LESS Alcohol ~ JANUARY 2023 ~ One Day At A Time

Hello! It’s Amanda, I’m back. It’s a new month and a new year! I’ve been thinking about 2022 and 2023. I’ve got some goals for the year and staying 98% AF is one of them. I love this group, I love this thread, it really works.

1/1-1/7: 7 out of 7 AF

1/8: AF
1/9: AF
1/10: AF
1/11: AF
1/12: AF
1/13: AF
So! Good news all around!!! All my scans came back clear! 🤩I can’t explain what a relief this is! Now I just need to get the genomic testing done on my tumor (in process) and then a plan will become clear. (I feel like I’ve been saying that for-ever!) Thank you everyone for all your support and prayers and thoughts💗 Chemo is still a likely possibility and radiation is a sure thing but having clear scans is such a gift!
In more good news, I adopted a new kitty yesterday! I will post pics later, I need votes on names. He is super cuddly and affectionate and a total chonk. He and Kramer have not met yet.
21 days AF

@joans1976 - I hear your relief in the scan results!!! Congrats! Keeping my fingers crossed that the rest of the testing will be clear.
My son's cats are Tom & George Roger is not a bad name. But I think I like something more ... I don't know ... cat like and unique LOL
Luna
Nova --- thinking of the Hubble Telescope images
Paris --- name after a place/city you want to go or love
Ollie

As you can see, hes a chonky boy. Hes joining MFP when he gets settled in. I have some Seinfeld names like Babu, Little Jerry, Morty, Cosmo. I also like Poetaytoes. And Sheldon. And Roger. And Romeo. Hes a very cuddly, rolly, soft, full of purrs cat. Busy. What do ya'll think?

AF last night and another early-to-bed night. Still trying to kick this headache.

SIL and nephews are visiting today. That will do little for the headache and staying AF, but I will persevere!



- Georgia

@joans1976 not only is your new kitty an adorable chonk - his face!!!! But before you abandon his name… there are many famous Rogers your kitty could aspire to be like. For instance Roger Moore, one of the English actors who played James Bond. Cats are all little international men of mystery anyway so he would have a head start. My cats are extremely musical so he might also incline towards people like Roger Waters (co founder of Pink Floyd) or Roger Daltrey (the Who). Or course as a rescue he might have the disposition of Roger Williams who wrote the song King of the Road (it starts off Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let 50 cents ….) about a man with little means who relishes his freedom (get him tagged!). Cats are generally athletic even if chonky, so maybe tennis player Roger Federer is a good role model for him. My kitties enjoy experimenting with gravity by batting things off of counters and shelves, so maybe baseball player Roger Clemens instead. If a boxing match breaks out when you introduce him to your other kitty then don’t despair — he could just be trying to be like Roger Mayweather. He looks like a very sweet boy, and certainly of discerning taste too to have chosen you as being worthy to take him home. His highly honed critical skills will likely exhibit themselves in various other ways (like trying to bury food you offer him). Don’t get offended. Despite his many thumbs his digits are not opposable, so he can’t do the thumbs up/down ratings that his namesake Roger Ebert did when rating movies. Of course as an academic I have to mention English philosopher and scientist Roger Bacon. He was an early proponent of experimentation in science to confirm beliefs through empirical testing. Some people condemned him as a heretic in cahoots with the devil, others said he was a wizard with mystical powers. In reality he was just a friar who liked to study and observe lights, lenses, mirrors and rainbows. How very cat like.
Enjoy your new buddy!!

Sinisterbarbie1 wrote: »

@joans1976 not only is your new kitty an adorable chonk - his face!!!! But before you abandon his name… there are many famous Rogers your kitty could aspire to be like. For instance Roger Moore, one of the English actors who played James Bond. Cats are all little international men of mystery anyway so he would have a head start. My cats are extremely musical so he might also incline towards people like Roger Waters (co founder of Pink Floyd) or Roger Daltrey (the Who). Or course as a rescue he might have the disposition of Roger Williams who wrote the song King of the Road (it starts off Trailers for sale or rent, rooms to let 50 cents ….) about a man with little means who relishes his freedom (get him tagged!). Cats are generally athletic even if chonky, so maybe tennis player Roger Federer is a good role model for him. My kitties enjoy experimenting with gravity by batting things off of counters and shelves, so maybe baseball player Roger Clemens instead. If a boxing match breaks out when you introduce him to your other kitty then don’t despair — he could just be trying to be like Roger Mayweather. He looks like a very sweet boy, and certainly of discerning taste too to have chosen you as being worthy to take him home. His highly honed critical skills will likely exhibit themselves in various other ways (like trying to bury food you offer him). Don’t get offended. Despite his many thumbs his digits are not opposable, so he can’t do the thumbs up/down ratings that his namesake Roger Ebert did when rating movies. Of course as an academic I have to mention English philosopher and scientist Roger Bacon. He was an early proponent of experimentation in science to confirm beliefs through empirical testing. Some people condemned him as a heretic in cahoots with the devil, others said he was a wizard with mystical powers. In reality he was just a friar who liked to study and observe lights, lenses, mirrors and rainbows. How very cat like.
Enjoy your new buddy!!

