I suppose I should go to the store before tomorrow 🤔

5’1”

Haha….5’2” !!!

Yeah short Lindas!

Apparently there will be a lot of short people. 5’ 1 3/4”! Lol.

I’m predicting a good time will be had by all, especially with the two of you doing the entertaining! I wish I could be there!

4 feet 11 and 3/4 inch

Wait. You’re not even 5 foot tall?

No but don’t tell anyone!

Mom I think you just let the cat out of the bag :)

You have a gift for writing.

Thank you! 😊

You’re welcome. I have many thoughts. Very few get written down.

5’3 and 1/2 :)

I’ll host your party if you chaperone the turnabout dance for me tomorrow!

What’s a turnabout dance?

Sadie Hawkins…high school dance i have the pleasure of chaperoning tonight.

Well said, and I’m 5’7”. 😉

That’s deep… Probably deeper than the Mariana trench

I go all in 😊

We’ll be there…..we’re not even 5 feet tall……..blahahahaaaaaa!

Ryan is taller than 5’ right?

Ok you got me….

Actually the birthday dinner by Mark was cancelled. He has the flu. I prob will pop in for a bit but i think Ryan decided to go hang with friends

Hurray!

I’m honored to be among the people you invited, and look forward to it. It is one of the best names & ‘themed’ get togethers I’ve heard of. Seriously, what’s better than tatter tots? I am probably the exact opposite of an introvert, so I cannot empathi…See More

Wish i could make it Traverse😜

Next time my man! I’ll bring the rubber nipples 👍

How was the tater tot party?

I’d wear this

This is disturbingly hilarious

Was for real looking at buying a Precious shirt yesterday

Where???

Precious was the hero.

Why can’t people understand?

Precious was a well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste.

But no more than 2 generations removed from pure white trash…

Ah.. they’re having 80s day at CrossFit. A lady in white spandex, neon pink leg warmers, jean jacket vest, and a yellow head band with top ponytail just walked across the parking lot. I’m tempted to go down there and critique their playlist.

They’re playing Freeze Frame. I’m missing out.

Counting Crows - Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman) [Audio Upgrade]

You should invite him to your party.

It’s Friday, I’m in Love.

I’ve been jammin to the 80’s tonight!

Awesome! You should get the Miami Vice soundtrack. It’s way good.

Dude Friday night was all about Miami Vice! ummm…and dukes of hazard when I was up close to the TV watching the Duke boys!!!LOL
AHHHH the 80’s!

I went through my cassettes this morning and was disappointed that somewhere along the way I got rid of the Miami Vice soundtrack.

Oh man I don’t even think I have cassettes anymore I saved them for the longest time that is awesome

Because Trump’s America really needs more guns

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday enthusiastically embraced a National Rifle Association position to arm highly trained teachers to fortify schools against mass shootings like the one last week. Mr. Trump, who said the armed teachers should receive extra pay as an incentive, promoted his idea as demands for stronger gun control intensified across the country.

“You give them a little bit of a bonus, so practically for free, you have now made the school into a hardened target,” Mr. Trump said. The president estimated that 10 percent to 40 percent of school employees would be qualified to handle a weapon — he offered no data for the claim — and said he would devote federal money to training them.

I find all his talk about arming teachers disgusting on a level I can’t really even express. I don’t know what to compare it to. It’s one of those rare things that hits in a place I hadn’t yet armoured over with cynicism.

I honestly believe that American politics have turned into a weird Twilight Zone production that’s not even cool or funny.

Have you heard this one? I don’t know if you like Johnny Cash, but I think the lyrics will mean something to you.

I’m about 50/50 with my Cash likings but that one was pretty good.

I just looked up the origin of the song, and apparently he wrote it in rehab, so I guess that explains why the wording is so similar to step 2. 🤔

Yep, I got that feeling. Nothing wrong with being heavily inspired though… 😊

Oh, I didn’t mean to imply there was anything wrong with that. I just never realized what the song was about until yesterday. 😊

Ah gotcha… I think the “🤔” threw me off.

Ah, my bad. I meant it like “I am thinking about this new information”. 🙂

All good!

The steps have been engrained in me since maybe 1982 so whenever I see the phrase “came to believe” that’s where my mind automatically goes.

Ah, see for me it’s all new, so your posts are creating all sorts of new mental connections between existing information and artworks I previously didn’t realize were related. I mean, much like learning anything else new, it gets all connected up with the old stuff and changes how you see it.

Thanks for sharing t.

Thanks for reading 😊

I know you probably hate hearing this but Though I didn’t know you that long you always seemed to be a little brother to me and I’m so glad you are doing so well!

Yep, you always were a good older brother!

Thanks for the words. Man, I feel like I needed to hear this. Really powerful. As someone who struggles with life, and working my fourth now. I think I’m starting to get it, or “peak behind the curtain” so to speak.

