A Diamond of the First Water

1. Abstinence and sobriety
2. Another day of planned active rest. I'm doing the Shortcut to Size routine on BodyBuilding.com. It's keeping me from overdoing it because it has four lifting days, once body part each day, as well as three planned active rest days. Seems like regular exercise is taking the edge off of life like prayer and meditation does.
Family portraits today, then a few hours in Baltimore Harbor, then indoor skydiving with the fam.
4. Just the right amount of soreness - enough to feel my last workout when I move, but not so much that I am in agony or simply can't move at all. I've been there many times.
5. I'm not taking it personally that one of my sponsees has dropped off the radar.

Gratitudes:

1. Sober and ABSTINENT! Day Three.
2. Was able to call off work this AM for this morning's GI issues.
3. My doggies' love.
4. Hubby will be back tonight! He's been gone a week.
5. Got about half of my stack of essays graded. That took two hours! And I'll have more to assess tonight. Whew. I'm behind the 8-Ball, that's for sure.

I feel connected to HP this morning just enough to know I really need to live in the program today. I need to do a lot of food prep for the week so that abstinent eating is the easier choice. I was going to go do some photography in downtown D.C. but it's supposed to rain all day. So my day is open for "extra" program work. (G-d knows I need this additional jolt of program.)

Gratitudes:
1. Sobriety and abstinence (still tightening up).
2. Great AA talk by Tattoo Steven on a podcast.
3. I learned that 12 steppers, who are in public and want to use, sometimes ask the for the public address system to page, "A friend of Bill and Bob."
4. That even though hubby is gone and I don't have any witnesses, I still don't feel like I want to pick up. I could "get away with it" (because there are no witnesses), but G-d is keeping the disease away.
5. That you all are here.

 Gratitudes:

I am part of a 10 person texting group with fellow OAers from the A Vision for You phone meeting. Among other things, we share five daily gratitudes. I think I'll start copying them to here. I'd love to hear all of yours, too!

Gratitudes:
1. Sobriety and abstinence in partnership with G-d. (I've learned that if I say abstinence is entirely a gift, then l have an excuse to not put the footwork in and can abdicate responsibility.)
2. Discovering abstinent foods, combinations, and preparation methods that are both abstinent and compliant with Passover.
3. My sponsee calls got me into program/recovery thinking right away today and I needed it.
4. Learning that the root of my physical pains is probably inflammation which may be controllable via proper diet.
5. A gorgeous day - I have no excuse to not go run/walk around the neighborhood. This is my first attempt at running at all for many years. I'm hoping the 55 lbs. I have off are enough to run safely. I'll be watching my knees.