FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2008
1. I'm looking forward to The Birth of my First Grandchild next week.
2. I don't handle disappointment very well.
3. Ice Cream is something I could eat every day.
4. Warmth and sunlight lifts my spirit.
5. Houston here I come!
6. I dislike tattoo(s).
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to sleeping deep, tomorrow my plans include driving to Houston and Sunday, I want to sleep in and get breakfast tacos.
I'm pretty new to blogging and I've wondered what all the special posting days meant (Memes). This site, has helped to explain many of my questions and has given me many new options for joining a Meme, one for everyday of the week if I so choose.
Bissel Carpet's MVP (Most Valuable Pet)
Go to this site and join in on the fun, if you don't have a pet to enter, page through the thousands of pet photos, there are some cutie pies in there
http://www.bissell.com/mvp_pet_photo_contest.aspx
For some odd reason my link doesn't want to work, anyway, our Mack (my son and his wife's dog) is #4360, go on, vote for him (he's a rescue bullie).
Mack is the cutie on the right (the other is Bailey)
Go on, Go Vote, #4360
What are you saving up for?
I think we were always saving for something, when the kids were small we saved for all the unexpected things children need/want. Then we saved for private high school and the very occasional vacation, then it was proms dresses and tuxes, helping with date money, clothes - lots and lots of clothes, computers, car insurance, college. Then it was weddings, and now it's grand babies and travel and making sure we have enough money to afford living well the rest of our lives.
I can tell you I don't save for buying cigarettes anymore.
It isn't saving for anything specific, it's saving for general purposes.
This is our change bowl and I remember a time when this was more than we saved in a year - LOL.
Have a Great Tuesday!!
I was cleaning out a drawer and came upon this photo - Yikes!! This was me and I would have hurt you once upon a time in order to get a cigarette.
And then I found this photo where we were on a cruise in 2000 and I was smoking there too
ICKY, ICKY, ICKY!!!
Seriously, I look back at photos of when I was smoking and I'm embarrassed and horrified.
To my family and friends that never smoked - I'M SORRY! Sorry I made your clothes smell bad, sorry I made you wait for me while I smoked, sorry you ate meals while I smoked, and your home smelled like smoke, and I could have possibly impacted your health negatively - I'M SORRY!!!!
What's in your handbag right now?
Does a photo count?
The Orbit gum is there is quantity as a substitute for smoking when I need it, my wallet is merely one of those magic cases, receipts, keys, a nail file, cell phone, loose change, pocket calendar, 2 lipsticks, antibacterial spray, 4 pens, tissue.
I'm not a very interesting person and I'd hardly say I'm someone prepared for any circumstance.
What's in your purse?
A quote
"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
- Pablo Picasso
Today it's almost 90 degrees outside (yeah it's way to warm for still being February even if it is South Texas) so we could not resist starting to clean up the patio and garden. The Live Oak Trees will shed their leaves still in another month probably but our lawn man will be handling that mess - Yipppeee!!!!
As you can see by this photo, the shadows of winter are getting long so that means we're turning a corner and spring is creeping in.
We have one more "Hot" day here tomorrow and then we return to more seasonable temperatures (in the mid to upper 60's) but I think this warm up is a prelude to merciless summer.
Stay tuned as we continue cleaning up the yard and garden, and readying the pool for the summer ahead.
2008 will be my fist summer without smoking and I have to admit that I got some tuggings (there I go with a Maggie word - smiles) but they quickly left. It's again those habits of working like hell and then wanting to sit down and relax with a cigarette. Well, those days are over and the only thing smoking on this property for now on will be the ocassional guest or my BBQ Grill.
What do you think is your best physical attribute?
My neck. It's always been longer than most of the people I've met, I look great in turtle necks (although I prefer mock turtles), and I look good in low cut tops as both require a longer more slender neck. It's beginning to wrinkle and wither some now so I'm using any kind of "make me young" cream I can find. I'm open for suggestions.
Every spring we head to the Lake of the Ozarks to Crappie Fish, mostly at small fishing outposts where it's friendly and the crappie are plentiful.
These are photos of one afternoon of fishing (me, my sister, and two brothers).
We caught more than our legal limit (shhhhh, don't tell anyone) and cleaned them as fast as we could. Nothing fries up like Crappie! If you think it's not spring, what does 80 degrees say to you (other than summer is definitely on it's way to south texas)?
Most people would say that it's me that deserves the majority of the praise in quitting and although I'd love to take all that praise, it really belongs to both Chantix and my fellow Quitters because without them, thee 150 days would not have happened.
Thank You Fellow Quitters for being there through thick and thin, hell and high water (y'all are there now like the cigarettes used to be and I'd much rather have you)!!!
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We're in the process of going through all the trash and treasures of our 31 years together and found these Pinewood Derby Cars that our son made with his Grandpa when he was in Cub Scouts (many years ago).
I've been on some sites looking at graphics and found this one and thought about all of us reformed smokers
I forget with most posts to talk about not smoking anymore, sometimes I think it's because I don't WANT to think about smoking, and the other reason is because I DON'T THINK ABOUT SMOKING much anymore.
I was talking with my PCP yesterday about it and he said I shouldn't concentrate on when I was a smoker, I should just live life as a non-smoker (seems to me that they overlap some). He was genuinely proud of my accomplishment to stop smoking and to have quit taking the Chantix and still not smoke. When he was listening to my lungs, I told him that there are still times when I "think" I want a cigarette - he abruptly stopped what he was doing and looked at me with such disappointment in his eyes......hey, I didn't say I was having a cigarette, I said there are times when I "think" I want a cigarette. He took a few moments and we discussed the habits/lifestyle that are so firmly ingrained in smokers minds - I told him that I wouldn't smoke again regardless of how bad I thought I wanted a cigarette. I don't think he was convinced but I quickly tried to change the subject.
I'm just a few days shy of my 5 month marker and I know I won't smoke a cigarette again.......I'm stubborn and once I make up my mind about something, there's no changing it.
I started back on my Spiriva (My PCP started me on it while I was still smoking but starting to cut back and I quit using it because the cigarettes were just nullifying the good it was doing) - hopefully it will be successful in helping me regain some additional wind.
Shit, I'm like a walking, talking pharmacy!!!!