Good evening all,
I’m grateful I just got off the phone with my lovely parents🥰. I’m grateful that I am sober and so a surprise call later than usual didn’t cause me to panic or ignore it. I’m grateful we talked and laughed. I’m grateful I have them. I’m grateful for my job and that it allows us a nice home to live in, and plenty of food to eat. I’m grateful that I am tired, but I will rest tonight and feel better tomorrow. I’m grateful for hot tea and soft socks.
Everyone have a wonderful evening 
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I am grateful that I am sober.
I am grateful that on Day 2, I feel the strength of much longer time.
I am grateful for all of the things I forgot to be grateful for while I only had my head in my lapses and not my successes.
I am grateful for having my camera on, crying, not being able to breathe during one of my many meetings today.
I am grateful that I have people in those meetings to hold me up when I feel like I am falling.
I am grateful for a renewed outlook of hope and success.
I am grateful for food and for being hungry right now. I would never be hungry in the evening if I was filling my belly with alcohol.
I am grateful for the people who step up to serve in all the online and in-person meetings, all over the world, so people have somewhere to go, somewhere to be, somewhere to belong.
I am grateful for hot tea.
I am grateful that I am still making my bed before doing anything else. It starts the day with something positive done.
I am grateful for you.
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I’m grateful to see @I.cant.We.can’s face and avatar as I log on and start my list. Hi friend! I’m so grateful for the raw, real, beautiful camaraderie on this thread.
I’m grateful I’m having an easier time of managing conflict, thanks to sobriety and all the wisdom on this forum. Other people do and say things and all that is in my control is how I choose to respond. So very freeing, actually. Makes the workplace a whole lot different!
I’m grateful I’m having an easier time of making some social connections, putting myself out there more, but in a way that is true to my own nature and myself. Not hiding behind a wine glass and/or pretending to be someone I’m not.
I’m still grateful for the snow! Only because it’s not that cold yet. And there’s lots of snow. The dog girl just loves it too.
I’m grateful for sweaters, hand cream, bath salts, tea and big warm mugs - all the things that make winter nights just so comfortable.
I’m grateful for another day. 
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I’m grateful to God thank you for loving me and guiding me through today clean and sober.
Here we go friends big list coming 
I’m grateful for my recovery and all its blessings and challenges.
I’m grateful for all my family, friends, TS and the gratidudes, ya you!!
I’m grateful that its been a year with no nicotine holy crap so hard to believe.
I’m grateful that the meeting I had with housing this afternoon went well, find out next week(approx.) if I will get a brand new still being built one bedroom or bachelor, they expect to be moving people into the units in April if construction goes as planned, its a brand new 51 unit facility so, time will tell.
I’m very grateful to have received a call today as well that I have a job as a short order cook starting next monday WOOOO. What a day… gotta say God is great and a pretty epic differnece to get good news in threes because for years it always seemed the law of three was bad news but today was… Job, absolutely crushed the housing interview and large type addiction milestones.
I remember a rule of three day where I lost my job, house and girlfriend on the same day.
I’m grateful for this gratitude pratcice, I have said it before and here it is again, it has been a huge part of my life changing.
I’m grateful that addiction sucks and recovery rules.
I’m grateful to still have had some downs today too, life is real, found out one of my old supports passed away on friday.
I had yet another hard text and convo with my ex Kelley who is excited for my news today but she is feeling suicidal and manic a very very hard thing I’ve been trying to support her through this week.
I’m grateful I mentioned at the beginning this list is going to be long today and I’m still not done, nor will I appoligize for the length this time. 
I’m grateful my employment counsellor was going shopping on my behalf for slip free work shoes, black pants and loading funds on my bus pass, she wull text tonorrow for me to go try it on and pick it up. amazing all the support you can get if you are willing to humble yourself and ask and put in the work.
I’m grateful to be moving forward yet very sad that I will not be allowed to visit the treatment center once i start work, no going there to cook, attend meetings, get counselling, they are sti operating on a keep your social bubble small or stay away.
I’m grateful I plan to advocate strongly and often to change those bubble rules as I would still like to go there on days off or whenever to give and recieve support.
I’m grateful for the thirty plus minute phone call with Mom tonight to tell her my news good and bad. She is worried about Kelley and worried about me not being able to go to the treatment center as it has been the place for 19 months now where I have really grown and spend alot if my time.
I’m grateful I have this place AA and NA to lean on and that Mom believed me when I explained as much.
I’m grateful that I got to go for a really nice hour and a half walk tonight just me and my music.
I’m grateful I ordered myself a late night snack… ok its a pizza so maybe a bit more than snack but I deserve it, I had a heck of a day.
