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Archive through December 07, 2007

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Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
Yes, Gal, Pamy and I made a pact when we were in LA that if you could do it, so could we. lol I was just later than Pamy starting. I'm soooooooooo proud of you. YOu may have to send the Big Guy to talk to Fred. He's being really really grumpy. Give Colossus big hugs and kisses from me. Is there no story to tell about your trip to Mexico? I need a good laugh. lol

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Well Granny I was going to post this in the Entertainment thread but since you asked . . .

Colossus's sister and BIL came with us to Cancun. The three of us like to gossip on Hollywood, Colossus stays out of it but tends to hear and remember more than you give him credit for. So we're sitting around playing canasta one night and cussing each other when the subject of Paris Hilton comes up (they know me hate her). I filled sis and BIL in on Paris' new charitable venture, which is keeping Indian elephants from getting drunk on rice wine and rampaging through villages. No kidding. So we hee-hawed and snortled about elephants staggering out the jungle with the shakes and whatnot, and then the conversation moved on to other things.

Night before last Colossus and I were test-driving a new big-screen LCD tv on a high def channel. We were watching a special on Borneo, where some tree-huggers were stumbling around a jungle looking for wild animals. Pretty soon they lose their minds with excitement because a herd of wild elephants came pounding through the brush.

As they stood there gaping, Colossus turned to me and asked if this was the part where Paris Hilton shows up and throws a martini at the elephants.

OK maybe you had to be there. I'm still laughing about it.

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
Sounds just like the guy!! I'm glad ya'll had such a good time. I can't believe that absolutely nothing went wrong on your trip. Now back to your regular program. lol

Ginger1218
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08-31-2001

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 4:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ginger1218 a private message Print Post    
GAL, I know, when I quit I didn't believe how much easier it was than I thought it would be.

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
7 Days----One Whole Week!!!!



Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Meme!!!!! WOW!!! THAT IS SOOOO AWESOME! YOU HAVE DONE IT!! you should be over the physical addiction, just have to work on the habit part.

just say 'this craving will pass in less than 5 min' it does and you feel so good you did it another day!!

I am soooo proud of you!!!!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
GAL! your stories alwasys crack me up! Yes, you inspired Gran and me!!!!

2months!!!!! wow!!! congrats!! if you can make it thru Mexico you can make it thru anywhere...YOu are awesome!!!! Did Colossus quit too??

someone asked me today why did I decide to quit at this point in time....I was like my friend, GAl, and he said thats a strange name LOL who woulda thought a BB message board would lead to so many wonderful friends and then lead to me stopping a 30 yr old habit!!

Granny, I am over the crzed ranting days but I had some dooozies...just tell Fred to not say a word and to just nod his head...tell him it will be much safer for him :-)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 7:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
GAL, how many months did ya take Chantix?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 9:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yay Meme!!!

Welcome back and congrats, Goddessatlaw! You are doing terrific.

Yay, Pamy!! And yay Grannyg!!! I have to admit I was really, really scared how close the two of you were cutting it and still smoking. You might say Grannyg was more scary because she is within spitting distance of me on age, and I did indeed quit when I was younger than Grannyg. But Grannyg is a baby boomer, and we boomers seem to be a tad heartier than our successors, sad to say. <knocks on all the wood in the whole danged South Texas condo>

And then I was worried about Pamy because she is passionate about so many things, but also has fibro and stress, and all of those things can feed off each other to no good end.

And so, in summary, bless you, GAL, for having those weird dizzy things and being smart enough to go to the doc and being smart enough to realize, HEY, you might be mortal after all, and maybe you should control the bad things you can and let the great giftie manage the rest of is.

And, er, I mean, yay nonsmokers!!!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, December 05, 2007 - 9:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
ahhh Juju, thx!!! another thing that kinda scared me the last few month was that I sounded like my dad in the morning and he didnt make 55
:-(

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 2:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Thanks Pamy and Juju!

I can't wait for it to be months like GAL. Vacations would be hard, it the relaxing triggers I'm fighting. Good Job GAL!!!

