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Happy Birthday To Me, Well, at least I'm smoke free, If my foot wasn't hurting, I'd go climb a tree

JonesCarpeDiem
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1. Taxes

I lost two hard drives in 2009 with all my business information. One in March and the second the end of October 2009. All my business information was in Quicken on those hard drives.

I've moved 4 times since the beginning in March 2009. Any physical records got moved to one of three places. I haven't had control of what was stored but one of these places since then and I don't even have all the physical information due to this

I got a demand from the state to file a return for 2009 a few months ago.

So, I've been going between the physical receipts and infoo that I do have and the downloaded bank statements over the past 4 weeks with a deadline of this next Monday to mail a return. Of course, the bank stopped sending out the physical checks with the statements years ago so even with the statements, I can see the checks written but there is no information as to who it was to or what it was for. I am reconstructing that year without all the information and it is very time consuming.

2. Every two years you have to get your vehicle smogged in California.

I have never had any trouble in the past so a week ago last tuesday I started having it checked out.

I have spent 4 days so far and over $600 trying to get it to pass.

It's due today.

3. I have a bad toothache

I'm not smoking over any of it!

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About the Author
Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.