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    I Think I'm Done

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    And thanks Chris... thats about the worst good advice you have ever given me. Maybe ya can just blow some smoke up my you know what! I do get ya girl...i get it,its cool,well kinda cool. xoxo

    Backatcha. :cheekkiss

     

    I am always happy for the stories of quitting 'cold turkey'. That was not my experience. I have a genetic predisposition to knotheadedness. My point is as long as it takes, one MUST keep trying. Giving in to it is death.

     

    Growing up, both of my parents smoked, in the house, all the time. The bottom drawer in the kitchen was filled with packs of Kents and Virginia Slims. Four years ago my dad had a lobe of his lung lopped off because there was cancer growing in it. His surgeon told him that if my dad continued to smoke, he would not treat him. Six months after his surgery my dad was (and still is) smoking 2 - 3 packs a day. Claims he "never had cancer".

     

    In addiction, denial makes one delusional.

     

    Nicotine is insidious because it doesn't create behavior change like other substances do. Just because one can't see the damage done to the inside of the body doesn't mean it's not happening.

    I Think I'm Done

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    I quit smoking 5 times. I hadn't smoked for a couple of years, and it took a highschool reunion, a bottle of wine, 20 cigarettes and 8 hours of poisonous puking to put me off the nicotine for good.

     

    That was 7 years ago.

     

    Everyone is different, but it can be done. If you fall off, keep getting back on that wagon. The monkey gets bigger and more vicious every time.

     

    You owe it to yourself and to your babies.

    Dawes in Chevy commercial

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    M.Chris, you rabble-rouser you! :lol

     

     

    I mean no harm. :shifty

     

    I watch very little TV, but when I hear a band I like any place outside of playing them myself, I get happy. That includes TV, radio, doctor's office or drifting through the outdoor market where I eat my lunch.

    R.I.P. Borders Bookstores

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    I don't remember that far back, but I do remember when they were still just a single store on State Street near the corner at Liberty.

     

    Eventually they moved into the former Jacobsen's on Liberty.

    I'm thinking it was the mid to late 70s when I would frequent the store. I remember it being multi storied in an old building. Seemed like a house, but apparently not. From Wikipedia: "The first Borders bookshop, with a meager stock of used books, was located in two rooms above 209 State Street, north of the State Theater. From there the brothers soon moved, briefly, to a tiny ground floor + mezzanine operation in the Maynard House apartment building, on the southwest corner of William and Maynard Streets."

     

    Perhaps it was the other State Street location I'm thinking of:

    "Wahr's had been mainly a textbook and school supplies vendor, but the brothers did not deal in textbooks. They moved the retail bookshop to much larger quarters that had become available across State Street, in the former location of the Wagner & Son men's clothing store."

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