toodamtall
Active member
Randomly random stuff;
Went to my regular AA meeting tonight. On Thursdays, we have a speaker meeting. For those who don't know, what that means is that people from another group visit for an evening and share their stories with us. So, I show up tonight, and was voluntold to chair the meeting. Really doesn't mean much, open the meeting, close the meeting, read stuff from a script at the beginning etc, but it feels good that the group asked me to do it.
So, incoming group shows up. Wouldn't you know it, one of the speakers was a councilor at a rehab program I went to about a year and a half ago. Believe me, I was not looking or feeling my best when he met me before! After the meeting, he came up and shook my hand. He'd remembered me and complimented me and seemed genuinely happy to see me doing well.
Related note, but different subject entirely. My group is having a 30 year anniversary party Friday night. B spent a good piece of the day making food for it. A whole steam table's worth of cheesy scalloped potatoes, trays of cookies... She's going early in the afternoon to set up. I'll be joining afterward for the meeting and party. I'm looking forward to socializing with all of my sober friends and I know it will be a good time, but.... There will be cookies, cakes, high carb dishes etc. I haven't craved much. When most temptations happen by it has been pretty easy to deal with them. Nonetheless, I'm a diabetic trying to stick to a ketogenic diet, who is going to be walking around trays of decadent goodies. Its kind of like being an alcoholic trying to stay sober in a bar.
Wait, I am an alcoholic! Guess that means I'll have to kind of practice the same kind of discipline, huh?
Went to my regular AA meeting tonight. On Thursdays, we have a speaker meeting. For those who don't know, what that means is that people from another group visit for an evening and share their stories with us. So, I show up tonight, and was voluntold to chair the meeting. Really doesn't mean much, open the meeting, close the meeting, read stuff from a script at the beginning etc, but it feels good that the group asked me to do it.
So, incoming group shows up. Wouldn't you know it, one of the speakers was a councilor at a rehab program I went to about a year and a half ago. Believe me, I was not looking or feeling my best when he met me before! After the meeting, he came up and shook my hand. He'd remembered me and complimented me and seemed genuinely happy to see me doing well.
Related note, but different subject entirely. My group is having a 30 year anniversary party Friday night. B spent a good piece of the day making food for it. A whole steam table's worth of cheesy scalloped potatoes, trays of cookies... She's going early in the afternoon to set up. I'll be joining afterward for the meeting and party. I'm looking forward to socializing with all of my sober friends and I know it will be a good time, but.... There will be cookies, cakes, high carb dishes etc. I haven't craved much. When most temptations happen by it has been pretty easy to deal with them. Nonetheless, I'm a diabetic trying to stick to a ketogenic diet, who is going to be walking around trays of decadent goodies. Its kind of like being an alcoholic trying to stay sober in a bar.
Wait, I am an alcoholic! Guess that means I'll have to kind of practice the same kind of discipline, huh?