I need AlAnon...
I went to sleep last night thinking that I need an AlAnon meeting. I woke up with the same thought, so I'm going to one tonight. This is the story:
1. I have a sponsee in AA who is less than honest with me, and I am growing tired of schlepping him around. I need to detach from his disease. If he wants the program, he needs to ask for help, and not be urged into doing so.
2. My mother's memory is very fragile. She is 82, wakes up at 4am everyday, has 2 or 3 double scotches between 4:30pm and 6:30pm, and fights like a child to stay awake as long as possible. She is terrified of seeing a neurologist, not for fear of being told the worst (Alzheimers, which she doesn't have), but that the doc will tell her to stop drinking. After 60 years of habitual cocktail hour, this is a tough habit. I need to detach from this disease as well.
There is good news, however...
I have finished my second of three papers and will mail it tomorrow. One more to write and then I'm off on vacay. My AA friends in Greece are waiting me with open arms, and I can't wait.
I have also finished watching the first season of '24' on DVD. I thought the multiple story arc was very well done and the characters seemed well fleshed out. I am happy that the conniving, power mad wife of the Senator was cut off at the end...can you say Eva Peron in the making? The big problem I had, though, was with the kids of the main characters, Bauer and Palmer.
Stupid children acting stupidly...drove me nuts. Honestly, how could smart guys like Jack Bauer and Senator Palmer end up with such idiots for children? If Kimberly Bauer's brains were dynamite, she couldn't blow her nose. The mother isn't much better...and it killed her,.. I think. I have to start in on season 2 tonight.
So my agenda for the next week is:
1. Go to AlAnon at least twice and learn to detatch with love.
2. Write a 12 page paper on the epistemological differences between Kant and Hegel.
3. Watch season 2 of '24'
4. Watch season 4 of 'Six Feet Under'
5. Pack my bags.
6. Leave.
Johnnyboy
posted by John D.C. Masters @ 4/23/2006
3 Comments:
Good luck with the paper and AlAnon. I think that's a great idea, btw. And enjoy the tv shows! Your life has been a little stressful lately; you deserve to kick back and relax with some entertaining tv, even if the characters are occasionally annoying. *G*
Al Anon has helped me greatly in detaching. I think everyome can benefit from it as it teaches life skills. I am now 35 and wish I knew about this stuff when I was 12. It would have saved me years of living with my insane thinking!
Wow! A 12 page paper on anything, much less such esoteric subject matter, would send me over the edge. Good luck! And OPA!!!
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