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On me way home...once I get there and cook dinner...spag Bol if anyone's interested....my Tuesday is doneski

Fun fact: my little old grandma followed St Louis because Bing wore they top in a movie...dunno what she knew about baseball but she used to listen to games on her tranny.

@Wee fluffy me & @WeegieWoman ... Booked in for haggis... Yes you read right, 2 month wait...so either it's grouse as or Melbournians are a really curious lot in the food department...or lots of expat Scots.

@Vivianne....I made one for you, have you found it yet?

Oh jumping in... Friends.....I quit in the middle of softball season....lots of me softball mates are smokers...I couldn't avoid them...I will confess to doing the 2nd hand smoking thing but I would have 1 wiff then be off....see I knew I couldn't avoid it, so quick sniff opposite side of the dugout....my rules were simple, I'd allow myself to smell it but I was not having a puff ...it only took a few weeks and U didn't even want that smell hit. But I prooved to myself I could do it. Post workout.....expanding on Jill's healthy snack suggestion...carrot or celery sticks...you can air smoke them AND have a nice crunchy chewy snack. In my early quit I had a phone app...it had a crave buster feature...this was that card flip memory game....ran for 3mins on repeat...only once did I need to go back to back to beat a crave ..see your brain can't focus on a crave when you are making it do something else. Minesweeper worked too.

Sadly there ya no hard and fast rule...as the others have said accepting you are a nicotine addict and learning how this addiction works are the keys. I very much just took it as 1 day at a time. I only ever worried about not smoking for the single day. So the way my addiction works is that the habit and the emotional addiction was stronger than the physical addiction. I needed to break those to feel comfortable in my quit. So this time I used NRT gum and it helped get me passed the hurdle...do I wish I had quit cold turkey, sure, but it wasn't my reality. What I can tell you is cold turkey, hypnosis, Champix, NRT there are no short cuts...you have to go through the hairy days to get up those hay days. Biggest tips.... 1. Only quit for one day at a time, don't worry about tomorrow, just focus on today. 24 little hours. 2. Keep you fluids and blood sugars up...drink juice, it Kilda two birds with one stone. 3. Learn, learn, learn....how the addiction works, what it has done to your brain. 4. Have some placebos, hard lollies (sweets/candies) to suck on, normal gum to chew, mints to suck, a pen to "fake" smoke. Anyone can quit, including you, it doesn't take a miracle, or a super power Nd definately not luck....all it takes is promising yourself never to put anything in your mouth and set it on fire and smoke it and fighting to keep that promise. That's it.

So 3 injections of lidocaine latter and it held just long enough to pull the earring through the back. Guess those studies that said locals don't work on red heads were on the money. She did get a Slurpee and a golden gaytime Krispy Kreme donut out of it.....omg the donuts taste just like the icecreams.

OMG @Sazerac....stunning, and so precious. Including your grandmother's rosaries is the thing that will make this a true treasure. I absolutely love this. Me...sitting at the quacks waiting to have the kid seen in the treatment room...new piercing so swollen the head of earring has disappeared into the piercing...so it's inside her ear. Here's the back of the earring... But where's the front of the earring...

Well seeing as I seem to be pulling my head back outta me own arse

Young orangutans don't eat lizards. Purse

But I think my man Kutcha says it best.... It's better to have tried and failed than never try at all....but you gotta get back up again peeps..

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OMG.....if anyone's keen it's page 144....that first tram is outside the Melbourne Town Hall....where I went to my first ball, drank my first Champaign....seen a heap of concerts there too, the massive organ there is world heritage listed, it's the third biggest in Australia and the second biggest British Style cathedral organ in the world that is still functioning & was built between the wars...you don't just hear it you feel it.....met one of my hero's (Weary Dunlop) there....the second team is at the St Kilda junction heading towards the heart of Melb along St Kilda Rd....has you travel towards the city of you look to your eft you will pass the Botanical Gardens, the shrine of Remembrance, which includes a field of trees with each tree dedicated to Navy vessels lost at sea and their crews...you will pass a tonne of statues, old dead British people, ancient gods, famous Aussies, my faves are Weary, the diggers and the hammer thrower...on your right you pass the army barracks, the NGV with its water wall, ponds and stain glass ceiling, the arts centre and the spire.

@Lust4Life....yep a dingo's donga is exactly what you think....which is why a dead one is so dry. Pong.... Smell, really, really bad..stink, and then some. So something can pong or it can be pong. "Oh for farks sake d1ckhead put ya frickin runners outside they pong to high heaven." Or....coming home after doing something all sweaty... "I'd give ya a hug but I'm a bit pongy"

Keepin mum. Staying quiet about something, keeping the secret of what really went on. Particularly not dobbing someone in. All the boys were keepin mum about the broken window. All the witnesses were keeping mum.

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-12.99.....just round it up peeps

^wot she said.... Your lot call it the clap...our lot call it the Jack.....we also call the little white ball in lawn bowls the jack....and we call the cops the jacks....not sure what the connection is between the 3 but good luck coming here and not growing up with the language.

Oh....I'm being a bit cheeky .... One of our lovely newbies thanked @jillar for giving them the JAC earlier in the week so down here one defo wouldn't tank anyone for givin them the jack...well maybe a lawn bowler...so I've been stirring me mate Jill ever since....there's a song about it an all...so there you were off to the docs for a rash and I had a stir...all a good jest....even if there is no rash associated with The Jack.

Wondering if @jillar gave her JAC to @Sazerac as well

Lying on the couch wishing I could teleport to bed.

Almost getting arrested.