Good morning, GUSsacks. I don't know how much babysitting I will be doing this morning, as I feel kinda lousy, but I wanted to put the diary out there.
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1. Acquiring a ridiculous number of goofy little games for my blackberry. You may recall that I said that cigarettes represented the space I put between myself and the world. Well, Bejeweled and Brick Breaker now represent the space I put between myself and the world. It might sound foolish, but "I’ll turn the laundry over as soon as I figure out Level 29 of The Pusher" is probably no less foolish than "I’ll turn the laundry over as soon as I move one notch closer to emphysema." I have a short attention span for these things, so I don’t play any longer than it would take me to smoke a cigarette or two. My hands are occupied and so is my brain. I seem to have developed a repetitive stress injury in my left thumb, but c’est la vie.
2. Fighting with my boyfriend. OK, I’m not doing that to avoid smoking. I’m doing that because he’s had a cold for the last week and has been a big dunderheaded poopybrain. One would think that smoking would help me to avoid summarily executing him, or at least telling him what a high degree of dunderheaded poopybrainedness he has displayed of late. However, as he is also a smoker, pursuing him onto the deck would only cause us to spend more time together without the distractions of internet, television, and children. Therefore, he goes out on the deck alone and I glower at him through the sliding glass door feeling marginally superior. It works for me.
3. Buying a new car. OK, I’m not doing that to avoid smoking either. My beloved Jeep Cherokee went belly-up after six and a half years and 120,000 miles together. However, owning a (reasonably) new (to me), never-smoked-in vehicle is sure to keep me from wanting to light up in it. I have always hated the Scum—the big nasty you get on the inside of your windshield, from smoking, that makes it hard to see at night. But now that I see the smell of cigarettes as something less than desirable, the new (kind of) car will stay new(ish) longer.
4. Catching every cough, sniffle, and stomach upset my first grader carries home. OK! OK! No, I’m not doing that to avoid smoking either... I’m doing that because my immune system is a giant sucking void and I would do that anyway. But my urge to haul myself out of bed and onto the cold, cold deck in order to "enjoy" a cigarette that is going to make me even less able to breathe is, well, less than compelling. Also, in the interests of fairness, I am probably feeling better than I would be if I were still pumping a pack of cigarettes into my already very wimpy lungs on a daily basis... not that I am going to admit to that in my search for sympathy in my house.
5.Hanging out with GUSsacks. I am doing that to avoid smoking, but I’m glad. You people are the cool kids. Keep it up.
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