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I'm having so much fun...on day ninety-0ne.....

Pops
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Good afternoon EXer family...

I hope all is well in EXland today.....Pops is traversing the No Mans Landscape today.  As I am traveling, this funny little thing called life just keeps throwing monkey wrenches my way.  I am successfully dodging them though.  I can't let anything get in the way of my successful quit of 91 days.

Yesterday's drive of 360 miles in the rain and busy Christmas travelers on the Pennsylvania & Ohio turnpikes was quite the challenge.  I would not be truthful if I told you that I wasn't tempted to stop and buy a pack.  I had to dispatch that sick thinking on more than one ocassion....I just told myself...."Self....don't be such an idiot....you do NOT do that anymore...."  Now put a cookie in your mouth, take a sip of coffee and turn up the tunes and sing.....before I knew it...the thought was way back in my rearview mirror.

When I woke up this morning, I received an electronic text message and email that I was now officially in a "non-paid status" of the federal government.  As being such, I am now "required" to follow certain instructions! LOL....So let me get this straight...you can't do your job, which is to balance the budget....and you tell me that while you are still working and not successfully performing your duties, you will be paid, and I who have always done what I am hired to do....well, I am to stay available and  be ready to return to work when you call me and tell me to return....???? Great....no problem there....I am all over it.....not to worry....idiots...everyone of them.  Merry fr##king Christmas....Oh yeah, make sure you come back to work and spend four hours cleaning out your office, and turn off your pc and shut down your equipment....for free, because we cannot pay you for anything during a furlough.....

omg, what a joke...but you know what....???a cigarette would not make it any better....

xoxoxoxo Pops with 91 DOF!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!

btw, what kind of birds stick together??????

answer:  Vel-crows   

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Hi, and thanks for stopping by to read my page....My name is Ken Bishop...aka, Pops. I am a stubborn older addict of nicotine....I have quit on numerous occasions in the past, and have experienced great rewards as a direct result of not ingesting deadly toxins into my bloodstream. One of the curses of having a strong constitution that seems to be able to withstand much more than others can...is this...my body would still be able to move around, and get things accomplished even after I was poisoned by the harmful effects of nicotine addiction. Eventually, the harm became so significant, that not even I, with all of my denial...could avoid the truth that to continue to smoke, would most assuredly be the death of me, and in short order as well. On Sept 1st, of 2018...I found myself in a rehab facility for alcohol abuse, and came very near death. I quit messing around, and had a deep and moving spiritual encounter, and have remained sober without one single urge to pick up a drink since. That was after consuming copious amounts of booze for many years in the past. After a short while.. I asked for spiritual help from my creator to make it possible for me to get the same amount of conviction towards finally being able to successfully put down nicotine once and for all...As of....(September 14th, 2019)...I have 17 days of living smokefree! Woo Hoo!!! Friends and family are all very proud and happy for me. They have asked me what I thought was the turning point, after having experienced so many failed attempts before. I simply reply, "I took the God Shot". xoxoxo Pops update: in Dec of 19 when the stock market started going nuts...I used that as an excuse to start smoking again. I see-sawed back and forth for severa months, and when the COVID crisis hit, I simply lost all desire to be smokefree...I was going to smoke & that was final. Well, as always...the pains of excessive injestion of nicotine into my blood stream...(one puff is all it takes) started affecting my everyday life again...I knew I had to quit placating my inner child and grow up and accept a life without nicotine. The normal person would read this and say well duh...finally he's getting it. But the normally addicted nicotine addict would understand...weird huh? So now I'm back with a new quit date of July 8th, 2020 & am hoping that I can accept that as a perfect quit date that does not need to be changed. Thanks for reading and good luck to you in your quit journey. Pops w 4 DOF!