Met with my sponsor SEP for my fifth step last saturday. It was a really informative experience. She took my faults and showed that the opposite assetts needs to replace them, kind of like an absessed tooth being filled. The whole thing took about 3 hours. SEP doesn't shirk on the time she spends with me.
Bird has been sick with pleursy. Went to visit with her and keep her company Sunday night. It was a nice visit. Spent an hour and a half with her while Tiger went to an Al Anon meeting. We talked about AA stuff, of course.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Yesterday I celebrated my 2 month soberity. My new sponsor gave me a medallion "Change". I thought that was real sweet of her. Then my sponsor, another and I went out to Boom, a gay restaraunt for dinner. It was a nice time.
I think my new sponsor is really going to help me with my problem with staying sober this past year. We have been partnered now for nearly 3 weeks and we have met at least that many times face to face, and then the phone calls where she has called me just because she was thinking of me. My last sponsor never met me face to face, much to my frustration, and she never called me to check up on me. It was all on me. So I am really cherishing this new sponsor whom I shall name SEP. SEP has me working on my fourth step finally. I was tired of being on the first 3 steps since 2008, it was time to move on and SEP agreed. Next is step 5 where I sit down and talk with her about step four, my faults and strengths. She insisted that step 4 include strengths too, that the purpose was not to be a self-flagellation but an inventory of ones morals, which includes positive and negative. It was hard to come up with positives. She had me come up with double the positives to the negatives, real tough but I did it.
I am finally feeling really comfortable at LLL. I have been going to AA nearly every night and enjoying it. It has taken 2 1/2 years, so it is about time. I am making good friends now. My one good buddy whom I will call Bird is pretty special to me. She really made an effort to befriend me. She'd call when she thought that I was down and maybe headed for trouble. I thought that was pretty special of Bird. Bird's got a great sense of humor and seems to get my sense of humor as well.
I have an Advisory Board Meeting I have to chair today and I am a nervous wreck about it. I am no public speaker. Also there will be alcohol there, and I know the smell of it will play havoc on my senses. But one thing I can be sure of; when I get home today, Bird will call to check and make sure that I am okay. I think that is a pretty special friend.
Well, I don't have anything profound to write about so I am going to sign off.
I think my new sponsor is really going to help me with my problem with staying sober this past year. We have been partnered now for nearly 3 weeks and we have met at least that many times face to face, and then the phone calls where she has called me just because she was thinking of me. My last sponsor never met me face to face, much to my frustration, and she never called me to check up on me. It was all on me. So I am really cherishing this new sponsor whom I shall name SEP. SEP has me working on my fourth step finally. I was tired of being on the first 3 steps since 2008, it was time to move on and SEP agreed. Next is step 5 where I sit down and talk with her about step four, my faults and strengths. She insisted that step 4 include strengths too, that the purpose was not to be a self-flagellation but an inventory of ones morals, which includes positive and negative. It was hard to come up with positives. She had me come up with double the positives to the negatives, real tough but I did it.
I am finally feeling really comfortable at LLL. I have been going to AA nearly every night and enjoying it. It has taken 2 1/2 years, so it is about time. I am making good friends now. My one good buddy whom I will call Bird is pretty special to me. She really made an effort to befriend me. She'd call when she thought that I was down and maybe headed for trouble. I thought that was pretty special of Bird. Bird's got a great sense of humor and seems to get my sense of humor as well.
I have an Advisory Board Meeting I have to chair today and I am a nervous wreck about it. I am no public speaker. Also there will be alcohol there, and I know the smell of it will play havoc on my senses. But one thing I can be sure of; when I get home today, Bird will call to check and make sure that I am okay. I think that is a pretty special friend.
Well, I don't have anything profound to write about so I am going to sign off.
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