Nobody cared
I went to my "usual" Sunday night OA meeting off of Detroit from 7:00 to 8:00, and I shared that I wasn't abstinent, and that I was struggling. Nobody came up to me after the meeting to help me, or share with me. All they did was break into their clickish groups and talk with each other. I put on my coat and left, and nobody noticed. I have been trying to fit into this OA meeting for some time, but I just don't feel like I fit in. I'll need to find another meeting to go to, one where I feel like somebody there cares about me.
Breakfast
4 buckwheat pancakes with margarine and light syrup
1/2 can cornbeef hash with two poached eggs
1 cup 2% milk
3/4 cup prune juice
1 cup hazelnut coffee
20 oz. water
After church snack
Several cookies
1 cup coffee
Lunch (from Wendy's)
Bacon cheeseburger
Small french fries
Small chili
Small vanilla Frosty
Mid afternoon snack (from client)
1 Rice Krispies Treat
Dinner
Rotisserie chicken leg & wing with skin
1 cup mashed potatoes with margarine
1 can New England clam chowder
1/2 can light fruit ****tail
1-1/2 cups 2% milk
Evening Snack
2 chocolate graham crackers
Denise Phares/kitties4
Awww, kitties...you got it...keep looking. I had two OA groups that were "my peeps"; I went to the B list when my schedule forced that.
It is the one thing that is a downside, many towns are small, and you only get one chance to get a great group together.
If this group is one of your only choices, just go sit at the edge of those cliques and listen. I myself forget to this day one of the most basic things about OA (and technically any group, including this one on our Non-ops Board): Principles before Personalities! You are there for the principles, not the personalities.
VSG on 03/13/12