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Dear Bettie! I probably thought Detroit was in Illinois. Shows how much I know about US geography. That’s great that you’re not working on the 12th. I’ll have to check our itinerary and see what time we arrive in Chicago. I mailed off my registration form yesterday with the US money order. So Reds and I are good to go now. Carole
Dear Larry! I was able to book the Indian Resort hotel online but I needed to put in GA on the right hand side where it talks about special offers, promotions, and I also checked the box for discount for booking early. I would spend as much gambling in one night as the whole trip is going to cost, but now I’m always looking for discounts, sales, coupons, etc. LOL! For the conference registration Reds and I booked for the meals as part of our package. I believe it’s option A. Reds and I are travelling down on the 12th and staying overnight in Chicago and are hoping to find something interesting to do that evening, with Bettie, before we leave for the conference the following morning. I’m hoping the April conference wins out and is the 12th a possibility to hang out with us?? Carole
Dear Bettie! I have forwarded that link you sent me for the GA conference registration form to my daughter as my printer is disconnected and buried under a paint drop cloth at the moment. I will see her later today as I’m babysitting the two grandkids tonight so she can go to an exercise class. The link opened so now it’s to get a US money order and a US stamp and away it will go. Hopefully we’ll all be able to get together on the evening of the 12th in Chicago and do something. There’s a TV show here called Hard Core Pawn and I understand it’s in a not so nice area of Chicago. Ever gone there just to look? Or maybe I’ll email Oprah and see if we can hang out with her that evening. What ideas do you have that we could do? Carole
Dear Bettie! Reds and I have purchased our flights to go to the conference and I’ve booked you and I a room at the Indian Resort- 2 queen beds, non-smoking for the 13th and the 14th. We are travelling to Chicago on the 12th and staying in a hotel overnight there before the conference. We have both been unable to open the link to register for the darn conference. Could you send the application for the conference to me as an email attachment, and the costs with the meals. Yeah! I wish I had the last 10 pounds to lose. Lol! Carole
Dear Bettie! That was brilliant what’s posted on your thread. That’s the thing: which wolf will we feed. Talked to Reds on chat today and I told her we were going to the conference and I invited her to come along. She said she would like to so we would fly out together from Edmonton.I’m trying to talk Vera into the conference too and she’s already looked up flight prices. Lol! Carole
Dear Larry, Reds is also coming to the conference. Her and I will fly out of Edmonton together. We want you to go to the conference and hang out with us. Carole
Dear Kathryn! I reread all of your postings on your thread. I see that I have only posted three times to you since I have been in recovery for over a year. ME BAD! You have done brilliantly in your recovery. Sorry to hear your Mom has been diagnosed with Altzeimer’s; such a cruel disease. Her refusing to sit at the Christmas luncheon table and giving you the evil eye, gave me a bit of a chuckle. I have a sister named Jennifer also; she is a nurse also. She is the one that tried to suicide a week ago. She will be going into rehab for alcoholism. We all have our poison; mine was gambling. I see that you and Jode like to watch the Amazing Race and Survivor. After I watched the African Survivor I searched the net and found out exactly it had been filmed and booked a trip to the Masa Mera and we stayed in 5 star lodges and 5 star tented camps. We would go on 3 safaris a day, and even went on a nightime safari. It had been my dream to go to Africa and I fell in total love with the country. We also went to Egypt that trip and to the Valley of the Kings, Egyptian Museum. It was totally fabulous! I’m an avid recycler also. Happy Recovery Day!! Carole
Dear Kathryn! Thank you for the post on my thread. In the next day or so, I am going to read your thread from start to finis, as I want to get to know you better. Carole
Dear Larry! Thanks for the post on my thread. You’re right I did raise an amazing daughter! She is no longer involved in managing any of my financial affairs. I manage them myself now, and I do that with mental banning. That would be so awesome if the three of us could hang out at the Illinois conference. Please go as Bettie and I would love to meet you. We’ll be the two cute chubby chicks there. Carole
Dear Bettie! You weren’t alone in your struggle with gambling thoughts yesterday. I struggled too but here we are gamble free for another day. I even started my car to see if it would start should I decide to go to town to "run errands". Problem is that life will continually throw some sort of challenge at us, some bigger than others, and that we can’t go through life gambling to deal with our problems, like my daughter has told me. Who raised this kid that has told me that I can leave her house angry if I want, but that she wasn’t giving me any money to gamble with? And this is after I gave her $2,000 I had won, for my granddaughter’s education fund. And she still had the cash in her house! The nerve of her!! Lol! The days we struggle with gambling thoughts or urges will pass too, even though we are white knuckling it some days. It does look like I am going to be able to attend the April conference. You’re going to have to set up how we should do this, like where I should fly into, and what date, etc as I don’t have a clue. Then I can start watching for a good price on flights. How soon do we have to register? And how do we go about booking the hotel? Carole
So sorry to hear that Bettie! Carole
Dear Larry! Sorry to hear that your medical condition has progressed. I have a morning routine that includes several cups of coffee, and if that is disturbed because of blood work or some other reason, I don’t like it much. I didn’t start drinking coffee until my later 20’s. I prefer an uneventful life and just plodding along day by day, but unfortunately life isn’t always without its challenges. I am healthily concerned (I said I would address worry this year) about my sister who lives in Texas. She is a registered nurse, an alcoholic, and tried to suicide Friday with 200 pills. She is presently in a behavioral hospital as they assess if she is still a risk to herself. Plans are to get her into a residential rehab centre when she is stable and they can find a bed. My sister has never addressed her traumas/losses, preferring to work on the outside with cosmetic surgery, and the best of everything life has to offer. It’s always been about outward appearances, and never about the deep emotional pain we have both suffered. Her physician has told her that her liver is already damaged due to the alcohol abuse. I am concerned that I am going to lose my sister to alcoholism or to suicide. I realize that this is healing journey she has to choose to go on, and that nobody can work her recovery for her. I am trying to live in today and am just expressing my concern for her. Having lost my brother three years ago tragically, is not something I want to go through again so soon. My gambling spiralled out of control after Ron died. I know that you lost a brother and for the life of me can’t even imagine how you got through that without gambling. Carole
Dear Bettie! Just checking in on you and to see how you are doing. What time is Jenn’s appointment on Tuesday? I’ll be thinking of you two. My husband went back to work this afternoon, so I’m alone again. If you can call alone with three big dogs, a small dog, and my cat, and a jigsaw puzzle. Carole
Dear Bettie! I am so sorry that Jen lost the baby, and with that all the hopes and dreams that you both had. Carole
Dear Larry! I agree with you that in early recovery, we have to be supervigilant in the planning of our time so that we do not put ourselves in situations that we don’t yet have the skills to handle. I do have access to money now after a year of recovery work, because I have a debit card that I carry, with a withdrawl limit that I would gamble with, should I choose to. I also carry a credit card that allows me to access cash should I choose to do so. But I don’t go to town if I have gambling urges or I take a neighbour with me. I pay my bills online so I rarely have to go into the bank. I still put in barriers but they are more mental barriers. If carrying these cards became a problem for me, I would go back to not having access to enough cash to gamble with. I am responsible for the choices I make. Carole