I’m so very grateful to see @M-be-free49 posting and to say that your presence and support is amazing you rock!!!
I’m grateful my friend, his children and wife are coming down on saturday to take me a Cfl football game.
I’m grateful for laughter and humor.
God bless you all. 
&
p.s. You are a star, shine bright. Ya you!!
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Oh, congrats friend! This is HUGE! It calls for a 100-pack of celebratory timbits! More - for the whole thread of Gratidudes!
I’m proud of you, excited for you, and delighted by your news. I’m grateful for you and the example of you that I lean on, every day.
Enjoy that pizza and grin big. All good things to you, my dear friend.
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@I.cant.We.can
That there is a whole lot of gratitude buddy.
I’m so happy about those 3 good things for ya. I thought the 3 were always bad things too. Good for you man.
And a year without butts. Awesome.
So happy for ya.
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Happy Birthday.
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Happy Birthday Bootz 
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Yes this!!!
Congrats Brian!!!
What amazing news I will keep all the positive juju headed your way for the apartment.
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So proud of you, amigo! What a day and what big steps forward in your life. Hugs for the tough stuff going on.
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Today I’m grateful that I got some sleep/rest last night. That I have had some lovely lazy days and feel refreshed and ready to buckle down today. That my home is fairly tidy and clean to begin with and it doesn’t take much work to get it back to my higher standards. That I have always tried to leave my home in good shape before going on a long trip so that the return home is easier to jump into routines. That we have worked hard to have a nice, little house and that it feels safe for me alone when my partner is away. Here’s where gratitude can be challenging, but I am grateful I have experiences of living in not-so-safe places and have had some traumatic events in previous places we have lived that help me to see how valuable a safe place to live can be and that I can be even more grateful for where I live now as a result.
I’m grateful for my partner and our 15+ years of shenanigans! We have driven each other bonkers at times but we truly love each other and we’re best friends. I’m grateful that all the hardship and fuck ups and joyful moments too have strengthened our relationship. I’m grateful to have such a warm, kind and loving man in my life, someone who works so hard for his family. He makes me want to be a better person and is a big part of my recovery, despite some of the challenges there in regards to his own drinking and basement brewing activities. In his own way, he has helped me truly understand that my recovery is my own and I need to own it for myself, do the work for myself, and not think I can be sober for anyone else - for that I am really grateful.
Teary-eyed now, that was unexpected! I’m grateful for TS, and a short, short time away from reading and posting only heightens my gratitude. Always grateful for my amigos here 
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Awesome stats! Look at all that money not being spent slowly dying! It sends chills up my spine!
Im so happy for you. Your killin it!
And all the good thing that are happening! Awesome share! It makes me grateful!
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I’m grateful to wake up thinking about grateful thoughts about Brian’s share last night. Ya you 
To me it shows surrendering, letting go and letting God, and actions over time equal = good shit. And mostly you’re a fucking bad ass. We need a bad ass of the day award.
I’m grateful to God as he continues to give me exactly what I need. And he brought me to tears again this morning with my Courage To Change reading. If I can see nothing but my troubles, I am seeing with limited vision. Dwellings on these troubles allows them to control me. which is exactly what I was doing yesterday and I couldn’t shake some sadness and depression off. I’m grateful I went for and afternoon walk again with my music and it help. Especially changing things up. Again I never walk in the afternoon. I don’t know. It was just amazing that this reading pointed out exactly what I was doing yesterday. And this morning I had a sense of dread and the Ol 
went off. And it’s like ya. That’s what I was doing yesterday. Let’s not do that!
I’m grateful to God I don’t drink.
I’m grateful to God I don’t depend on booze.
I’m grateful to see a certain fisherman sharing his gratitude on here. Talk about bad asses. Just watching the 2 of you guys on this forum gives me such inspiration.
I’m grateful for the smell of bacon in the house.
Getting ready for BLTs for lunch.
I’m grateful to be inside where it’s warm.
I’m grateful it’s 25 out and not 17 M 
I’m grateful for walks on the trail here and on the golf course and all the peace and quiet.
I’m grateful for gratidudes and gratitude.
"If today gets difficult remember the smell of coffee, the way sunlight bounces off a window, the sound of your favorite person’s laugh, the feeling when a song you love comes on, the color of the sky at dusk, and that we are here to take care of each other."
Nanea Hoffman
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Happy Birthday @Bootz!
I had a really nice day off yesterday.
I rode the bus, and took my electric bike to Bandon so I could ride on the beach and have more time there after I cashed my paycheck.
