Checking in daily to maintain focus #61

I wasn’t sure if it was just lemons and limes. Happy New Year Rosa!!

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I’m sorry you had a lousy NYE. It sounds like you were ready to say goodbye to 2023. Sometimes you just gotta let it all out. I hope you were able to calm down and get to sleep. It’ll be a new day and new year when you wake up. From myself and my 2 cats, who I also rang in the new year alone with, Happy New Year :smile_cat: You’re doing great :heart:

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30 days in the bank

Officially ticked over 30 days. Long time since I’ve made it to 30 days.
Great start to the year. Went on a bush walk with the family and some friends. Original plan was a beach day but was a bit windy.

Grateful to start the year sober and out in nature

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Congratulations on your 30 days going into the new year! Great job Marty!
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Checking in New Year’s Eve.
Went out. Had fun. Stayed sober.
It’s such an amazing feeling not wondering if you had too much to drink. 0 % Alcohol

Congratulations to all of you in this fight for a better life.
ODAAT.
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From Arizona.
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Happy New Year :partying_face: X

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It was a long day of work, but worth it in the end. At the end of our shift the chef let us all order whatever we wanted off our nye special menu, since they’re tossing all the food in the building for the month closed (they’re finally tackling the rat situation :crossed_fingers:). I got seabass milanese topped with a sunny side up egg and prosciutto wrapped asparagus :drooling_face: and you know I added a lobster tail! It was a good last night. I got home at 11:45 and put on the NYC ball drop while settling in for the night. I kissed my cats at midnight and that’s that. I’ve been winding down for a while now.

I don’t usually make any resolutions, besides fitness ones. I just want to keep getting closer to my best self. Grow more and more towards the person I strive to be. I definitely would like to declutter my entire house and keep it that way like I have in the past. And also get seriously serious about my money. Tuesday I plan to pre pay a bunch of bills so I won’t worry so much about making it thru January. Baby steps.

I hope to start this year off right, and I wish all of you the same :heart::heart::heart: Happy New Year :confetti_ball:

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That’s a great achievement especially this time of year. Well done :+1:

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I work nights and it was great this morning watching all the day staff turning up looking worse for wear knowing they’re going to feel even more like shit as the day goes on.
Don’t miss those days at all.

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Happy New Year everyone.
Just tucking into bed. Hosted the annual family NYE party at my house. I did all the cleaning, and I’m going to bed with a tidy house, sober.
No doubt my daughter will be up in a few hours and I’ll start January exhausted, but at least there will be no hangover, trip home, or mess to clean up. :+1:t2: :muscle:t2:

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Checking in on day 278 clean and sober!!!

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HaPpY nEw YeAr EvErYoNe!!!

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May 2024 be good to us all. Keep your heads up and continue fighting the good fight! No matter what, you’re worth it!!!

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*Day 1930 :two::zero::two::four::confetti_ball::confetti_ball::confetti_ball:
Day 1…a whole brand new year in front of us!
What will we do with it?
Which choises will we make?
What will we avoid?
Which places shall we visit?
Who shall we meet?
Opportunities!
Chances! Chances for a change.
That’s why I make my resolutions every year.
In the hope I can change something for the better. Life is growth. A difficult path sometime because growing is also changing and that can hurt. Becoming sober was a big change in my life and yes it was painful as well.
But It brought me so much!
I wish you all a year with at least one of your new year resolutions coming trough.
Whatever you “wished” for.
We all know resolutions requires work, hard work and no wishing :smiling_face:
So let’s go get it! :facepunch:

Happy New Year TS friends! :confetti_ball::confetti_ball::confetti_ball:


And greetings from a wet and rainy Netherlands :netherlands:

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Hugs, kisses :kiss: :sparkles:and lovely New Years wishes :four_leaf_clover::sunny:. Day 2368.

