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Day 17!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!

Pops
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‎09-14-2019 04:44 AM

Look what I just bought as an investment for the next few years......I should very easily be able to double my money on this five years from now....These "shovelheads" are becoming the rage for all of the kids starting out today....I just paid $5,500 for it, and it will go easily for over $10,000 in about three years.  It runs perfectly too.....

IMG_0890.JPGIMG_0888.JPGIMG_0886.JPGGood morning EXer fam......get yer butts up and out....today is Saturday, and it is a great day to be upright, walking and talking, and hopefully listening to some gentle birds or insects singing to you this morning....I'm so stoked to be alive.  Just 16 days ago, I was coming off the open heart surgery table.  My entire sturnem (spell check) was splayed wide open, and my heart was on a stainless steel table while the surgeons methodically sliced open my left ventricle, and replaced a diseased nitral valve with a bovine valve (valve from a cow's heart) and put it all back together to see that Pops was ready for a little more hell raising before the final curtain call!!!!!

What a wonderful life.....So today, Pops is enjoying his 17th day of freedom.  I'm going outside to sit in my "Papa-San" wicker basket chair and enjoy a fresh cup of joe.

Later today, I am actually moving from my present apartment to another freshly renovated unit across the property.  I have lived in this unit for over five years now, and it has been completely submersed in water from outside water table issues.  Imagine my shock to find out last week after returning from the hospital with a gaping wound in my chest cavity....that I was once again standing in molding sporadic water!!!!!

I immediately called the property managers, sent them an email with doctors names, procedures, dates, warning....etc.... I basically told them, that I wasn't the one being difficult here.  I didn't want to move, they were forcing me to.  So they agreed to hire a moving company to completely move me and all of my belongings to a new unit (on their expense) and give me the newly upgraded and fancy unit for a stipend rent increase.  What a god send that has turned out to be....

So guess what I've been doing the last couple of days!??? I've been shopping!!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to the furniture store, bought a brand new dinnete and chairs....two motorized recliners to watch t.v., three new rooms of ultra plush new shag carpet....and patio furniture.... Pops loves to shop!!!!! Retail therapy baby....works everytime...lol

So enough of my bragging.....how's about you guys.....anything cooking today?  Let's kick up some dust.....

Pops with 17 Days of Freedom!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!!!!

btw, I don't know if you can see it in the banner, but I bought a new throw for the bed, and the boys are not letting me up at all....they want me to stay in bed all day long so they can roll in the new feel.....God I love these guys.....

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About the Author
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!