Well howdy doody do to you, your racking up some great numbers and it’s good to see you about. Not sure about inspiring you bc it’s a miracle I’ve got this far, it’s a miracle on a daily basis bc Paul does not live like this, Paul would love to get wasted right now and I’m not even out of bed yet 
but the difference now is its not an obsession of the mind it’s just a false reality born out of years of habit and routine. We can break the chain, we can be free. It’s nice to see you 
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Hey! Good to see you! Doing all three at the same time takes balls, much respect right back at you!
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Checking in on day 15. Sitting at work and for some reason my mind is replying flashbacks today of numerous embarrassing moments that I have been involved in over the years while drunk. What a show. Want to hide under my desk at some of these thoughts 
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Really really happy to see you Marie! Hugs and love and everything. Sober and clean. And will get you of the vape at some point too 
. Very happy to have you back here. You’re a big part of my journey. @Dolse71 You ARE an inspiration now Paul, better get used to it.
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Howdy back Paul, I get totally what you saying right there, it’s breaking the awful habit. This is my best attempt, by a month, I do feel different (scary saying that) , but I am doing lots of different things to help… I am taking it seriously I feel… I want that miracle. I am not saying or doing what I think I should do or what others do, but what I feel is right for me. I stopped trying to make others happy.
You still got your fabulous sense of humour which never fails to make me chuckle.
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Ah thanks @mno thank you 
yes the vape is on my hit list…
Love you still posting the photos, love you are still strong in your sobriety…
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Hello Fleur, your doing amazing, so proud for you… reading Annie Grace really helped and steered me to this point… thankfully! My mind and brain could not have coped no more…
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Checking in on day 12. The weekend has been really fine but ended it up in a Desaster. Had this big fight with my husband when I was lying in bed already. Already filled with some anxiety because I wasn’t tired at all but it was so late that I made me even crazier. And then baaam I had this nasty fight. Hubby ended up sleeping in another room and I couldn’t fall asleep until 4am in the morning. And at 6 I had to get up. I’m half dead today but at least sober. I’m scared that I will go to bed today again worrying about too much. I just want peace and no fight. But we haven’t talked anymore.
I hope everyone is having a much better start into this week. As long as we are all sober… 
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just for today, i will treat everyone fairly. . . . Even people who annoy me or who anger me, even people with whom I disagree completely on important issues. How I treat other people ultimately is a statement about who I am, not about who other people are, no matter how much I may want to convince myself that my unfair treatment is justified in some cases. Treating everyone fairly helps me to maintain balance in my life, and it helps to remind me that everyone on this planet is a human being who deserves to be treated as such. Many people make mistakes and do stupid and rude things, but I really shouldn’t let their behavior make me change my ways of treating other people—I should make changes in my life based on reflection and learning, not on reactions to what other people do or say.
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Day 265
It is what is called ‘Golden Week’ in Japan, there are several national holidays in a short space of time, and some companies give employees the in between days off too, meaning some people have a week or more off. My husband and I don’t have many days off, but it is a time for people to take trips, do leisure things they usually don’t do, etc. Yesterday, a British acquaintance put on FB pictures from a British style pub/cafe he went to. I went to the website to check out the menu, and they have cider, which I used to enjoy and is very rare over here. So I got very nostalgic over that, imagining drinking in pub style atmosphere. And then I was coming home from work today, and on the train there was someone drinking a lemon chuhai (like alcoholic lemonade), just like I used to do. I have tomorrow and the day after off, and was thinking, it would be nice to chill out as totally as I could, surely NOW I could drink one and go straight back to sobriety. In the end I just shut my mind off, and got my backside home ASAP as the kids were waiting at home. But just goes to show, romanticizing and faulty logic are just waiting to trip us up again.
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I love to see how great you’re doing 
And that you’re still working with the homeless. I know how much that means to you!
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You can’t let your guard down for a single minute. Well done on not. You’ll be delighted tomorrow when you look at your day count.
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- Gratitude. It keeps me sober. Work is sucking right now. I am the only store for my company fully staffed in the area. By default, more customers are coming here because of it. Suppliers can not supply me fully, sometimes they dont even come. I walked into a shit mess today, because customer volume kicked there butt yesterday. I should be pissed off…should be.
But I am happy. They did their best yesterday. I have a job, I dont have covid, I have a job. Somedays it’s easy to be pissed. As an old timer said in a meeting…“the sun is always shining, sometimes its behind the clouds, but it is still there.”
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@Thirdmonkey…great reminder that we don’t have to react to 
storms!
Starting day 59 and grateful. My boss is on vacay and I am SUPER grateful for that. A chance for me to get caught up on projects.
Coffee, checking in here, getting ready for work then I’m off. Have a great day…wherever you are. US…Eastern time…7:23.
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Hey guys.
Day 231 here.
Usually at a day like this, back from a little vacation and now alone at home, I’d use that beautiful day and cope with being with myself by drinking all day. I can’t even imagine that right now. Feels just wrong. How crazy am I right now?? NOT day drinking? Old me would think I’m sick or something. Well nope, it’s called RECOVERY.
Everyday is a chance to recover. We can either choose to drink or recover. Yes, because that is it: doing everything else than using with the intention of taking care of ourselves, it’s recovering. Choosing ourselves over a bottle is recovering. Just for today. Make it to tomorrow. Tomorrow will take care of itself. For now, just breathe, and choose to live.
Hope you guys are doing well,
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Checking in on day 323. I wasn’t able to be around on TS much yesterday but it felt good being sober and productive on a Sunday when I used to waste the whole day drinking my money away.
@zzz I love Ronnie Coleman! Thanks for sharing. He’s always been a big inspiration.
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Bravo
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1000 days alcohol free. Happy Monday
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That’s huge Steve, well done mate and thanks for the inspiration
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