Soberjulie

Haha! On my laptiop now.....so congrats, part 2

Heeheee......its a hippy thread just for Miss Rain!

I love that!!

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No No NO......we almost had an uprising here to do away with the Barney. There are a lot of sausage lovers on here :P

Aw man!! I'm on my phone and can't post a congrats picture!! But I was too thrilled to just wait until I was at my laptop. Congrats Rez! I like your slow and steady wins the race approach. Your 6 months is an admirable accomplishment :)

I was such an oblivious dink......I kept hopping on the scale during my first 6wks or so of my quit. Nothing but a 5ish pound fluctuation. One day up a couple, next day down a couple. I thought I had it made, in spite of the fact that I was living on the computer and the only muscle getting exercise was my jaw from chewing. And then, I got word that I was going back to work. I started rearranging my closet and bringing my dress clothes to the front. I tried on my dress pants. And another pair. Good lord, not one pair fit me!! The scale tells me that 12lbs dropped itself on my @ss while I was blogging and dipping pretzels in melted chocolate. -shrug- I bought some bigger pants. And stopped melting chocolate ;)

No matter what life throws my way, smoking is not an option today. A cigarette is not a solution. It has never been a solution.

"Let's leave the ill-fated agendas at the door so this community is free from personal attacks and "trolls", neither of which reflect who we are or why this forum came into existence." I personally have no agenda, other than to walk beside any newbie who is put in my path. I've made some amazing a supportive friends here MQ. I wrote what amounted to a thank you response to Tracey's post. I shared with her 'my' personal experience and communicated why I enjoy her experience/why I 'click' with her. "Someone" took that opportunity to quote my post and hand me a corrected version, tell me how my perception would change in time, passively play word semantics about my use of the word complacent in my recovery! MQ, with all due respect, maybe my post was 1) directed as a comment and thank you to the original post and 2) may have resonated with a newbie. It was rude to copy and paste my reply and then passive aggressively poke holes in it. Why is it only 'some' of us are asked to take what we like and leave the rest? I HAVE been. But this particular admin seems to take issue with either 12 step folks or people who have some time in other recovery programs. Not sure what the deal is. I conversed with you via pm in regards to this and I haven't been the only one. Since then I have been respectful of his posts and not felt the need to share my 'differing opinion' while copy and pasting his. This constant defense of his ill behavior does not make this a supportive community for all, it makes it a supportive community for some. If they think alike. Or are willing to concede "oh yes, I only have x-amount of time so _______knows the real truth. I will see it/understand it eventually" I simply bypassed this persons posts.....so then he quotes my thank you to another person and pokes at it?? Not the kind of behavior I would have thought was acceptable. Ive always said, there is room enough for all different people, all doing a different dance with their own addiction.(s) How about EVERYONE'S experience is considered to have some worth? And if it doesn't contain worth/value for you personally, in your recovery......you celebrate the fact that some people's experience wasn't designed to help you. It was designed to help the guy/gal behind you.

I'm trying to squeeze my way in to Bakon's favorite egg position. After Nancy of course. So.....ummm.....cats poop in boxes. Yuck. ;)

Summer squash soup

What is it they say around here?+1 I consider myself in good company sitting with you in the battleship grey boxcar ;)

eggnog

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Sometimes it takes every last bit of you to keep your balance and not do something self destructive. I'm not talking about willpower, I'm talking about something else. I'm not sure how to describe it. It's like the part of you that wants to live, the part of you that is committed to not smoking, is connected by only the most slender of threads to the part of you driving the car, making the decisions. Sometimes you just hang in there, a minute at a time. You ask for help, but you know if you choose to you can turn away from that pretty easily, or even accidentally on purpose. Sometimes not sliding backwards counts as moving forwards. Sometimes not actively trying to die is living large. Sometimes holding your ground is a fragile miracle.

My dad had an 8yr quit at one time and picked up right where he left off after a stressful situation too. It is a good reminder.

I love this reward thread :) Today I bought a book......the only story that I watched the movie first. The Cider House Rules- John Irving.

saga blue cheese

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No need for apologies!! You post as often and as much as you like or need. :)

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