I'm ALIVE!!!

Cold/cough is gone and I feel human again... I'm awake, showered, dressed, the dishwasher is clean and unloaded,  the bed is made and laundry is sorted for tomorrow. However, I'm debating on whether I'm going to do it tomorrow. Tomorrow is a very special day for me, and I think I'm going to go do something special for myself. I don't know what yet. Tomorrow I celebrate 19 YEARS of being clean and sober. My life since March 12, 1995 has taken many twists and turns, and for the better. It hasn't been without it's struggles, but the joy of it all is that I didn't have to drink or use over it, that my higher power has my back. My higher power and a tremendous support system of friends and family, and my biggest cheerleader of all, my husband David. We met before I got sober, at a Navy event in Seattle. Fortunately I wasn't drunk then or we may have never happened. He was cute, and I asked to 'borrow his shoulder' to rest on for the ride home back to base. He gave me his phone number, and I gave him mine... Then a lot went wrong for me and I found myself in rehab for 28 days and when I got out he called me, and just offered to talk and be a friend. After dealing with rotten relationships I was terrified and tried to end the phone call, said I was going to the galley to have dinner. Well, he offered to take me to the new Mexican place in town. The rest is history... God truly put him in my life for a reason.

Here we are on our 10th wedding anniversary in SF.