Daily Pledge, Bonfires and Quit Celebrations: Traditions born from the members
Happy March everyone and welcome to the Daily Pledge in the Celebrations & Events community where we can meet daily to take another person's hand and make our commitment stronger.
March is the first month of Spring! I don’t know about you, but spring (and fall) are my favorite times of the year. It certainly feels like those seasons are becoming shorter and shorter and winter and summer are getting longer and longer here in the Midwest.
It’s the best month for basketball (but worst for productivity)! Ready for this? It’s also the best month for vasectomies according to the Cleveland Clinic who claim the number of vasectomies surges 50% during the first week of March Madness! 🙂
March 6 is the Day of the Dude. Do you know the reference? It encourages people to honor The Big Lebowski by takin’er easy all day, man.
One of my favorites is Pi Day on March 14 which celebrates 3/14 with math jokes, pi-reciting competitions, and (of course) freshly baked pie. My math teacher friend has a competition with his students every year to recite as many digits of Pi as they can. The current record holder recited 234 digits of Pi. The winner gets to pie the teacher in the face! He puts up a You Tube video every year!
One of the worst things about March is daylight savings time, which happens on March 10 this year. We can thank Ben Franklin for this brilliant idea (cough cough).
Of course, St. Patrick’s Day is in March and living in Chicago, I am proud to say the Chicago River is turned green every year to celebrate this auspicious occasion. But St. Patrick’s day in 1973 (March 17) was huge for Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” (one of my favorites) where it hit the Billboard Top 200 chart at 95 and 14 years (yes, years) later, it finally left the top 200 for the first time, setting a still-unbroken world record.
I’ve babbled on enough about March. Let’s get to business. Are you ready? Let’s pledge!
How to pledge:
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Click on the Reply bubble and make your pledge to the person at the end and then offer your free hand to the next pledge. |
You've made your pledge. Come back tomorrow and pledge again.
Check out this handy quit calendar to calculate your DOF! EX Quit Calculator - Google Sheets
As you go through your day you know that you have all of us with you and all of you are keeping each other strong.
How cool is that!
Thank you, Lynne! I gladly take your hand as I pledge not to foul my lungs, mouth, or any other part of my boday with toxic smoke today. Breathing clean air is much better. Holding my other hand out to our next pledger.
Dave
184 DOF
I'll take your hand, DavesTime & extend mine to the next to be smoke free
with me today.
Martha
3 DOF
On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:06 PM DavesTime <communityadmin@becomeanex.org>
nevergiveup I take your hand and pledge not to smoke. I extend my hand to the next..
Namaste
Thanks for your hand aussiemom. I pledge not to smoke today. I offer my hand to the next.
Thanks for your hand Christine. I will hold it and pledge that I haven't smoked today nor will I. I'm offering my other hand to the next EX!
Julie 184 DOF
Thanks Julia let’s hold on tight and pledge together. NOPE. I offer my other hand to support the next person to pledge with us
Barb 421DOF
Thanks Barb, I’ll take your hand and pledge to be smoke free today and then I’ll extend my free hand to the next person who pledges to be smoke free today. Peace.
Nancy
3814 DOF
NancyJC I will be happy to take your hand and pledge not to smoke, not for a second, minute, hour day week month year forever quit. I extend my hand to the next person. Not in my hands, not on my lips, not on my tongue, not in my throat not in my lungs, not up my nose, not in my clothes Amen. Sorry, roller831 I missed the March rollout be real busy. Whew. Have a good month. Good job on the rollout.
Good evening Jackie!
I gratefully accept your hand and pledge not to smoke tonight, tomorrow or Sunday. My fee had is extended to the next person who chooses to pledge with us.
Have a peaceful weekend!
Sandi
447 DOF...I think. It’s late.
Good morning Sandi4 I gladly accept your hand and pledge not to smoke today. Extending my hand to the next Exer pledging.
Barb
368 DOF (A fellow edler!)