The bus is fun here most of the time. The same people ride it frequently, and they are like a family. The bus drivers are amazing. There’s a mentally challenged guy who rides it. He is like 35 with the mind of a 6-8 year old. He always remembers me even though I don’t ride it that often. He likes me. He always calls me the fisherman and is happy to see me. The regulars and the bus drivers treat him like gold. They protect him. It always warms my heart when I see it.
Yesterday was a new bus driver. She wasn’t very nice to anyone, including him. It left me feeling a little disturbed when I got off the bus.
I shook it off and made it to my favorite stretch of beach. The sky was good. Interesting clouds, no wind. no rain, perfect photography conditions, perfect for a drone flight.
I enjoyed my time there, and had to go to catch the bus home. I planned on having it drop me off at Cape Blanco, where I could catch the sunset, and ride my bike home.
My bike has a 20 mile range using pedal assist. A ten mile range without it. I use pedal assist. I still get a good workout. The E bike is heavy. When the battery runs out, it becomes a miserable tank to ride. It weights 70 pounds.
The bus driver on the way home was a guy who has been driving for a long time. He isnt as nice as the morning drivers, but he isnt mean like the new lady. He drives highway 101 every day. Has for years. I told him where I wanted to get off as I loaded my bike. Cape Blanco Road. Pretty simple.
He said OK.
I was posting a picture in the nature thread from my phone, and he stopped and said we are here. I thought, that was fast… I got off and realized it was the wrong road as he drove off.
I googled where I was and I was out of range for my battery to get home.
My gratitude for a magical day off disappeared fast! I was so angry as I started heading home watching a magical sunset unfold not even close to where I had planned. My anger got worse as I watched the sun going down from the road. The old Jason started thinking how bad he wanted to punch the bus driver in the face. Maybe I could get him fired… Vengeful… The morning bus driver too!
I made it to where highway 101 crosses Sixes River when my battery died. It was dusk. The Sixes is an epic salmon river. I noticed drift boats taking out. I went down and talked fishing with them and talked my way into a ride to my town!
Gratitude level soared! I missed a magical sunset. I didn’t miss anything, it was still magical from the road. It just wasn’t how I planned. That’s OK. There will be more.
This morning thinking about it, I started thinking about how often does that happen? From grateful to angry and miserable just because I didn’t get my way, or because someone made a mistake and it was inconvenient.
I realized that it happens more than it should.
It also showed me the power of letting things go. This incident was small in the grand scheme of letting go. I realized how similar it is to letting go of the big things too. The difference is that I sometimes pick the big things back up again.
Recovery allows me to think about these things. As a drunk I react to everything and my distorted, intoxicated emotions control me. In recovery, I am in control of my emotions most of the time.
That makes me grateful!
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You will power you let the bacon last until lunch is impressive!
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Ya it really is. 
It’s kinda like having one drink. 
I can’t do that shit.
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I am grateful to be back, it might be day 1 but it’s my start. Grateful for the opportunity to change and grateful for the tools to do it.
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I’m grateful you’re back and that we all get a new day to try, try again.
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I’m extremely grateful for
1.God changing my life and heart
2.grateful for 23 days sober
3.grateful for a roof over my head,food in my stomach clothes on my back
4.grateful my brother surviving covid
5.grateful for family
6.grateful for a running vehicle
7.grateful for God’s beautiful creation
8.grateful I’m still alive
9.grateful for this awesome community of people striving for the same thing.the life God intended for us
10.grateful for the orthopedic surgeon who did my operation.
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This resonates with me today. Letting go can be hard, whether it is something big or small, but it is so important to learn to let go of that which does not serve us. Grateful for that reminder today.
I am grateful for 60 sober days.
I am grateful that, despite extraordinary challenges on day 59, both personally and professionally, that caused profound anxiety and stress, I chose to stay AF.
I am grateful that I have, and use, tools to process my panic and anxiety.
I am grateful for my health and my ability to run out the scaries.
I am grateful for my children, 9 and 15, who wrapped their arms around me and told me they loved me when they saw my sadness.
I am grateful for my partner of 22 years, married for 16, who loves me both because of and despite my imperfections and failings.
I am grateful for my healthy parents. I am grateful for my healthy parents-in-law, whom I adore.
I am grateful I can say I adore my in-laws 
I am grateful that our cat, Dave, got a clean bill of health today at his biannual check up. We have been worried about a metabolic issue that appears to be benign.
I am grateful for shutting down my FB and IG accounts which do not serve me.
I am grateful for this forum which is a haven when I need reminders of why and how to stay sober.
Happy Thursday everyone.
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