notsmokinjo

Oh I hear you @mrsguest..... Our curl is about the same as yours but my hair is also fairy floss (cotton candy) thin so my frizz gets outa this world. I never even bother trying to straighten it because even with no humidity within hours that kink is creeping back. Short is easy, wash, rub in some product and wear.. but long I can tie it back...so hard.

I remember early on walking a couple of blocks past my train station because I was ghosting someone who was smoking and I was having a moment 2nd hand smoking....and like @jillar said at times I do still like that fresh tobacco smell, it just doesn't tempt me....I like the smell of petrol too, doesn't mean I'm Gunna go sniffin it or drink it. I also get the feeling of others not taking your quit seriously because you loved smoking ... I did too, until I didn't.... I'm still dealing with people in my life doubting my quit....but I see that as a challenge, love to prove them wrong.

Oh....hmmmm...is crew different to the cook?.....oh this is a very sneaky mixed basket.....the locations could be wrong .. oh....um... I'm Gunna say that the boat wasn't a Hinkley.

Now I want a rainbow billabong, a lime splice, a buffalo bill and a golden gaytime....mmmmm golden gaytime a, yummo. I used to love buffalo bills with their bubble gum noses. @reciprocity....29? .... 21 my friend 21...lol. Thanks everyone for your birthday wishes....lovely to wake up to these.

Saz is the winner... On my birthday we are having a public holiday and there will be a parade through the centre of Melbourne all for grand final eve....but the actual major sporting event is the day after.

On my birthday this year there will be.... 1. A parade through the middle of Melbourne. 2. A public holiday 3. A major sporting event played.

Well I'm Gunna say 3 is the lie cos I want it to be a lie noone needs to see that shit

Over smoked is what we are....over the fact we were ever fool enough to have smoked!

I don't remember ciggie ads on the telly but I do remember billboards and magazine ads. The one day cricket series used to be called the Benson and hedges but it got renamed and racing cars used to be sponsored by tobacco companies but not down here since I was a kid.

Confession: I'm super jealous of @Doreensfree new do...my hair would end up looking like this after the first wash... The kid has banned the short hair.

Jo with an E.... Nice to see you pop in...retirement my friend what happened to it....considering your herd have you ever wondered at the irony of the meaning of your name....rest assured I'm still here to think of all the odd things to be thunk.

Oh @Boo you so have to...it is outa this world....most amazing sensation if you go deep....you will Iove it. I've done cave dives but I don't handle the enclosed space and burn through the gas but my bro and his wife go for hours....but open water, coral, fish....it's amazing and humbling.

Dawn service at Gallipoli, with a visit to shrapnel gully and the lone pine trench and then leave poppy on the relos grave markers.

I cooked chips and carried some slabs.

False...won a couple a hundy a time or two at the geegees but never cracked the 1k mark. TNP likes to have a flutter (bet on the horse races/dogs/trotts)?

I have the best work out... It's slightly exhausting and takes a while weekend but Hooley Dooley will it work....I know I can feel every muscle still burning . The Tuck Shop Workout. Target muscles...trapezoids, obliques, quadies, hammies, glutes and calves...how do I know...cos I can feel the bloody buggers yelling their protests. Time... 12 hrs a day...for two days. Exercises: 1. The Hotdog Roll / Melbourne Bitter Squats...let's put the cut up hotdog rolls in this tub on the floor...and the most popular beer on the bottom shelf of the drinks fridge. Then let's sell 300+ hotdogs a day...and 15 slabs of Bitters....(I'm not catching this year, nope I'll just do a couple a hundy squats in the tuck shop.) a slab is a carton of of 24 beers (a case is a box of 30 softdrinks, coke, Sunkist, solo, that sorta thing...this is important to know for Ron (later on)) 2. The chip frier bane Marie lift n twist...works best if done contually for 7.5 hrs coupled with the hotdog roll squat, shuffle, stuff n bag, counter hand off stretch (or the 3 steamed dimmies in a cup fill and offload stretch)...lift the 2 kg basket of chips, twist and dump in the bane Marie...stuff the chip buckets stretch to serve...repeat. .in 2 days we cooked 380kg of chips (fries)....bonus to this work out is the fluid weight loss...dripping sweat...sure I lost a kg or two in fluid alone. 3. Get the chips....hauling 5kg bags if frozen chips out of the chest freezer. 4. The back kitchen chip dash...running from our tuckshop to the hockey club tuckshop next door to get hit chips from the frier in there before they burnt, or hotdogs or dimmies from the steamer. 5. Bar fridge twist n serve....stand at the bar, twist open the fridge, pull the grog and serve.. often coupled with a lunging stretch to make the EFTPOS machine reach from the tuckshop side to the bar. 6. The restock obstacle course and slab walk....(cos I'm kinda lazy) to save 10m of walking and climbing down/up 4 steps... Walk to the retaining wall, sit on it swing ya legs over and drop, open the chill trailer, climb in and drag the slabs to the front.. use on knee to prop the door...pull the slab out, stack them on the retaining wall, lock the trailer, climb back over the wall load up the slabs (so one carton either hand or one slab either shoulder or 3 slabs on top of each other in front of you) and walk back to the bar and load the fridge, grab 2 cans twist, slide on shelf repeat, in a lunge stretch to hold the door open and also reach where they are on the counter. 7. Clean up....scrubbing, and washing and scouring and sweeping and mopping. So you want a good work out find a sport association hosting a 2 day tournament and volunteer in the tuck shop.

