My Shingles-Sense Is Tingling

Monday's list:

1. Gratitude:  I am grateful for another day sober today!  My wife.  My sober friends in and out of IOP.  My Shingles are starting to subside.
2. Daily Coping Skills:  Meditation and blogging.  
3. Daily Goal:  Look for a gig.  (Working on it.) 
4. PSA:  I can handle anything that comes into my life.

It's been a busy weekend of meetings, mostly.  Saturday's meeting was fun as I got to hang out with Tim and Jay, my pals from Residence.  Always nice to see them!  Tim also went in that same day for treatment on his PTSD.  I wished him well and said that if he needed to talk, just simply call.  I also got to spend a little time with my sponsor Lin.  It's his birthday this week, so I gave him a nice card.


Saturday's meeting dealt mostly with having your higher power removing your personal defects.  I'm still working on my list of defects.  I need to work on that before I can even begin to ask for help in removing them!  But overall it was a fairly decent meeting.  I was not alone in still being in the process of working on it.


We went grocery shopping afterwards and I am blaming the incredible deluge of rain Saturday afternoon that triggered a mild inflammation of my Shingles.  Stef and I were in the produce section when I said, "Someone's in trouble!"  She asked, "What?  Who?  What do you mean?"  I responded, "My Spiderbutt is tingling."  This got a laugh.  I like hearing her laugh, as she's got a great laugh and I've been returning to my normal self of dropping one-liners where appropriate for a laugh and getting them... rather than just being the laugh.


Anyway, I wasn't sure which comment was funnier, the Spiderbutt or the Shingle-Senses tingling... I'll just leave it be.


Sunday was the open meeting and first Sunday means a combo-platter of someone from Al-Anon and someone from AA.  Both speakers were really good.  It was also interesting that the Al-Anon speaker was a guy and the AA speaker was a woman.  That's usually the other way around.


Today was back at it with IOP.  New week, some new and retuning members.  It was nice to see Matt out of Residence.  He looked very well.  Sadly, he wasn't in the Men's Extension, but ended up in the co-ed group, which he said was a bit difficult.  He won't be part of our regular group, as Iggy is full up, so he's off to a different one.


We regulars weren't all too keen on this "new" process of meetings.  It's not like Iggy to ask us to fill in handouts or use clipboards.  So, we had to do that in regard to today's lesson.  It was again more about rewiring our brains to not deal with the "reward" but to work on coping skills.  We could've done that as we normally do... without clipboards... but his boss Bob was in the room monitoring, so he had to do it in the new fashion.


Back at it tomorrow morning!


One Day At A Time!