IntrinsicTina

Today is my 14-year AA birthday. Fourteen years ago today I re-committed myself to living sober. Life continues to have it's ups and downs and I continue to live my life without indulging in alcohol or mood-altering drugs. It's a good life. I don't always think so but I do today. I'm happy and healthy with room for improvement. I ought never to complain. A happy medium. I am told that is the best that I can hope for. Too much of a good thing or not enough can really send one around the bend. If that's true, then I'm exactly where I should be. Content.

(even without children) 1). Get up with alarm at 5:30 am (hit knees to ask God to direct my day), 2). Get self ready for work, (place a load of laundry in the washer), 3). Go to the bathroom, (clean out the toilet, pick-up any towels and put up new ones), 4). Grab lunch from refrigerator, prepare a nutritious breakfast of yogurt or whole grain cereal, (pick-up previous night's mess, time permitting), 5). Drive to work, stop off at Starbucks or Cutter's Point for a decent cup of coffee, 6). Work a full-time work schedule with a half hour lunch break, 7). Clock-out of work, stop off at bank and/or post office for the office on the way home, 8). Make any number of side trips on the way home such as: nursing home to visit husband's mother (drop off payment once-per-month); grocery store if something needed to make dinner or for the weekly shopping; Sam's Club for monthly AA cake and/or stop off at Chase to deposit weekly AA monies; Reber Ranch to pick-up wild bird f