So very grateful for sweet friends. Thank you @tailee17 …I look forward to sharing my day with you as well. So very grateful for getting some sleep lately. Will enjoy the moment as long as it lasts. Still feeling groggy and off but I know that’ll pass So very grateful for getting caught up with my work stuff. Grateful I didn’t give up or procrastinate any further than was necessary. So very grateful that my brother has been spending evenings with me watching shows. We don’t chat (just watch TV)- just nice to be around someone else So very grateful that I got some important phone calls dealt with yesterday. They weren’t as painful or draining as I expected. So very grateful to have realized when my mind was swirling into complaint mode and being able to change course So very grateful for having time to plan out Thanksgiving dinner. At my pace I need to start prep now So very grateful for a rainy day this morning and the forecast says it will be clear this afternoon. Yesterday was saying rain all day. So I may be able to get in a walk after all (just not ready to do so at the moment). So very grateful for this community and my friends. So very grateful for my Higher Power. Grateful for the reminder that I need to be present and focused and lean on Him when I am not feeling strong So very grateful for another beautiful day I’m blessed to be alive!
Wishing everyone a wonderful addiction free day. Sending you all so much love
I am hangover free
Boscoe warming my lap
Hubbys hugs are magical
Glasses to improve my vision
Indoor heating
My ladies meeting tonight
Hot coffee
Almost friday, payday
I’m so grateful for the tag from Fiona this morning. Like who’s Fiona and why is she writing about cleaning toilets? @Lastry I’m grateful that was a long time ago. I’m grateful for the reminder. I wish I had that energy now but I never want to go through those first few weeks, months again. But I did have a clean condo. I’m grateful I could help. If you need more cleaning to do, with 4 cats and a dog, my house is always in need. And you’re welcome I’m so so grateful for this TS forum and how you just never know how you can help someone somewhere around the world. Feels good I’m grateful my dark coffee did the trick this morning. I’m grateful for my new Dortmunder novel. It’s the last one by Donald Westlake before he died. I have not been able to pick up a book and read for a while. I thought I’d read all his. I’m grateful I’m so into it I read a page and a half last night woke up 6 hours later and went back to sleep again for 2 more hours. I’m grateful for the sleep I get. I wish I could spread it around to those in need. I’m grateful I got a hike date with my SIL. I’m grateful I asked him to take me to the Beemer dealer so I can pick up my car. He said of course. I was going to Uber. I forgot I live with family now. I’m grateful my daughter had therapy yesterday and maybe she will let wifey see Gus. My daughter, rightfully so is protecting her boundaries and does not want to be around her mother after that last 72 hour bender, last week. I’m grateful that shit is between them. I’m grateful unbeknownst to me wifey told me she told my daughter she hasn’t had a drink in 4 days and plans to stop drinking. I’m grateful I didn’t know this. I’m grateful I know this now. I’m grateful wifey’s sobriety is her journey and I’m staying waaaay the fuck out of it. I’m grateful I’ve offered to go to meetings with her and I’ll support her anyway she wants. And then shut the fuck up! I’m grateful tomorrow is a beach meeting hiking day. Might even have lunch with my real estate agent friend.
Recovery How easy it is to blame our problems on others. “Look at what he’s doing.” . . . “Look how long I’ve waited.” . . . “Why doesn’t she call?” . . . “If only he’d change then I’d be happy.” . . .
Ya. It doesn’t work that way. I’m grateful recovery has taught me I can make my own happiness.
for doing some trail running today to combine my hike and run together
for rooibus tea
for my friend that she had a good birthday and that I didn’t feel any craving with some drinking happening around…made me slightly uncomfortable but not bad if that makes sense?
for my dogs
for my cozy warm house
for my friend who darned my favorite socks…I’m wearing them now feeling cozy
My ex waking me up this morning, This is my favourite way to wake up.
Us both trying so hard to mend this relationship and slowly, slowly finding ways to be together.
My work and challenges I face there. The kinds of problems I face in my work are always a kind of eustress. They challenge me in the perfectly possible way and I always feel like I am growing as a developer, an entertainer, an artist and as a person. My work is one of the great blessings in my life.
Very good food. Being on this recovery journey where instead of fighting with eating and food, I now enjoy it and let it nourish me.
My mum picking my daughter up for her workshop. She is always there, always. She has been there for me since before I was born, and I know she will be there for me long after I will be dead. I love my mum.