YAY Pamy, your doing great!!! I couldn't have done as well as I have, if it wasn't for all of you gals. Wow, 55, that is young. I'm very close to 55, sometimes I wonder where the years went.

Granny, hang in there, wrap your mind around it and then be just as pissy as ya need.

Thanks again to all the great helpers here at TVCH!

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 6:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Meme, I'm hanging and so is Fred. lol By a thread but still hanging. Yep Juju, us old geezers have to have a long a healthy life so we can be the geezers and they can be the babies. lol But one day, the babies will be geezers too!!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 7:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Funny how that does not seem remotely possible when one is a baby, eh Grannyg?

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 8:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Yay for all the hanging tough!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don`t worry, Granny, Fred, too, will make it through this. My lot did, and I didn`t give them much to smile about.

Meme, you are doing it the hard way and sticking to it. Pat yourself on the back regularly. You deserve it!

Pamy, my father died of lung cancer and it still took me 10 more years to quit. Stupid, but hooked.

GAL, welcome home. Glad you had a good time!

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Thanks Lum

Holly
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06-19-2005

Thursday, December 06, 2007 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
It's so good to see y'all hanging in still. YAY quitters :-)

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 6:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Goddessatlaw a private message Print Post    
Pamy, I only took Chantix for 3 weeks. I didn't like how I felt or how I was acting, and I figured since the physical addiction part of it was behind me I'd white-knuckle the rest of the situation. And it hasn't even been white-knuckling, it's just irritating how many times I still actually think about it per day. But as long as you've made your mind up that having a cigarette isn't an option and you'd only be screwing yourself by smoking, staying quit isn't too hard.

Granny, Juju's BIL is running a boarding house for Disenfranchised Husbands of Chantix. You might want to steer Fred his direction for a few weeks. Colossus is still smarting over a few things I did/said while starting my quit, but for the most part he's been very, very pleased with my quitting and is kind of amazed that he just had to deal with a few grumpy/crazy weeks over the situation. Does Fred smoke? Colossus sends Fred his sympathy and says the guys need to start a support group where they can explore their hurt feelings LOL.

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 7:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
Nope Fred doesn't smoke so he has no idea how grumpy I can be. lol I'm almost thru 2 weeks and I can really tell the differnece. I'm down to about 1/2 pack a day. I've discovered I can't watch TV just yet. I guess because I have nothing to do with my hands, I want to reach for a cig. So I'm not watching much tv. Reading or playing games on the puter. At least my hands are busy.

<makes note of Juju's BIL's boarding house.>

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
But playing games on the puter keeps your fingers busy lol.

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
Busy is always good for me. And I also find I want to eat chips all the time. Right now, I'm hung up on Fritos!!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 9:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
lol

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 10:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Ahhhh, the evil 'reach thingy'...that is a tough one. I think as we are quitting, we become aware of just how often we were reaching. Each time I was aware of it, I'd tell myself NO(just like ya would a child)it felt silly, but it worked in the long run. Grannyg, I can tell you the 'reach thingy' is much better, I can't remember on what day it happened. But by the week mark of no smoking, I wasn't reaching anymore. Grannyg, step by step!

Pamy, I'm sure your still doing great, right?

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Can y'all take up knitting?

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
GAL, yeah that is kinda how I feel. Last nite was the worst since I quit...Christmas party, lots of booze, fun people, many smokers, and I wanted one soooo bad.

I would go out and 'have a smoke' with them every so often. Just saying the words and smelling the smoke got me thru. I even drove home alone, coulda smoked and no one would have known but I didnt even want to.

I did chew the hell outta gum all nite! :-)

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, December 07, 2007 - 1:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Granny, I understand the reachy thing. CHewing gum, smacking gum, and blowing big ass bubbles helps me.

I also got those little 100 cal snack cookies and pretzles. Yah I know I could reach for a carrot but I needed a little extra oomph in the beginning.

Granny, you are doing great!

YAH Meme!!! you are doing awesome!