We have a winner... 1. Lie....I prefer to just wear thongs but when I wear shoes I never wear matching sicks....BUT...I always wear matching shoes....well a few times I've worn odd thongs Tova funeral but that had nothing to do with bad luck. 2. True....if I put something on inside-out or back to front it stays that way all day cos it's bad luck to change it, fate meant it to be put on that way. 3. Very, very true.

Fangin' I'm fangin' for a frothy. I'm really hanging out and almost anxty to have an ice cold beer. (It's saddly a phrase most said by smokers in need of a nicotine hit)

( * Y * ) naughty naughty

Here I was panicking all day that everyone would be waiting for the answer....but nope

Yeah nah...it's a NOPE . . Gotta say it's great being at softball and watching all the smokers cough and splutter...so good being smoke free.

I hurt..my feet hurt, my knees hurt, my back hurts...my shoulders hurt...my neck hurts...I think I'm too old for this shit.

I'm an NRT quitter coming up on 2 years smoke free and I think I used NRT for 9-12 weeks. I used gum but it was only ever going to be a short term thing, the NRT. Previously I had a long term quit I threw away that was cold turkey. The thing is I can tell you the time, the date, the day if the week I had my last smoke but I am not sure when my last NRT gum was....I know it was after I joined here...I know it was after another member commented that they were NRT free and I went...oh, I should do that. Now here's my spin.... Cold turkey is best BUT everyone is different and it's not the best for me ....so for me, right from the get go I was like "I'm a junky, my drug of choice is nicotine...I am addicted, but I am also addicted to the ritual and routine of my smoking, and I am addicted to the psychological aspect (which is the lies you nicotine addiction tells you to get a hit)...knowing myself I knew the first thing I had to deal with was the habit/routine and the psychological...the physical bit would be easy...retraining my self to function as a non smoker not so easy. So I went into the NRT gum thing as... The box says I should be having 1-2 4mg per ever hour...so I'd have 1 and see how long I could go between them...I'm a bit competitive, even with myself...so if I didn't have my first nrt gum until 9:30am then that was my new start time...no NRT before then....i wasn't clock watching for my next hit, I was clock watching to beat my last pb. I would alternate a normal Chewie for an NRT so even now if I feel a bit like I need a smoke and I chew any old NOT NRT gum the crave goes. After the first week I was on the 2mg gums and my whole quit I bought 1 pack of 30 and one pack of 250 and I still had more than half left when I stopped using them. NRT is fine if you need it...it does prolong the whole crave phase but the two golden rules any NRT user needs to have....go in admitting you are an addict and go in with an exit plan. Honestly I needed NRT and if I could go back I wouldn't change how I quit.

I started a panda but lost one of the colours so it is not finished .....it's fun to do and certainly fiddly enough to keep your brain and hands free.

1. I only wear odd socks because it's bad luck to wear matching sicks and if I feel really unlucky I will wear odd shoes for luck. 2. If I put my clothes on inside out or back to front I have to leave them like that all day or it is bad luck. 3. I hate the #13 because it is bad luck and I once left a resteraunt because they had me on table 13 and wouldn't move me. All they had to do was swap the number but nope.