This morning’s meeting was pretty good. It had been a while since I’d attended this particular meeting and I was glad to be back this week. I was tired. Very tired, but better than the day before. Black Friday was not a great day. I woke at 3:30a and by 4:15 had not fallen back to sleep so, having looked over the ads for the morning, I decided to take a trip to Staples for a couple of USB datasticks at a good price. I picked up a wireless mouse too. And some batteries. All in all, under 60 bucks and I’ll get about 15 back in “rewards”.

Anyway, at the meeting today, a friend made the remark (paraphrasing here): We have a a three-fold disease – Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. Only at an OA meeting is that going to get a roaring laugh, and it did. But we laugh at what’s true, don’t we? Really, starting with Halloween, I used to be tonsils deep in candy, cake, sugar, fat and salt. And Eggnog. OMG the eggnog. Half and half, ice cream, sugar, eggs, rum, cherry brandy and nutmeg. God help me it was amazing. Was. Well, probably still is. I can’t think of an abstinent equivalent though.

That reminds me, the Greysheet community is pretty active. They even have a cookbook which is pretty good. One thing you notice though is the attempt to make abstinent trigger foods. I mean, foods which, using greysheet abstinent formulas, simulate former binge/trigger foods. Stuff like pizza, or potato pancakes (sans potato instead uses spaghetti squash).

There is not single, all encompassing thought today. I’m just having fun with this little netbook* in the lobby of the local hospital, waiting for the meeting to start.

* I couldn’t get Ubuntu to install so I’m using Jolicloud which is Ubuntu with a little social networking built in. It installed flawlessly, webcam, wireless mouse and all.