It only took almost 2 and a half years but the AA Grapevine finally accepted my written submission! 🎉
Here’s the piece I submitted: Alarm clock crazy, no thanks.
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tcr!
· Jun 19, 2020 at 7:57 pm
It only took almost 2 and a half years but the AA Grapevine finally accepted my written submission! 🎉
Here’s the piece I submitted: Alarm clock crazy, no thanks.
tcr!
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:07 pm
Laurie
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:29 pm
Congratulations!!!! ❤️🎉🎈🎁
db ernet
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:31 pm
Congrats
Susan VK
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:33 pm
That is wonderful. You should be so proud!🎈🎈👏👏🏆
pynn
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:33 pm
Congratulations man! Keep on truckin
JJania
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:44 pm
Sweet. Of course you know 9 is a bitch 🤪🙃🥳
thewattsolak
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:45 pm
Nice wor. You’re a true inspiration.
Irene
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:50 pm
Congratulations! I am so very proud of you and I know it took a lot of… hard work to get where you’re at today
fiatlux423
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:52 pm
He can’t hear us, he’s wearing Air Pods.
sprout
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:54 pm
Happy birthday!
Hater McGhray
· Feb 20, 2020 at 1:58 pm
Happy 8 years indeed!!
Meicher
· Feb 20, 2020 at 2:07 pm
Awesome! 🤩
glenn.cremer
· Feb 20, 2020 at 2:07 pm
Way to go! I am proud of you. Love, Dad
Stacie T
· Feb 20, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Congratulations! 🎉
Rich J
· Feb 20, 2020 at 2:37 pm
Nicely done. Trudging well done.
McQuaid
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:15 pm
Sobriety looks good on you!
Clarke J
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:17 pm
Congratulations and thanks for showing us how it’s done!
tam.the.terrible
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:19 pm
I’m so very glad! And happy for you! You are amazing!!
Botsford
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:22 pm
I want to be you when I grow up! Well done😎
flood
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:32 pm
Awesome! 👏🏼
franh
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:32 pm
That’s great buddy, congrats
LAW
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:33 pm
Dude, you’re killin it!
Shirlene Batterson
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:34 pm
Way to go.I’m happy for you!
Raes
· Feb 20, 2020 at 3:52 pm
Congratulations!
threecrates
· Feb 20, 2020 at 4:23 pm
Heck yeah! Love ya dude.🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Uncle Timmy
· Feb 20, 2020 at 4:44 pm
Keep going bud.
You inspire others to reach higher too!
bee.jonny
· Feb 20, 2020 at 5:35 pm
Fucking awesome man. Congrats. Let’s grab food with dave soon!
Ryan Waters
· Feb 20, 2020 at 5:36 pm
Congrats
annekothe
· Feb 20, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Happy anniversary!!
prokop
· Feb 20, 2020 at 6:31 pm
Way to be awesome. 👏👏👏
domo vitek
· Feb 20, 2020 at 6:32 pm
Happy Anniversary 🎉
DeVoe
· Feb 20, 2020 at 6:33 pm
So grateful & proud of you❤️❤️❤️❤️
Buddy McBride
· Feb 20, 2020 at 8:01 pm
Awesome
Momma J
· Feb 20, 2020 at 8:05 pm
So happy for you ! Congratulations - ❤️
lisa8
· Feb 20, 2020 at 9:14 pm
Hell yes brother!!! you’ve come a LONG WAY BABY!!!🎉🔥💖👏👏👏
nomo.wino.daph
· Feb 20, 2020 at 9:48 pm
Congratulations 👏👏 8 yrs 💪🏼💪🏼
jimi hindrance experience
· Feb 20, 2020 at 10:15 pm
Happy Day!
Jennifer Zauel
· Feb 20, 2020 at 11:32 pm
Happy Anniversary
Traci Mekshes Daniel
· Feb 20, 2020 at 11:32 pm
Congrats
Kris
· Feb 21, 2020 at 2:57 am
Congrats
Engelhardt
· Feb 21, 2020 at 6:00 am
Congratulations brother.
Awesome!🐥
Greg Michael
· Feb 21, 2020 at 7:35 am
Congratulations!!!
Munson
· Feb 21, 2020 at 5:28 pm
Awesome man! Glad to hear it.
