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eastwester 
12:09am, August 30, 2009
Just back from a great little holiday in the big (little) city......was lots of fun......holiday on the waterfront downtown....street music, performers, art, crafts, boat rides, fireworks, great snacks, good new restaurants to check out (excellent English style afternoon tea in a lovely rose garden overlooking the inlet).....a nice drive in the countryside, fresh strawberries for lunch, a mama quail with her brood of chicks chanced upon on a country road, the smell of fresh-cut hay, beautiful fields and hillsides of wildflowers, gorgeous summer days and warm dry nights, the love and companionship of a special someone to share it all with.......
.......never had nice things like this in my life when I was still feeding my addictions....... oh, the stuff was there, but I never saw it, never felt the goodness of it.......didn't appreciate God's gifts..... was looking for something else, something different, something more.......something that I never ever found....... until I found recovery.
I was really fortunate.......I got my life back. These past few days, I lived a bit of it. Nice, really nice.
I'm finished with gambling.
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I can just feel the peacefulness in you, the pleasure in the little things previously ignored...Awesome!!!
It's about time cause you deserve it.
serenityseeker
Wow, that sounds just wonderful. You are an inspiration... also a really good descriptive writer. Happy Independence Day.
Jas1234
Sounds like a great Vacation, you deserve it, you worked hard to get where you are at. Take Care, Hugs Steph
Steph55
Me, too. Eastwester...I'm done with gambling and it feels so good. Recovery has brought me to a better way of living, unlike anything I've ever experienced before. How can you explain to someone else what peace of mind feels like? Or the concept of one day at a time? It took forever, it took one day at a time. Thanks for sharing your "date" with us...you know we're eating it up! LOL Your holiday sounded spendid! Someone special, I thank God for someone special in all our life's, for all the special people in our life's. We wouldn't know each other if it wasn't for our addictions, thank God for our addictions! Now I'm on a roll...simple put, thank God for recovery! BIG HUGS
Moyer
Mikey.........ahhhhhhhh the splendor of 'Gods ARtistry..........food,, smells.. sights..
Just Living in the moment. absorbing '..WTG..
Sounds like you need some more 'of holidays. lol......cuz 'they sure leave good memories eh ?..
Be well
Sandra gams5.love yah..
gams5
Yes, I agree with you that when a person is GF, he/she may enjoy more life.
Gambling was taking me 4 to 6 hours daily, every day.
This past weekend I didn't gamble and I had time left to give myself a beauty treatment.
Keep on enjoying life!
WTWL