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Post by majestyjo on Sept 24, 2016 12:44:41 GMT -5
I am aware of that, I count my blessing. I don't think I want to drive if I could. My doctor told me over 15 years ago to not drive because I didn't have the reflexes and mobility to drive safely. Because of the deterriated disks at the top and bottom of my spine, plus the fact that I have 5 types of arthritis and my tremon disorder. I still just want to be able to go, mostly to get out of the city into nature or to a meeting out of town once in a while. I really miss that.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 24, 2016 12:48:32 GMT -5
Just for today, I will be patient and accepting. People are where they are at and I can't change them. I am waiting for my sister to call, don't have a clue as to when she will call, so don't want to leave home until I hear from her. Just trying to stay in the moment and not take on other people's stuff.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 24, 2016 14:36:31 GMT -5
Hi Jo----waiting on a phone call can be real hard on the nerves!!! maybe you can try to call her??? just an idea!!!---Bunnypie
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 25, 2016 1:27:32 GMT -5
She is visiting people I don't know. I don't have her cell phone number. She never called today. I stayed in all day, but I needed the down time. Hopefully she will call tomorrow if she gets the opportunity.
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 25, 2016 9:39:37 GMT -5
Hope for the best & cope with the rest......
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 25, 2016 22:04:32 GMT -5
Still haven't heard from her.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 25, 2016 22:04:51 GMT -5
Just for today, I pray for patience and tolerance. I guy came into the laundry room. He said, "Your clothers are finished if you are in #1 washer. I went over, and started to put them into a dryer. He handed me the cloths that I left behind in the dryer. I said, "Don't touch my clothes." I realized that I had raised my voice, I am generally soft spoken, but the words didn't come out that way. He said, "I was just trying to help." For me, his intent was to get my stuff out so he could get his in because he was in a hurray and not about helping me. I maybe wrong, but by the time I had the dryer started, his clothes were in and he was out the door. I didn't know the man. I had never seen him in the building before. I felt like he was intruding into my space.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 26, 2016 0:37:13 GMT -5
LOL Jo? was that the day of the Defensive/Relaxed Chip?  !!!  |
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 26, 2016 13:15:00 GMT -5
Nope, was a little resentful because I put a day and half on hold waiting for the phone call. When I went on FB last night, I told her that I was still waiting for her phone call.
She has called and now I am waiting for her to pick me up and treat me to a late lunch.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 26, 2016 13:20:11 GMT -5
Just for today, I am very grateful. I am getting to see my sister who lives in Tweed, which is about a four hour drive from me. She is three years younger than me and the middle sister. I would go visit her but she has cats, so I would not be able to visit her for very long. Grateful to be going out even though it is raining. Will take my umbrella and cane, and if I am lucky, I will get me from the door to the car and back.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 26, 2016 15:40:49 GMT -5
Hi Jo---Did you ever notice how much better lunch tastes when someone else is buying? Bunnypie |
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 27, 2016 15:49:16 GMT -5
Just for today, I will try not to take my pain out on someone else. It isn't their stuff, even if it is, it is best to send the energy back out to the Universe instead of returning to sender. Just say a prayer for them and yourself.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 27, 2016 20:26:21 GMT -5
sometimes it is easier said then done!!!  |
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 27, 2016 23:24:24 GMT -5
Just for today, I will not preach my program. I will share my experience, strength, and hope, with the hope that it will help someone else. It is attraction rather than promotion. Hopefully someone will find something with me and my recovery, that will interest them to find recovery for themselves. If I am so full of myself, I won't have any room for any one else. I don't have to have the last word, I don't have to say, "This is how it is done." It is not right to say to someone, "That is not how it is done, you need to do this," especially if what they are doing is keeping them clean and sober, with emphasis on the clean. I need what will get me through the day, not abusing my medical medication, myself or others. I can't crave something if I don't injest it, and yet my mind can obsess about it and take me out of the moment, be it big or small. Thank God for the tools of recovery that bring us back to where we need to be in today.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 28, 2016 1:24:27 GMT -5
Today it is not so much the drinking as the thinking!!! My crazy thinking can cause high anxiety!!!!! Bunnypie
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 28, 2016 5:04:45 GMT -5
I know, that is why I turn my thinking over to my Higher Power. If I turned my drinking over, I would have relapsed long ago.
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 28, 2016 5:34:42 GMT -5
Just for today, I am grateful for my recovery. As I shared with a couple of newcomers yesterday, the person that walked through the doors of AA 25 years ago is no longer. That person does not exist, thank God. Even the lady likes to come out today and I don't get angry at her and tell her to go away.  |
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 28, 2016 19:52:43 GMT -5
Just for today, I will trust my God to see me through the next few days. My son informed me that the weatherman said that the end of our rain fall, they expect 55 mm of rain to fall. Oh my acking body! Mind you it generally hurts more before the rain start and spoils my sunshine, although today we had both. I could not go out, my feet wouldn't let me walk farther than from my kitchen to my bedroom and bathroom. I was grateful that my apartment is small. I have already taken time to do a meditation and ask for help and healing. I am not suppose to take anti-inflamatories, because of my kidneys. I took one this afternoon, hoping that one a day for a short term, will help. I got the thought after the meditation, so more will be revealed.  |
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Post by bunnypie on Sept 29, 2016 0:32:57 GMT -5
A friend of mine use to say that pain keeps you honest! Pain reminds you of what you can & can't do. YOU are wise to stay inside and listen to what your pain is telling you to do. I hope you feel better soon.....Bunnypie |
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Post by majestyjo on Sept 29, 2016 19:51:15 GMT -5
Always have pain, have for many years. It is just a case of making it manageable so I can think and work through it each day. Thanks though for the thought. Most times I try to tell it to go away, I am busy, I haven't got time for you today. The social worker who got me into treatment said, "How did you learn that? I teach that!" I didn't know, I thought it was just attitude.
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. I will be back looking for Lin and others.