Kelly K
· Feb 22, 2020 at 9:51 am
Congratulations! It’s such a joy to walk this journey with you!
elaineorr
· Feb 23, 2020 at 6:44 am
And I know you’ll have many more! Congrats.
Conder
· Feb 24, 2020 at 3:16 pm
Congratulations, my friend
jimi55
· Mar 21, 2020 at 2:24 am
Congrats on 8 years and 40 days sober. :) I have 81 days and nocs. Since I drank. Alcohol.
tcr!
· Nov 15, 2019 at 12:10 pm
I always felt kinda ashamed of myself when I went into the liquor store before noon. But after sitting across the street from one for the last month and a half, I don’t anymore. All kinds of folk in and out of there all day long.
In other news, in another era I drank way too much of all of these except for the Ripple.
jimi hindrance experience
· Nov 15, 2019 at 12:20 pm
😎
jimi hindrance experience
· Nov 15, 2019 at 5:55 pm
I’ve bought and drank MD in the morning. In a major chain grocery store full of mostly women buying their grocs. I was feeling all right and made the cashier chuckle. She got ready to swipe the 2nd bottle in a kind of cavalier manner and I said, “Careful! Don’t bruise those grapes!” She actually laughed out loud.
tcr!
· Nov 16, 2019 at 8:34 am
😅😅😅
tcr!
· Nov 16, 2019 at 8:35 am
One of the worst days of my life started out with two bottles of Orange Jubilee around 10AM. The rest of that story will never be fit for print.
tcr!
· Nov 16, 2019 at 8:37 am
In related news.. This review of the MD 20/20 Jubilee gives it 3 out of 5 for value:
A half-decent alternative to drinking Listerine for a pick-me-up.
urbanalion
· Nov 15, 2019 at 12:24 pm
Me and Mad Dog definitely went a few rounds together. Probably the closest I ever came to getting arrested in college…
tcr!
· Nov 16, 2019 at 8:29 am
Yep, I always felt like I was getting into the ring with Mad Dog
annekothe
· Nov 15, 2019 at 12:41 pm
Omg I forgot about Cisco
franh
· Nov 15, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Dude, you had some nad taste in liquor.
tcr!
· Nov 16, 2019 at 8:32 am
I liked to think of myself as a connoisseur of rot gut wines …🍷🤔
cole
· Nov 15, 2019 at 1:55 pm
Night Train. LMAO
thewattsolak
· Nov 15, 2019 at 4:00 pm
Thanks for reminding me of the disgusting ones.
tcr!
· Nov 16, 2019 at 8:26 am
Yep, I never drank them for the taste 😅
Irene
· Nov 16, 2019 at 7:31 am
I never even heard of half of those. LOL LOL
tcr!
· Nov 16, 2019 at 8:33 am
And that’s something to literally be proud of!
Irene
· Nov 16, 2019 at 3:18 pm
Correct , but that was probably because I was busy drinking other things. Lol lol
Irene
· Nov 16, 2019 at 3:23 pm
You’re the one to be very proud of!! I can’t even begin to imagine how very very hard that was, what you went through, to get where you are today
chrisrich
· Nov 17, 2019 at 9:38 pm
Guilty of most of those….
tcr!
· Sep 15, 2019 at 10:03 am
We’re sitting in a hotel lobby in Council Bluffs, Iowa drinking coffee. Some people come down with an open twelve pack of Bud Light.
One guy is nursing a blue Gatorade and an ice water. He’s refilled his water cup three times. Most of the time his hand is holding up his head.
I don’t know about you guys but I’ve never regretted not waking up hungover.
Karly
· Sep 15, 2019 at 10:07 am
Counciltucky. The armpit of Iowa. 😉
thewattsolak
· Sep 15, 2019 at 10:36 am
I had the same thoughts when we were passing through Las Vegas over the summer.
Momma J
· Sep 15, 2019 at 11:51 am
Me either! I haven’t had one for many years actually.
Clarke J
· Sep 15, 2019 at 12:42 pm
So true.
Kelly K
· Sep 15, 2019 at 12:58 pm
Not once!
jimi hindrance experience
· Sep 15, 2019 at 3:41 pm
It’s nice to wake up sober.
DeVoe
· Sep 16, 2019 at 6:53 pm
Yes have to agree!!
tcr!
· Apr 29, 2019 at 2:09 am
Everything up in the air.
Everything fell apart.
Everything turned for the worse.
Including me.
tcr!
