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Happy Birthday Larry. May this year, and each additional year of your life, be more and more rewarding.
2 years is a fantastic accomplishment! Congratulations! And thanks for taking time to share so much guidance and insight to the rest of us.
Sorry your mom let you down. Our parents can really get to us no matter how old we are.
Someone gave me a coleslaw recipe and it made me think of you (the cabbage soup that stunk up the house). Anyway, I made it last night. It was really good but after I finished my mouth and lips were burning from the jalepenos(didn’t burn while I was eating it though). It’s supposed to help you lose weight and I can see how because I had to drink a few glasses of ice water before the fire went out and by that time I didn’t want anything else to eat. I’m thinking of eating it for every meal this weekend!
Enjoy your new home. It sounds wonderful.Thanks for taking the time to answer my ‘concern’. As I read through your thread, I saw that you took advantage of the Casino offers after you quit gambling. It sounded like they were cash and food. I don’t blame you for getting what ‘you were owed’…especially when it’s substantial.
I feel you are way ahead of me in recovery (and also a much deeper thinker than I am!) so I enjoy reading your insights and observations.
Happy 4th of July to you!Larry, I just read the beginning of your thread and remember reading it a few years ago. You are an amazing writer and you take a lot of time and thought in posting to others. I can almost picture your life in France. If you didn’t work, other than a house husband, how did you manage to have money for gambling? I know that’s all in the past and you don’t have to answer…I was just curious.
I’m going to go back and read more of your thread because I’m also curious to see if you ever self-excluded from the casinos in Missouri.
Very interesting thread!
Congratulations on the move to a nice house with a DISHWASHER!!! You do deserve it. Sorry you have to borrow from mom but it’s just a short loan and you know you’ll pay her back so don’t feel bad about it. Just think if it was your lovely daughter needing a loan. It would do your heart good knowing you could help and the same is probably true for your mom.
PS. Way to keep Dames ‘towing the line’. And if you can do it with just a talk and a ‘look’ you’ve got some great communicaton skills going.Sounds like you are understanding the step program…and feeling good about it. I have the book and might just get it out this weekend and work the steps too. It’s good to hear your progress.
Things are looking up for you Bettie! Your hard work is finally paying off.
Kathryn, the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Your daughter takes after her mother. That’s why it should be no surprise what a wonderful young women she turned out to be. Congratulations on your beautiful young daughter making it to 20 and you both still love each other. Those teenage years are sometimes tough!
Vera, we’re in day 7 of this month already! Time flies by that’s for sure. But life is so much better with 7 gamble free days then it would be with even 1 day of gambing. We deserve that good life and it’s ours for the choosing!If you want to know your past; look into your present conditions.If you want to know your future; look into your present actions.~Roy Mathews
I promise to start my own thread July 1st if you lead me through this month! No urges to gamble today. I think I’ve resigned that I made a promise to you and I’m going to stick to it. Also, it would have been my brother’s birthday June 12th and I want to honor and remember him the best way I know how. I know your sister is also your inspiration. For your sister’s memory and for my brother’s memory, anytime we think of gambling we can replace that thought with the love we have for them.
My husband and I are taking two of our granddaughters to see ‘Kung Fu Panda’. The youngest just turned 3 so I hope she can sit still for an hour and a half. Hope you have a good weekend. Hope everyone on this site has a good gamble-free weekend.If you want to know your past; look into your present conditions.If you want to know your future; look into your present actions.~Roy MathewsI felt like I was there, standing behind you, as you demanded to see the manager. (Of course cheering you all the way!) Way to take control and make yourself known! Way to go girl!
3 days down and 27 to go…ODAAT of course.If you want to know your past; look into your present conditions.If you want to know your future; look into your present actions.~Roy MathewsI just read through your thread and you’ve come a long way since January. I’m impressed that you came clean with ebay and paid back all your debt. No doubt you’ll kick that weed habit too.If you want to know your past; look into your present conditions.If you want to know your future; look into your present actions.~Roy Mathews
My sister does EFT. She has an Office and helps people with all kinds of things. She tries to do it on me but I’m too impatient to give it a chance.
I misunderstood you Geordie, I thought you were going to try weed to stop gambling. I hope you find what you need to quit. There are sleep aids that claim to be non-addictive. I’ve tried them on occaision and think they work great. That might help you get through the sleepless nights.
Hang in there Geordie. We’re all in this together.If you want to know your past; look into your present conditions.If you want to know your future; look into your present actions.~Roy MathewsVera, you have a way with words and I love to read anything and everything you write. I also do things to extreme because I never get the satisfaction I’m wanting. A bag of cookies, a whole pizza, 12 hours of gambling or any other self indulgent activity and my soul feels even emptier than before.
Mom still gambles with her friends but I think she is cutting back. I’ve had my slips and binges with gambling but I’m doing so much better than a few years ago. Vera, you were my inspiration as you had months and months and months without gambling. You can do it again. I can understand how some extra money is an excuse to visit the casinos…that’s exactly why I came here for your support. Hope that doesn’t sound selfish because I want to support you too! Have you heard from Marilee? I hope she is still doing good.
I think all us gamblers should pool our money, develop and patent the idea and get rich from the casinos instead of the other way around. Although, the casinos might not be profitable for long if everyone who ‘couldn’t stay away’ was forced to stay away. I know I’d purchase a sensor for the peace of mind knowing I couldn’t even enter a casino. Just think what we could do and plan for our lives if we knew there was no way that we could gamble for a year, 5 years or the rest of our lives! Vera, am I still just a dreamer?
Geordie, I’ve never smoked cannibus but I sure don’t need another ‘problem’. lol. If you try ‘weed therapy’, hope it works!
Vera, 1 easy June day done. Let’s do it again tomorrow.
If you want to know your past; look into your present conditions.If you want to know your future; look into your present actions.~Roy Mathews