2 day-2 step plan for sobriety

Sick of being sick · MIP Old Timer

2 day-2 step plan for sobriety

TLH · MIP Old Timer

Unfair!! I thought I made it up.

At the end of january I posted something along the lines of:

I've always had rules- for the most part they've kept me safe. One rule I have is a funny one: if I get the urge to drink, I am committed to waiting an hour and seeing if I still feel like having a drink. Usually the feeling has passed and I've gotten distracted. If it hasn't, I'm committed to waiting an hour and seeing if it's passed. Wink

Thus far it's worked. It's good to have rules.

It does seem funny and kinda tongue in cheek, but it actually works pretty well for me!

TLH · MIP Old Timer

Joke:

What famous historical figure said "I need another parade like I need a hole in my head!" ??

I'll stop now.

amanda2u2 · MIP Old Timer

I remember the day that Kennedy was shot in the head during a parade. A horrible day it was, that showed us the real dangers of standing up for what is right in the face of real hatred. It, and the following assassinations of his brother, Bobby, and then Martin Luther King, Jr. affected us, as a nation, deeply. My heroes all died martyrs. We can expect the same for the same. I've had to wrestle with this reality. Evil does have it's day. How do we deal with it? Sell out? Make jokes? See them as fools? Funny, as I write this, the Abba song, 'Fernando' is playing. Now we look at what we're doing in Iraq,, atrocities that undermine our stated noble intentions. And we wonder? why fighting there is not working? Serious subject, this. Standing up nobly and with integrity, for a cause that is beyond getting our next high.

amanda

-- Edited by amanda2u2 at 10:31, 2007-02-16

TLH · MIP Old Timer

Yeah... ummm.. it was a joke. I didn't realise this forum was strictly for plaguerizing touchstone quips.

I've experienced my share of loss and pain and yet still managed to retain an ability to find levity in some of it, if for nothing else then in reaction to the hopelessnes of trying to be right and good and just.

In this life sometimes it does seem like good guys finish last, yet there are still good guys around. If everyone spoke in heart melting "wisdom to Know" quotations you'd have no way of knowing just how much better off you are.

Phil · MIP Old Timer

Heee Hawww!!! Giddee Up Goooo!!

Two more feet of "F' ing snow!!

The U.S. of A is looking good...

Gas is cheap, and so is wood....

Smokes are less, than way up here...

Put a smile on your face...

And lets get it in gear...

Shit just happens, as we all know...

Take it in stride....

And Giddee Up Goooo

Sick of being sick · MIP Old Timer

John, we both cheated..
It's in the AA book "Living Sober", Chapter 3: "Using the 24 Hour Plan"...
Got a feeling that Bill W. would endorse this type of plagiarism.

PS. Phil...as you can see, I now have my doppleganger's picture as my avatar...just like you!
PS.PS. I almost think that I prefer our 25 degrees below zero in North Dakota to the 25 inches above the second floor window that you folks have been seeing out your way!

TLH · MIP Old Timer

Well I may be remedial because mine is 24 minutes.

That totally freaked me out, by the way- you referring to me as "john". I didn't actually realise I had put my name on my profile here and hhad no idea how you did that. I thought maybe you were psychic until I looked at my profile. On top of that dont know what I was thinking putting "John". The name on my Birth Certificate is John but since I was a wee kid everyone has called me "Toby". I guess I'll need to change that.

RyanS · Senior Member

Muwahaha. We know a lot more. We have a whole book written that tells us all about people like you.

Sick of being sick · MIP Old Timer

Yes, we're all just a bunch of maurading, mind-reading drunks on a sobriety rampage!

Hey Toby, how's the surf today? I'll try to remember to get the name right next time.

TLH · MIP Old Timer

Truth be told, the surf has been beautiful pretty steadily for weeks now. I've actually been down with the triple header of cold then flu plus sinus infection for the last week and in the afternoons I have my boy, so surfing is pretty much out right now. I'm living vicariously through my little brother and my daughter, however.