Good morning EXers!
It's Thursday, and I am not working tomorrow (I get every other Friday off). I'm hoping that I can get all of my work completed by the end of the day that are due for this week...In either case, the pressures of deadlines and cutoff dates & such, no longer have the grip on me that they used to have. After I got free from the bondage of continual everyday addiction to nicotine...I started to go to town on eliminating the pressures of unwarranted stress in my life anymore. With as many trips that I have made to the hospital in the last couple of years, it is obvious that I am not going to be around here much longer if I don't start getting a handle on all of the stress that has been ruling my life.
So....169 Days ago...I had an epiphany (spell check?), that smoking cigarettes were not easing my stress, instead they were actually adding to it. Whenever I would be putting out a smoke, I immediately would be wondering when I would be able to return for another smoke. I would also be worrying about the negative image that I was being associated with by being management, and still standing outside of the offices just burning away valuable time needed to complete work that I was behind in.... Let is not forget the added stress of "knowing" that each smoke I lit up was doing more damage to my already deteriorating arteries, and therefore putting added load to a weakened heart....
Okay, what's not clear as mud here? I obviously "MUST" quit smoking, for good! There is no dodging the obvious anymore..."quit, or die." What was my choice to be?
So goodbye stress, hello Friday (day off)! It would be nice if the weather would cooperate by giving us Marylander's some decent riding weather, but after all, it is February. lol Seriously, us here in Maryland cannot complain of the winter weather this year. Heck, we haven't had any yet anyway! February this year is averaging 9 degrees normal than usual. The local weatherman this morning said that we are on track to have recorded the warmest winter ever, in the entire existence of weather recordings.
Well, I guess I have rambled long enough...it is time to get some deadlines met....enjoy your smokefree Thursday!
Pops/w 169 Days of Freedom
