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Great job Gus. Congratulations. There's no stopping the Gus Bus now!

Great call Oslo. Enjoy the ride.

One from Jimmy's Nashville days...

Kdad, one of the best pieces of advice I picked up on this forum early on was: "Take smoking off the table." Simple enough and it has worked every time it has been tried. Smoking is not an option for a non-smoker. Eliminate the option and you can eliminate the internal bargaining. The list of things you can do is infinite. There is just the one thing you can't do, which is smoke a cigarette.

Good news Sunshine: those of us on the more impatient side can successfully quit smoking...A fact that I am quite thankful for. In fact, the process of quitting taught me some valuable lessons about patience and delayed gratification. The process will reward you many times over when you stay the course.

There is a lot of insight to be gained from watching the videos and reading the posts. However, much of quitting smoking is just trudging uphill until you hit level ground. Inspiration and motivation are not going to carry you up the hill, you just keep walking forward until you get there. There are no secrets to a successful quit. You simply must decide if you want to quit more than you want to smoke. I know you can quit. I sincerely hope that you start to believe it as well.

Happy Valentine's Day.

Happy Valentine's Day Doreen...

Welcome aboard the Quit Train Sunshine. Make the commitment to yourself and you are set. Congratulations Sunshine, you've made one of the best decisions you will ever make.

Good job Katgirl.

That is a top-shelf quit. Great job Rozuki.

Welcome aboard Oslo. When I was your age, I still had a naive sense of invincibility. Congratulations, you're ahead of the curve. Desires and motivations are nice but fickle. Solid quits are built on a commitment to yourself. You recognize the need to quit. Now is the time to commit and be relentless with that commitment. It is a simple process with only two incontrovertible rules: (1) DON'T SMOKE! and (2) If you have any further questions, refer back to rule number one. Quitting smoking will leave you with only one regret...not quitting sooner.

I haven't done any gardening on my own, but spent a fair amount of time helping tend to my grandparent's garden when I was a kid. Mostly green beans, peas, and tomatoes. I was planning on growing muscadines here at the house a little while back but got sidetracked. I will probably get started on that next Spring.

Craving some fried okra. I just finished reading a post by Kris in another thread and could go for a heaping helping of okra right about now. Also, looking for a bit of sympathy. I smashed my middle finger today when I went to catch a cylinder of argon that was falling over. It is already starting to swell up. Jeff from the warehouse only asked: "that's not your whacking off hand is it?" So...I'm getting no sympathy from the guys I work with.

I do like a nice success story. Good job Jim.

Heaven Tonight is one of the greatest rock albums of all-time.

Monkey gifs....Now we're talking!

The first rule of nap club is you don't talk about nap club. If Sugar Britches or I mention that it's time for a nap, Maddie will resist. If she decides on her own that it's time for a nap, she will stand in front of me and raise her arms straight up. I pick her up, and carry her into her bedroom...easy and completely drama free. It's not so much a question of to nap or not to nap, it's mostly a matter of who decides when it's time for a nap. She's strong-willed and stubborn, just like her mother. Sugar Britches tells a different story, but she's not here so we're going with my side of the story.

And dogs...don't forget the dogs.

Good job Steven. Congratulations.

Any excuse to post a song by the Kinks is fine with me... Celebrations shall continue all day and all of the night...

Congratulations Ace. It's time to commence with the celebratory activities.

Maddie goes down for a nap whenever and wherever she decides. This afternoon she laid down on the rug in front of the kitchen sink and dozed off. The days of putting her down for a nap are over. Now she just goes as long as she can and naps wherever she decides to lay her head down. Sugar Britches found her curled up in the corner beside the desk in our home office a couple of days ago. This morning I heard Maddie in her room. She had her stuffed animals lined up and was really talking to them; lots of babbling complete with hand gestures and everything. I'm not sure if she was just getting her animals up to speed on recent happenings or if she might be planning something bigger. She will also stop what she's doing, go in the kitchen, grab some random item in there (spatula, measuring cup, etc.), then pick right back up with whatever she was doing before. I say this with nothing but love in my heart...toddlers are weird little people.