Lately...

[tinywarrior]

Thing I'm most proud of...coming up on two months of not smoking, working out, and feeling better than I have in years.

Creepiest movie I've seen...The Nanny with Bette Davis...gawd but that woman was skkkkeeeery

Comments

[nandan]

And We're Off... the holiday season has officially begun!

On another topic, it's so odd the kind of monster rolls that Bette Davis was offered and took on in her later years. It seemed somehow a crime that the woman had gotten older and put on a little weight. While any of the roles individually are fine, when you look at all of them together it's like looking at some awful conspiracy against women in general and Bette in particular.

[tinywarrior]

Oh, you know, I never thought of that but it is so true! She really was transformed into this hideous creature by all those roles. I still wince when I remember her during the Academy Awards (I don't recall the particular year), after her stroke, doddering and loaded on the stage...it was too cruel for words. But you're right...it really does make a statement on Hollywood's view of women as grotesques/grannies after a certain age.

[jema]

hey!
congrats on the non-smoking:-)
i am coming up on 6 weeks this tuesday myself.
*feeling mighty proud too*

once upon a time an old boyfriend gave me that rosa luxemburg book. tattered and torn with pages missing and scribbles and notes all over. i just can't read it. whenever i open the book i feel like i am reading Him.

[tinywarrior]

Yay for you, Jema!! : ) We must have quit around the same time. And I know what you mean about the "Him" books...I have a couple of them myself that I can't bear to read anymore.

[emrecom]

How did you quit smoking? Did you go insane, blow up anything?

My gf and I are talking about quitting together.

Then I worry about Mustally Assured Destruction.

grrrrrr

[tinywarrior]

It was really just a matter of making up my mind to do it. I'd smoked since I was 15...and I was getting to the age where I couldn't kid myself that it wasn't hurting me anymore. Also, I didn't want my kids thinking that it was something "cool" to do. I thought it would be really horrible quitting, but it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. Not nearly as bad as dying of emphesema or lung cancer, for sure. Lucky me! : )

[nandan]

If I may butt in uninvited.... the easiest way to quit is after an illness, that way, you go through physical withdrawal while you're suffering from other things. However, you may be too healthy to wait for your next serious bout. But I highly recommend this method. Of course, with two of you, you'd have to get infected simultaneously. Hmmm, something to work on, anyway.

[verian]

Thank you for the link Cate, I just sent a submission to Artemis.

[tinywarrior]

Right on! I may submit something later...I've been so busy, I've done very few submissions over the last few months.

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[verian]

It's probably a wise move, your writing is bloody rubbish anyway.

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[tinywarrior]

Colorful metaphor...but then again, what do I know? ; )

Sunday Morning

[kudzublossom]

Grazie Milli Cate,
I'm been on a quest to feed my mind...I've been given wonderful morsels lately. The journal site is great.

Re: Sunday Morning

[tinywarrior]

You are quite welcome! : )