My daughter attending her workshop. I am very grateful she was fit enough to attend, learn new stuff, become proficient in a new skill.
Anime, books and other entertainments. Stories are so vital.
The couple‘s counceling session. My ex and me working so hard and the councelor helping us substiantly.
A great yoga session. I feel like I have reached a new level in understanding what I want exercise and yoga to be about. I used to think that only physically intense exercise was useful. Now I know different. Now I know how to tailor those things to my needs and wants.
I have a Recovery Dharma meeting coming up, which I will cohost. I love those meetings.
I have a lovely picture in my head of a flummi bouncing. Lots of fun with it we had
Thursday gratitude.
I’m gratefully lying in fresh linen surrounded by 3 happy cats. Ok, one just fell off the bed because she is weird & full of mischief & making nonsense.
I’m grateful for all the catfun and catlove in my life. They are my sunshine.
I’m grateful I did the annual big container shopping today: 10 liters vinegar, 5 kg ricenoodles, 2 boxes of canned beans etc.
I’m grateful for therapy. It was nice to talk about how good I feel at the moment. I’m grateful I feel good and have nothing to complain about. I’m grateful for peace and kindness in my heart.
I’m grateful I fetched some warm jackets from the townhouse, glad I remembered them, haven’t used them in years. Grateful for sunshine today after some grey and cold days.
I’m very grateful that the ex removed all his stuff. The electricity company does major reconstruction work on the main transformer on the hill I live. They can park all their cars and vehicles on my property because there is now plenty of space. I’m grateful I can support their working on bettering the infrastructure. And it’s nice chatting a bit with the workers.
I’m grateful for the comatose nap I took when I came home. After the nap, a sandwich for dinner, a pot of tea, a hot shower and one hour of laughter with cats vs. fresh linen I feel restored. I was a tired, headachy, exhausted mess when I came home. I need to drink more when I’m busy, I tend to forget about it lately. I’m grateful many of my problems can be solved by drinking tea. Grateful for tea
Crawling under the blanket, have a good sober day & night folks ODAAT
Today I woke up a little under the weather and actually cried tears of joy that my body doesn’t have to try and heal itself while fighting a hangover too.
Another day sober
Connecting with God knowing I am following his will for me to have a beautiful alcohol free life
Motivation to do those I don’t wanna do dos.
I love and appreciate my washer and dryer
Cleaning gals - they keep my house in order and help me keep it that way
Garbage service
My warm comfortable home
My husband who works so very hard to provide my lifestyle.
That’s great
I steal a bit of it for my own don’t wanna do dos
A quick morning check in.
Grateful for interesting (?) dreams, waking up rested allthough way too early and using the early hours to read, catch up on here, snuggle with the cats and get minor chores done.
It’s a beautiful sunny friday and I’m grateful for seeing the full moon before it descended, heating the furnace before sunrise, fetching logs for the kitchen stove before 7 and finishing my first big cup of tea before 8.
It’s lovely to start the day like this.
Greatful to be sober and working my recovery
Its friday, payday
Mom made me cookies and im a grown adult so dont have to justify cookies for breakfast
Hubby being a better partner
Boscoes love and cuddles
A weekend to try and decompress
AA ladies meetings
The 12 steps and 12 promises
My folks and our relationship
I dont have an incessant need to drink or vape…never thought that was possible
Hope
I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful for some good laughs today talking with some colleagues. It was hilarious. Part of this is that I cannot take it serious.
I am grateful my boss let me interrupt her far too often. I am unbearable atm.
I am grateful it’s a bit warmer than the last days. No fog. Only normal covered sky.
I am grateful for music.
I am grateful I really was less agitated today being alone in the office.
I’m grateful I’m sober. I’m grateful for the cat on my lap. I’m grateful for dark memes to start my day. I’m grateful I get to go to the beach today and be around a bunch of people that don’t want to pick up. I’m grateful we had a little Gus time yesterday. I’ll be grateful when he likes me I’m grateful he’s got his Nana back. I’m grateful he is all over that I’m grateful I got my wife back. Presently. I’m grateful I know expectations lead to resentments. I’m grateful I know I can only control my recoveries. I’m grateful I reached out to my best friend about the state of affairs here. He’s so calm and soothing. I’m grateful I reached out to my SIL on our hike about the state of affairs here. I’m grateful with him, I just listened. I’m grateful I can disagree with him and just listen. I’m grateful it’s easier to just listen. I’m grateful he took me to get my car. I’m grateful in the car he called me judgmental. I mean he was right I’m grateful I know being judgmental is the quickest way for me to loose my serenity. But it comes so natural I’m grateful it helps to write things out here in a gratitude sort of way. I didn’t think I had anything this morning. And now I can’t stop. I’m grateful for this gratitude practice.
