Saturday, July 11, 2009

Congratulations to me!

I know that congratulating my self is absolutely self serving, but I deserve it!
It was three years ago today, July 11.2006, that I gave up cigarettes and have never ever looked back!
After over forty years of that nasty habit I do think it is something to be proud of.
It had been about my seventh try; other times the longest had been just a wee bit over six months.

The thing that worked this time wasn’t any proven ill affects yet from that bad cancer stick it was the TIA’s on my MRI’s and since most of my family died from strokes that did it for me. And the mode of cessation was the Nicatrol Inhaler, which worked immediately for me. It was expensive and at that time we had insurance, but they would not cover it, and so the out of pocket of $300 was an incentive too.
Kids, listen to me; it’s best to never start.

Unfortunately, I have not received any of those so-called better feelings that X-smokers are suppose to have, because since I stopped I now have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and a body that looks like a small whale is having a party in my pants, if I wore pants but with this body I wear long dresses to hide it all, and other than arthritis, Ataxia and MS I’m good.

No, really, I am now socially acceptable, people allow me into their homes and I don’t need to leave to sneak a smoke, my hair and clothes are smoke free too and smell of laundry detergent which is odor free too, and shampoo that is all natural, so I guess I have no scent at all, hmmm, no scent of a woman due to me being well past menopause, darn… I got nothing!

Oh, that’s right I got perfume, not the good kind, can’t afford that these days I got that stuff that smells like my Gardenia Bush in cologne, which is kinda great because my husband thinks they smell like bacon, and that’s what he calls the two of them, bacon bushes! Good thing he loves bacon, huh?

Today, we ventured out again, must be some kind of record we are two for two.
Any-who, our reasoning was curiosity and frugality that we went to the only open air- farmers’ market we had some how missed until today, since they started this particular one last October. It was right in town in River City, AKA Punta Gorda, by the old court house, and I must admit it was the best of the three that we have weekly. They had music and art as well as a few bargain veggies, which we spent a whole three bucks on, and for that princely sum we received a beautiful head of Romaine lettuce, three cucumbers, and one enormous eggplant, the last two were part of our dinner.
I will definitely go to this one again.

From there we went onto our usual grocery for a few this and that’s, that we needed.

Right now hubby has made a run to the movie rental store, yes he did go, but we had a free coupon from our online service. He went to get the movie Blindness we had been trying to see for weeks and so every single time it was sent by mail it had an error and would not play, and this happened six times! All other movies were just fine in between this annoying problem; it had happened once before with another movie, Hairspray, which we finally had gotten, straightened out. The only problem here is that if it doesn’t work again he will have to make the trip back there with the movie again, and then I guess we will finally give up. Hope it’s worth it. You see, it’s my fault I hear these reviews on the TV and get a bug in my head that we should rent this or that and here we are again… we will see…I hope.

I suppose I better wish you all a good night and wish us one too, and whatever you do, don’t forget to count those blessings and I will too!

PS Hubby had returned and gone out again, Blindness was in error again, he is bringing back the flick, Knowing; better work!

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