@Sinisterbarbie1 ….SUCH a good argument for Roger. Roger seems to be sticking when I’m calling him. I love the Who and I am enthralled with the friar. My only hesitancy with Roger was this really disturbing kid I was seated next to in Drawing and Painting my senior year of high school. Likely just a shy, angsty kid but my feline friend is nothing like that, he’s a total love bug!
If only I could combine Roger and Toes somehow.

Sorry to derail the thread.

If only I could combine Roger and Toes somehow.

Sorry to derail the thread.

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Well as an orange cat he is a “ginger” so you could just call him twinkle toes or Rogers with an “s” on the end in honor of Ginger Rogers the dancer but that is stretching it!

To try to return this to our regularly scheduled programming … one good thing about cats is that when they settle in to your lap you are obligated to be cat furniture so you can’t get up to go get a beverage or a snack even if you are craving one . . .

@Pokey4321 good luck with the tough conversation. They are always so hard, but no one is willing to have these conversations other than a loving parent! She’s lucky to have you in her corner. Then go for a run to relieve the stress!!

@joans1976 I am beyond thrilled that your scans are clear! Woo hoo! What a relief. Also love your new Chonky Boi! He is adorable. I like the name Roger, and he is used to it, but there is always Puddy or Maestro if you want some of the smaller characters.

@Sinisterbarbie1 love your new activities! Great inspiration!

@SinisterBarbie

An A day today, got up and did work, end of the day rolled around and turned into a dinner date at a nice Persian joint down the road. Figured I was probably already way over calories for the day and I've been doing good, gonna treat myself so I stopped at the grocery and grabbed two Real Ale Black Quads. Also spied a 6-pack of Deschutes Black Butte NA. I like the regular Black Butte Porter, so I grabbed that to try.

Digging around, I found an old American made Nicholson file in my toolbox that's seen better days, and decided to make two kiridashi knives out of it. So far, so good, we'll see how they turn out.





Bevel on one side, slow going with sanding drums in the Dremel and hand grinding with the diamond block. Dad will probably send me something cool to make scales from, possibly bits of wood salvaged from structures at the farm where he grew up or some other interesting bits that he has floating around. I asked, but he doesn't have any old files or tools from the farm.

Pokey4321 wrote: »

Below average progress. Only two AF days this month. Still not hanging it up at all. My cardio exercise is up and I returned to my true love...running. For the first time since I did my section hike last September, I got back on the trail for trail running. A cold chilly gloomy day but beautiful 7.5 mile mostly run some walk effort around St. Mary's Lake. I have a difficult...tough love conversation with my 23 year old daughter coming Sunday. It is a long complicated story. I don't do well at tough love, but it is needed. I looked in the mirror and learned I was not a perfect father, my wife not a perfect mother, but we were "good parents". Very good parents indeed. The bad forks in road she has taken....are hers.

There is no such thing as a perfect father, don't ever beat yourself up over that false god. Hold tight to the knowledge that you were "good parents." My son has had his moments, and I've many times questioned whether I was good enough. Was I a good role model, did I lead by example, did I show him the things he needed in life, did I give him the tools he needed, did I do the right things, say the right things....right up to the day I kicked him out, I questioned it all and more. Funny. Not long after, he started saying things like, "I don't want to hear about it, but...you were right about a lot of things." Now I catch little things like "what would Dad do" slipping by in conversation, and I see that he's doing okay. Tough love is really hard, I know that, we all know that. Do what must be done, say what must be said, be there for her when she needs you most and know that it will be okay.

-m

Jan 1- AF
Jan 2 - AF
Jan 3 - AF
Jan 4 - AF
Jan 5 - 6- 7- A
Jan 8 - AF
Jan 9 - AF
Jan 10 - AF
Jan 11 - AF
Jan 12- 13- 14 - A
Jan 15 - AF-- I didn't enjoy my planned A days that much. Actually glad to be AF today. Maybe I'm getting sick of it? Or maybe I'm just in a funk.

14 days AF. The memory of my last December 2-day hangover keeps me from "taking a day off" the plan. Got in a 5 hr hike yesterday and some sun so felt awesome and had an "easy" AF day.

Today I see as a challenge. It's raining in a torrential way here. Next 3 days we have rainy, gloomy weather so I am already in a sulky mood, which is dangerous for me because that is when I want to drink to lift my spirits.

It might me good for me to just drive to a used book store, get some travel books with trail maps and grab an XL cappuccino. Then pickup thai take-out for dinner. That could make me happy.