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		<title>No Guarantees</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/09/23/no-guarantees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked by a colleague to answer a few questions about coming to that place of willingness, that turning point, to describe the moment I could see myself and my disease clearly. I’ve been concerned about keeping my ego out of the way so that I can offer authentic answers, answers that reflect the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=200&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Chance Texaco</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/the-last-chance-texaco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got up this morning, padded to the kitchen, fired up the coffee maker and laid back down to ‘pray’ (that I’d be able to rouse myself when the pot was brewed). When the best part of waking up was ready to breathe life into me I got up and began to grope out the last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=202&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Step Aside Miss Buttercup, It&#8217;s time to wrap this mutha up.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Milestones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean house]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the tale of MethedUp is nearing an end. I’m not that methed up anymore. I’m setting up a new home at The Last Chance Texaco but will keep posting here till the pumps open. My new email address is OutOfGas @ theLastChanceTexaco.com<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=201&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avant Tard</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/avant-tard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I may have described here before that I think of 12 step recovery as Spirituality for Complete Idiots. I may also have said ‘total retards’ but that really isn’t correct, politically or any other way. I’ve had cause recently to rethink the moniker. I can’t recall exactly why but for some reason I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=211&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lexical Semantics</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/09/16/lexical-semantics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mad About the Boys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Men]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://methedup.wordpress.com/?p=210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not that it’s relevant or apropos of anything and not that I am particularly well today and not that I’ve done ANYTHING related to doing the work that I talk here so feverishly about doing, BUT - I was thinking just now on my walk home from a meeting (yes you know who was there) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=210&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Faith that Grows</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/the-faith-that-grows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daily Grind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family & Friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Community]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[But sometimes, in meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, the discussion of finding a relationship with a Higher Power that can support and sustain one in the certain low spots that lie ahead, is not only frowned upon, but actively discouraged. As AA has grown, more and more people pass into (and back out of) ‘the rooms’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=209&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting Focus</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/shifting-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday a reader posed some interesting and complex questions that I want to take some time to answer. They all really boiled down to his final question, “Shouldn’t you now start to focus on life after meth?” The short answer to that is yes. Moreover, I should be focusing on life. Period. I have recently [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=208&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Good to be Sober.  It&#8217;s Good to be Alive.</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/its-good-to-be-sober-its-good-to-be-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neither is really a condition I thought would persist for much longer as recently as last December. I am, quite frankly, astonished; both by how bad things had become and by how much better it’s gotten. If you show up in a 12 step program (like I did) and grab on to it with “the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=207&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank God it&#8217;s Friday!</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/thank-god-its-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. What a week. I’ve learned allot. I’ve accomplished some; some more than had been accomplished by my predecessor in the last 6 months, which is a good thing. I’ve got more ideas than when I stepped into the job, which I think means I won’t be a one hit wonder in terms of getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=206&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are the Actors, He is the Director</title>
		<link>http://methedup.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/we-are-the-actors-he-is-the-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, actually, I am. At least from 9 to 5. Today I start my new job as the Alternative Donations Director for the NFP that I work for. I’ll be in charge of leasing or purchasing warehouse space in Boise and Nampa, Idaho and setting up manned donation centers in them, developing our corporate giving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=methedup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=670296&amp;post=205&amp;subd=methedup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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