Checking in Day9. Thankful for another day sober. Got some yard work done today, good productive day. Boys still keeping me pretty busy, but busy is good. I didn’t make it to a meeting tonight, but reading as I watch the last game of the night for nba playoffs. I’m Ready for mom to comeback tomorrow hahahaha I miss her. we all miss her, and we’ve been eating pizza and wings since Sunday night. Hahahah
Hope all is well with everyone. #ODAAT
your gratitude is magnetic, and the more gratitude you have, the more abundance you magnetize
@sober_ken Busy daddy duty looks good on you Keep going friend. @Just_Laura Sending you that nightly jinx @Mno That is quite a counter number Vive la liberté! @Mindofsobermike I really dig your bike work and am always happy to see the updates. It’s a work of love @Butterflymoonwoman Your strength is unbelievable. I’m praying this situation will be over so soon and you’ll get some service with a better coverage in the future. @Mira_D Your happiness about your job is glowing through your post Thanks for sharing with us. @Chevy55 Wow, that gym machine of yours sounds like something from another dimension . Hope to see some pictures some time. @Lighter Congrats on two months Go celebrate girl! @Seb That’s good one @Mali Congrats on double digits. Great work girl! Good luck with your interview. And the tiredness will lift with time. Your body needs a lot of adjusting.
Before starting dinner yesterday I had a very upsetting talk with my ex. I had the dinner already there sitting on my table and I was ready to eat. But then some part of me realised: I am not hungry. I was half an hour ago before that talk. But now I was upset, devastated, grieving, angry. All kinds of things. But I was not hungry. I did not experience any hunger signals at this moment. And then it dawned on my, like that lady says in her podcast: anger is not a food group. You can not eat anger, sadness or any other emotion away. So I didn’t. I went for a long walk instead and cried a lot. Food can not help with emotions. What a lesson.
Today is a bank holiday in my part of the world. Customary Walpurgis Night and/or May Day. I don’t have any plans for today. The weather is great but also a total allergy disaster so I’m thinking about avoiding the outdoors.
I might try out a new game, spend time with some uninterrupted reading. My ex will pick up our daughter later in the day, I might visit my mother in the afternoon.
Anyways, I’m curious what the day will bring. Whatever that may be, I won’t try to deal with it with food or any compulsive behaviour.
Have a wonderful day of peace, love, and freedom friends
Wow what a realization! It could have been soo easy to eat ur emotions with how u were feeling and yet u chose such a healthier way of handling things. Im extremely impressed. Ur self awareness amazes me
One day later and 95 messages to catch up!
Is this an active thread ore what!
Congratulations for the 10 months @Mischa84
And that poor serviceman…he probably heared your husband but was to professional to react @Lighter congratulations with your 60 days milestone
Double digits for you @SelfLove_42 and @Mali Such a lovely milestone!!
Well done for choosing sober @Twizzlers , this is how you do it! But it was a close call for you so maybe time to add something extra?
*Day 2051
12 days before holiday
Having the day off today and going to visit an old town with me aunt. She is the youngest sister of my passed away mother and she looks a lot like her. It’s feels a bit like home when I see her if you understand what I mean.
The weather is warm today (finally!) so we decided to book a table at a terras tonight to eat out with our kids. This used to be an event including drinking for me. Just a bit at the terras and lots more when I was back home. Not anymore!
Frehs mint tea with some honey it is!
Picture from my walk a few days ago when the weather was stormy.
Enjoy your day all and let’s add another day sober/clean shall we? We are all just one glass/shot/pill away from disaster, who wanna choose that? Not me!
I think part of it was that eating would have calmed me down. And I did not want to calm down. I was so angry and sad and devastated. It just felt like if I calmed down it would eat me from inside out. These emotions needed out very badly.
Day 312. Website works. Added some bits and bobs last night and this morning. Working for my job 8-5 but may pop for a dog walk mid day as at the moment it’s not raining… Day 312. I remember how hard it was finally stopping last summer. The amount of false starts or stops…was ridiculous.
Now tho I have a bit of momentum and time. Just need to stay focused. Have a fab day folks. Stay focused
Today we’re going to do what we call Maying (Maja in Swedish)
It means that you’ll go somewhere nice and have Fika outside for the first time of the year. Or you can stay in your own garden ofc.
And it’s traditionally done at the 1st of May.
We usually goes to our Nature Reserve which is filled with white anemones like in Ronia the robbers daughter movie. Kids call it the Ronia forest.
This year we passed by car yesterday, me and the boys went for a short walk and my husband who couldn’t access with his Zimmer walker stayed on the car.
And since the nature reserve it’s not adapted for people who have trouble to move around we’re going to the local playground instead.
