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Dunno which way to go for dinner... Malaysian or Mexican?

Grateful to miss Google..so I could work out what these were.

Three-pete what they said. Also greatful that the ashes are back where they belong

Turning a negative into a positive...love this post.

There is tough love and there is kicking a dog when it's down (not saying your a dog @Vivianne, promise)...one is harsh but constructive and one is just sadistic and cruel...I think sometimes the message gets lost when the delivery is unnecessarily nasty and hurtful.. from the outside looking in sometimes the hardline advice comes across as being more about the person delivery getting a sactemonious ego boost than offering anything to help or support another. @Vivianne...you know you frucked up your quit...you had the balls to share this fact and you got straight back into a new quit. Publicly making yourself accountable shows you are serious about doing this.

Happy birthday Tina

Woohoo...I'm on the board.

Omfg...I know this trucker.... It's the fruckin chorus

Hmmmm.... So the obvious is River Man by Nick Drake... But then there is Ol' Man River....and then if ya wanna throw the net far an wide do it hits down under you get He'll Never Be An Ol' Man, River...by TISM... Reality it's nun a them...so goin with this cos it's my hometown boys.. Cos..it's a river, an there's a poster for Man from Aran on the tree and they're old.

Oh my fruckin god, let me bow at your feet and may I learn...going on the wall at work..."anger doesn't get me anywhere."...Goodluck with the little one at the GP.

Ok..bit more detail now I'm out of the war zone (waiting room at hospital cas department)... I knew I could not quit without some help. So I used NRT gum. But the day u started gum, I stopped smoking. I gave myself 3 months of NRT and that was it. I knew my addiction had 3 faces, emotional/social, psychological and physical. I knew breaking the habbit/routine would be harder for me than kicking the drug. What I know now, is that the two were linked, but facing all the social and emotional things I did with the crutch of an NRT gum was instrumental in getting me through. Do I regret not going cold turkey...yes in some ways I do BUT I do honestly believe I wouldn't still be here now without the NRT. So once I decided to commit to my quit I had an exit strategy in place for the NRT...from the third day I pushed the envelope...first gum of the day, space between gums, spacing normal chewies in between NRT ones...then having 2 for each one NRT... Identify why you can't quit without an NRT and then you will know if it's suitable.

I used NRT...but never while smoking...I would push the time between gums out daily but never intermingled it with smokes.

Well got to go home but had to deal with clingy 13yo and pretty smashed by fatigue...but here it us, early hours of Monday morning and I'm back in cas..just at the big hossy not the local one...cos the BP hit 207/119....I just want the headache to stop.

Glad you are safe @forestgreen.

So back in the day the band of the moment saw me partake in some argy bargy with one of the year twelve boys who refused to believe this was a cover and not even the best cover at that...but here in lies me issue, I scratched the surface and the covers were plentiful...chances are there is a version out there you love and I've missed but to quote that criminal who wore a garbage bin on his head...such is life. The original...Bob Dylan Cover 1... Cold Chisel (cos there's gotta be an Aussie) Cover 2 ... Pink Floyd ft Led Zeppelin Cover 3 ... Guns n Roses cover 4...Raign

@Boo ...frickin' Pullin out a no wukkas is an a grade use of the vernacular..your education is nearly complete grasshopper. Thanks everyone for the well wishes. No news as yet and no drop in the BP. @Rozuki...get your alternator checked, if your battery isn't holding charge might be it. Hope doggo is on the mend. @Sazerac...love black rice, it's so nutty. Hoping they let me home tonight.

Cas - casualty.. Battery on phone at 39% BP still way high Think it's a combo of thyroid and iron decency ...talking about an iron transfusion. BP keeps setting alarm off Last readings.. 192/144 O2 sat 99% Normal heart sounds Normal ECG Chest clear (how long did you smoke?, When did ya quit?, Really?) Pulse 72 No obvious reason for BP being so high, waiting on ultrasound to rule out DVT, and some other tests.

So sitting in cas. Trying to reserve battery.

Oh I chucked a sickie so when I went to the doctor for a certificate he checked me bp and it was 189/120... cardio graph was normal but doctor wants me to go to hospital to get checked. They are only going to do the same tests.

Trying to decide hospital or make a dress?

Hate a draw...like goin to a ball and dancing with a brother all night.

3am....making a giant costume for the kids drama class tomorrow...asked for it at midnight when she woke me up cos she forgot.... giants don't need necks do they?

I thought of another.... Before I die I wanna cross the Simpson in a four wheel drive.

False....never, ever, I'm very responsible driver..yeah-nah I'm just a tinny-arsed sh1t an never been done. Tnp has had a parking ticket

Well done of doing the Barbie smoke free, from memory the anxiety of faving it was harder than not smoking while I was there. Hope you don't have the SOLs too bad.