Day 92 - Why would you do that?

WARNING: Rant in progress! I am standing firmly upon my soapbox (and it's a big soapbox)!

I have recently moved offices and have been parking in a different area of the parking lot at work for about 3 weeks now (this will become relevant in a second).

There is a nameless person at my office who had a heart attack about 3 years ago and had some stents put in to keep their arteries open and their heart functioning properly. Shortly after this operation, this person quit smoking at the request of their doctor as plaque build-up from years of cigarettes was the cause of the blockage which in turn caused the heart attack.

Within 6 months this person was smoking again, although I have no idea if the frequency had been reduced.

My rant today is that for the past 3 weeks, I have seen this person pull into the parking lot next to me, get out of their vehicle reeking of cigarette smoke, and carrying a Daylight Donuts bag! Every day for 3 weeks! I mean, I am all for people being able to do as they please and eat what they want and smoke if they want to......but come on! Does this person really think that this is the way to stay healthy. You've already had one heart attack, and you're still smoking and eating donut holes for breakfast every morning.

WHY?

And now for my disclaimer:

I am in no way saying that I am perfect because I quit smoking, far from it actually. I am in no way saying that my diet is perfect, again, far from it. But if I touch a hot stove and it burns me once, shame on the stove. I touch it twice knowing that it will burn me again, shame on me! I truly hope this person comes to the realization that these are not good choices for their health and well being.

Here's to making good choices in life.

God Bless,
The Quitter

Day 91 - Stupid Dryer!

So it's day 91 and still no smoking.

However, the dryer decided to make the weekend spectacular and give me something to write about in the blog. How nice of the dryer!

Basically we're going out of town this weekend and I needed to seriously catch up on some laundry (like 6 loads in 2 days......yuck). So to make this endeavor even more fun, the dryer decides that it needs 4 hours to dry one load of towels. Seriously?

My Grandpa came over and took the front panel off, beat on the thing for awhile, then told me to call a repair man. Well thank you happy helper!

Meanwhile, I was shuttling basket-fuls of clean (and soaking wet clothes) over to my Grandma's house to be dried. Basically I spent my Sunday driving to their house every hour on the hour to change-out my laundry. Thank God they only live 3 miles away, or this might have been inconvenient!

So the repair man comes today, and Lord only knows what that is going to cost.

As my husband put it last night, "In honor of 'it's alway something at our house', what do you say we spend some money on fixing the dryer"?

God Bless,
The Quitter

Day 84 - Rough weekend

So this weekend was hard with a capital H! I did a little drinking and everyone around me was smoking. I wanted a cigarette so bad.........but lucky for me, everyone refused to give me one. At least I know that people have my back on this! I could have simply walked across the street to the gas station and bought a pack, but I didn't. In the end, I didn't smoke because of my own will power, but it sure helped that they all refused to give me a cigarette.

We had a blast at the game and I got to go watch a movie with my Mom while husband went golfing with Dad. That was so fun.....I haven't seen a movie at the theater in FOREVER. We saw 'The Proposal' and laughed our butts off. Well not really because my pants are still tight......but you know what I mean.

Today it's back to life.....back to reality......and yes, I am busting out in song here in case you were wondering.

I miss my kid!

God Bless,
The Quitter

Day 77 - No more fat girl legs

So it's day 77 of being smoke free. It's awesome....although I had a hard time at the pool with the family on Friday night. But I made it through! =) Baby steps........

I've also taken steps to kick my annoying Braum's habit. I bought some fat free rainbow sherbert at the grocery store to help curb my late night ice cream cravings. And we all know that this is exactly the same as a Braum's chocolate mix with Reese's PB Cups....right? NOT EVEN CLOSE! But it'll have to do because I refuse to spend another summer not wearing shorts. It's ridiculous. By next summer, I vow to feel comfortable in shorts again. Not really short shorts because that's just stupid - but I at least want to feel like I can walk into QT with my bike shorts on without wanting to crawl under the tile and disapear because my legs look like they belong to a fat person! That's not right. I don't want to be that fat person anymore. Maybe this is why I'm partial to the winter season?

Here's to kicking another bad habit

God Bless,
The Quitter

Day 72

Still smoke free.......this is getting annoying.

I did not anticipate that having a blog would make me feel like a boring old bump on a log at times. I just simply have nothing to say right now.

God Bless,
The Quitter

Day 66

It has been 2 weeks since I've taken Chantix and 9-1/2 weeks have gone by without me smoking a single cigarette.

I did have a dream last night that I lit up again though. It was weird.........because I actually woke up feeling guilty. And I'm off the Chantix so I can't blame the dream on that anymore. Maybe it is just my sub-conscious trying to remind me that I need to stay smoke-free because all these negative feelings are associated with smoking.

Either way........I'm still smoke free and working to complete my 10th week. A nice round number that I am very proud of. It's a sad state of affairs when you're proud of yourself for abstaining from something. It just proves that whatever it was had a strong hold on you. Now if I could just take care of that pesky ice cream habit........

God Bless,
The Quitter

Day 65

Still smoke free. Nothing more to say.