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laurabel

So I have been thinking

May 16, 2004 04:07

Yes, it seems impossible, or very unlikely....but I have. Sadly, thinking is just the sort of thing that wakes me up at 3:30AM and keeps me up so I do try to keep it to a minimum. Remember, Six Degrees of Separation and that whole Kevin Bacon thing? I think it was something like every person is only removed from Kevin Bacon by six people. Well ( Read more... )

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desdemonaspace May 16 2004, 09:13:30 UTC

I am so jealous. You met Gene Wilder! I only met one of Bob Dylan's roadies. Well, I did meet and have a nice chat with a fairly famous starlet, but it was at AA, so I can't say her name. Suffice it to say, you'd remember the big movie she was in (I think they call it a breakout or breakthrough part) and then you'd ask, "Whatever happened to her after that movie? I never heard about her again." (Answer: alcoholism.)

laurabel May 16 2004, 18:54:06 UTC

Alcholism takes it out of the best of them. I try not to drink most of the time...too many in my family.

desdemonaspace May 17 2004, 02:10:07 UTC

Ah... So you know. We WSL types shouldn't drink much anyway, eh? At least, that's what my surgeon said.

laurabel May 17 2004, 04:09:48 UTC

Oh yeah, we really are the cheapest drunks in town. It doesn't take anything now, though it never really did.

Both grandfathers were/are alcholics. One died a drunk, one has been very active in AA for years. My dad's sister has been in AA for as long as I can remember. My oldest brother and my mother are both alcholics and while my brother admits it and has periods of "dryness" he does not go to AA and my mother just simply does not admit it because it does not affect her daily life....

The sad thing about my mom is that she drinks at home alone. But she is so functional about her drinking the only people who know she has a problem is her family.

desdemonaspace May 17 2004, 05:17:32 UTC

My grandfather was, too. We average one alcoholic per nuclear family (unlike DH's family -- where it's pretty much everyone, from top to bottom.) Sorry about your mom. My step-daughter is a practicing alcoholic, too, and it's a huge heartbreak. :: sigh ::

laurabel May 17 2004, 05:28:41 UTC

Sorry about your family. Like the eating, its one of those things that we can't do anything about to help the other person, but you know that. They either know they have a problem or they don't. And even then getting help is another story too.

Last night a had a few beers with some friends. I had a nice little buzz on and as I was buzzing I was thinking to myself that I could see how easy it would be to grow to REALLY like the feeling. That is the reason why I don't even keep much in the way of alcohol in my house. I know that the genetic predisposition is there and I have enough issues with food. I think I would prefer to keep my addictions to a minimum.

desdemonaspace May 17 2004, 06:02:06 UTC

Heh. With me, it's shopping. LOL

The good news is that I have almost 30 years of sobriety and DH has almost 15. And his daughter still thinks we're idiots. I want to say, "You can't fool us -- we INVENTED that kind of behavior!"

laurabel May 17 2004, 06:17:28 UTC

I am impressed. That is one hell of a demon to conquer!!!

Congrats to the both of you.

desdemonaspace May 17 2004, 06:54:16 UTC

Thanks.

We're all winners in WLS circles, too, aren't we. "Losers," I mean!

laurabel May 17 2004, 06:57:37 UTC

Oh yeah, big losers!! But being a loser ain't all bad!! *grins*

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