The Preface - Day 10

So due to certain circumstances, namely my inability to make healthy choices, I must attend meetings that are not my home group. My home group is Garden City Community Church on Whitehall Blvd. They meet Tuesday's at 7:30, Friday at 7:30, and Sunday at 7:30. It was made easy to be my home group because I grew up in Garden City, went to Garden City High School and frankly graduated with 3 people who are also regulars there. Even with this time away, I believe I will always call that group home. Eight years ago that was the only meeting I attended, and a year ago it was the first place my friend from pre-school took me when I began to accept the problem. Garden City is also the oldest meeting in Nassau County, maybe even New York.

With that said I need to branch out at least for the next 90 days supposedly if I have any chance at laying a foundation to beat this thing. So I have begun to. I currently live in Long Beach. I peticularly hate the meetings here. I understand that AA is a melting pot of mentally insain people, myself included, but I find there is an abnormal amount of those people in Long Beach. It could be that we have a strip of bars that promote alcoholism and the only other place I know with a similar strip is rockville center. Which reminds me of New Orleans (pre-katrina). When I went there I thought it would be one big party town but instead felt really sorry and sad for all the homeless. Anyway Long Beach meetings and point lookout meeting never made me feel comfortable.

In essence what I intend to do with this blog is review all the meeting I go to for the next 90 days based upon a variety of factors that I've noticed about meetings availibility to make me comfortable and grow spiritually. With that said I think it's also important to mention that I am in fact an ageist. I will not discreminate against sex or religon or color, but I really detest old people. I think at a certain age we should just kill them, me included when it's my time.