ChristaC

While I love my oldest daughter (Babs's older sister) dearly, I hate the fact that she still smokes. Babs and I have tried and tried to (gently) steer her towards quitting, but so far, no luck. We went there for Easter brunch, and the smell of smoke hit me like a ton of bricks (she smokes outside, but her husband smokes in the house). I hate the smell, and I hate hate hate what she's doing to herself.... But there's nothing I can do about it. I'm in the same position as Marti is with her mother....helpless. It sucks.

Ok today I wanted a cigarette....all of a sudden, I had this empty feeling in my mouth that I wanted to fill with smoke? WTH? Where did THAT come from? I thought about this weird feeling for a minute....and actually allowed myself to think "well, I could if I wanted to.... who's going to stop me?". And then, I realized.... nah, I KNEW....that I'd rather hit myself in the head with a tire iron than stick a cigarette between my lips and light it. :D Oops...wrong place to post this, I guess...but it's stuck here now, huh? :wub:

5 weeks and 1 day...two days...or three...LOL. No matter. Congratulations are in order.

Fantastic, Carly!

Awwww.....thanks, guys! This 10-month marker kind of snuck up on me...it's like I never smoked, you know? I don't miss it anymore....in fact, today I pulled up to a convenience store to get milk, and just before I got out of my car, I happened to look over and there was this young lady sucking on a cigarette. She apparently couldn't get out of the car until she was done with the smoke... and all I could think of was "oh how sad".... And then I thought "thank God that's not me anymore". But not even for one second did I feel that I WANTED that. Yuck.

The video cracks me up, but I've always loved the song. :-D

Oh, don't get me wrong, Marti...I'm in the same boat you are in as far as people relying on me, and I need to be ok for them. I think my main purpose in life is to help them be happy, optimistic, and strong....:-) It just comes naturally for me. I very rarely have to work at it.... like I said, I look at that as a blessing, since worrying about stuff doesn't change anything except make you depressed, and life is just too short to spend it down in the dumps. :D

Good to see you, Delta, and congrats on 5 months!

I was blessed with a cheerful, always optimistic, happy nature. Some people tsk tsk at me because of it, and accuse me of being immature.... I call it lucky. I KNOW life is only temporary, so why ruin it by being unhappy or sad? :D :lol:

Sarah....

Congratulations, Wye!

Congratulations, Melody!

Wonderful news, Lynn! I'm so happy for you!

http://www.pinelandsalliance.org/history/devil/ :D :lol:

Hello, Greenlover! Good to see you made it over here.... :)

Hope that's ok? (By advertising I mean "linking", of course)...:-)

I'm 68 now, smoked for 50+ years, a pack a day...at least. I figure I smoked about 300,000 cigarettes in my lifetime. WTH was I thinking? Good grief....

I'm not exactly blessed with a "green thumb", Doreen....I've killed many plants in my lifetime. One of these days, I'll get it right....LOL

Congratulations, baffled! You rock!!! :)