Cindy, good for you! The fact you're making a sincere effort is huge! It took my father three tries to quit smoking and he's been quit over 30 years, now. You definitely won't regret it. Especially if you like food, Dad actually started enjoying foods he hadn't liked before because he could taste them better after he quit.
Thank you so much, Sail. I don't need to like food any more than I do, though. It's probably a bad time to quit, because I'm fat for me right now, but whatever. I figure now that the weather has started to turn, I'll take walks to avoid smoking, too. Hey--maybe I'll get depressed enough I won't eat. *g* I'm trying to stave off cigarette cravings by drinking water, which I haven't been drinking enough of, anyhow.
We actually stopped smoking *in* the house in the old house, and that makes a huge difference. When it's 20 degrees out, it's not as enticing to step outside for a butt. Here, we're on the second floor, and it's not feasible to go outside due to the baby, etc., so we only smoke in our master bathroom, out the window. It's cut off from the rest of the apartment, and even that has resulted in less cigarettes smoked a day. Even just nestled on the couch watching a movie, it's become harder to get up during a commercial break to go smoke. I'm hopeful. One day I'll quit, too. (Fingers crossed for me.)
Oooh! Thanks for the tip, AmyLiz. I did that, or smoking in the basement with the window open, at the old house. It does help. I let myself smoke in this house while we were unpacking from the move, and then never stopped. Eventually, I'm going to have to go cold turkey, but right now, I'm just trying to reduce how much I'm used to. I might change to a yucky brand, too.
For those that are trying to quit, it's worth it to try Zyban. Smoking is such a difficult addiction to break, harder even than heroin, and a short run of Zyban can make all the difference.
I have quite a bit of vanilla in my giveaway pile, Aimee, if you need more.
(yep, that's a hint)
Where'd everybody go?
Stampede on Zyban?
Daylight saving has just finished in Melbourne (well, it ended a week ago). I could've done with it ending this weekend, the extra hour would've been very handy.
Queensland doesn't have daylight saving. My favourite argument I ever heard against it was some woman who wrote into the paper, saying that every morning, her husband woke up with an erection; if they introduced daylight saving, that would happen when he was on the train to work, and how embarrassing would that be? Not to mention all the other guys it happened to.
So her husband rose with the sun.
sending out anti-quit vibes for Cindy and Lilty.
Howdy! Did you know it was National Open House Day today in Real Estate land? Things I have learned today:
1) 429 square feet is really, really small.
2) If you live in Cambridge and have a nice condo listed for $355K (and 660 square feet), you can sell it yourself and entertain multiple offers, and cut off said offers by 3pm on Monday.
4) I very much want to buy a townhouse in Salem.
Sorry for real estate talk. I would complement Teppy's hair, but her links didn't work for me. However, I am confident that she look freaking gaw-geous because I am not a stupid person, although I am overly obsessed with real estate these days. Which, actually, might make me stupid, in this market.
I tried to watch Spuffy, but the disc wouldn't work.
I know it's latish it the day for most of you. I'm actually home earlier than usual, but still, I
hate
DST with a passion normally reserved for people who talk in the theater. Perhaps it's because I live in Alaska, where, by the time we get DST, we have enough light in the morning and evening that there is really no need for more, whereas in the fall, it means that I go home in the dark. I hate it so much, that when people talk about how they like DST, I briefly see them with green heads and eyes on wiggly stalks. I'm glad that someone is enjoying it, though. Good for you.
We don't have it here.
We are the orb's minions though, mostly.
