long weekend

Hi all,
Well it feels like a Monday here after the long holiday weekend.

I traveled to see my sister so I missed my Friday, Saturday and Monday night meetings. I'm already looking forward to this Friday night meeting. Then I have an Area World Service Committee meeting on Saturday in Burlington. Before I know it half of September will be over.

So a long weekend spent with family is fraught with the opportunity to slip into old habits, as you might imagine. For the most part I didn't find myself doing those things. Part of it may be my sister's fiancée. Wow what an influence he has been on her. So calm and just doesn't let her temper tantrums (over the little things) get to him. So, consequently she doesn't seem to have those temper tantrums over the little things.

He does play in a band and so I do see both of them drinking quite a bit, but they aren't doing it every day so I'm leaving it be. He holds a real job too and drives over an hour each way to work, so he must love my sister to do that.

My one desire to slip into my old habits of offering my opinions and advice occurred Sunday night. She got into it with her soon to be stepson. She felt he lied to her about who drank the last diet Mt. Dew in the fridge. Whether he did or not I don't know. But I stayed out of it, so good for me and my program.

Okay, off to work now. Meetings all day today.

Yours in service,
Angela B.