I just finished making breakfast for my ladies. Now to clean up the kitchen. Making a big batch of tea with mint I harvested from my garden. This afternoon, I’m planting a tree for my MiL in her garden.
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You forgot to add chewing up gravel and spitting out nails.
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I’ll echo what everyone has said about exercise. It has been at the centre of my recovery and has given me new hobbies, allows me to have targets and goals which I know I can meet and without sounding big headed, I’ve got a decent shaped body out of it as a huge bonus.
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That was early this morning. Did my “level 9 self-destruct” workout. Cone-drill, then lap around the cul de sac, agility ladder, 30 seconds on the heavy bag, 30 seconds skipping rope, one exercise from darebee combat strength, 5 dead hang pull-ups.
Repeat x 8.
Next belt test is in September.
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I got some groceries for the week, then dropping more of my dads stuff at his storage unit, go see him, clean thw bathrooms, and go for a ride if theres time. The ride probably wont happen though.
At tonight’s meeting I have the pleasure of giving a woman I sponsor her 2 year coin. It has been one of the best two years of my life & I know it was for her. Just a few thoughts from a sponsors point of view…I take no credit & encourage her to always place her gratitude with God & the group…but I do take the role very seriously. I’m engaged & active, it’s an honor I do not fulfill passively. For the first year, we met weekly at a Big Boy restaurant. I specifically chose a non-descript environment & never changed the location. I didn’t want it to he about the atmosphere or food, just us. We spoke/texted nightly. We had homework. We read cover to cover The Big Book, 12/12, Living Sober & more. We discussed chapters at a time & had mini meetings nightly. 3mos/6mos/9mos were celebrated with recovery jewelry, framed pics of Yoda/Jedi, cards/flowers. Only occasionally did I attend a meeting with her. I wanted her to depend on the group & new friends, not me.
Two years ago I remember picking up a skinny, scrawny, jittery, scared shitless young lady who’s world just imploded…and today she shines! She radiates peace, love & joy. She’s sober, calm, confident, at peace and her house is in order.
There is no work more noble on the face of this earth, then what we recovered alcoholics do for each other each day 
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Eating vegetables, having romantic fantasies about cake.
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THIS…is a legacy virtue. Leaving a lasting mark. No telling what great and wonderful things this young woman will do, what legacy she will leave, but in her, you have left yours…
And God is smiling, I am sure.
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House chores on a Sober Sunday. Awesome to be functional and not hungover and struggling to just make it to the bathroom.
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I enjoy doing this. Put on some old school new wave or pink music, and get after it.
It is so easy to think our drinking ruined so much & we in turn haven’t accomplished much beyond sobriety… But Ohhhhh mannnnn I call b.s. on this stinkin thinkin!
Because of our alcoholism we have been given a God-given gift of healing others…by using just our story, some love & a little time. We can do this more effectively then the greatest minds in all the world. This gift can transform souls, families & generations! What an amazing legacy is right! We will never know the extent of good works~ but I can’t think of finer gift to leave this world after we pass ️
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Always have my jams on, but I have better things to do than clean 
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