No more .. Gambling, Drugs, Booze

I'm not tired of it. I feel like this is something I should do as well. It's not easy though with down time available. If i'm busy i'm ok, but if I get downtime my first thought is to find a game and put some money on it. And I figure since I am doing that I might as well have a drink. And we all know it never stops at 1.

I encourage you to keep this thread going and keep us updated on all aspects of it. The sobriety, what you do to fill your time, what you do to avoid gambling, how the house/property search goes.....all of it.

OK Detox. I'm bumping this thread to tell my story from last night and why I will be joining you on the wagon of sobriety. Not ready to give up the gambling but the drinking has to go. It's ruining my life and costing me more money than gambling is.

Long story short some fat fuck at L.A. Live(the place next door to Staples Center) wanted to fight me for no reason at all. He just didn't like me, I didn't even notice him before he started talking shit to me. Him and his four boys confronted my friend and I outside of the bar as we were trying to get in a cab and avoid a fight and, in turn, avoid spending the night in jail. This box ends up sucker punching my friend as were getting in the cab. Then, like Carmello Anthony has the nerve to talk shit as he and his friends are running down the block. I still don't know why these guys had a problem with me.

That's it for drinking for me. It cost to much money, I feel like shit the next day, and for the most part nothing but bad things happen when I do drink. I can honestly say drinking ruined my night because had I not been in a bar last night the above story doesn't happen. Even if my friend and I did nothing wrong, we still put ourselves in that position......because of alcohol. Oh yeah, and I feel like shit today thanks to my hangover.

i have not had a drink or drug since i started this thread.

Keep it up.

After last night, i'm with you on the sobriety wagon.

its a tough ride my friend.

buckle up.

thanks for the support

drinking got me a night and a day in jail

 i go to church twice a week i have kids, i volunteer for my community, capt. of my accademy, and if i didn't get this off my record everything that i had worked for and dreamed of since i was 6 will be gone. the arrest lost me an amazing job, most full filing job you could imagine and i had a vehicle to go where ever i needed to as well.

also i could have lost my wife and kids, I've been in the news paper three times for good samaritan works and to be in jail fucked me up, it broke me so fast, my mother was the one to pick me up from jail, i made my mom cry- all of the all time lows were back to back- i broke. i missed a month of my kids and wifes life, i had a baby at the time and to not see hear was the worst

im so blessed, and to be a scumbag for booze? i will never forget it, i have drank one time since and my wife and kids were out of town, i didn't even get drunk

the first year w/o booze was hard, im a sports fan, all sports and i was always the guy at the party that would hold his own but would drink anything, but not the loud dbag- i was chill, always was, it was only one time that shit got bad but it was very bad

after a year its easy, you think your gonna have a great time and do all these things drunk and feel great but honestly being drunk sucks! you feel warm and thirsty for water,and the next day like shit, what i do when i feel like i want to drink is I get a large glass of ice water and i enjoy not feeling everything booze makes you feel

also when you have kids and you're up 3 times in the middle of the night and then they wake up at 7am... its no fun

people like to laugh and make fun of alky"s and junkies. they think that its a weak person ..... a person without will.

but ..... it's a real disease. if i take one .... it's going to call for another and another and another and another.

my brain does not work right when it comes to booze and drugs.

a normal person looking at a drug addict would be like me watching a guy burn his hand on the stove over and over and over again.

something is just off. they call it a physical allergy in aa .... the dr's don''t know what to do about it. the counselors don't know what to do about. the fucking US govt doesn't know what to do about it.

the only answer is ..... don't take the first one.

^^ worst answer. meetings help. GL Gents

1st post.

 This a great place. Some smart people around here. But, just like any other place .... it has its share of morons. You'll figure it out. It's rather simple.

just don't get thrown in the penalty box.

^^ thats right mess.

unbelievable how hard it is.

i wonder how many other sober dudes are lying in the weeds around here. i bet a good fuckingamount.

i knew it when you told the dude to wear the baby blue lacoste and pink pants that you were one.  

thanks for putting in my place though. spot on.

mess ... i had 3.5 years of sobriety and picked up a drink.

unfuckingbelievable.

now .... day 10 or some shit. fucking miserable.

Mikado  

youre right. pina colada ............. for a ten year old.

but ..... its all good.