G'day Friends,
Well, it's less than a week to go of my year of sobriety, and I've got to say that in hindsight I've really enjoyed the year of not drinking. While I've come nowhere near to completing the 60(ish) items on my sobriety list, I've done so many things that I wouldn't have considered doing if I'd been spending my weekends and spare time hung over, and I'm glad of that.
Today saw the completion of the precursors to my Compeer friendship, which (for anyone who isn't aware) is a friendship/mentoring program for people with (or recovering from) some form of mental illness.
After meeting Cliff (my Compeer friend) on Monday, we had our first social outing today, which consisted of meeting up at Town Hall station, grabbing a coffee from Gloria Jeans, and then (doing what I do best) going for a walk around the parks and gardens of the city, followed by Cliff showing me the alphabet in sign language (which I have since forgotten the vast majority of haha).
I did have on my original sobriety list to become involved in the big brother mentoring program, but I'll count this as covering that item, as it's much the same concept.
I'm pretty happy that I'm (hopefully) having a positive impact on someone's life, and can only hope that Cliff is taking something away from our friendship.
Amusingly enough, I made my facebook status something about going on a 'date' with my Compeer friend Cliff, which yielded a phone call from my older brother who was concerned that I was going on a romantic date with a man! God bless him :) Surely he realises by now that I consider romance the domain of those who are uncomfortable with their own company :P
Well, on a home note, my new (but old) dog Suzie is definitely finding her comfort zone in my home now. She's quite happy wandering around by herself now (as I noticed while I was trying to get to sleep last night :) ), and even managed to find her voice to bark at something out the window this morning (making me nearly jump out of my skin, as I wasn't expecting her to bark!)
I also had the vet come by today to check her out and she confirmed that Suzie has a bit of arthritis in her hind legs, and has put her on a course of 4 weekly injections, which apparently works on 2/3 of arthritic dogs, so fingers crossed it works on Suzie.
She is also in need of a good cleaning of her teeth (which would explain her pungent breath), and Romy (the vet) said that she'd do that when she comes next week for the second injection. Apparently Suzie also has a very mild heart murmur, but Romy said that it was nothing to worry about and we should just monitor it at the moment.
Romy also said that we can do a test to check if Suzie has been treated for heart worm, and treat her if required.
Well, that pretty much covers my day today......well, that and about 6 episodes of Grand Designs, Season 11. I love that show!
Over the past few days, I've been busy, but relaxed. I went out to visit my friend Claws yesterday morning for an hour or so. I actually spent more time on the train, to and from Ingleburn, than I did visiting, but I was meant to have my catch up with Cliff yesterday, so thought that I had to be back in town in time for that.
Tuesday consisted of me trying to get Suzie used to her new home, and totally forgetting about a pre-planned lunch date with my friend Freya........apparently I forgot to set a reminder in my phone's diary, and therefore was completely unaware of my failing until I found the missed call on my phone from the lady in question!
Well, that's about the bulk of my news for now friends. I'm back at work tomorrow, and have the pleasure of joining a new watch, so that should be fun. I hope you all have a great weekend :)
Howie..
Well, it's less than a week to go of my year of sobriety, and I've got to say that in hindsight I've really enjoyed the year of not drinking. While I've come nowhere near to completing the 60(ish) items on my sobriety list, I've done so many things that I wouldn't have considered doing if I'd been spending my weekends and spare time hung over, and I'm glad of that.
Today saw the completion of the precursors to my Compeer friendship, which (for anyone who isn't aware) is a friendship/mentoring program for people with (or recovering from) some form of mental illness.
After meeting Cliff (my Compeer friend) on Monday, we had our first social outing today, which consisted of meeting up at Town Hall station, grabbing a coffee from Gloria Jeans, and then (doing what I do best) going for a walk around the parks and gardens of the city, followed by Cliff showing me the alphabet in sign language (which I have since forgotten the vast majority of haha).
I did have on my original sobriety list to become involved in the big brother mentoring program, but I'll count this as covering that item, as it's much the same concept.
I'm pretty happy that I'm (hopefully) having a positive impact on someone's life, and can only hope that Cliff is taking something away from our friendship.
Amusingly enough, I made my facebook status something about going on a 'date' with my Compeer friend Cliff, which yielded a phone call from my older brother who was concerned that I was going on a romantic date with a man! God bless him :) Surely he realises by now that I consider romance the domain of those who are uncomfortable with their own company :P
Well, on a home note, my new (but old) dog Suzie is definitely finding her comfort zone in my home now. She's quite happy wandering around by herself now (as I noticed while I was trying to get to sleep last night :) ), and even managed to find her voice to bark at something out the window this morning (making me nearly jump out of my skin, as I wasn't expecting her to bark!)
I also had the vet come by today to check her out and she confirmed that Suzie has a bit of arthritis in her hind legs, and has put her on a course of 4 weekly injections, which apparently works on 2/3 of arthritic dogs, so fingers crossed it works on Suzie.
She is also in need of a good cleaning of her teeth (which would explain her pungent breath), and Romy (the vet) said that she'd do that when she comes next week for the second injection. Apparently Suzie also has a very mild heart murmur, but Romy said that it was nothing to worry about and we should just monitor it at the moment.
Romy also said that we can do a test to check if Suzie has been treated for heart worm, and treat her if required.
Well, that pretty much covers my day today......well, that and about 6 episodes of Grand Designs, Season 11. I love that show!
Over the past few days, I've been busy, but relaxed. I went out to visit my friend Claws yesterday morning for an hour or so. I actually spent more time on the train, to and from Ingleburn, than I did visiting, but I was meant to have my catch up with Cliff yesterday, so thought that I had to be back in town in time for that.
Tuesday consisted of me trying to get Suzie used to her new home, and totally forgetting about a pre-planned lunch date with my friend Freya........apparently I forgot to set a reminder in my phone's diary, and therefore was completely unaware of my failing until I found the missed call on my phone from the lady in question!
Well, that's about the bulk of my news for now friends. I'm back at work tomorrow, and have the pleasure of joining a new watch, so that should be fun. I hope you all have a great weekend :)
Howie..
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