One hour it’s good, one hour it’s bad.
I knew the time was coming I just wasn’t sure when. I was on the way to the store the other day when I noticed I was out of cigarettes. I desperately wanted NOT to buy them so, instead, I went to the pharmacy and bought nicotine patches. […]
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by The User
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I am such a loser that I don’t have insurance so I have to just cringe when my 6 year old wakes me up crying at 2:30 am clutching his ’swimmers’ ear and tells me [that] “everyday it seems to get worser”
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by The Loser
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What sobriety has brought to my life is irreplaceable. I say that will 100% honesty.
This is also 100% honest. I get jealous sometimes. I see people who can control their drinking and I get mad at them. Some days the longing to drink responsibly overwhelms me (this is not to be […]
Posted on July 27th, 2007 by The User
Filed under: Life Can Rock, Life Can Suck, Addiction | 1 Comment »
This following list was written by William L. White who has a masters degree in addiction studies. I read it and said “DUH” to most of them but one in particular has been instrumental in my recovery - number 3. Number 3 enables all of the others to happen. It should […]
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by The User
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I awoke in a daze, unsure of what had happened the night before. What I remember, quite clearly, was going to see a movie, coming home, playing two games of Yahtzee, then going to bed.
My dreams were the culprit for the morning’s confusion.
I hadn’t had a using dream for months. In the early […]
Posted on July 15th, 2007 by The User
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I haven’t lived with my mother for 10 years but this picture hit home. The trust my family had in me as a teenager was undeserved. If they had only known then what I was doing with my free time.
Image borrowed from PostSecret
Posted on July 11th, 2007 by The User
Filed under: Before the Bad, Losers, Addiction | 2 Comments »
Do you want to know one of the most romantic words in my vocabulary?
Lice. Yup, lice. The little nasty bugs that invade, in this case, your head. Let me explain.
I once worked at a summer camp as a counselor. One of the campers was identified as having lice and as a […]
Posted on July 7th, 2007 by The User
Filed under: Before the Bad, girls, Life Can Rock | 1 Comment »
Update: FIXED. Apparently in the transfer, something happened to the archives and the single-post option. If you click on the title of the post it takes you to an error page. Working on this issue now.
The Loser really is a loser
Apparently he forgot that he was hosting this site on a […]
Posted on July 4th, 2007 by The User
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Be Impeccable With Your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
Don’t Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is […]
Posted on July 4th, 2007 by The User
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I’ve committed murder with words. I misrepresented someone of great importance to me for so long that in the minds of many people she is dead. I didn’t always lie, I just carefully chose what parts of a story to tell.
The truth is, I didn’t know enough of the story to be […]
Posted on July 1st, 2007 by The User
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