HARMONY !

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

MOOOOOOOOOORRRRNNNNIIINNNNGGGG!!!

Enough said, if a fella needed an assurrence life is for livin log on !!!

Thanks for making today a day for stridin not stepping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Duncs striding forward never back.

Guess whos back... Back again.... Its the real slim shinyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!!

Nice to see you back, nothing like a bit of good old fashioned bribery to get what you want lol...

Hmm how far do i go with this 110% thingy then, cause your still dragging the 160 thing out lol... I dont mind milk it for all you can chicken... Its nice to see some smiles and a bit of good old fashioned fun back to this site.

So now that you have done the garden, Whats next on the "Challange shiny" task list...... ? Teach blondie, angles and equations and just maths in general lol..... Grow some veg in the garden. ? Get steg out of that tent and posting again lol ? I wait with baited breath ....

Enjoy your day.

Blondie xxxxxxxxx

Hi Shiny,

Know you like a good giggle!

Took one of my service users to a wheelchair appointment today.

Service user 40 (BUT LOOKS YOUNG)

Me 52 ......(TOLD I LOOK YOUNG)

Young graduate says to me "I take it this is your son then"

In the past I would of let this go....But I challenged him..........Geez I know I dont look that old. He squirmed his way through the appointment............Boy I made him suffer

Service user and I had real good laugh after!

So The Womble is back!

Hugs to you Shiny!

XXXXXXX

Shiny

One big hug

Castle2

Thinkin of u as always

Hi Shiny,

thanks for the post.

I am well if a little stiff from my golfing exursions... but blisters are healed.

Found this yesterday.... sending it to you for a morning smile.

Jon

Special delivery, they never wither......Jon's is funny!

Yo el shiny one,

Thank you for your post... A day tinged with pride and sadness for me but onwards and upwards is the only way for me now.

I had a image of you yesterday in a peak cap the wrong way round and a shell suit on, dancing to slim shady (shiny) shouting Yo.... lol...

Hope your day has been a nice one.

Blondie xxxxxxxxxx

Yo,

Well another week under my belt .

Been another long day , had a bit of toughly yesterday when a comment about my work began to eat away at my self confidence . In the past couple that with tiredness and dwelling on the comment , you would see me withdraw all the money I could on three accounts and loose myself in front of a FOBT .

This would result in a betting frenzy which would go on for days and days . And consume my every thought and action .

But NOT this time , as much as I did dwell on it . Off I went to work , gave it my all. So fooooooook um.

I can not change what people think , just be true to myself . Dwelling or obsessing over something is rediculous . So as sneak per view miss blondie, my challenge this week is to dismiss things that may have been said that only gain weight if I let them . I know I work hard, I know that I support my team, I know that I have done the work of three managers for nearly a year . So what ever there problem is it is b******t .

So with that, a line has been drawn under my working week. Tomorrow I will get up , forget work , enjoy my time off. Cause I know I deserve it .

As a footnote , I did not at anytime today give gambling a second thought as my way to escape.

Those days long gone , so there.

Need to sleep now,

Shiny xxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Shiny,

Brain gone.....keep pressing wrong keys on keybord..........Is it comp....or is it me........It's me.

Just wanted to say Hi

Sue xx

Good morning Shiny one

Great post there , hard to not let work stresses get the better of us and just as hard to remain positive but Shiny you are really showing us how to do it 🙂

Too right girl that we could easily run away again and escape to the hell that is gambling but ohhh our life would just go to a much darker place and I know that's something we don't want to happen again

Just love the positivity you are showing in battling this b*****d of an addiction

Keep strong Shiny , you show us with determination we can continue to arrest it and with that the good things in life start to appear 🙂

Have a great time off cause yes you sure deserve it !

Smiling Lucy xxx

Yo ,

So true so true my fav DIY fanactic, the worm has turned !!!

Today my 19year old made a sarcastic comment , on how I have given up shopping for lent.

After a morning of duty job, taking my lovely dad to the doctors and shopping. Then getting me own shopping , 2 nd trip to tescos in a day . Thinking of applying for a job there , that would soon fix my tescos addiction lol

Defo in a fooooooook off mood .

Today beware 🙂

But no worries , bath on dinner cooking , washing done .

So me time , yipeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Shiny xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

My thoughts tonight ,

I have never been an angry person. Got cross now and again but not angry .

Tended to take a step back from confrontation most of my life . Mostly I think it was the fear of what someone would say , which ultimately would show up my own faults .

I have always believed that I was not good as the next person, and although tried hard , and giving it my all I still struggle to believe it and when you get into a confrontation you are confronted by words that only chip away at any self confidence that you have .

Although I have been like this since childhood, gambling most definitely exasperated it . I have yet to read of a problem , or compulsive gambler who once recognised they had a problem, self esteem did not drop to the floor because of it .

These two things coupled together , make it hard to fight back when you are faced with confrontation believing that all the blame lies with you , no matter what has happened . This can happen at home , at work in every day life .

One of the benefits and a pretty big one in my life since I stopped gambling . Is that my own self worth has increased , my confidence to fight my corner .

Yesterday and today, I was angry , but through that instead of trying to appease the situations , I just said

Sod it , it's your problem not mine. I will no longer give up my thoughts or time concerning , or going overboard to make people happy.

Yes I gambled, lied , and did things i am not proud of .

But the time has come to say let the guilt go, I have made it to my family many times over , if it effected my work I have made that up many times over .

I do not think I for one should be paying a penence for eternity . Cause I was a gambler .

When I was in recovery before , 5years , where everything I did was related to my gambling past.

And trying to make up to one and all . 5 years where the guilt played a hand in everything .

Today I stand tall. Today I no longer feel guilt or the need to make amends, Today I can get angry and have argument , no longer worried what will be thrown back at me .

This is all possible because today I chose not to have a bet , and the day before that, and the day before that .i everyday before that for close on a year .

So if you are just starting out and reading this once you stop life improves , and keeps on improving .

Shinyxxxxxx

Great post shiny!

Morning,

Spot on with that post my friend! Plenty of people here proving that staying bet free is the key to an improved quality of life! I think we have a pretty healthy forum right now some real gems here and for any new member that must be a real plus!

So what's the next challenge for you? Always good to see a goal set and then smashed!

Have yourself a merry little day!

Flagg

Hey shiny,

You stand tall my friend, Infact im sending some stilts over. Why shouldnt you ! We are not bad people trying to get better, we are ill people trying to get well.

We live with what we have done everyday but as we move through recovery we choose not to continue torturing ourselves about something we cant change, we stride forward (sorry duncs nicked it ) and we go through this process of self analysis and we change and grow in confidence as we go.

Keep walking tall, you have most definatly earnt it.

Blondie xxxxxxx