Well gang another year has come and gone....
6 Years ago today.. yeah it's a long time to JUST not drink for an alky like 
me.
Little did I know when I arrived home drunk around this hour 6 years ago that 
would have been my last drink...
This past year has been amazing in in it's simplicity, it was a tough one 
over 
all... but along the way I was blessed with some very unusual gifts that were
just always "Just looming" over the horizon when I was drinking...
Around my natal birthday last year I began my living amends with my parents
which culminated this past August in beginning a project which would bring my 
Father, My Mother and myself closer together than it -=ever=- was...
Now I am welcome "anytime".. this is such a profound change from where I was
at with them growing up (drunk) or living at the house I rented (sober) that 
they owned and lost due to foreclosure... I found out that I was not the one 
at fault in that case this past year, however I had a resentment which I 
had to forgive them for... for a while there they thought that I screwed them 
over.. Not the case.. 
Next on the horizon was a -=car=- that's right an automobile.. that I got in 
May after not owning one in 9! years... I have been granted the freedom
of going to meetings out of town and meeting Ed K. due to that car...
I got to do meetings in Victorville because of the same thing....
The past year was also very interesting because I got the chance to resume
school and finally get to live a dream that was suppressed so long that
I almost gave it up.. in college at 34.... this made for an interesting 
meeting schedule which as time flew by.. I was making one or less per week
until the School break in May...
September rolled around and I found that I could no longer live by cash alone
so I began my first personal checking account.. I was fully prepared for this
by my experience as an Alano club Treasurer and I managed to stash $800.00
in the bank in less than two months time so I could fly back east..
I grabbed the chance to do a long awaited amends at my Grandparent's 
graves in New Jersey over the Thanksgiving weekend, and if not for a fellow
SIPster being there I don't think I could have ever pulled that off...
(Thanks Harriet)
Yeah, that trip even made the choice very obvious where I should be living 
in this coming year.. so I am making a break with the life my Dad chose
for the family when I was 17 years old and move away from California, which
was never really my home anyway...
This past year also brought innumeral changes in my practice of personal
faith and brought me closer to a personal choice of a Higher Power
that was not imposed on me by any one else.. Thanks to the program which
taught me that I have a choice today...
Happy Birthday to me 
1-1-90, Yeah 6 blessed years.. a miracle...
Happy New Year
Bright Blessings 
Tim...
,.. You're never too old to learn something stupid.
--- PPoint 1.92
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