brilliant manifesting synchronized momements… You just manifested through me your Disney princess thought- I was just watching jimmy Kimmel on you tube and this came on - Disney birds !! Gosh I love this universe and the magic it shows us
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Day 1499. So sad today. My 12 yr old son is failing at distance learning – he’s in all of the advanced classes. He was doing fine before Covid. I have doctor’s forms to get him evaluated for ADD. And need to figure out how to put a lock on his laptop to restrict his time on Minecraft, etc. Maybe I need to talk to @anon89207786 about that!
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I love Jimmy!! Saw him live and had the honor to see Chadwick Bozeman on his show that night. Another sad 2020 casualty. 
I love his little girl “from his house.” It’s worth watching just for that 
Love Stephen Colbert too 
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I love jimmy toooo!!! He is soooo funny. Anc his trump impersonation is spot on 
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In my experience, distance learning makes certain kinds of students shine, and certain others just fall through the cracks. Has he shown signs of ADD before? My 11 year old son has ADHD, it can be a challenge. I hope you can get some support, whatever the diagnosis.
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- Coffee. Had a long complicated dream that involved me taking a swig out of a beer bottle more or less by accident. Thinking OK, I don’t drink, nobody saw me, I’m not going to reset. Then a moment later I was finishing a whole bottle of beer. Panicking, thinking it’s true, one gulp does take me back. Looking around me for help. Waking up. I’m glad I don’t have these often.
It’s therapy day. Going to present the conceptualization of my case I did. Or maybe next week, but going to try to be the first one today. Will see. Scary stuff and I’m a bit anxious about it but not too bad. Feeling pretty good actually. Happy I’m sober and clean. Not feeling that I’m depriving myself of something by not drinking and drugging. Seeing the inauguration gave me some hope for the future too. have as good a day as you all can friends. Clean and sober. Love from Amsterdam where spring is still a fair bit away but I know it will come.
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That sounds about right for distance learning. Yes, there were some years where he struggled, especially with subjects he didn’t like. And in Kindergarten, he zoned out and daydreamed when he was supposed to be learning cursive. But every year like that would be followed by a super good one. So it was like, what!?? I have no idea if a diagnosis will improve things. At least his teachers would be clued in. And he will have more time to finish his assignments.
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I have no experience with putting time locks on a pc, but im more than happy to help you figure it out
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Happy bday bro hope it was a good day
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Day 453… first night shift is always tough, the 2 hour car ride home after it is even worse. On the bright side only 6 more and i get 5 days off😎
Yesterday wasn’t my birthday i was saying bye to POTUS 45 and hello to 46 . I guess it did sound like it when i read my post though. But hey thanks to all of those that took time to write something:upside_down_face:
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You’re killing it! Congrats on the 4 months. Keep on sobering ODAAT! 
Blessings and sobriety!
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While I am ever grateful to have recieved the vaccine, the side affects of the 2nd one are no picnic. That being said, I imagine they are nothing compared to the actual illness. Crazy muscle aches, headache and a fever, my body is working hard on creating some antibodies the past 12 hours.
But sober immunity building, priceless. Had I still been drinking I will venture to bet the symtoms would be much worse. I couldnt imagine being hungover AND feeling these side affects.
So starting my Day 18 (so excited) sore, kinda sick, but happy.
Peace and love to ya’all♥️
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Day 150
I’m pretty bored.
The end…
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Here heading off to work get to go bowling tonight I bowl on a league on Thursday nights. I’m making an attempt to eagerly seek Gods will in my life and be sensitive to other people I was so short tempered in this drunken state. God Bless you all.
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Heavy heart this morning. My children’s father and I were together for 20+ years. We have not been together since Xmas of 2018 when We had our last physical altercation that landed me in jail for protecting myself. I was completely done with the relationship at that point. I tried to hold our family together for all those years so that our kids would have both of their parents. As the alcoholism got worse for both of us at that time, the worse things got in all aspects of our lives and our children’s lives. We were finally able to go our separate ways. Unfortunately, he did not get better. He kept at the liter of bourbon a day drinking every day until yesterday morning when his girlfriend found him on the couch cold and not moving. He’s not fighting his demons any longer and is at peace with his mom in heaven now. My heart aches so much for his children, his siblings, his father and the whole family. We have all tried to help him and we have all let him know how much we cared about him and how worried we all were about him and how much we all wanted to help him get better. 
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Was going to post a check in but scrolling through how others are doing I’m seeing a lot of sadness and struggles in our family here on TS. So I’m simply going to offer hugs to everyone this morning. 
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Checking in January 21 2021
Feeling soar feeling great body is telling me dont workout my mind says do extra reps ready to conquer my day no matter what comes to me because i know iam sober and got my head screwed on right ! Everyone keep pushing forward keep at it day by day you will get there congrats to everyone battling there DOC and hitting milestones you guys are amazing 
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