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Another Monday.....

Pops
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‎02-17-2020 09:18 AM

Good morning EXers!

It's Monday morning, (Presidents Day) and my bosses asked me to come in and work on my holiday....(they will have to pay me dearly for the time though....;-)....so here I am dumping another wheel barrow of gold bullion into the back of my new "Red Ram Pick-up Truck"...so don't feel sorry for me...I am truly a blessed man to have the ability to still be working at my age.  Still, I couldn't resist the urge to cry a little river for me anyway....geeze...I can be such a pitty pot...whiner sometimes..lol.  I was not very happy to see the Daytona 500 get rained out yesterday, only to have it air today, when I am not going to be available to watch it...! grrr....(there I go again....poor me...poor, poor me....) "bullc##p", I have a dvr, and I can record it and watch it whenever I want to....

I really need to get over this need to whine...it is not becoming, and I simply cannot stand to hear anyone else do it.  

I hope everyone enjoyed there weekend and kept it smokefree...as Pops did....It sure is nice to not hardly ever think about drinking, or smoking either one in my case...my life is filled with some pretty special things, and people to interact with....that makes things much more fun and tolerable. 

Plus, this new retirement plan of mine, complete with date and place...gives me alot to look forward to...!!!! I'm actually pretty excited.

I downloaded the counter on my phone, and I now have 1,166 days before retirement....how cool is that?  I also have 534 days of sobriety, and let's not forget the biggie here...173 days of "smobriety"!!!! Woo Hoo!  I am loving this newfound freedom of mine.....I hope that all of you can get that brand new me feeling....it's exhilarating!

Ooops!  I put up another one of his funny memes, and then noticed he was smoking a cigarette in it....(at least he was admitting that he was doing something stupid in it....)

I'm smiling all day long today.....know why? cuz I'm thriving @ 173 days of smokefree freedom.....!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pops

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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!
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