For those subscribing to this site, a HUGE thank you! It is finally beginning to sink in how I have helped people. In turn, you have help me. I have begun my own life of sobriety again! Let me bring you up to speed with where I am in my life.

During my past weekend, I made a commitment to myself – I put down the drink. I recognize that just twenty four hours is just a start. I have a long journey ahead with a lot of work to accomplish to continue my life of sobriety. It’s going to take persistence, patience and a trust the process works. I know it does because I’ve lived it before.

I began with a search of a prayer I read out loud to myself every day, before I started doing anything, during my last sobriety. It was something I took from here and there, as well including words of my own. It is something very personal so it will never be published here. I have always believed prayers are stronger when you take them and make them personal.

Second, as many of you do, I have started reading each and every post – slowly, word by word. When I started this site, I wanted to bring in different viewpoints of how to stay sober through various sources. For instance, I need to let go of my past and not worry about the future. I just need to concentrate on today. I will stay sober for the next twenty-four hours.

Life can be stressful. I was put to the test last night at work and in the morning when I got home. Work is chaotic every day. Yesterday was no exception. Did I think about drinking? Yes. Did I talk myself out of it? With a lot of help from **looks above**. To sum up my day, I do things at work how they are suppose to be done while my co-workers don’t give a damn about how things are done. Perfectionist? Wasn’t that just in the one of the readings. Hmm. As my work night came to an end I had to let it go. It was in the past. What is in front of me right now.

Typically I come home play my game on my PC and drink. Didn’t do that. Instead I decided to make a pot of coffee, read the daily readings again and do something else. My financial situation has begun to turn into the dumps. There are various reasons for this (like my five cat feline family) thus I need to become more responsible in my spending. I began to review the charges on the various credit cards (I only have three). Wait..what…what is this? And again…what they hell is this charge of $80 per month of this same card from various “.com” services. So I decided to call the toll-free number associated with it. According to the woman I spoke to I signed up for a sweepstakes and after a trail period, I was being charged a subscription to various vendors who would give me “great” discounts (I am NOT stupid enough, drunk or sober to do such a thing!). During the conversation, I pointed inconsistences..my name spelled wrong, address a previous address and an old phone number (not giving them any of the correct information). I knew where this was leading – fraud. She didn’t want to hear any of it and talked over me, so I hung up. Next call was to the bank. The representative noticed over the last five months, I have had the same charge but billed under different companies. Thus, we cancelled the card and began a fraud investigation. When this was all said and done – I let it go.

I got home at 7:30is am. It was now 11:45am. It was time to go to bed. I was going to go to bed in peace. As I looked out the window it was snowing pretty good. Crap…the rent check is still in the mailbox. Ran out to get it, it was ruined. Texted the landlord. She was going to come and get a new check from me. I didn’t want her to drive all the way to my house in these bad conditions. Instead I’ll just walk to the post office tomorrow. It’s sent to their PO box in town, so it’ll get there the next day.

Got in bed shortly after, read a book on my tablet and finally went to sleep.

My morning (actually evening outside) I work up refreshed. I started my new daily routine and here I am.

I still have an hour to I get picked up for work, so I’m going continue to do some work on my sobriety. Good morning, evening or night where ever you are in the World. Thank you for helping keep me sober another twenty-four hours!

Thanks for listening!