To me it wasn’t the booze or the substance, it was within me all along.

Yep, totally me that was causing my own suffering. :)

Well, i mean i dont know the context of your situation or you. But I just know how it all relates back to me. I tried to live without a program-AA or otherwise. It didnt do me any favors.

Yep, I totally get what you’re saying.

Fantastic!

Thank you!

Oh man this is beautiful written. It oozes serenity and peace. I can literally feel that moment. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you!

Thank you for sharing that, it sounds like you have kept your sobriety strong in the face of adversity! I’ve always taken point with the word insanity in recovery, because I think that it has a connotation of mental disease. I know my actions while drinking could have been considered insane by the standard “Doing the same thing, expecting different results” but when I got to the second step like yourself, I was looking more for inspiration in moving towards a higher power instead of dredging up my insane actions and using them to look outside myself. Maybe that’s just my ego, wanting to avoid looking at my character defects, but I think that is pretty well covered in the fourth step, haha. Thanks again!

Yep, I think we’re trained to look for the negative. It’s familiar and comfortable. My sponsor used to remind me of the quote that’s along the lines of, “we won’t find the light by endlessly researching the dark.”

Damn. I really really really needed this. Damn. Thank you.

As someone just coming out of that dark forest of ruined past relationships, trekking through it and feeling every painful second was worth it. The personal growth I have gained, the insight, was worth it.

It wasn’t fun though, and at certain points I thought I was permanently broken and fucked. I was emotionally insane and obsessive. Living in the past and concocting grandiose plans for the future. It’s still hard sometimes, but giving it all over to my higher power, whatever that may be, has very likely saved my life. My life is not what I ever thought it would be, and not even want I want it to be, but damn I’m grateful I made out of that forest.

> but damn I’m grateful I made out of that forest

For sure. My recovery isn’t so much all the wonderful things I have now. It’s more about all the horrible things I don’t.

Great explanation of how it works.

Thanks!!

Thank so much for that. I recently relapsed after some length of recovery & I am just baffled at how much I bypassed in my foundation steps. I was so desperate and broken when I came in, I was convinced that my horror stories are what made me need this program. With very fresh eyes I can see your point here and I really needed to hear it tonight. Thanks

You are most welcome! Also, I was sober for a couple of years before I found out the hard way I didn’t have a real belief in a higher power. The good news is that after abandoning myself to God and working the steps I’ve been healed and made whole.

I love the stuff you write!! 💗

Thanks! You’re the best!

Nicely stated.

Thanks!

The God that shines thru you is THE BOMB my friend. Awesome share💓💓💓💓

I miss you lisa8!

I miss you too girl!! 💓💓💓💓

Beautiful truth, thank you for sharing this. And now every time I see a Denny’s…

Thank you!!

The Sunday Grapevine meeting in Eugene OR, 5pm PT, would like to know what “alarm clock crazy” is.

I used the phrase “alarm clock crazy” to describe the kind of crazy that would make me wake up my ex-wife at 6 in the morning. Like that I was her alarm clock that day. 🙂 Does that make sense?

Yes. That does. Thank you. Good story — you were today’s meeting

You are most welcome! Oh wow, that’s so awesome! I feel completely blessed.

I’m glad to “meet” you. I’m from the McHenry area

I lived in Portland, Oregon for about six years in the 2000s. Now I live in a Chicago suburb, so I’m not familiar with your area. But nice to meet you as well!

Have a good night

You, too!

Uhmmm…Hustler cat photo shoot?? Royale??

Mira says - what are you looking at?

That’s Pearl, but yeah, that’s exactly what she’s saying :)

She looked fluffy for Pearl but I guess that’s her underbelly

She’s sweet. Rub her belly!

Rub my belly ;)

I had voices for Boo & Scout. And appointed human emotions on them all the time.

so hes doing math sideways ?

Exactly. It’s the only proper way to do math really.

What a glorious animal.

I truly wish I could attend but circumstances won’t allow it so sorry!

All good my man!

Hope you have a great night!

I know I haven’t seen you in like forever but I do still think about you and miss you take care my friend!

I have radiation therapy I don’t want to be one of those older then I am Fuckers still smoking I start on the 27th!

Good luck!!

Nicotine is at the top of the list of addictive drugs.

I believe it.

Hmmmmm?!. I was just talking to someone this afternoon @ how I quit. How weird? My phone ( or you ) must be listening to me again. 😂

He eavesdrops on everybody!

I know people who quit shooting meth and quit drinking whisky who can’t quit smoking. Oddly enough, I don’t have first hand experience with this drug. I never met a drug I didn’t like with the exception of tobacco. I must be allergic to it. Another…See More

I remember Goth Sean Penn but I don’t remember the tobacco interlude. I’ll have to research.

Smoking is definitely an ash-y, cough-y type of love affair. Talking (and smelling) like Tom Waits is a requirement.