It’s also day of the labor movement here today, so it’s a red day here, most people and kids are having the day off.
Today’s picture is from yesterday’s Ronia forest, all the green an white you see on the ground is white anemone flowers.
It’s pretty massive for sure and there will never be an oppt to move it, it weighs in at around 850lbs. I’m going to finish up cleaning and setting gym up before my workout today, perhaps get some pics then? It’s kinda hard as everything is black so it doesn’t stand out
But mostly I’m sorry to hear of your upsetting call with your ex. I hope you are alright. Sounds as though it may have been something very major. Hopefully the walk helped clear your head a bit or you came to some kind of resolution of sorts as it sounds like it was left in a bad way
What a lovely tradition, Fika outside!! I love May, it feels like spring is really beginning ( well on the Atlantic coast of Canada anyway) and we have turned a corner headed towards summer finally!! Plus it’s my birth month, so there’s a bias from my end, lol.
I hope you enjoy some more lovely outdoors time Sophie with family.
Have a wonderful Maja!!
Day 603. Maybe is a great record, maybe it is not. The true fact is that I have spent the last 24 hours sober, and I hope the next 24 ones are going to be the same.
This a day by day path, not a question of beating records and, from my point of view I can forget that, I am an alcoholic, I cannot consider myself as a completely recovered normal man.
I am alcoholic, being aware of this is the best way to avoid the booze. At least, the next 24 hours.
Thank you, I’m not sure the entire Sweden have this tradition but in our Province and surrounding provinces does have it.
And Because it’s labor day here a lot of Social parties around the country combines that with demonstrations,family activities and local politicians from either the socialism parties or extrem left parties speech.
Early mornings on May 1st is usually Members of the parties matching to The Internationale song (which is the socialism/workers parties lead song)
Holding banners with different political messages.
My grandparents on my father side and my father was very active in the local socialism parties when I was a kid. My father used worked for them at their unions office in Stockholm. One of my first memories is from a 1st of May demonstration with the union.
I remember sitting in my stroller waving a red flag and then when we where going to sing The Internationale and hold up our hand in the air I was to small to reach, so Grandpa put me up on the table so I could reach everyone’s hands.
One of the last memories I have if my grandpa on my father’s side is me walking in the middle of a huge banner holding it together with him because my grandpa who used to do it alone was to weak, but stubborn as no on else, so he walked with us anyway. . It snowed heavily on us.
Later than year he died of a heartattack.
Great memories, however I’m not involved in any political parties now. And we don’t have this kind of activities in my village, it’s the Blue side the Right who’s in city Hall here.
And they’re doing a great job, our Mayor is amazing.
My father also had his birthday in May.
Sorry for the long post, I guess I could go on all day.
Morning all, I seem to be cycling between anxiety and feeling a little depressed. I had a bad day on Monday. Came home wiped out with a headache from overthinking all day. I don’t know if it’s worse because I’m trying to figure things out rather than just saying I’m having a break from alcohol.
I had a strange drinking dream last night that ended with me taking a walk with my accountant. Maybe a reminder to get my taxes done
My we man got a new keyboard yesterday, I had a little boogie to some of his tunes this morning. It was a nice start to the morning
I hope you’re all having a good day:pray:Thanks for listening
Wow 850lbs is about 400kg I guess? That is huge I‘m mostly into Yoga nowadays but for whatever reason I love looking at gym equipment
Thank you for your kind words. I am OK. Very sad, but OK. I‘m going to meet with my mom later in the day and talk about all my stuff. Basically my husband, whom I have been asking to be clear with me on that for weeks now, finally admitted that he does not want us to come back together and this way ended our marriage of almost 30years. I honestly did expect this answer but some part of me still kept the hope up. So the matter is resolved, but it still hurts.
Hey man, sorry to hear about your difficult feelings. But also congrats on 10 days. You made it to double digits! Great work!
Your body and your brain chemistry need some time to adjust to sobriety and part of this are these awful mood swings. Hold on tight, invest in self care, do nice things for your battered body and mind and this stuff will get better with time. Until then
Day 151
Nice chilled day alone at home before nightshift. Went to the gym then just listened to music and tidied the house for the rest of the day before picking up the kids and heading to work.
Pretty quiet so far at work. The admin stuff that I hate doing here I’m slowly getting better at. Its not particularly hard but because I do it so infrequently I miss or forget things.
Sorry to hear about the outcome of your talks with your ex @acromouse . Seems like you have a good plan to help navigate the change and move foward. Hope you’re doing ok.
Keep going friend.
Vive la liberté!
Thanks for sharing with us.
. Hope to see some pictures some time.
Go celebrate girl!