· Apr 10, 2019 at 9:53 am
Audio (MP3): 20190410 - No horse blankets
When I got to the place where I couldn’t stand myself anymore, where I didn’t want to be the person I’d always been. And not do the same things I’d always done, I can see now that’s when I had reached the breaking point.
The pain of being me had broken my very soul. Fuck.
It wasn’t the drinking, it wasn’t ever the drugs. It was me. It wasn’t the traffic or the other drivers. It wasn’t other people at all. Well, it was some of those people…but when that blanket of denial was pulled back just far enough I could see, when a light came on that cast a clarity almost too bright on what I’d been doing to myself nothing ever looked the same again in the days after.
Thinking back to that moment and all the desperate, frantic pain, tortured to tears, completely sober and sick of being myself, that’s when I turned a corner and walked down a path I’d only heard other people talk about.
And that’s when the spiritual revolution began.
No horse blankets.
vaughn3
· Apr 10, 2019 at 1:46 pm
Well said
tcr!
· Apr 10, 2019 at 4:47 pm
Thank you!
glenn.cremer
· Apr 11, 2019 at 12:59 pm
I had never heard it put that way, but well said.
tcr!
· Apr 11, 2019 at 6:59 pm
Thanks ❤️
tcr!
· Apr 2, 2019 at 8:21 am
I don’t know how many times I was in a gas station early in the morning, looking for convenience store relief from the fiery hangovers from hell but it was a lot.
Those pills never did a damn thing either… 😉
tcr!
· Mar 8, 2019 at 7:43 am
People don’t come into recovery because they think it’s a good idea.
They come in because they’ve set something on fire and are scared shitless.
Thathawa
· Mar 8, 2019 at 8:37 am
Yep.
DoomedEnterprises
· Mar 8, 2019 at 9:22 am
Pyromaniacs Anonymous?
North_South_Side
· Mar 8, 2019 at 2:30 pm
911-Step program?
Just4Today50
· Mar 8, 2019 at 10:24 am
That’s why I did.
feebleshamwise
· Mar 8, 2019 at 11:45 am
It does say “we came to…..” in step 2
VegasMomofTres
· Mar 8, 2019 at 12:45 pm
My life. My life. I set my life on fire.
OS2REXX
· Mar 8, 2019 at 1:02 pm
To quote Jason Mendoza (of the Good Place): “Any time I had a problem, I’d throw a Molotov Cocktail and *BOOM*, right away, I had a different problem!”
sobah_fett
· Mar 8, 2019 at 1:12 pm
I’m dying… lol
sobah_fett
· Mar 8, 2019 at 1:13 pm
Not a lot of people riding a hot streak into the rooms
mr_marble_man
· Mar 8, 2019 at 3:08 pm
“…on a winning streak”
That’s the one I’ve heard a lot and like. I clearly remember somebody saying this to me when I was in early recovery and stressed as my messy life situation(’s) were slowly untangling from the web I created during my active alcoholism. At the time those problems seemed unsolvable. Now, many months later, all those “problems” have solved themselves. How about that!
“None of us come into recovery on a winning streak.”
SOmuch2learn
· Mar 8, 2019 at 8:03 pm
Desperation was a gift.
tcr!
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:00 am
Today I’ve drawn sober breaths for 7 straight years in a row. 🎉
The picture is from December 2011, the last one from the drinking era. I never wanted to look at the camera. Pictures have a way of capturing our soul, documenting for future generations. For good or for bad.
Today, I’m sure I don’t smell the same.
I am, however, wearing the same White Sox hoodie this very moment.
And Maggie’s as cute as a weeble-wobble. 😊
pynn
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:04 am
Right on … congrats!
domo vitek
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:04 am
Congratulations!
Rich J
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:05 am
Congratulations my friend. Great job.
Ryan Waters
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:22 am
This is s big one!!!!
Congrats. Thanks for showing me (us) how it’s done with humility and a Grace. I love your message my friend!
Cintrón
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:24 am
Congratulations sir!
tism
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:25 am
You’re amazing. Congratulations t. :-D
Raes
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:53 am
Congratulations!
annekothe
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:55 am
Congratulations! So happy to be on this journey with you ❤️
Irene
· Feb 20, 2019 at 10:11 am
Congratulations!!! I am so very very proud of you, and I know your family and friends are also… That little bright shining star that is standing by your side has always been there, and what a little doll! Keep up the good work. I’m sure it has been and is very hard. Love you 🤗👏❤️🎉
Wow! You are truly one of my biggest inspirers!!!
