This past week, I have tested my sobriety and recovery tools to the limit ( Read more... )

Recent events have taken every moment of my waking (and much of my sleeping) time. Preparing for the various wedding parties has been crazy chaotic ( Read more... )

Friday Friday Friday!!! And 3 days off!! Oh YEAH ( Read more... )

My baby boy made it through his first day alone! Kimbo did it w/o distroying ANYTHING in the house!! Or taking a dump! I am very proud of him. He seemed a little distressed when I was leaving this morning but he will get used to it. The girls did ( Read more... )

Wow! I feels like forever since I journaled last ( Read more... )

Last night's meeting was fun. Denise, Andrea and Terry were all there. We were goofing around, laughing and having a good time as the meeting started. It felt great to kick back and laugh like that! Then Jack the secretary says, "since my speaker did not show up tonight I need a volunteer. Yana, please speak tonight." YIKES YIKES! Although I really ( Read more... )

Corina has been gone a week and I am handling it pretty well. Surpised actually. Already her stay has been eventful: Loreina's father died of a heart attack! Yesterday was the funeral. Corina had never even met this guy but wrote the uligie. I guess the rest of family could not come up with anything and of course she is such a great writer. Somehow ( Read more... )

The peace and serenity I have experienced in large doses has returned!! Thank you, HP! No longer am I stressed over Corina's departure. No longer am I constantly worried over my dull marrage. I can easily suggest Andrea turn over her pain and cravings but I sometimes have to remind myself to do. Shortly after doing so, the serenity I need to live ( Read more... )

Last night Denise called to check how it went dropping my homegroup. She had been on vacation so I was unable to talk to her last week. She was happy things were going so well for me but reminded me to still go to at least 3 meetings a week. Feeling this good makes it easy for me to skip meetings and stray from the program. Talking to Andrea daily ( Read more... )

Another good day. I got a ton of filing done. I spent my lunch hour checking out some thrift stores in V-town. I got some funky serving dishes for the fiesta in the park. This party will be the greatest party to celebrate Shens and Jas' love. Things are comming together nicely. Next challenge is the invitations. They should give me something to do ( Read more... )