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>>>>>>>Was it a nude beach? Inquiring minds want to know <g>.
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>>>>>>I'll never tell.
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>>>>>THANK YOU!
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>>>>>*gd&rvvvvvvvvvvf*
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>>>>Now is that from the image of _me_ on a nude beach or the image of Marshal there? <vbg>
>>>>
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>>>I bet you would go to a nude beach .... with Marshal.
>>>
>>>This is as good a place as any to thank you for the phone call yesterday. For those who don't know, Tamar has been checking in with me about the drinking. Every Tuesday. Every week I have been telling her it's good, truthfully. This week the answer was not good and I didn't lie to her. She was pretty stern with me. If you want someone to sternly kick your butt, Tamar is the lady of your dreams. She doesn't take any crap at all.
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>>>I kept drinking yesterday, as I told you I would. I stopped, as I also said I would. My headache is almost gone. It's not a nice problem to have.
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>>Slips happen. I believe important thing is to forget about them and get back on the program of recovery: one day at a time. And when the craving hits again, go to a support meeting or to call a support person.
>
>Yes, that is on the money. I didn't like the meetings I was going to but should not have stopped going, or should have tried a different group. That was arrogance. One thing Denise, the counselor in the support group I went to from January until April, said that has stuck in my mind: "Mike, you don't have to like it. But going to meetings will improve your chances of staying sober." I did call someone last night and again this morning. If I feel even tempted to drink today I will go to a meeting. There must be lots of us drunks around because there are plenty of meetings.
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>Another thing I have heard repeatedly is that slips happen, as you say. It's not something to be alarmed about if you take them as warning signs and don't fall back in the pit. I don't intend to.
Good thinking and planning. I wish you all the best in fighting this illness.
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
