notsmokinjo

Right... please isolate yourself missy... no more ICU visits for you. Saddly we don't use rolls at work, we use sheets.

Most domestic sport comps have been cancelled for now. We have followed New Zealands lead and anyone arriving here has to self isolate for 14 days. For now only the rich kid school where Prices Charles and William went to for a year has closed... all other Victorian schools are still running. There are lots of rumours of a lock down... but at the moment I'm not putting too much chop in the rumour mill its changing by the hour. Victoria (my state) is suggesting extending the school holidays we have coming up for Easter (we have a 4 term school year)...but when you consider 2/3 nurses in Australia depend on school and childcare to be able to work the is an argument to leave them open. Panic buying continues.... was so nice to come to work today, do a poo and wipe my bum with something other than news paper.

Oh the princess is far from a slave, she has a shoe collection to rival Imelda and is eyeing off her 3rd leather jacket.

Wow....much less peeps on the train this morning....which explains why the fwy is a carpark.

How's half a kg of each suit ya...you can keep the bum nuts, paper towel an liquid soap I'm sitting pretty for them .

How about my first born, you can have her...she can do laundry, will cook dinner, makes a decent cuppa tea or coffee...with minimal griping BUT she may avoid school.

So down under I need to question our intelligence... For no reason other than greed and fear our shelves are bare....whole Isles have nothing...I mean seriously no tomoato sauce (ketchup).... So... things aren't as bad as I thought in our place... but need me some bandaids (elastoplasts) cos I always have knife accidents when cooking and I need toilet paper...like NEED it cos yeah there is none. I can trade ya some flour (self raising, plain or wholemeal) or some spuds (pontiacs) some lovely home made jam, mince beef or lamb, lentils (yellow or read), barley, couscous, quinoa, black rice. Takers???

More oddities from the Aussie supermarket checkouts... unsuccessful monthly shop because there is nothing...no potato's, no rice, no pasta, no flour, no sugar, no bread, no laundry detergent, no onions, no pumpkin, not much meat (butcher had meat), sanitary products, dunny paper....tinned stuff, noodles, frickin cereal....it's like the apocalypse is coming...anyway....I'm at the counter, buying what I can, an the 2 little girls behind me say to their dad... G1..Dad why is there no things in this shop? G2...Is it closing down? Dad...Yeah-nah people are just being stupid.

I would love to hear Boo's theory on the Fed res... BUT some people don't see intellectual political discussions/debates as fun and can get their backs up....so saddly it looks like it's a nope...which kinda sucks. Feelin' a bit ripped off that they cancelled the frickin Grand prix.

Wondering if @Boo has got any spare dunny rolls he could ship my way.

Welcome..just focus on 1 day at a time. You can do this.

Having an imature giggle cos @Boo really likes Willie

G'day Darcy and welcome back. Biggest bit of advice...don't think long term, just worry about today...when you wake up in the morning promise yourself "today I'm not smoking" and then fight to keep that promise, just quit for the day...then tomorrow repeat..after you have done that first 24hrs you know you can...draw strength from that...because you are only quitting for the day and you know you can do that because you have.

.....sshhhh TNP has been in the cockpit while flying.

It's baaaack! So usual rules apply...you have a weekish to cast ya votes, all votes are anonymous BUT comments are welcome and encouraged...I've tried, as always to habe someone from the Americas, Europe and of course the great land down under... So for the return poll I've opted to go with one where I think the original will be a lay down mazare...but ya never know ya luck in the big city so here goes. 1. The original - James Taylor 2. Marcia Hines...who is representing the Aussies, even if she did spend the first 16 years of her life in the USA....for the record, I thought this was the original. The time difference change at the end gives it a different feel...yep campaigning for my local fave. 3. From the UK...we have Birdy 4. Finally we have the one and only Willie Nelson. Who gets ya vote?

Not sleeping

Woohoo...you bloody ripper mate....4 frickin years is fan-frickin-tastic....we are all so lucky to have you still here sharing your words of wisdom and sage advice. Thanks for the music education, have added quite a few artists to my play list who I never would have thought to check out our even know existed. The new smoke free life you have built for yaself is an inspiration to many.

Making my last batch of jam for the year from my dad's peach tree. He informs me he might have enough berries for another batch, just berries.

WEEELLLL.....if we are doing the confession thing....I may have once danced on stage to this song wearing wearing what I referred to as 'the Macca's condom and skirt'...in front of 1000s...in Sydney when the pope (good ole JP2) came to visit for the beatification of Mary MacKillop...I still remember the corre.

Nope....not even on a long weekend, with a parade.

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True. TNP has been wizzed on by a baby.

G'day mate...holding in there?....try a chewy or a lollypop...something that gives your mouth and action, like a placebo. Smoking doesn't make the grog taste any better...the nicotine receptors in your brain are just exploiting the fact that your inhibitions have been lowered by the drink an forcing the issue. Your quit is still new. You have years of habbits and ritual to reprogram...see in the past your brain associated drinking with smoking...you can't just switch that off...the nicotine receptors in your brain will be wigging out wanting that smoke...you just have to hold tight to the quit...hang on with 2 hands...you can do this.