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Confession: when I get angry I swear, a lot. Hmm I think maybe it should just say...I swear a lot.

Gee had to pop to the Cook Islands for this one, they might say it different but it's still spelt Maine... Gee

Bonus points for the less obvious ones?

Your challenge, should you accept it, post a song with a US state in the name...

Wouldn't that be those who follow the 7-4-7 method? Confession: I Google. And I think I might need a subscription to Men's Health magazine.

Good morning fellow NOPErs...now something tells me today is a special day...so Happy Birthday Queen Sonja of Norway or one of those Viking countries...nah just joshin .... Happy Independence Day to all our Yankee Doodles... Make sure you have a great time celebrating your nationhood. Nope... Not to day, not tomorrow, not ever, forever.

Confession: its 2:22am and I just looked at the clock to see an all the same numbers time and now I can't sleep because it might be a bad omen ..and my toes are cold...canned et sleep when me toes are cold.

Ok...I've been following your journey and haven't posted yet because others had said what needed saying. This may seem to come out of left field a bit but honestly a lot of this is reading like more of a cry for help around some other things that haven't been dealt with and because emotionally and psychologically these things are linked to smoking you are giving your nicotine addiction the power...you say Kylie took advantage...now look at the situation differently, if Kylie had been Kyle and he was 18 and you were 13... We would be viewing this differently....my kid is 13, and there is no way she is emotionally ready for a sexual relationship with a male or female... You whole life has been shaped by one night and one weekend. Often the stuff we go through as kids cause big scars on our psyche... I know I smoked, and took drugs and drank to fill the holes I carried...none of it ever helped. You are 23, I think besides quitting the best thing you can do for you is speak to someone about that weekend...because there are issues there preventing you from being the person you can be. Here's something to think about, 1 single thought process that really helps with the whole quit process... There are 3 things a smoker can be: Smoking; Quitting - still smoking but thinking about/planning to quit; or Quit - not smoking....You can be 1 hour quit or 17 years quit but once you have that last smoke you are quit, quitting is for those smokers who haven't quit yet.

Evening fellow NOPErs...3rd of July is look at yourself in the mirror and say something nice....I looked in the the mirror and said "NOPE" nicest thing I ever said to myself.... Early in my quit I would look in the mirror in the morning and say "not gunna smoke t'day" and then the last thing I'd do before bed was look in the mirra again an say "didn't smoke t'day". NOPE...with or without a mirror, for today, tomorrow, forever.

I was just reading this article that says Strine (Australian English) is gettin further from British English and American English each year and before long we're gunna need translators just to have a convo.

^Dad training? We had to turn the "red snakes" off because the kid has panic attacks because her dyslexic spelling is so "creative" the suggestions are never right and it's all just too stressful.

Everything....thought if I quit I'd miss everything about it...everything on your list and then some...I mean what woz i Gunna do between innings of when I came off the diamond.... What do miss about it....nothing! Absolutely nothing!.... So a couple of weeks ago I bummed a ride with a mate who is a smoker....and they smoke in the car....not once during that journey did I want to ask for one....each minute in the car was confirmation that I will never, ever go there again.

Good morning fellow NOPErs...the sun might be shining but it's right fribble weather in good ol Melbs....so 2nd of July...Unity Day in Zambia...did you know the majority of countries around the world celebrate Unity Day, just at different times and for different reasons... The Germans have theirs to celebrate the wall and the East West Reunification, the Yanks have theirs in October, and it's about anti bullying and everyone wears Orange ..we kinda ripped them off and so the same down here but it's earlier in the year...the Russians have theirs as a celebration of kicking the Polish occupying army out of St Petersberg in the 1700s... Zambia's is to do with national unity after liberation and civil war. But regardless of the date or the reasons the message is simple, United we are a force, United we can beat the bullies and oppressors and the common enemy. So ask yourself, what is our common enemy....addiction to nicotine and tobacco...that's why we are here, to unit in the fight, which while personal is easier to fight with unity. NOPE... Just for today, tomorrow, forever.

