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I’m working on the new book, tentatively entitled “Arlo & Janis after Dark,” and here I am giving away the merchandise. Yes, production of the new book is behind schedule, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. And yes, it’s mostly old material, but if you’re worried that you’ve seen a lot of it already, think how I feel.
387 responses to “‘Oft Go Awry’”
Mark…call Jackie and check on her, please.
Bob Thank you for your encouragement…I will need all the prayers I can take…Dad never smoked. so he is going to be my ‘bouncer’. 🙂
I am OK have been in kitchen cooking garlicky chicken cacciatore for my crew. I have Trula, Kyra and one year old Kayla here working today. They are daughters of my two workmen who are like family. They check on me, look after me.
Trula is unpacking yard, patio, porch furniture and setting up, cleaning out workshop and storage second floor for me.if it warms up she is going to hang all my giant metal stars on fence faces.
I guess I treat them like my grandkids too.
Debbe, I quit cold turkey from chain smoking. I never lit another and now get sick if I am around smokers. I quit for Mike when I was 21 or 22, so fifty years smoke free.
You can do it. Eat something, chew something, suck on something. It is as much a mouth thing as hand thing.
Just don’t have them available. Expensive habit.
Sorry I thought I posted this morning. It must have gone to moderation! I also had a spa appointment I forgot about and just remembered.
Janis, that is what pops up on me too. Because I shop on line!
And bras. Definitely bras.
http://cams.allaboutbirds.org/channel/52/Green-and-white_Hummingbirds/
hummnbird nest in Peru. Live cam. teeny babies!
Debbe:
Someone I know well is in recovery, has been sober / AA and such for some two decades, and has also quit smoking. Says it was much harder to quit smoking than booze.
Laura, deeply saddened / your husband. The people responsible knew then and know now they are killing people. They should be behind bars, lifers w/o parole. But we reserve that for repeater shoplifters and addicts from the underclass. But they get bonuses and their mktg. depts. target potential smokers from grade school.
Peace,
Been a change of plans…Dad has to stay overnight in hospital overnight on the 21st. He saw two doctors yesterday…a cardiologist and a urologist. It seems one falls and lays for a length of time, your system can go into a septic shock…now, what I what to flippin know is why it took 7 weeks to discover this….I am not happy.
Jackie, glad to see your post…was worried. And I just may go to my Dad’s just to get the slam flack out of here….too many smokers here, and when I quit…they aren’t going to like the fact that I will make them go outside 🙂 🙂
And SS just called…I’m already drawing off husband’s SS…..CVS on weekends is starting to sound pretty good.
Saturday it’s going to get up to 50 degrees….going into work and have a chat with the Boss tomorrow…..I know he can keep me busy just a few hours a week.
please, people who know stuff….are there bears in Peru? What looked like a black bear (but moved more smoothly) just walked across behind/below the hummingbird nest.
so many wonders in the world. i think that helps make up for the losses. at least it helps! hang in there folks 🙂
Thanks Emb for the push…..
This Christmas commercial makes me laugh every time, so far anyway. It helps that it includes no earworms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjt35pDXF8c
Jackie…black licorice is great for quitting smoking….try lighting one up after sucking on one of those, I have and it’s not a palatable treat 🙂 (Note to self….buy black licorice.)
Debbe 🙂 I had surmised you were a smoker, and the first thing I thought when you mentioned “life-style change” was, “She’s going to quit!” Good on you for that, too. I started in HS and continued through college and the military. At some point, I decided that continuing made no sense, so one day I put out the cigarette I was smoking and never lit another one.
I recognize that every case is different, but I have no doubt that now you’ve made the decision, you will not fail. And yes, you will smell nicer. 😉
Non deficere.
Debbe, good for you! Please quit and stay quit. Smoking is what apparently killed my mother. My brother took her to her new doctor when he moved her to Montgomery. That doctor found her left lung was just a white mass on the radiology and his assumption was cancer which had metastasized to her bones. She died about two weeks after this was discovered.’