Totally rad! 😁
franh
· Feb 20, 2019 at 10:40 am
Congrats my friend. Great sharing the journey with you.
JJania
· Feb 20, 2019 at 10:57 am
Sweet!
chrisrich
· Feb 20, 2019 at 11:06 am
thank you for being who you are today!
Meicher
· Feb 20, 2019 at 11:08 am
Momma J
· Feb 20, 2019 at 11:12 am
I am so proud of you - congratulations and carry on!
DeeDee
· Feb 20, 2019 at 11:16 am
Congrats!
Kelly K
· Feb 20, 2019 at 11:19 am
Congratulations! It has been a pure joy to walk this journey with you. You are an inspiration.
LAW
· Feb 20, 2019 at 11:24 am
Congratulations!
Monohon
· Feb 20, 2019 at 11:25 am
Congrats my man!
Sammons
· Feb 20, 2019 at 1:00 pm
I’m very proud of you! Congratulations!!!
marney0160
· Feb 20, 2019 at 1:02 pm
Congrats!
PM Veronica
· Feb 20, 2019 at 1:31 pm
Awesome. Congrats!! 💪🏼💪🏼
Clarke J
· Feb 20, 2019 at 1:34 pm
Congratulations!
Kris
· Feb 20, 2019 at 1:38 pm
Awesome
Howell
· Feb 20, 2019 at 2:55 pm
Done drinking myself!
tcr!
· Feb 20, 2019 at 4:55 pm
Nice!
tcr!
· Feb 20, 2019 at 4:54 pm
For reference here’s my front yard today. The right fence corner is no longer visible with the little bushes taking over. The left has more trees and a rose bush. Maggie’s swing is long gone. Cars have came and went.
Change is inevitable but more importantly, growth doesn’t happened over night. It takes time, sunshine, and fresh air. Inside and out.
I’m grateful for all of you, who stand in the sunlight with me. ☀️ I wouldn’t be able to make the journey alone.
threecrates
· Feb 20, 2019 at 5:03 pm
❤️❤️❤️!! Congrats. And thank you.
vaughn3
· Feb 20, 2019 at 5:19 pm
Yay! Congratulations
prokop
· Feb 20, 2019 at 5:56 pm
Congrats.
jenkins_arts
· Feb 20, 2019 at 6:14 pm
Congratulations!!!
Mona
· Feb 20, 2019 at 8:34 pm
Congratulations!
Picottes
· Feb 20, 2019 at 9:48 pm
Proud of you!
glenn.cremer
· Feb 20, 2019 at 10:32 pm
I’m very proud of you. Love, Dad
heylinda
· Feb 21, 2019 at 8:05 am
This is the best thing I’ve read in a long time
tcr!
· Feb 3, 2019 at 9:15 am
When I was newly sober, having a list of amends to make was like having a big pile of bills to pay. And I hate that feeling: a stack of checks to write and a list of people and places I owe. It’s just always on my mind, lingering in the back row like somebody murmuring behind you at the movies. When I stopped drinking my conscious woke up and I start hearing the voices of remorse.
And then there was that one time when I was in high school that I stole a whole bunch of books from the public library. It was way back when shoplifting was easy. Go in with a nearly empty backpack, load it up with Hobbit adventures, and walk out. Just be careful and it was really that easy. I didn’t feel any guilt at the time because for whatever reason in my head, the world owed me.
Awesome! Congrats!
Thanks!!
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thewattsolak · Jun 19, 2020 at 8:48 pm
Can’t wait to read it!!
Me, too! 😉
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JJ · Jun 19, 2020 at 10:32 pm
How super cool! Congratulations 🎈
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jenkins_arts · Jun 20, 2020 at 6:08 am
Great news! Write On!
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JJania · Jun 20, 2020 at 7:33 am
Keep coming back
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Kris HB · Jun 20, 2020 at 11:35 am
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Congratulations!
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Susan VK · Jun 20, 2020 at 7:07 pm
Congratulations! This is the beginning of a whole new route for you! 🎈🎈🎈
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Ryan Waters · Jun 21, 2020 at 4:32 pm
Now that’s an accomplishment
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cormanang · Jun 21, 2020 at 7:45 pm
You are amazing!
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