had to think about that Kermit one a little bit SunnyD, but then burst out in a big ole belly laugh! thanks!

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now foks, i'm a serious, card-carrying member of Alcoholics Anonymous (that pesky "dual-diagnosis, self-medicating" thing that became a full-blown addiction starting about 40 years ago but sober for a long time now). it saved me from an early grave although status of liver still in question . but you gotta lighten up sometimes. found this today in the trunk of my car tucked into Bill W.'s wonderful book...


OVER-SERIOUS ANONYMOUS 12-STEP PROGRAM

1. We admitted that we were powerless over seriousness--that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that only by lightening up could we achieve a state of non-seriousness.

3. Made a decision to turn our constant self-criticism over to our sense of humor and learn to "lovingly and wholeheartedly" laugh at ourselves.

4. Decided to give ourselves a break once in a while, instead of constantly doing searching and fearless moral inventories of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being that our wrongs were often in our heads.

6. Were entirely ready to accept that our characters were as good as anybody else's and possibly better than most.

7. Quit harping on our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we thought we had harmed and saw that they'd forgotten all the crap we'd blown out of proportion.

9. Quit making amends for breathing air and taking up a few square feet of the planet's surface.

10. Resigned ourselves to the fact we were going to criticize ourselves at times, but would try to stick to our guns when we knew we were right.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to calm down and realize we're not responsible for everything.

12. Having experienced immense relief from these steps, we would try to carry this message to other overly-serious people and to practice these principles in all of our affairs.

----Author Unknown