“It is not men’s acts which disturb us—but our reaction to them. Take these away, and anger goes. No wrong act of another can bring shame on you.”
Marcus Aurelius
I am grateful that my son surprised me with a movie date and we went and saw an amazing little film, Memoir of a Snail. A very adult stop motion animation film from Australia that was simply wonderful. I’m grateful my 18 year old still likes to hang out with his ol’ mama
I’m grateful for movie recommendations and hair inspirations from @Davina_Davis. I saw that cute 'do in your profile pic.
I’m grateful for black coffee and too many sugar cookies for breakfast. I might decorate my sugar cookies before my outing tonight or I might just bring them naked. Either way, sugar cookies.
I’m grateful for long time friends who know and love me.
I’m grateful for a husband who has my back and knows that I have his, literally today; he threw his back out a few days ago.
I’m grateful for emotions good and bad. I was stuck in an emotionless rut there for a while and I think my Wild Robot viewing of last night pushed me past that numbness. Feelings are a gift.
I’m grateful for a job I love and I’m grateful for a day off. I’m grateful that almost 5 years of stability at the same place has me thinking about how else can I be helpful in this world. There are needs and there are options.
I’m grateful, always, for this space. A whole social community of people talking out their struggles and supporting each other truly is a gift.
Oooh, edited because I forgot what actually brought me here. I was plucking my eyebrows (why yes I was a teen in the 80s, why do you ask?) and noticed some white eyebrow hairs. Getting old used to scare me when I wanted to burn out and die young, now I see it for the gift that it is. I’m grateful for gray hairs, white hairs, back pain and sugar cookies.
So grateful you did come here and shared some gratefulness with us. Grateful that it helped open you up and overjoyed you with gratefulness
@davina_davis Oh I love that your 18 year old enjoyed movie date with you. Love quality family time
@trustybird Ooh sugar cookies I like them iced or naked – they d hit perfectly (especially with a good cup of black coffee). Hope you enjoy your outing tonight!
Gratefulness galore! TGIF! I am so very grateful for being able to make my delivery this morning. It was a painful drive but I’m glad I didn’t have to ask someone else to do it. I am so very grateful for going on my walk to help focus on something else. Grateful that I was alone on the streets (very quiet today). Grateful for being able to cry and release I am so very grateful for being able to go to my parents to visit as my aunt and cousin came by for lunch. Today is my aunts 80th birthday Was grateful to b present with them and be able to come home and rest afterwards. Grateful that it was at my parents which is only a few minutes away so I didn’t have to drive. I am so very grateful for pizza! Grateful for text o order option which saves 20% on order Grateful to be able to pick up for dinner and not have to cook I am so very grateful for starting the day off with dark memes too Grateful for memes and the lovely escape they provide! I am so very grateful for my my family! So very grateful for each of them and all the amazing support / love they dote on me. So grateful to be blessed with them in my life I am so very grateful for finding the positive linings and not letting the situation bring me down. THIS TOO SHALL PASS - like the meme said – may feel like a kidney stone LOL. I am so very grateful for all you fabulous souls! Thanks for making this journey easier I am so very grateful for my Higher Power! For my faith in Him! For not being alone even when I am by myself. I am so very grateful for clean air, a warm cozy bed, for refrigerators and freezers!
Wishing everyone a wonderful addiction free day / evening – sending you all so much love
So very grateful for sweet friends. Thank you @tailee17 …I look forward to sharing my day with you as well.
I’m so grateful for the tag from Fiona this morning. Like who’s Fiona 
and why is she writing about cleaning toilets? 
woke up 6 hours later and went back to sleep again for 2 more hours.
I’m grateful recovery has taught me I can make my own happiness. 
ODAAT
I’m grateful I’m sober.
I like them iced or naked – they d hit perfectly (especially with a good cup of black coffee). Hope you enjoy your outing tonight!
I am so very grateful for being able to make my delivery this morning. It was a painful drive but I’m glad I didn’t have to ask someone else to do it.
Was grateful to b present with them and be able to come home and rest afterwards. Grateful that it was at my parents which is only a few minutes away so I didn’t have to drive.
Grateful for memes and the lovely escape they provide!