http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm Hi there. <br>Today i ask for patience, courage and understanding. I have moved back with my mother just until i find another position as a live-in housekeeper. I have been fortunate to have been living in a glorious place looking after a beautiful property for a swedish gentleman for 1 year. It was a year of peace, a year of developing a relationship with myself and my Higher power i choose to call God. I felt the oneness of Gods protection and power working through me and with me. He saved me and all of us because he saw how we were trying to stay sober, boy did i try. I started to write with clarity,joy filled my heart everyday, a connection to the beauty of nature all around me and a feeling so intense of sheer bliss. Unconditional love for all. When i left due to his girlfriend moving back, shes great by the way,were friends, i found myself living back with mum. <br>Heres the frustration. What am i doing here. God knows i dont. Yet writing this now perhaps theres some unfinished business God wants me to see. He know best hey. I am living in density again, and yes it bugs me, i miss beauty , the feeling of inner peace, harmony,gratitude and JOY. I know all this will pass, a day at a time.Patience dear God help me to not react to pettiness,boy thats something that realy annoys me, what does it matter anyway. Mum is Mum and i am i, acceptance for what is. There i feel better now and thats without any feedback. Thanks a bunch. Love you all for being here. The reason im not in touch to much is because ive no computer at home, well not yet. Love and hugs to allxx http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm :)HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR PLUG BOT! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! <br>http://www.pluginthejug.com/smilies/edible/coffee.gif <br>http://www.pluginthejug.com/smilies/party/party-smiley-530.gif <br>http://www.pluginthejug.com/smilies/party/party-smiley-553.gif <br>AND MANY MORE!! <br> http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm <br>With Gratitude it is great to wake-up to another day sober. Sure beats coming-to in the first morning of 2009 with a splitting head and cotton mouth, wondering how I got here. LOL <br> <br> May each and every one of us enjoy a 2009 filled with Health, Happiness, and Prosperity. <br> <br> http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm I was reading some of my posts and realized that I asked for prayers for my friend Roy who was ill. It wasn't long after my post that he passed away. What an amazing fellow he was. He struggled to get sober and when he finally did he was that guy who helped everyone to get and stay sober. I have been missing him lately. His smile, his english jokes. I never got the chance to say good-bye, but did attend his "celebration of life" and the church was packed. I am blessed to have known him. <br> <br> http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm Oh yeah....procrastination and complacency have been seeping into my life and I can't stand it. I'm just not motivated lately to do some things needed. Laundry is one...ugh who likes it anyway.....organization of stuff and creating storage (bagging items for the salvation army) all of it. I just plain don't feel like doing. I've been attending meetings and working. Is that bad that I just dont want to do the rest. I've been tackling stuff little by little, however the littlest things are overwhelming. Don't understand it but....hopefully with some prayers and rest I will find the time. ODAAT.... <br>Happy Holidatys! <br>Audrey http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm Happy New Year to everyone here! This place continues to hold a special place in my heart. It wsa Linda here that helped me into my 1st AA meeting over 2.5 years ago. I'm a grateful alcoholic with an amazing life today. So share with big love and hope. May all of you have a great sober not somber year! <br>(((BIGGEST OF NEW YEARS HUGS))))) <br>Audrey;) http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm <br> <br>I have quite a collection of recovery sites I like to visit....the one problem I seem to have is the constant changing of names.....avatars especially with those who choose to be creative then I'm like????? huh???? That good old "ugh, I forgot" seeps in. <br> <br>I always felt "silly or stupid" when I could not remember things and that was before I "added alcohol" The fear of being made fun of or seen as less than smart.....that adult child of alcoholism that made me the perfectionist. There is a beauty in acceptance of being an alcoholic in all this. I am realizing that forgeting someones avatar, code name, or just plain forgeting is okay. I can laugh at myself today. I can claim a blonde moment or ditzy moment and never flinch. Yet in the past, the last thing in the world I wanted was to be know as anything remotely related to a "ditz". Pride, ego....whatever....I am learning to LOVE who I am and love my craziness or quirky nature. I believe it's all because of the fellowship that I see the likeness of me in others. Good thing we are not a glum lot~ Today I choose sober not somber....and remembering that we are not saints. <br> <br>Hope you can relate...and if not....keep coming back you will. <br>(((BIG HUGS)))) <br> http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm For those of you who know me, it has been a long year. I have been missing from the site because I had been attending to my husband who passed away on Wed @ 10:30, 12/17/08 Even in my time of grief...there is no reason in this world why I should pick up today. <br>After he passed on Wed morning I told my kids that I would be going to a meeting. They came too.:) I would not have wanted to be any place else except for the rooms of AA. <br> There is so much support from the friends I have made in this wonderful program, that I wanted to let my friends here know that I love them. I also want to let the new comers know that the AA program is a wonderful way of life, should we choose to follow it's simple (not always easy) program. We do what we have to do to stay in a solution today :) and that for me today is not feeling alone. <br>I love you guys,,,all of you. <br>Mj passed in peace, he took his last breath and then was holding Baby JOsh while being with so many who have gone on home before him <br>Thank you for your love and support. <br>ruby http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm Hello everyone, I am writing as an assignment to ask people's opinions and feelings about thier Higher Power and the ways it impacts thier recovery. My counselor has asked me to do this, as a way to explore my feelings about a Higher Power, a way to ask questions of people I do not know but who know, and as a way to use this website as a tool in my recovery. I appreciate the help and comments. <br> <br>Dale http://www.pluginthejug.com/feedback.htm Thank you to all newcomers for keeping things green for me. Without the newcomer I would easily forget how tough it was to get sober. That deer in the headlight look, the pain of acceptance, the relief of finally surrendering to this terrible disease that takes so many, that is in constant denial. Cunning, baffling and powerful! yep....Thanks all you newbees! <br> <br>Happy Thanksgiving everyone! <br>Audrey