The Hip and Nicotine....
Many many years ago a pack of smokes cost $5.25. So it was more than the minimum working wage at that point, but I can't belive how cheep they were. Slowly but surely the prices rose and I kept saying "at such and such price I'll quit." Except I never did. I continued to smoke and pay for them when they crossed $10/pack, then $11. On Friday I went to buy smokes and they were $12.35 a pack. Apparently that was my breaking point.
On Sunday I woke with the intent to quit smoking, cold turkey. I'm allergic (or something) to the patches, I can't afford all these fancy drugs and nicorette gum tastes like leather and burns a whole in your mouth. I went for breakfast with a friend, and came home to clean my house like a maniac. Well, I found some smokes, so I had a few (5 in total for that day) and on Monday, another 3 or 4. Today, 3 and I'm out of smokes. I feel like I'm going crazy, like I"m drunk, like I'm high. I can't concentrate, I want to eat, I want to smoke, nothing seems to work right ( I closed photoshop, I just don't have the steady hands needed), I don't want to read, I don't want to write, I don't want to watch tv. All I want is a cigarette.
This time I'm determined to quit. I don't want to be a smoker anymore. Most of my friends have quit for various reasons, and I'm fed up of being the only one going outside. I don't want to be chased around my backyard by wasps (I'm allergic to those!!!!) just trying to get my nic fix, I don't want to spend another winter curled up outside in -30C weather, smoking. To top it all off, it will save me a few hundred a month!
On another note, the new Tragically Hip CD came out today. We Are The Same is their 14th (?) album, first one in just over 2 years. I'm a big Hip fan, some of my fave tracks being 'New Orleans is Sinking' (released in 1989!) Grace,Too and Blow at High Dough. Checked this CD out at work and bought it coz it's a Hip cd but I'm not sure I like it. Coffee Girl has a funky beat, but overall the disc if fairly mellow.
I'm gonna give it a chance just coz it may grow on me. I mean, I hated the newer Oasis cd but eventually some tracks grew on me.
Made a few photoshop things but only gonna post one or two:
Probably no fic updates until after the weekend...