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The much hoped for daughter/neice/granddaughter who was due on Christmas Eve has arrived fashionably late. And we couldn’t be happier. My sister has 2 boys already so I think she was ready for the girl our late grandmother had predicted.
Though it was written as an amendment to the Al-Anon bill of rights, they are all such good and sensible ideas that they could be embrased by anyone in recovery.
An excerpt:
14. I have the right to say ‘I don’t know’.
15. I have the right not to give excuses or reasons for my behavior.
16. I have [...]
Remember when that Australian guy called practically every recovery blogger on the internet, “Agents of Satan”?
Yeah, well, agent of Satan, reporting for duty. Read the rest of this entry »
I got the weirdest email today. From the imaginary, future ex-husband. And it’s apparantly set up on some sort of automated system that will continue sending me this notification forever. I can spam it of course, or change my email, but I mean really. It read:
This night in 1998 my sister Sara, my friend Ryan [...]
By day 2 of the MANHUNT experiment I was clear that it wasn’t meant to be part of my path. I’d gotten the random hookup out of the way and found that incredibly lacking, and I’d played email tag with a couple of guys that I really didn’t care to meet. I had also exchanged [...]
He’s back in. That’s good. My sponsor asked what I would have wanted someone to do when I went out. That answer was easy. I was desperate to know that someone cared. That anyone cared. I know now that they did, but everyone I knew simply stepped back. And I remember feeling like it [...]
Tags: 13th Step, Service Position, The Cheerleader
Not to say that I’ve cried. I haven’t. I won’t. That kind of emotional attachment just isn’t there. All that was there was the recognition of the kinds of qualities that might make me willing to invest myself further.
But apparently I have a long, long way to go in the discernment department. When I got [...]
Tags: methamphetamine, Relapse, relationships
OK - We’re going to try Ritalin. Against the better judgement of my doc and me. But it’s the only drug that produces the desired effect that I can afford. It’s the side effect - the euphoria and the addictive potential that comes with it - that troubles me.
Hopefully it’ll be fine for 4 months [...]
Tags: Provigil
Wow, I’ve been sober for 600 days. That’s like alot.
My gratitude for my sobriety is as strong as ever. In the last week I’ve had the opportunity to be in the right place at the perfect time to show a couple of other addicts that it is possible to put together more than 4 or [...]
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