Thursday, November 4, 2010

Back in the chain gang!

And it feels good. After about two weeks aproximately of nursing my abscess condition and missing all my SA meetings, it feels good to be back and see familiar faces and listen to their sharings.
Don, Brett, Jason, Dick, Barry, a new comer, Scott, Michael, Gregg (or Craig, who is back from rehabilitation from The Meadows), Brian, Miles, Young David and Jaime attended.
This was a Thursday night meeting @ De Zavala location.
Oh God I missed all that. Although I must confess, I felt a little aprehensive before getting there, in fact, I was tempted to not check in and lie to my sponsor about it. Since I had already told him that I was planning on being there. The uncertainty or uneasyness about attending was that I had missed so many meetings that I thought that I would feel a little out of place, especially in that location. The people meeting here is not always the same that go to, say The Quarry or Scherts locations.
Anyways, the topic was provided by Jaime and it was from pg. 132 from the White Book and it relates to changing our attitudes (for the better), and looking at ourselves instead of others. As in working step 10 over and over.
I share for about five minutes and I felt good about it.
After the meeting I chat with Scott, Brett and young David for about another hour, after which I went to IHOP in Broadway to meet with my sponsor and we had some pancakes and talk and updated each other until about 11:30 P.M. We then called it a day.