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Too many cooks in the kitchen

JonesCarpeDiem
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But none of them can make me smoke or pick paint colors worth a damn.

      Where I bean?

We're repainting the inside and the outside of the house so my brother and I are adding to the handrails and patching the rear deck while the painters are doing the inside.

      We had a bunch of  too many people picking paint colors and having the painter put it on the exterior wainscot and stucco and everyone was getting desperate.

      Picking paint colors is so frustrating for me because often, the samples don't look the same as you imagined they would when they're on the wall. 

Anyway, I got to make the final decision because everyone else gave up.

         The yellow background (Moonraker) will be the stucco and the eaves.

The darker color (Clary Sage) will be the wainscot to ground the house and will also be used for the front door and all trim and the garage door. The Dover White will be the stairs deck and railings in the back.

Moonraker & Clary Sage.png

      Who knows what it will look like. The gold looked more yellow than gold when he put it on the wall.   

      I'd love to have someone paint a mural on the wall above the garage. Missy?

and then the landscaping.

Oh Boy,  I got my compressor working correctly after replacing parts for a month until I got the right one.

Keep your quit. It's something you have control of.

Everything else is a dream or a nightmare. 

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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.