That chicken sounds good Jackie.
Left everyone eating chicken and pasta and garlic zucchini and peppers, garlic bread. They are all family. I am off to Honda dealer re van and Lowe’s for wooden caps for rails on walks which guys are installing so I don’t fall going over deck bridges on ice.
And shopping.
My Mother-in-law was talking with her sister one day and her sister told her that she was going to hypnosis to lose some weight and wondered if my MIL wanted to go with her to stop smoking. A few months later, my Father-In-Law went to grab his cigarettes, crumpled up the pack and never smoked again. My MIL once asked him why he didn’t stop when she did and he said “I wasn’t sure if you had stopped for good. I wanted to make sure that if you started again, then I would miss out on a lot of good smokes!”
Many years later, my MIL finally asked her sister “How much weight did you lose? You were never fat to begin with!” Her sister said “Not a pound. But hopefully I had gained a sister for the next 30 years.” My MIL still chokes up when she thinks about that.
Debbe best of wishes for so much of what you have in front of you. Sounds like you are doing it right.
Steve, that is a beautiful story of helping your neighbor. The fact it was sisters makes it sweeter.
emb, why is this the case where government intervention doesn’t matter, and is held blameless?
As a child, it was no secret that cigarettes kill. Hell’s Bells, we called them coffin nails. My teachers used a gullible kid to try and ‘make’ my free-willed father quit smoking by hiding his packs if I found them. You can imagine how well that went. And the teacher wasn’t there to shoulder the blame. Learned lessons that day about allowing others to control you.
Yes, Big Tobacco advertised all over, but no one was in the dark about the effects, including me. And I started. Probably for all the same reasons so many others did. Failed at quitting MANY times. Pack a day habit means you quit smoking twenty times a day, right? Then it stuck. Everyone has a plan, but it is actually hard to predict what will work. Wish I’d heard of the black licorice solution. Burnt sugar will put off most any craving. Can’t imagine the anise oil would help.
But all that is groundwork to prove I’m worthy of an opinion. My question is, how do you morally punish someone for growing, advertising, selling, buying, using, dying from a LEGAL product? Sanctioned, protected, subsidized, and revenue collected by the government. Why does the government have no liability here? Make the product illegal before lighting your torches and grabbing your pitchfork.
Do Not punish the free use of a legal product. Make the poisonous product itself illegal, for general use. Cocaine is more effective, and more predictable than Ritalin and the associated goldmine pharmacopoeia. But the risk of abuse is too high. Executive power does not require permission or vote when clearly in the public interest. Was used that way many times before the current President made it unpopular through over-use. Your preferred method of trust-busting comes to mind.
Failing that, all you really want to do is control people and make them feel bad, while raking in a little revenue at their significant expense. The most REgressive tax we have. Then explain to me why legalizing recreational pot makes sense.
Morphy, unlikely Feds will outlaw tobacco. They are as addicted to the taxes collected as the smokers are to the tobacco. Same for states. Too much of the budget depends on “sin” taxes. Doubtful prohibition will work any better for cigarettes than it did for alcohol or has for drugs. Only real solution would be to cobble up some anti-tobacco genetic mod in a lab to kill all the plants at once and hope it didn’t mutate to destroy food crops.
Here in Oklahoma our Native Americans benefit from tobacco sales. Those concerned are trying to get their tribal members to stop usage and sales of a sacred product distorted by the white man for recreational use.
Guess I must not be doing my part to raise gubbermint revenue. None of my sins are taxable.
I had no idea that you were sinning, Ghost. What sins are you guilty of? The ten commandments are the ones I try to observe.
I suppose mild gluttony on my part but I don’t abuse anything nor addictions . They tax anything I would eat, even Diet Coke.
And my clothes and hair and nails, I am guilty of vanity but there is a vain tax too.