Boo did you show your dad those Tommy Hafey clips? I dunno though, kinda sounds like he's in training for Baby Boo.

^maybe should be in confessions but I say that every day when I read your nope @johnny5 In my best robot voice too.

Dropping some pollies of at the pool.

When Pope John Paul II came to Sydney to beatify Mary MacKillop (son not quite Saint her)...every Mary MacKillop school in Aus and NZ sent acts to Sydney for a spesh concert in the park....so our school did a dance to We Are Family with some minor Aussie celebs singing and now every time I hear it I have to stop and do the chorus bit.

You called..... Yep here

Bhutan, one the least developed nations in South East Asia is the first country in the world to ban tobacco sales. So this isn't news, they did it in 2010. Bhutan banned the sale of tobacco in 2010 but tightened up its law further last year to combat smuggling, requiring consumers to provide valid customs receipts for their cigarettes or chewi g tobacco, which is more common. In March this year a monk caught carrying $2.50-worth of tobacco was jailed for three years, becoming the first person punished under the country's antismoking law. So are these laws too draconian? Could they work in a country with a population over 1million? Should we all just follow suit? A part of me wants to stand applaud them... But part of me wonders if it isn't too far.

Have to say one where Big Tobacco tried to convince countries to get their people to smoke because it was in the national interest....this was in the 90s...that's 1990s....scraping the barrels of scum there.

Good evening fellow NOPErs....and happy Canada Day, aye! So while our big cousins (or is it brother's) way up north celebrate their nationhood down here in Aus we are holding our international tartan day celebration (note this is an Aussie holiday not a Scottish one, cos well any excuse for a piss up) ...which we hold to coencide with anniversary of the Repeal Proclamation of 1782 which annulled the Act of Proscription .... So basically the English made a law that the Scott's couldn't wear there kilts, if they did they copped a fine or 6mths in jail...if they did it again they could be transported for 7 years of indentured slave labour to any land of that England owned...oh so that's why the Aussies celebrate tartan day, cos of the convicts, yeah-NAH....I told ya it's any reason for a party (about 1/8th of our population has Scottish ancestry).. you see if you check those dates...the First Fleet hadn't even set sail for Aus when all this happened. An odd coincidence, North America celebrates tartan day in April...and the Canadians began the tradition...so see it's only fitting we celebrate our one on Canada Day. Did you know 15.8% of Canadians have some degree of Scottish ancestry... See now your life is complete.... So while I might don the tartan, and smother my bacon with maple syrup on this day of celebrations....will I smoke, ever again..... NOPE

Yep...I 'needed' to smoke to control my anxiety....can honestly say my anxiety is better as a non smoker. Smoking just amplified my anxiety. I had given up everything else, so it was the only thing I had left....oh and biggest myth I told myself, it was better for the kid if I kept smoking because I would be too agro trying to quit to be a good mum.

Oh yours looks delish @WeegieWoman.... Best be careful I might just show up one sundee fer lunch.

So came across this today when I fell into a Google hole. There are some very interesting points raised here... And saddly I believed many of these before educating myself ....used quite a few to justify my smoking. https://blogs.bmj.com/tc/2016/03/23/20-myths-about-smoking-that-will-not-die/

Eating dinner ... So the guess who cooked dinner in my house.... It's a huge upgrade from cheese toasties, 2 minute noodles (ramen) and tinned tomato soup.... Verbal critique: Omg this is grouse, tastes so good. You must be really learning stuff in food tech (home ec) non-verbal critique: mash spuds, watery, and yet lumpy with an odd taste...snags bloody perfect, beans pretty good but cold, kumera chips too salty and soggy...gravy different.... So the mash...got confused, and used whole egg mayo instead of sour cream.."they are both white". Kumera chips (I give mine a quick spray and then cook in the oven....she boiled them in water full of stock cubes, then shallow fried them in drippins)...and the Gravy....she added Vegemite and tomato paste for flavour, then couldn't get it to thinken up so added an egg yolk. The tomato sauce (ketchup) smiley face was because "plating is important mum, you eat with your eyes first"....