ChristaC

Massive congratulations, Doreen! Thanks for your support and your always cheerful and kind contributions to this board!

I can account for babs... she's definitely not smoking, she's going crazy at the gym instead. From what I hear, she gets up every morning at 4 and heads out, to work out... :D

Why would you want to sue Petra? What did she do? :D

:D :D :D :D :D :D

And a tip o' the hat to Colleen, for being such a good girl:

Yay Evelyn! Very proud of you! Keep on climbing, you're doing fantastic!

Here!

Buuuuuurrrrrrrppppp!!!!!

She's one of the nicest people I know....

I am so happy for you, Colleen! Your one-year anniversary, at last! Treat yourself... you deserve it!

This sounds really good to me.... could substitute any other fruit, I'm thinking.... http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/recipes/recipecomdetail.jsp?recipeId=25117402

EXACTLY!!!

Some say everything happens for a reason, even if we don't see it yet. I agree. :-)

I got to wondering about that the other day... When babs and I both still smoked, we'd occasionally go to the casino and gamble a little... well, maybe not so little. Babs and I were the most addicted gamblers you could find... my other daughters would bring their own cars if they wanted to join us, just so that they could go home whenever they were ready, because they knew babs and I would outlast them by hours... LOL Anyway, babs and I just couldn't bring ourselves to leave the casino until we were dead broke, and often overdrawn on our gambling "allowance", and it was so late in the night that we practically fell off our stools in front of the slot machine. Of course most times we were disgusted with ourselves, having thrown all of that money into the wind... or rather, into the machine... LOL. We stunk like cigarette smoke, we spent next week's grocery money (but never, interestingly enough, next week's cigarette money... hmmmm....), and we were tired and bleary-eyed the next day. So... we haven't gone to the casino in ages. I know I haven't been since I quit smoking, because a) there just never was an occasion or time for it, and b) I didn't want to spend the money, now that I was saving money by not smoking, and c) I was afraid that gambling would lead me back to smoking, (like drinking does for others). Last Sunday, my husband went to Harrah's Philadelphia Racetrack and Casino to race one of the horses he trained. It was a beautiful day, I didn't feel like sitting at home, so I thought oh well, I'll take a ride down with him. While he was in the paddock racing his horse, I had about 4 hours to kill, so of course I went to the casino. I couldn't believe how downright EASY it was to walk away from the slot machines. Sure I gambled some, but I also went outside, watched some of the races, sat in the sun, got something to eat... a nice day out. I enjoyed myself more than EVER before... because I wasn't a slave anymore, but a free woman.

To Cristobal, who has been such an important part of my quit... thank you!

I'm so sorry you have to go through all of this, Trish. No one deserves to have to put up with all of that b.s., least of all someone nice like you. Hope you can deal with it ok, and eventually, when you're ready, put down those cigarettes for good.

I've got all the confidence in the world in you, Tracey. Don't you DARE let me down! ;) :)

I'm so proud of you, Evelyn! Keep climbing! You're doing fantastic....

Did it look like this?

Great illustration, Ava! So true.... And Laura... you'll see how good it actually feels NOT to have to worry about where to sneak off to for that next (and next, and next) smoke.... :-)