There is a lot that I could say right now. It has been a long time since I've posted and a lot has happened since the last time I have. However, I just want to convey that things got bad for a while, and have done nothing but get better and better. Something that happened just today, for example, just made my life much, much easier. I can relax ( Read more... )

03 Nov 2012, 14:30 (74 hours without a cigarette)Okay, so a phrase I kept reading about was "addiction cues", or "cue based cravings". I didn't entirely understand what was meant by that until just now. See, for the most part, my general desire to smoke has gone away, and I've made note of the moments when the craving to smoke hits strong ( Read more... )

01 Nov 2012, 16:56 (28 hours and 26 minutes without a cigarette)
Okay, so yesterday somewhere after 12:20 but before 12:30 I smoked my last cigarette. So, for purposes of simplicity, I'm considering yesterday: 31 Oct 12 at 12:30 to be the date and time of my last smoke.
Let me tell you, last night between the 6 to 8 hour mark was very difficult. ( Read more... )

So, we arrived home from vacation home from vacation yesterday evening. We went to Bowling Green Kentucky and it was a great time. It was Trevor, Rachel, Gary, Joyce, and myself. Caleb and Ben went to Florida with their mother and grandparents ( Read more... )

Sometimes I have these nights where it feels like there's a million things I should want to do, but don't. Nights where I either have the house to myself or when everyone in the house who would ever need or want my attention are asleep ( Read more... )

I recently bought an Xbox 360/Kinect bundle for my family. I decided I would go ahead and get excited about it too, as my kids asked me a bunch of questions and got really enthusiastic as I picked up the Xbox at our local Best Buy. Upon getting the thing set up and going through the process of getting on board with the whole Xbox Live thing, I ( Read more... )

It is one of those days where usually I find myself hating everyone around me. I have heard, too many times growing up, people around me cry and moan that they were single on St. Valentine's Day. I understand not their chagrin at all, much less why it would be amplified on some unimportant day. It is fruitless and foolish to at all be sad over ( Read more... )

Sometimes someone really needs your help, and sometimes they might not quite announce. However, other times, they do and yet people around them might stay complacent.
If you can help someone, ever, at all . . . do it.
Don't ever give me that shit about, "It's not in my job description".
You're a human fucking being, we help each other.

So a few weeks ago I went browsing about my storage unit in search of my Yamaha keyboard and other knick knacks that I wanted. Therein I found my old Army National Guard 3-ring binder/file holder ( Read more... )

A discussion between my brother, a friend, and myself really got me thinking. The subject was on grudges, old and new, and specifically ones that we were in close proximity to. The ones where the grudge being held was against someone we're close to or even held on us ( Read more... )