http://www.userandloser.com a joint blog Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:17:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have taken the next step in the recovery process.  Many people in recovery have heard the saying, "To keep it, you have to give it away." I am trying to do my part in the community by making myself available to others who are still suffering from drug and alcohol ... http://www.userandloser.com/?p=68 My wife had a flat tire last week.  For once in my life I (we) were able to pay for the repair and tow and got back on the road in two hours.  It may sound weird to you but it's the simple things like this that make sobriety great. http://www.userandloser.com/?p=67 My new job keeps me very busy.  It's not only the job that is keeping me busy lately.  Work, kid's, the kid's activities: homework, sports, band, projects.  It's life at its best and it takes a shitload of work.  Work I NEVER would have been able to accomplish if I ... http://www.userandloser.com/?p=66 ... or get sober. This week I started a new job. I am finally using the skills I went to college to learn and have been honing over the past few years. Doing something you love to do and at the same time get paid to do it is ... http://www.userandloser.com/?p=65 When the weather is nice I like to fire up the grill. In days past firing up the grill also meant at least a 6 pack of Mike's Hard Cranberry Lemonade. Although it is easy to remember that when I take even one drink the obsession takes over ... http://www.userandloser.com/?p=64 I found one of my secrets on PostSecret.com: My wife makes more money than me and probably always will.  She is brilliant and has worked so hard to achieve everything she has accomplished.  She is the reason I will be able to live the life I am becoming accustomed to.  Thank ... http://www.userandloser.com/?p=62 As each day passes and I get more sobriety under my belt I come to realize that I am becoming a better person not only for myself but for them. (well, not the pirate!) http://www.userandloser.com/?p=61 Abraham Maslow, psychologist, humanist, circa mid-1900's. He is most noted for his hierarchy of needs that he developed in an attempt to explain the behaviors governing human motivation. It is my experience that you can have some of the higher needs met without one or more of the lower needs intact, that ... http://www.userandloser.com/?p=60 One hour it's good, one hour it's bad. I knew the time was coming I just wasn't sure when.  I was on the way to the store the other day when I noticed I was out of cigarettes.  I desperately wanted NOT to buy them so, instead, I went to the ... http://www.userandloser.com/?p=59 I am such a loser that I don't have insurance so I have to just cringe when my 6 year old wakes me up crying at 2:30 am clutching his 'swimmers' ear and tells me [that] "everyday it seems to get worser" http://www.userandloser.com/?p=58