Hey guys. Checking in day 2.
Feeling really tired today. Dont know why. Going to bed early.
@LaDyLooNtje Hey thanks for you support and advice. I will give my best everyday. Thanks again.
@Butterflymoonwoman Hey dana, congrats on reaching a 100 days. You making it look easy now. Great work and have a great day.
Bye guys and good night.
Hi Kat here checking in Day 294
Mood is still better had a long talk with my sponsor about things yesterday. See a therapist today which I am looking forward to.
Only shitty thing is, Covid is running rampant at the nursing home I work at so itāll be N95 masks and gowns for a couple weeks at least. All the old folks have had 3 shots, so symptoms are mostly mild which is good. I have not had it yet, have been lucky so far.
I am grateful to be clean and grateful for my NA program too!
Kat
Thank you @JennyH I appreciate that. I ended up taking today off because itās getting to be a lot more than I had imagined. My boss is amazing though. Self care day for sureā¦
Definitely a good idea, better to deal with these things at the time. Big hugs 
Thank you Jenny 
Checking in. Doing ok. Sober. But Iām frustrated, with small things and I have to work in a couple hours and I really wish I didnāt. Iām still going to go to work and do my best and itās not like Iād do anything productive if I did skip today. I havenāt missed or been late to this job yet, which is a new thing for me and Iām glad of that. Iām just not feeling very motivated or optimistic today. But Iāll be alright, not considering drinking at all, so at least at the end of the day I wonāt be any worse off.
Hope your day gets better soon. I was feeling really low about work recently, and struggling to motivate myself. I ended up treating it the same way I did in early sobriety, one hour at a time. Amazing how many work days I got through that way. And this week something just clicked and I have enjoyed it (in spite of a consultation period and redundancy announcements this weekā¦)
Good luck!
Congratulations on your 2 days 
your doing it, you got this!
Congratulations on 2 days 
odaat my friend!
Checking in
Day 101
Iāve been slacking todayā¦ Iāll be honest. My body is so tired 
didnāt go to the gym (actually I havenāt gone in 3 days). I honesty think itās a caffeine issue. Anyway, I only drank 1 cup of coffee in the morning today to try and reset my body onto having its own natural energy. Havenāt touched it since that cup. Going to do this for a week or so and see how I feel. Recovery wise I am good. Need to spend time with my HP today tho. Didnāt do that yesterday and today I didnāt do it in the morning either. Last time relapsed I became complacent. So with this knowledge in mind, I need and want to get back on track before I end up slipping so will do that after I switch the laundry over. Iām good overall. Hope everyone is having an addiction free day 
Welcome back @eph-M-eral . It must have taken a lot of courage to open up like that and admit that you have fallen down. But you are getting back up again, trying again.
One day at a time. Things will get better.
Welcome back, amiga. Glad youāre finding your way. Missed you!
@JennyH wow! People are so bonkers sometimes. My daughter is super shy too and our girls should never feel āobligatedā to smile at anyone. This old school mentality has to go! And laying it on you and your parenting!? I would have flipped out!!! You are doing a great job, mama. Hang in there!
Oh thank you so much, you are so right about girls being obligated to smile. Noone has ever said that to my equally shy son. I am feeling better now. It was the first time I have had my parenting openly commented on negatively since the health visitor said I was ācruelā for letting my son sleep in our bedroom at a year 
Apparently he would never adjust if not moved to his own room early. I can confirm that at 12 he is in his own room and adjusted fine. You are right, some people are bonkers!
Welcome back my friend. Youāve been missed. By many. By me not in the last place. Itās good to see you. Hope youāll hang around. Hugs and love.
All I have to say is what a ding-dong. People really should mind their own business. And yes, itās easy to think we should just ignore it and not let comments like that bothers us but it would bother me too. Especially when all we do as mothers is try to be the best that we can because we love our children with all our hearts and he has no idea of the situation!! Sorry thereās such stupid people in the world 
Welcome back .
Oh thank you, I kept giving myself a talking to about ignoring it, but think unfortunately I needed to sit with it. Thank you for being so kind and listening to me.
Yeah I think itās okay to let things like that bother us as long as we can acknowledge that it bothers us and then remind ourselves that itās their issue not ours. Probably part of the reason it bothers you so much too is because youāre worried about how your daughter is affected by it. Iāll tell you one thing though I think kids are a lot more resilient and itās a good opportunity to show your daughter that itās okay to let things bother you without acting out in the situation. If it was me I probably would have said something really snarky back. How did you handle it when he said that?
Welcome back, @eph-M-eral. Glad youāre here!
Hey @JennyH that would definitely have bothered the hell out of me if I heard some old guy say that to my daughter. Sorry you had to deal with that.