Was going through storage and pulled out some shoes from glory days past…

I know pals like to save their decks but does anyone else keep their favorite shoes that have been fully skated in.  I had some ipath cats thats were just used for work, washed them and they still look good to wear and skate.  Dont know if I should keep them in storage or display them

Quote from: hmmoookay on Today at 07:45:56 AM

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To spin all of this in a positive light, it's all made me thankful for my sobriety because if I were still "living" off of vodka and fried food I think I would probably have spiraled into a mental health crisis by now. No one ever said this would be easy, but its easier than repeating that cycle for damn sure.

Congrats on 17months ralf, big big big. Keep it up! 

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That's it right there. The cycle from before is easy and comfortable to get into, but just remember how shitty you probably felt all time.
All the negative emotions that follow after a binge. They're the worst. Keep going.

thanks hmmoookay, appreciate it!

a "the day is yours" routine is awesome, but even harder is learning that there is a lot of stuff you can do that is good for you (water, vegetables, clever coffee routine, work outs, cold showers bla bla), but it is also okay to sometimes do the opposite and then live the consequences and feel not awesome, stress out, be depressed about stuff etc. at least for me that has been a big realisation lately, that i dont need to stress myself to feel good. theres feeling bad and its ok and i can deal with it without booze. thats so awesome :-))

Yeah the reissues haven't been doing great at our shop. We did the One Nine 7 (I know, not a true reissue), two colours of the Creagers, two colours of the Muska, two colours of the MJ and they're all pretty deeply discounted now. You get a few sales right off the bat by the hardcore collector dudes but after that nothing. It's to the point where we're not even opting into reissues anymore. We're doing the Sal 23 but passed on the Templeton 2 because it will just see the same fate as the Creager or Muska.

DC reissues did good for us like 6-7 years ago and then even those stopped doing well and we dropped DC altogether.

To spin all of this in a positive light, it's all made me thankful for my sobriety because if I were still "living" off of vodka and fried food I think I would probably have spiraled into a mental health crisis by now. No one ever said this would be easy, but its easier than repeating that cycle for damn sure.

Congrats on 17months ralf, big big big. Keep it up! 

That's it right there. The cycle from before is easy and comfortable to get into, but just remember how shitty you probably felt all time.
All the negative emotions that follow after a binge. They're the worst. Keep going.


Everyone else... Keep it up boys! Keep going!
The stress relief that booze brings is so tempting, but it's also so incredibly temporary.

I'm at four months, and it's for sure gotten easier as time goes on.
I spent almost 25 years of my life making unhealthy and bad decisions, so when I stopped drinking, my plan was  going to be to be healthier all all-around.

I was struggling with ongoing mental health issues as well at the time I decided to stop drinking, so I had no energy to do much of anything. I would have used alcohol to get that comfortably numb emotional state, but things have gotten much better, which probably wouldn't have happened if I was still crushing the booze.

But, I've started to feel much better... I've started riding my pedal bike to work, and I joined a rec soccer league that plays twice a week. I feel better than I ever have, which is a weird feeling for sure.