Sunday, February 16, 2003

Smoke Free for a Week! Okay, this may not seem like much to the casual observer, but its been pretty hard stay sober for this long before. Sober may not be the right term, but I don't know what else to call it because I do think of smoking as addiction. I must say I was initially inspired by Dave's quitting smoking and did try it after his operation, but couldn't keep it up. This time its different. Different because sometimes you have things other than smoking that may bring joy into your life. Hmm.. the J word.. I always thought it was so cheesy.. Somehow I don't seem to mind cheese and mush these days. So its been 1 week to the hour that I have stopped smoking. The cravings have been really bad. I even made a list of Why/WhyNOTs and its in my wallet. :) I also subscribed to the Health Canada newsletter that kind of reminds you everyday about why quitting is good. You know.. sometimes that's all the gentle nudge you need to stay on course. I almost gave in last night to the cravings.. it was really bad. I almost wanted to go get a pack. I've been on nicotine gum, but at least I'm trying to break the habit of lighting up when I'm stressed. I think that imperceptibly, I'm taking less nicotine .. even though sometimes the cravings are baaaaad! I haven't dreamt about smoking, but I'm sure it would happen if I went cold turkey. I wonder what quitting with nicotine gum is called? Cold Chicken? 11:22:36 AM    comment [] Odds and Evens I've been away.. on the road.. for so long it seems. It seems that the ritual of travel that started in Pakistan hasn't really finished. I remembered on our way back from Bhurban, I was wondering if married lives of people turn out like their honeymoon trips? If ours was like that then it would be full of journeys. But I wouldn't mind that at all. One thing that I have bitched and moaned about radio before is the lack of support for remote blogging. What about people who want to blog from different places? I mean it really sucked that I couldn't blog from home. I would have loved to login everyday and blog things happening.. but maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.. maybe I would have missed out on the happenings while I was busy reporting on it. Still, I seriously need to go to MT or something of that sort.. It takes guts, -- and balls and whatever other organs your value system has assigned to courage -- to write about personal things in your blog. Fortunately most people who ever come to this blog are interested in the OSX documentation that I have here somewhere. I haven't been ranting and raving here of late. I wonder if the name is actually warranted. But I like the name, and I promis I will rant from time to time just so the lease on insanity doesn't expire. ;-) 11:07:32 AM    comment []

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