Checking in DAY 200! It seems like so long ago and not at the same time i was in an insanity cycle of abusing weed and alcohol. Gaining sobriety has meant gaining gratitude, hope, joy, and self compassion just to name a few.
This journey started with a commitment to abstain for 30 days but i like what sobriety had to offer and decided to see how long i can go taking it one day at a time.
Hang in there. Lifes blessings will materialize.
Hello all,
Checking in on Day 1,573.
God Bless!
Yay you! Big big congrats Lady. Just keep going.
Beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing your story so freely here so often and for all the support. Youâre such an asset here. Enjoy that vacay!
Congrats lady! Youâre doinâ the damn thing!!!
Congratulations to your first sober month! 
Thanks for the nice pictures!
We had a similar show called âLichtungenâ.
Nothing to do with twitter, everything with you and your beautiful numbers Scott. Big congrats. Enjoy your holidays. Thanks for being here and thanks for being a friend.
Congratulations to 200 fine days of sobriety! 
O.M.G!!! Way to go on 200 whole days of sobriety! So proud of you!!!
Morning Check in
Day 277
Woke up this morning to a not-so-good text message from my sons teacher. Sje ia severely ill as well as another teachers aid. Apparently there is a really bad flu going around. 20% of the kids at school have been staying home this past week. I had no idea otherwise i would have asked him to wear a mask. A mild cold usually sends us to the hospital so this could be very seriosus for him. Im keeping him home for the rest of the week and then mondat is mask wearing until this blows over. I decided to get my workout in early this morning. Basically as soon as i decided about keeping him home, i went to work out while the nurse was still here. Got a bit of cardio/abs in anyway. Todays plans are dreamcatcher making, cleaning, and xmas card writing (i have alot hence why im starting early lol).
Hope everyone has an addiction free day!
At work: no i do not. Usually most places charge more than a soda but less than alcohol because normally we charge based on the alcohol thatâs in the drink. A mocktail is basically a soda with labor. At my job a cocktail is 14-16 dollars on average but a mocktail is $7.
Day 201 checking in.
I have both kids home from school today with sore throats and coughs. Itâs also miserable weather so apart from getting out to the shops a bit earlier for dinner and medicine itâs just a day for staying wrapped up and cosy.
From my limited experience itâs the same in other areas. I am working in private industry in quality atm and we are understaffed as well. The company I left was complaining as well. I think as long as employees do what they can and the numbers are still okay why would the boss hire more people? I have no idea what your bottleneck process is. Maybe patients still donât wait too long to complain or everything is still fine with blood sampling.
We see the results of too little staff in some weeks, because weâre not enough assistants to call Patients for the surgeries we do. So calendars will only be half full and numbers will go down.
But until that happens we might have enough staff again. Weâll see.
That is extremely fair! As long as I know, the alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails have the same expensive price here, in the region of Germany I live.
Same here, doesnât matter if itâs with or without alcohol the price is the same. Very unfair 
Short thought I just had after reading your post @Sabrina80 about me and stress.
Some people had to endure the challenges I had with this during the last year or two. I am very sensible to too much to do or not enough. Itâs a fine line and on both sides is exhaustion. I went in and discovered that I was the type of work that also played a big part in my experienced stress level. I had one position where I had a certain amount of processes on my dashboard assigned to my name. I was responsible. I couldnât really handle the stress. I think now that it wasnât me who was too stupid, it was this type of stress. Then, the next position we had an enormous amount of work but we were in this together like the one who finished took the next process. So I worked in a flow and what huge piles of work were in the sideboard - I donât care. I do what I can in the time I am paid. Now, in the new job itâs also that we work in this together. And only some parts are assigned to a certain person. I have learned that it fits me better this way. It doesnât make me a worse person although I figure that people with my background probably gain 50 % more than me. This can only get to me if I want to think me into this.
Recovering in baby steps.
Checking in day 74! Unfortunately more sick than yesterday, but I allowed myself to cancel a meeting (and therapy unfortunately) to rest a bit. Iâve been feeling worst in the morning and better as the day goes on. Gotta go into work in a bit so hoping for a good day ahead there. Ready to feel better- and honestly, this still beats a hangover.
My position is kinda mixed. Mostly itâs fun because weâre rocking this together. Some of us have more responsibilities than others and thatâs exhausting sometimes.
And of course bosses who push you to make more and more in a shorter amount of time (whatâs impossible in my field but they donât care).
It only getâs as awful as it is now when we miss 50% staff. It happens more often now because of Covid.
And sadly this happens in many other jobs too, this is why Iâm so afraid of changing my job.