Singing Sober

It appears that over my brief hiatus, I've gotten tagged by one Namenlosen Trinker over at Alcoholic Diary.  Trinker, I comply.

Here are the rules:

1. Link to the person’s blog who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. List seven things you're grateful to have learned in recovery.
4. Tag seven people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by posting a comment on their blog.

**addendum: rules 4 and 5 don't apply to me.  just cuz.

ok...

Seven Things I'm Grateful to Have Learned in Recovery:

1) How to build a website.  Yeah, you're looking at it.

2) That emotional pain really does begin to let up when we acknowledge its existence.  If slowly.

3) That the serenity prayer in itself can prevent me from resorting to violence on crowded trains, on supermarket lines or at the immigration bureau.

4) That other people are much cooler beings than I'd thought they were.  There is something about prograam that brings out the more benevolent and caring aspects of human nature. 

5) That I could have more power over changing my own destiny than I ever thought possible, merely by admitting that I am not in control.

6) Two words: balloon animals.

7) That I am not as good at Karaoke as I once thought.  And yet, I keep going out to the karaoke boxes in sobriety.  No matter how I sound, I never could have anticipated that I'd be singing sober.