Happy New Year!
Well have we all recovered from the Holidays? Or are you down with the yucky junk like most of my friends with the flu? I got a flu shot this year, on the direction of my ever persistent doctor. I think she was trying to get rid of the storehouse of vaccines she had. Any who, low & behold it worked. Miraculously, I did not get sick over the Christmas and New year week, like I ALWAYS do. Who'd thunk a shot could do all that?
Well I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. I have been 4 whole days without a cigarette. For me, that's AMAZING! Every other time I have tried to quit, I always would start up again. First time I was sick with walking pneumonia, one more day and Doc would have thrown me in the hospital. Took four weeks to clear up, four weeks = one pack. Not bad for starters, but that was in 1997. When I met Vernon & Katie in 2001, I tried to give them up to appease them and set a good example. Problem was that I never did. I was on the patch. And I kept a secret stash! I allowed myself one or two a day, but ONLY if I had been good and NOT smoked that day. ?#$%@?? Reward system ya know. Problem was I was "rewarding" myself with the very thing I was trying to give up. Dumby, no wonder it didn't stick! It's gotta be ALL or NONE for me. I have little to none when it comes to self control, mind over matters, and whatever else Julie (my evil twin sister who resides in my head) is telling me. Oops did that just come out? Well I am a Gemini...You know the Twin thing is really true. If YOU don't have one, then you make one up. Also along those lines....I married a twin, and his brother also married a Gemini if I'm not mistaken. Pretty cool huh?
Well that's my blog today, or should I say my train of thought. More like a freight train running at top speed through the black of night...chuga chuga wooo wooo, I think I can, I think I can.....