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Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Aug 21, 2014 - 06:19am PT
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At what time of day?
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Aug 27, 2014 - 11:19am PT
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Yesterday was 18 years sober - made it!
Two of my sisters "just happened to show up" to my place on Monday. They live in Wisconsin and Michigan and were on the return travel from being Camp To Belong(reunites foster kids with their siblings for a week) counselors for a week up in Maine.
They stayed an extra day and we did a long hike out to the Mohonk Mountain House. out for 8 hours. I didn't think about a drink even once. It was a nice surprise and a good way to spend the anniversary day!
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Aug 27, 2014 - 01:40pm PT
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Happy - that's my kind of celebration - a lovely, long hike. Excellent.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Aug 28, 2014 - 03:02am PT
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Congrats Happy! i know yours is right arround mine every year. I went climbing on my 8th and totally forgot about it untill two days later.. i guess thats a really good sighn!
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Linda Jarit
climber
ca
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Aug 28, 2014 - 08:51am PT
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14 years today. Its been filled with ups and downs. So grateful to be present through all of it.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 29, 2014 - 10:41am PT
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i've been courting wellness:
batting my long lashes,
putting on clean digs.
trimming my nails.
even pleases and thank yooz.
she's got no eye for me.
a tough catch, she.
she holds pretty high standards,
and i just don't know
if i got it in me.
i mean, some chicks just are not cut out
for my disaster.
my mold is toxic.
so i'll turn my pursuits away
from her and just stumble on down
to the local corner market,
crack a camo and hit
up the idle ladies with short skirts
and long jackets.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 29, 2014 - 10:44am PT
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You can be a really depressing guy to encounter here,on the Taco, Norwegian...
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 29, 2014 - 10:52am PT
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what you saying jaybro?
chilly winds don't blow thru here?
is this place reserved for just
pink clouds and blue skies?
perfectly tanned fit folks
with not a lick of sunburn?
oh i didn't get the memo.
please forward me something better to write.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 29, 2014 - 11:29am PT
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No Weeg, only you can decide to make it better. Far be it from me to put words in the artist's mouf!
There's a difference between the blues and whining, and you've nailed it at times, so I know you know that edge. That last one just left me a little sour, as have had several over the years, and I thought I'd finally mention it. It has nothing to do with this thread or it's subject. You can do whatever you want.
Namaste 'nshit
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 29, 2014 - 01:59pm PT
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And hats off to you Linda!
How did I miss that? I thought of you the other day, but didn't think It was my place to say anything to the world at large.
Linda by her example, was the one of the key straws, weighing in my own decision to stop drinking. Thanks again Linda! Now come out and climb with me in Moab!
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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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Aug 29, 2014 - 03:48pm PT
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Good on you, Linda. Straight edged is the shizzle, nothwitstanding the occassional speed wobbles. That's life on life's terms.
One thing I try and never forget - "...The insanity of that first drink."
I can't go back there - but I know the door is always open.
JL
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Aug 29, 2014 - 07:46pm PT
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i've been courting wellness ... You can be a really depressing guy to encounter here, Norwegian. Sobriety Thread (off limits or what)?
IE drunks not welcome. Rokjox used to post here too, and they got erased.
I may like to post, but can see it more tight-ass than a hamas mosque on 24 hour lockdown.
Only platitudes and Kumbaya singing allowed.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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Aug 29, 2014 - 09:03pm PT
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We support each other because we know all too well the pain of addiction.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Aug 29, 2014 - 10:21pm PT
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Haters gonna hate.
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, CA
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Aug 29, 2014 - 11:50pm PT
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'That's when I Listened, August 17th, 1989'
Am twenty five years clean and sober this month,
No fanfare,
Know I'm a drunk who's just not drinking,
Now my hearing is going and so is my thinking,
That Largo he tol' me to clean up my act,
In the Lodge parking lot '81 matter fact,
Why the fvck do I still remember that?
I never quite knew where my drinking was at,
In Eighty Nine I finally did,
My wife was out the door that day,
Left my spirit in the ocean somewhere,
Lost my soul on the open highway,
Hit an AA mtg a few years back,
I knew so few would keep coming back,
This atheist could only say his god was a rock,
It no longer fit,
It's different today,
Playing chess and monopoly with my youngest grandson,
He never knew I was a stoned hippie drunk,
Back in the seventies when I thought it was fun,
He whips my ass in sports at age nine,
Which is cool,
And fine,
So so fine.
-Bushman
08/29/2014
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, CA
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Aug 30, 2014 - 12:11am PT
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'Ode to a Birthday
Your birthday comes,
Your birthday goes,
There's no disgrace,
Or birthday woes,
Live only once,
For all we know,
We know not where,
The years did go,
But lives we've lived,
And winds that blow,
Will always help,
The flowers grow,
As we may reap,
What we may sow,
With all our baggage,
Left in tow,
Another birthday,
You well know,
Means not to stop,
And not to slow,
But don't forget,
To watch the show,
With every tide,
And ebb and flow.
-Bushman
08/14/2014
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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<rant>FURIOUS - the rest of the rant was redacted before I clicked the "post" button</rant>
GRRRRRRR.......Having a dry-drunk moment. I don't want to drink but have fantasized about driving my car off a precipice, or smashing the person whose behavior has made me furious in the face.
Partly due to working in high humidity heat for 8 hours, cooked well done, and and getting a call from supervisor moments before leaving for the day. Would it REALLY have been so difficult for him to have waited until the next available day to talk to me about a customer's complaint? Now my energy is buzzing with anger and the only cure will be to sleep it off.
Writing(sharing) is helping. Thanks, all you vicarious Sobriety Threaders....
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Hang in there Happy!
Grab somethin good!
atleast you got a job, and no cat.
i don't have a job, and just got a kitten, and it's summertime in Josh.
!!YIIIIIKES!!!!!
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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I was a stoned hippie drunk,
Back in the seventies when I thought it was fun,
Good lines.
Good on everyone here.
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pb
Sport climber
Sonora Ca
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For me this is pertinent to climbing. Drinking and drug use are a part of our sub-culture. Be careful youth. The power of substances can eclipse the joy of the activity.
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