Alcohol self help thread II

lewt

little steps, good one beer.

lewt

Right then, I'm iff for my first interveiw today. got me suit on and am just sitting wondering weather to tell them ofmy illness or not. the reason i would is cause i have to chair the meetings on tuesday.. i'll play it by ear.

wish me luck. i'll let you know how i got on later...

brodev

i have been reading with interest the posts about people winding us up. this happened to me a lot. Then someone told me that a digital watch cannot be wound up. I asked what he meant and he said that only someone who was capable of being wound up would be wound up. the thing for me to do was to change to being a "digital" person and not allow myself to be wound up. When I eventually agreed to try this i found that gradually it worked. I find now that it is quite difficult for someone to wind me up.
Lewt I have never told anyone at an interview that I am an alcoholic. I am not ashamed. It is just that I will not open myself to the predudice of someone in authority.

Al_Mac

How do I become a digital watch then?

I wouldn't tell either, shouldn't be important ;0 Maybe in time you could put it into a conversation, after you have got it and proved you can do it

aase

A good Sobriety Calculator for those of us who are useless at working out how long its been.

brodev

Al_Mac wrote:

How do I become a digital watch then?

I was told that the first step was to recognise that everybody had the right to their opinion "even when it was wrong" and even when it was about me. I also had to recognise my comparative unimportance in life. The universe did not revolve round me.

beer2006

Al_Mac wrote:

How do I become a digital watch then?

I wouldn't tell either, shouldn't be important ;0 Maybe in time you could put it into a conversation, after you have got it and proved you can do it

You are only allowed to think in 1's and 0's

1000111000 11100001 see? Its quarter to three.

suffolkb

Thanks for the calculator. I am 2003 days sober.

beer2006

aase wrote:

A good Sobriety Calculator for those of us who are useless at working out how long its been.

Thanks, don't think you have posted here before?
Any story to share?

aase

No story to tell really, just the standard recovering alcoholic one