It only seems like it had been a day or two since I last opened up "Big Head" and shared my shenanigans and adventures from FIRSTEP... imagine my shock when I looked on the site this morning and saw "WHAT?! It's been almost a whole MONTH!? Yowzah. You know what, though? I definitely consider that a good thing. My life is full...
So what has happened since we last chatted?!
- As you can tell from the clever headline and somewhat weird picture, I FINALLY MOVED TO A BOTTOM BUNK! Yes, it's right by the back door where everyone goes out to go smoke, but it's not too shabby.
- I'm now the "senior" ROD. I'm not quite sure what that means other than a little more responsibility... but I like it... :-)
- I celebrated THREE months of actual, genuine, legitimate, no-joke SOBRIETY.
- I'm seven days away from reaching my THREE month anniversary of being with FIRSTEP... that's the unofficial "halfway" point. Man, time flies!
- I sat down with Shannon and knocked out my fifth step! I'm working on steps six and seven right now... I'll hopefully have those finished by this weekend.
- After meeting the Executive Director of OKC Metro Alliance last week, I've been invited to speak in front of a group of people at the corporate offices and share my story. I'm excited/honored/nervous/freaked out...
Yessir, my life is definitely full. Don't get me wrong, it's not all sunshine and lollipops. It's not ALL easy. Life on campus definitely comes with the down's as well as the up's. I get to watch my friends and brothers SUCCEED in this program, but I'm also here when they fall. I've seen men who had longterm sobriety go back out. My parents have been REALLY sick with this nasty flu that has been going around and their has been nothing that I could do to help or make things better. Megan unexpectedly lost her grandfather a little over a week ago and all I could do was go to the funeral, nothing else. I know that I'm exactly where I need to be and I'm helping by staying here and working my program, but it just doesn't feel the same! Ya know?
It seems as if there will be an odd day or two where not a whole lot will happen and I'll think to myself "meh, nope, not really much to write about..." but then I'll get SLAMMED with a week or so of just thing after thing that I want to share it with everyone and let them know, good AND bad, that I'm living life. I'm feeling the feels and doing the things and getting to be present for all of it...
