Everything Around Me.

I am really getting to love the holidays.. I have always really loved this time of year. but it has been for different reasons.. any excuse to drinks with friends and be merry. This year I am going up to the Bay Area and hanging out with my big sister and her husband. They make the best dinners ever... so i am super excited this year.
Something else recently happened to me... I changed my sobriety date. No I have not relapsed. but I realized that something was wrong when i was looking at some old pictures on my computer.. and saw that one of the pictures was dated Feb 24, 2008 and I was in a bar. That was the last time that I had a drink. I asked a friend of mine that was there the first day that I was in treatment... and she said that I was in her office at 8:30am on Feb 26th.. 2008. So there it is... my new sobriety date. Not like it really makes that big of a difference. But it does to me.. I just want to get it out there and be honest about it..
Well... I will be taking pictures. I hope that everyone out there has a great holiday.. especially my blog friend Sarah.. you deserve it lady.

Not Much New To Report.. except this.

Just another day in sobriety.. another bad typing day.. another day of hitting the delete key over and over and getting a little frustrated about it.. but I guess that it's Gods way of telling me something. Maybe that I should slow down just a little bit..
A little tired right now.. I was doing alot of talking while I was at work today.. I was sharing alot today.. my mouth was moving for all 8 hours.. and I never really knew just how much energy that took out of me..  but it took alot from me.. but in the end I felt really good about myself...
One thing that I really enjoy about my sobriety is that I get to feel good at the end of a day... and I dont have to feel bad... oh so very nice.

Balancing Act. Amazing

I just wanted to share this with you guys.. I really loved legos when i was younger.. but this is ridiculous

today

Today is inspirational for me.. I don't know why and I dont really care. All that I know that I feel this way and I never used to.

Memories..

Ok everyone.. This is one of my favorite people in the world... Nick Buzanski. This is the newest ad for Green Apple Books on Clement Street in SF. My old neighborhood... I miss these guys..
Ah.. the old days of going into Green Apple to look at the cute book chicks and spend way to much money next door buying DVD's that I would never watch. Its not a good idea to buy stuff when you are drunk.

Good Morning America... How Are You?

Hello there everyone. Just hanging out at my local coffee shop getting ready to get on the road again. This time I am going back to So Cal to get some dental work done. This is the kind of thing that I get to do in soberity.. Take care of myself.
Today is a whole new day. Different then the one that happened yesterday. I have the ability to start my day over if I want to.. That is a really big thing for me these days..
I am very happy to be here today.. and I am looking forward to this years holiday season more then I ever have before.. even more then I did last year... check this one out.

so here we go on another adventure. Heard from a really good friend of mine a couple of days ago... thinking that they may want to go to their first meeting.. makes me feel good...

An Experience that Ill never forget..

I love being in the right place at the right time.. seems like I always used to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.. but that really has changed in the last 20 months or so.
Today I went to a local middle school and hung out with the kids for awhile. I was invited to talk to the entire school about my experience with alcohol and drugs.. and all of the stuff that comes with it.  I have known about this for awhile now so I really had time to think about it... and that probably wasnt the best thing for me.. today when I got up I was going over everything in my head.. and then I thought of it as if I was going to share in a AA meeting. With a different audience.. a very different audience..
I got to talk to alot of kids.. sixth, seventh and eighth graders about things that are really effecting them on a daily basis.. and if it wasnt effecting them yet, it was going to in the future. I really just forgot about all of that thinking and planning that I had done before speaking and just shot from the hip.
It was a very very memorable experience. and it is something that I will never forget. something that I will never forget is questions that these kids asked. Right to the point and really no holds barred. I was impressed..
Its just another example of the awesome things that I get to do because I am sober. Another beautiful day in sobriety...
Its a really awesome thing that Jake Glazier and all of the teachers at CMS have done. I am really stoked that they let me come and hang out with them...

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