Our little group is surviving. Looking into paperback Big Books for the newbies who have to get their court papers signed. And if they keep coming maybe they can buy their own hardback editions.The survival of the individual and the survival of group are both important. My old sponsor used to tell me that AA is for other people and it really is important to show up to get help as well as to give help.

We had a meeting with the topic of rigorous honesty. I came up with I honestly glad to be there.

Good work Roy

I remember spending an afternoon pulling staples out of The Grapevine.....and sewing em' back together with dental floss so we could send em' to inmates. It sounds boring.....but it was a good time. I miss those times now that I think about it. I've been outta' the program for awhile and really should get involved again. I really need to face some issues. Haven't been to a meeting now in about a year. I got embarrassed the last time I relapsed. Dread going back to a meeting and getting the 24 hour chip. But.....Hey.....it's a program of rigorous honesty, right? I plan on attending again.......

hi all, today is the beginning of founders day weekend in Akron Ohio. birthplace of AA. Ill be down there all weekend both working and having a good time. If youve never been there, try to make it. its held at Akron University. Its fun to see 25000 drunks take over the U!

I am picking up some sugar and cream for our little group we have locally. I am sure the church will appreciate us using our own sugar and cream for a change.

1 year this week

Congratulation on the one year.

Congrats, keep up the good work

One of my best friends used to be an alcoholic. Of course, it takes a lot of time to fully recover. There is no fast recovery. Only you will know when you're fully ready to give it up. You can't help it. If anyone is nagging at you for being alcoholic, then they are just being ignorant, imo. Just don't like seeing people being shouted at, when the facts of WHY they became alcoholics aren't looked at properly. Ignorant people only care to see the physical aspect of it, which doesn't help, e.g "You look a state" or "You just don't look like the old you anymore", etc. Of course, what do they know? Good luck to everyone here. :)

We had a good meeting tonight. A newcomer asked me if I could sign his court paper for twelve meetings because his parole officer was getting on his case about not attending meetings. He rushed over to me before his wife could talk to me with him. I told him that we sign court papers after the meetings because my sponsor had got on my case about signing papers for people who haven't attended meetings. His wife got to me beside him telling him that they could make the meetings together and that she would get him to the meetings since she could understand his frustration of wanting to please the parole officer since she too was an alcoholic. He was worried about having to go back to prison if he didn't have his paper filled up with signatures. Nagging isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

practice one new word at a time.
they will add up without pressure.

after you learn most words you will want to
write in code...or abbreviation..like we do
when texting..

take 1 hour at a time, get a daily relationship
with our 'lord and savior, JESUS CHRIST
read his '.'.'holy word daily, thank GOD' that
he gave you life each and every day. when you
are grateful for your life that is the only time
it gets better. we get NO LIFE that is good without
first thanking 'him' and being grateful that we live.
watch the blessing flow in your life__it works...

That is a part of my own, "How It Works".

I am glad to see that we are getting retreads coming back to the meetings. I didn't have to have a meeting just where there was only one person at the meeting.

I was ten minutes late last meeting but our treasurer signed the papers for the treatment people. tonight was great as we had eleven members. My sponsor was worried about running over late but he is retired and I am still on vacation. One of our members who used to come to our meetings brought back two keys which I gave out to night just in case I have to be late or have to work. I was glad to see the meeting grow again. The new pastor is behind us which is good because we were worried about being able to keep up our seventh tradition.

We are glad to be getting help from our sister group. We are getting retreads, rehabs and new comers to our little group. Our little group is surviving and soon we may have enough members to have a successful business meeting and a group conscience. As the fines and the high cost of low living makes a dent in our local economy it definitely has an effect on some of our members' moments of clarity.

I used to be a town drunk but I quit cold turkey one afternoon when I woke up and started Aikido the next day, went 1 year without a single drop and today I can drink or not drink and makes no difference to me. I'll have a few beers or whisky or something and then not touch the stuff for weeks. I tend to not get loaded anymore but maybe catch a buzz and ride it out.

Aa stands for alcoholic anönomous, its a support group for people who are adicted to alcohol. The people attend regular meetings sharing their private experience and strugles with alcohol,these meetings are private and no one talks out.there is also a suport group for people who have alcoholic partners,since they are the once sufring the most and then there are an alateen group for the poor children sufring cause the parents drink. Athe aa there is a 12steprogram guiding and encouraging alcoholics notn drink. Some people gets addicted to alcohol and simply cant stop drinking until there almost dead.if you drink2much lookup your local aa,they can help. I havriends that are alcoholics and they have stopdrinkingfor40years,they invited metotheir meetings,however i am not an alcoholic, i can have 1drink every month or once a year,i cant get adictd2 alcohl,howevr i dont like drinking alchl its poisn2yr body and i have seen how it can destroy families.for those strugling, be strong,dont let drugs and alcohl control your life.take cöntrol of your life and say no to drugs and alcohl.take it one day at a time, and say when you wakup inthe morning, only today i will notdrink or take drugs.one day at a thme does it.just 4today dont drink.if you can c what your drinking does toyour children you wil nevr drnk again.

Im Home...

There few reasons someone with 40+ years of sobriety would invite someone to an AA meeting.

1) They're confident who they're inviting has a problem and would like for them to seek help.

2) They want you to get to know them better

3) They really want to scare you into an Al-anon meeting.