Good Monday Morning Lynn,

Glad to see you posting the Monday a.m. roll call. . .  sounds like your progress on cleaning out the house is going well and it's always good to have someone to motivate us along. . .  I remember my Dillinger, everytime he saw boxes or suitcases (because we had moved a number of times living in NYC), he would get anxious, then we moved for the last time in his life, when I bought my house down in SNJ (a bit more than 9 years ago now) and I remember well that last day in Queens, got him in the car and he slept most of the way to our new home. . .  he lived the last almost 7 years of his life in peace and had a nice big yard to patrol and lord over, but even then, when I would take my suitcases out to go on a trip, or would be boxing stuff up, I could see that anxiety, but he learned that I always would return to him. . .  dogs are such sensitive creatures. . .  there are definitely positives about the electronic media, heaven knows, I've made a host of friends via the OFF (Over Fifty Forum) board here on OH, women from all over the country and have managed to get together with a group of them several times and we all stay in touch via a Forum that one of them set up, that is separate from OH. . .

Anyway, my day today started with the gym and will end with visiting with an AA sponsee *****sides in a local (Wilmington, DE) halfway house with several other women in recovery, we will have dinner and then I will drive home, spend some time with my Roxie girl and to bed. . .  in between all this, I shall work and make a noontime AA meeting.

Hope you, and anyone reading this, has a wonderful day!

Laureen

Just checking in after several days of very little time online. We have made great progress on the house and it continues for the next 36 hours or so....boxes, big goodwill runs, giving things to friends...

Thank heaven my SIL Pam is around to help and motivate! The dog is having a bit of a breakdown so she is at our neighbors' right now where life is more orderly.

Mike has a 6 month lease on an apt nearby, and hopefully that will see us thru to the days he wraps it up at this job.

Last Friday was a special day because Nicole and I finally got to meet face to face for breakfast! Great conversation, and a great time. It's sad that this happened just as I am moving, but it is also s great credit to how well acquainted we can become via electronic media! The power of online friendships is always fascinating to me, partly because I am part of a dynamic group of women that had been together since 1997 - back in the days of compuserve!

Last week I also worked a few days st the Apple store in Lancaster, which was actually a wonderful respite from the boxes and packing tape.

So that's about it from this side of the world. How 'bout you?

Beth,

So very glad everything turned out ok, as I said on fb as well. . .

As for your very special day, congratulations!  You are so "successing" and this journey of ours is not without detours and potholes, but you've continued the course and that is the short definition of "successing". . .

Wishing you many years of health and happiness living life!!!

Hugs, Laureen

Congrats Beth on your Surgiversary, you have come
A long way and r so determined
Susan

 I feel the same way!