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Soberversary
Yesterday was a special day for me, it marked 18 months since my last drink of alcohol. Vodka, in my case, showed up drunk to rehab, which is to be expected, but my blood pressure was something like 220/180. So I spent the week at Cabell-Huntington Hospital to detox and get my heart under control. Anyway, I don’t have to live like that anymore! Now I just take it one day at a time and just for today I’m feeling fine! Since it is my Soberversary, if you are reading this, I love you too.
Some important things to remember: I’m unique, but I’m not special. I am not more important than anyone else. I am no less important than anyone else, even if I feel that way. Feelings aren’t reality, but perception is! Your beliefs will become your reality if you keep believing consistently. Find balance in all things. Avoid absolutes absolutely, and you deserve it!
Part of my recovery involved taking an inventory of what was important to me and keeping those things. Equally important was the realization that things could not be the same going forward. If you do the same damn things you get the same damn shit! I had already quit showing up to my job at Gino’s by the time my third stint at Harmony Ridge Recovery Center began. So new job was order #1 when I got out.
Leaving my old job was easy, but the challenges it brought my way were immediate and immense. We were renting an apartment from the company I worked for. Now my employment was not mentioned in the lease and I was not allowed to pay for the place as a payroll deduction. I also was told it was subsidized housing, but my rent was the same as my neighbor in the duplex with an identical place. Neighbor did not work for the company. Anyhow, that became order #2.
Well here we are, I have moved and left that company. It would be a lie if I said that my addiction stemmed entirely from my job. I was an addict and an alcoholic before I started and I left on that same note. I did leave of my own volition, and was not required to resign. I quit showing up because I gave up, it was over. I had spent 7 years with the company starting as a General Manager and within a year I was a District Supervisor. I managed 8-9 stores during the pandemic and was responsible for over 1/3 of my divisions net profits for a year out of 25 locations. During my time there I oversaw millions of dollars in transactions. I felt like I was on top of the world!
I got cocky, and decided to have a sit down meeting with an employee about their abusive and racist behavior. He got mad and went to the company owner. Now by this time they already had a sneaking suspicion that I had a problem. I had been on trips and to parties they knew what was going on. I was given a choice: accept a demotion to GM of the store they used to punish people, or accept a 1 week unpaid suspension. I chose the suspension, they chose the demotion.
That is about all I care to share on that today, come back for more! Thank you for Riding With Me!
Recorded: 2/18/2025
Visibility: Cloudy, but still a happy Soberversary overall.
Destinations in chronological order:
South Charleston, WV: B-4:28, 26:54-56:10, 1:14:54-1:26:53, 1:55:50-2:18:18, 2:27:44-E
Thomas Hospital Rear Entrance, US60/MacCorkle Avenue, I64, Rock Lake Drive, Kanawha Turnpike, WV601/Jefferson Road, US119/Corridor G, Southridge (broken intersection light), Dunbar Toll Bridge
Dunbar, WV: 4:28-8:17, 24:00-26:54, 2:18:18-2:27:44
I64, WV25/Fairlawn Avenue/1st Avenue, WV25/10th Street, Dunbar Avenue, 16th Street, 21st Street, 20th Street, Dunbar Toll Bridge
Nitro, WV: 8:17-22:22
WV25/1st Avenue, I64
Cross Lanes, WV: 22:22-24:00
I64
Alum Creek, WV: 56:10-1:14:54, 1:26:53-1:55:50
Childress Road, Turly Drive, Cellular Way, Yeager Highway, US119/Corridor G, Cobb Creek, Buckeye Fork, McCorkle Road
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