Saturday Roll Call

[Phil]

Good Morning Everyone,

It's about 7AM. The forum has slowed down (again!!) to an extreme crawl. We are not amused!! It seems to have sped up again.....for the time being. I wish I knew where John Lester was. I'm afraid were headed for another crash. Braintalk is my home and I really don't want to be anywhere else!!

Teddie, we miss you!! Please stop by and post if you get a minute. You are the reason this forum has stayed alive....really!!

I wish Samantha Stevens were here to twitch my house back in order. I plan so many things but never follow through with them.

Thanks for posting Stacy. Your welcome any time!! I have not seen Pat post.

We had a terible storm yesterday. I thought the tops were going to blow off of the tree's. As if by magic the power went out. If I were rich, I'd have solar power.

The power came back on though in about 2 hours.

My cat knocked my glasses off of the night stand and I stepped on them and broke them. I taped them and I can still use them. I did go to CVS and purchase a new pair but they are not strong enough. My next exam is not until December.

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Lets hear from the rest of you!! It'll only take a minute. Come on, get in the spirit.


Much Love, Phil

[houghchrst]

Afternoon all. Raining here, bout time, we have needed it for awhile. Everything was getting a bit dry.

Bats, no meth is wonderful. Yes nothing would be better but meth is so hard to get off of as it is. Hopefully they will continue to work their way out from under all of it.

Phil the video link didn't work, the user took the video offline :(. Thanks for trying though.

Believe me if Samantha Stevens were here I would wish for a lot more than a clean house lol. I would like a small island somewhere temperate with a never ending stash of money and perfect health. Oh yeah, and the standard Miss USA answer, World Peace. Actually I think I would wish for that first.

Around here NA meetings are more common to go to if you are a drug user because a lot of the smaller AA meetings are old timers and they can be pretty indifferent to new people especially if you are a drinker and a drug user. They believe if you used drugs you shouldn't be at their meetings. Thank God it isn't that way at all the meetings. The bigger ones aren't like that.

I have thought of going to meetings just for the purpose of fellowship but then again I don't do well in crowds or meeting new people. Kind of a catch-22.

He is not on any anti psychotics, and I hate him being on the Prozac. I think if he were more careful about taking his meds and making sure he did it everyday then he may not have such a lousy time with meds. Someone mentioned Intermittent Explosive Disorder to me and the symptoms sound so much like what he struggles with. He has never had an EEG. I would like to see what the results would be like.

Anyway, different forum lol.

Teddie we miss your readings, won't you post one once in a while?

I am sorry your glasses got broke Phil, I use to go through glasses like crazy. Now I just got a notice from my insurance that due to state budget cuts there are a whole slew of things my insurance will no longer cover, eye exams being one of them. Thanks God mental health is still covered.

I find it just amazing how many that are in recovery have psych and physical problems. Does anyone who would be completely 'normal' without drugs and alcohol recover and not have any kind of problems? Do we just not hear about them? Does that make any sense?

[sishta_sly]

Hi again, all!

LEE????!!!! OMG, GOOD to see you!!! WOW!!! GREAT to see you!!

Phil ~ Hope you don't have to wear those glasses out in public?! :eek: LOL... Dang, though... That sucks.

Houghchrst ~ That's a good question... I think that when many people become clean/sober, maybe that's when those psychological problems come out? When we stop stuffing them by using alcohol and drugs then they have to come out some way? And they come out in the form of depression, OCD, things like that. Don't know if that makes sense but yeah... Something like that?

It's late... Thought I'd stop in and see what's up. My son has *gasp* FOUR friends over? The house is FULL of boys... It smells? LOL... Not really, but I've gotta get them to relax a bit now so I can go to bed!!

Night all... Have a fabulous rest-of-the-weekend. :) ~ Sly

[teddiebears]

Nice to see you starting roll calls Phil. Sorry I haven't been around the past week. Haven't been feeling very good and I just wasn't on the computer.

I had another exacerbation of my COPD from trying to do too much out in the heat and humidity. Stupidly, I wasn't taking my medicine exactly as I should, and I wasn't using my oxygen like I'm supposed to either when I'm being active like that, so (big surprise :rolleyes:) I had a flare-up and spent several days on prednisone and oxygen 24/7, as well as resting (was really sleeping a lot). Luckily I was feeling some better by Wednesday (Aug 5) so my son and his family could take me out to eat for my birthday. :D That was very nice!! I've been taking it easy since then though. I don't want to end up with pneumonia this time. ;)

Nice to see Lee, Christine, Alice and sly posting (hope I didn't forget someone). I only skimmed over all the posts so I can't respond to everyone or everything each of you posted right now, but I plan to read them more carefully in the next day or two and then I'll try to say more. lol

Thanks everyone for the kind words about my posts/readings.