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Day 1108,

Happy New Year :balloon:

Had a user dream, kind of strange and worrisome it wasn’t about my doc. Maybe triggered by a share at a meeting yesterday, but I can’t totally recall whether that guy had also a dream about another drug. I thought so, however let’s not overthink it. There was also another one who I know from my last treatment centre, who looked like crap again. He keeps relapsing, maybe I was a bit harsh on him asking him ‘you keep running in circles isn’t it?. I hugged him quit tightly at the end. Something is telling me he will be gone soon, hate that feeling. Had this in the past a few times, hope it doesn’t come true, but I know it might be idle hope. Stick to the winners as they say is what helps me through things like this.

Smoked my last cigarette this night. I don’t really see it as a resolution, but just as something that needs to happen. No need there to wait for a message from a doctor telling me I overdid it. Procrastinated it already a long time.

Booked my sauna visit for this afternoon. Just time to relax, beforehand doing some chores in the house. Didn’t manage to do it all yesterday. Didn’t really receive a lot of best wishes, not from my best friend (witch it isn’t probably anymore) and my brother. Keeps coming back at those occasions, but it is what it is. I also decided to take no initiative to do so, just feels like I would cross a boundary and put my self on wonky feet. It’s time for new people in my life and not chasing and having expectations from the crippled relationships from the past.

Well enough for now.

:pray:

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49 no binge, no sugar
6 HPFs
5 dairy

A happy, safe, peaceful, and sane New Year to all of you!

My daughter is back from her trip, there will be a lot of cuddling today on the menu :grin:
I’m planning to go out for a run. And there is this meditation challenge I’m looking forward to.
My mother in law’s birthday is today. With cake. I don’t want any. My addiction will want all of it. I’m prepared.

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Day 50 checking in happy newyear everyone let’s make it a clean and sober one hope everyone is well

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Day 6, NYE is definitely a tricky one. I had mixed feelings abut having to work from 5pm-2am, but decided to be grateful for it because it would make it easier for me to avoid drinking if Im at work. Now im home, tired, but that urge is there. Guess ill use the ol’ trusty shower technique to distract myself and go from there.
Wasnt a bad day overall. Glad i had company (coworkers) to countdown with, we all cheerd with some nonalcoholic bubbly juices so that was fun. Plus everyone was in a good mood so that was nice. No idea what this year will bring for me, there are so many things i have been wnating to achieve that just seem impossible or too overwhelming to think about.

Hope everyone had a lovely NYE 🫶🏻

Update:
Shower helped, feeling more like I can do this :face_holding_back_tears: plus it helps getting more and more tired because whats the point in drinking if im just gonna go to sleep immediately after anyway

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That’s so hilarious, it’s the conclusion I came to about having 6 million limes for my ceviche. Scurvy free :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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1668


Glad all that is over. Today’s just another day really. Fireworks are illegal here since a couple of years, and the addiction of a lot of people to do it illegally seems to be slowly getting less. Happy for that while I loved it as a kid and took a lot of risks with it, just like I did with booze and drugs and sex and whatnot.

I got addicted to a lot of it too and been working on discovering how a life without addiction is for 1668 days now. Recovery is work, lots of it, but it’s a work of love and bloody well worth it. One day at a time my life gets better, not linear, there’s still good days and bad days, sad days and happy days.

It’s life. But it’s my life and I feel I’ve gained some control over it in ways I didn’t think possible, ways other than fleeing and hiding in substance abuse and other addictive behaviours. Never again. One day at a time. Have as good a 2024 as you all can friends. Sober and clean. Love from my little square.

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Happy New Year 2024

I slept through it :sleeping:
Guess I have to thank the continuous and sometimes torrential rain last night. Kept the people indoors and the fireworks wet :smirk:

Day 301 check in. I am looking forward to this year. The last 301 days were all about finding out what works, sometimes what to avoid, some awkward conversations and situations. I hope this year l will settle into a comfortable routine of just being me, sober. Honing my personal skills of mastering sobriety. Harnessing the positive things of sobriety.
ODAAT every day of the year
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