Its healthy to go out and DO SOMETHING dont just sit around enjoy your recovery I am headed out to do some night fishing right now for catfish and striped bass anbd whatever else wants some of me LOL
Tomorrow I gotta work helping my girlfriend move into her new house and Sunday I go gold dredging with my new dredge, thats the weekend. Find things close to home yo can get out and do make it worth being clean and enjoy your life, I DO!!!!!!!!!Wish you were all with me putting stinkbait on your hooks and pullin in fish
Tear 'em up BigV. Fun is what recovery is all about. We absolutely must have fun. Any of you out there in early recovery (first couple years) fill you schedule up with activities- hiking, fishing, bowling, rollerblading, conoeing, mountain biking, surfing, scuba diving, skiing.... learn how to do that stuff clean. Stay busy experiencing new things too or perhaps for the first time clean. Our sick addict brain tells us that we can't have fun without using and we need to prove that wrong every day till it's just not a thought that we have anymore. The busier you get, the sooner it'll go away.
Right on, V! I work too damn much on most days, but am dedicated to having fun in recovery. Today I went whale watching and then out for ice cream. A perfect summer day off.
As for the bigger picture, I am trying to find a solution to my crazy work schedule. I think I need to trade the one most unmanageable job with another that is more manageable. I have an interview on Monday for a possible replacement. We'll see how it goes.
im tryin vini..im 54 days in. ive lost about 18 pounds. gone from a 34 pant to a 31. started lifting. working harder at work. working harder at home. sneaking to meetings so wifey dont find out.. i need to work in some fun, i raced bicycles for years and am really gettin an itch to give it one more try./after all im old now. i should be in an easier bracket. lol take care man. i miss your meetings.
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Well as some of you have heard we have been having some real problems with fires this year in California, pretty much been up further north then were I am but this weekend we had one kick up in Mariposa which is where I do a lot of gold prospecting.
OK so the fool I am just had to get out and take my dredge trip up to Mariposa today fire or no fire I got word the area we work was still open the fire was on the other side of the mountain basically. Well it was defintly RIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE we could even see flames shoot up over the top but the wind was blowing to our backs and kept the fire on the other side thankfully.
pretty close huh LOL takes some foolish cahoneys to play this game Anthony we do all sorts of stupids stuff but thats what makes it so exciting.
The fire is now burning towards Yosemite national park not looking good I have been listening to air command for a few days they have 727 air liners dropping retardent dozens of air crafts working the fire . I am headed back up in the morning to start metal detecting already burned areas this is going to expose a LOT of area not seen in many years
i know exactly the feeling vin..when i show up at the beach and the lifeguards are puking, and the beach is closed because the wave are huge. thats when i grab the board and get in the water. people have told me for years that i have a death wish..i prefer to think of it as a LIFE WISH. have fun and love every minute of it, you ve earned it .
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Fun in recovery is one of the first things i learned. How to lighten up and laugh at myself, life and the disease. I got clean at the age of 16. Until NA i had completely missed out on the joys of being a teenager. I hadn't learned to drive. Never went prom and couldn't dance at all. I remember my sister whio is a year younger going on field trips and vactions but my addiction didn't afford me that choice. I was a slave to the drugs. Then when I got clean it was the opposite. I could do whatever I wanted. During my last summer using I remember there was a lazer light show playing 20 minutes from my house. I never managed to see it. Shortly after my 1st anniversary a friend of mine took me an hour a way to go see the same show in another city. I was free from the drugs and it's grip on me. I spent my summers camping, at picknics, driving to the beach to watch the sunrise, hanging out in philadelphia, going for coffee with friends and traveling for conventions. My winters were for dances, speaker jams, unity days, going to the movies, roller skating and midnight meetings. Now I still have things I enjoy. I don't make as many unity functions as I would like. I enjoy simpler things like watching movies at home with my husband. We joined Netflix a year ago and get 3 movies at a time. I have lunch with my sister and two nieces once a week. My best friend and I take walks at least two times a week in a nature park nearby. I get together with women in the program for road trips to meetings and dinner afterward. The past year has brought health problems. Being clean has taught me how to show up and do the footwork needed. My best friend goes with me for all the required tests and procedures. I have never laughed so much as I do when we're traveling to the doctor's office, sitting in the waiting room to be called or having biopsy's taken. Fun in recovery has taught me how to lighten up and have a good time no matter the situation.
