Sentences with phrase «got sober at»

Not exact matches

That is her journey this part I cite comes from step two perhaps someday she will be able to get to step 3 or at least stay sober trying:)

I did my first meeting at 14... I'm now 32, got 2 kids a good job and I'm married to a beautiful caring women that has been sober for the last 5 years.

There is good evidence that at least some of the corps have remarkable success in getting and keeping their clients sober.

It would seem to be preferable to say that: while the crowd clamors and shouts and triumphs and celebrates; while one individual after another hastens to the place of tumult, where it is good to be if one is in search of oblivion and indulgence from that which is eternal; while at the same time the crowd shouts mockingly at God, «Yes, now see whether you can get hold of us»; yet since it is difficult in the rush of the crowd to distinguish the individual, difficult to see the single tree when one is looking at the wood, the sober countenance of eternity quietly waits.

Many people who are atheist or agnostic have gotten sober and stayed sober by replacing the bottle they worshiped with a philosophy (AA is a philosophy, by the by, a way of looking at Life and Being), with the wisdom of the group or even of humanity in general, with whatever works for them.

I don't think Bill and Bob were trying to get sober one day at a time when they started AA.

In fact after people get clean and sober, they can be a member of The Wolf Pack and begin to influence others at those meetings for Christ's sake.

Bold and decisive Carrie came up and sang with our band at a smokey sober club, and I got this idea you see....

But at the same time, Brian's sobering story makes clear that millions of American children live in food insecure homes, school meals are often their only dependable source of food, yet for a variety of reasons (parental neglect, stigma, etc.) they may not be getting all the food that's being made available to them at school.

Lane wrote that Meyers was staying with a sober living companion and a bodyguard at the moment, because there is a months - long wait to get into a hospital facility in Ireland.

One sobering quote I just couldn't get out of my head was from Dr. Mariana Chilton, Ph.D., an associate professor of public health at Drexel University and director of Witnesses to Hunger, who said: This recession will be permanently inscribed in the bodies and the brains of children growing up today.

You get to go out for a girls» night but are back home by ten o'clock — either stone - cold sober or barely buzzed — because your kids will still wake up at the normal time and demand breakfast as usual and being tired and hung over before 7 a.m. is not where it's at.

That was the message from Dutchess County Marcus J. Molinaro, local municipal and law officials and traffic safety advocates this morning at a Dutchess County STOP - DWI Program press conference to launch the «Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over» enforcement crackdown, a multi-agency coordinated enforcement effort to enhance roadway safety efforts and prevent impaired driving injuries and fatalities in Dutchess County.

It was different... than what we heard at the State of the State last year, but we just have to be very sober about the fact that budget documents are really where the rubber hits the road and we got ta see that.»

The setup reminded me of when I was at a rehab center in Illinois attempting to get sober.

It's an ego boost, but sobering at the same time, to know that one of my Pez articles probably gets more readers in a couple of hours than all of my scientific articles combined!

It gives me a lazy life idk why but I can't even skateboard when I'm high but when I'm sober I'm so good at it but I got a friend that can skate high or sober weird

We started out the meal with beer mimosas and bellinis (I'll let you guess which one I ordered) because one should never be too sober at bottomless brunch, which the table next to us took to heart and proceeded to get hilariously rowdy, making us laugh with their tales from the night before.

This occupation helped me get through the awkward dating years, as I really never dated at all until I got sober.

The first two times I tried to have sex I couldn't get an erection at all, one time was sober one drunk.

There is a sobering payoff in terms of the tragic futility of filmmakers» attempt to capture reality — although, if you've seen Noah Baumbach's While We're Young, you may come out of Garrel's film feeling that, unlike failed Parisian documentarists, their New York counterparts at least get to mix some fun with their agony.

Every bit as much a satire as it is a drearily honest and sobering look at our country's broken healthcare system, «Getting On» makes the typical black comedy seem lighthearted in comparison.

Over at Awards Daily, Sasha Stone has taken it upon herself to whittle down the Best Picture race to a brisk 11 - title list, and it makes for sobering reading: «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» «The Dark Knight» «Doubt» «Frost / Nixon» «Gran Torino» «Milk» «Rachel Getting Married» «The Reader» «Revolutionary Road» «Slumdog Millionaire» «The Wrestler» I -LSB-...]

Secretary Duncan's reflective take on testing can delay, but can not resolve, the reckoning that seems to be at hand, and will surely come to a head as Americans get their children's sobering scores on tests aligned to the higher Common Core standards.

Always designate a sober driver and plan a way to safely get home at the end of the night if you plan on celebrating Halloween with alcohol.

I got some sobering input on the threat of major levee failures along an area called the Middle Mississippi Region (a 200 - mile stretch roughly between Saint Louis, Mo., and Cairo, Ill.) from Nicholas Pinter, a professor of applied geology at the University of California, Davis, who has extensively studied flood risks there.

But first, to get a sobering on - the - ground view of the incident and its implications, review the excellent reporting of Ken Ward Jr. at the West Virginia Gazette.

I got myself into a state - funded rehab (this time based on the cognitive behavioral therapy model of recovery), moved into clean and sober housing, and found work as a housekeeper at a Victorian bed and breakfast on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

To get started, let's take a look at some sobering facts from the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) from October 1, 2012:

As Mark Zuckerberg gets ready to testify to Congress, amidst calls for both regulating and perhaps even breaking up tech companies, it is time to take a sober look at where we stand with these companies, what the last three weeks have changed and the consequences for investment decisions.

To get out from under all of the hand - waving and finger - pointing, a sober look at the statistics does suggest the U.S. economy has made a significant recovery in the past six years.

We got into therapy which forced us to take a sober look at our relationship and do some serious soul searching about when and where and why it went off the rails.