TAN #198: Oh What a TANgled Web We Weave. (Page 48)

blech, i couldn't date a smoker.  i hardly have any friends that are.  i can't kiss that, i don't want my clothes to smell like that.

that's one VERY sucky thing about traveling to europe, EVERYONE smokes.  gross.

She'd have to be.... "Smoking Hot"?  ;-)

Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week.

Seriously, she'd have to be off-the-charts hot AND have a kick-azz personality -- like, in "I can't live without her" territory -- for me to even consider it.  Heck, there was this one woman that I was pretty well in love with not that long ago, but if I picture her smoking, I can easily say that I wouldn't want to be with her.  

Hi TAN!

Back from the interview and it went really well.  I've been told that they'll let me know either way by Friday which makes me feel better that I'll know one way or the other what's going on. 

Now home to rest for a tad before heading to the gym and then maybe for a drink or two.  So far it's been a good day. 

Very nice and good luck.

I understand.  I'm just saying that if I'm on my first date and she lights up that I'm never calling her again if the date was going smashingly otherwise. 

But that topic would one of concern and could stop something going much further.

I would need to figure it out.  She could be a social smoker (which is still yucky).  Only when she goes out/drinks and such.  But otherwise never does it.  Just need to see what's up before ending it.

Drugs, OTOH, is probably a one strike deal.  I mean, I don't judge if you want to, but I'm not going to be around for it.

It's true - EVERYONE smokes in Europe.   It was disgusting.  What I found interesting was that even someone who is/was a smoker in North America would go to the UK and think that it was gross how smokey it was everywhere. 

Thanks! 

I thought I read you already signed a contract for employment? Or I could be way behind...

Do they have higher rates of lung cancer?

Probably a wash though.  We eat ourselves to heart attacks. 

As long as you tell them that Canada is NOT taking over the world, then you should have a sure call-back.

It was all a setup.  She plans to go in the first day and yell "PSYCHE!" and run out showing her fanny...

possibly?  but they die of many other health complications before cancer gets them.

their spouses have very high rates of cancers   my husband's grandmother smoked, and grandfather ended up with cancer in his throat and a tracheotomy.  my nana smoked, and my pappy had lung cancer.  etc.  etc.

I always knew women would be the death of me!

Wait...should that be in italics?

My gma and gpa on my dad's side both died of cancer/stoke from smoking.  Non filtered Lucky Strikes all day, every day.

There was an offer for employment, which I accepted and the background check is currently being completed.  However, having said that - this was the firm I was hoping to be a part of from the beginning.  If this comes through I wouldn't feel all that terrible about telling the other place that I have been offered my dream job and will be taking it instead. 

Would I feel somewhat terrible?  Yes.  Would I feel like a bit of a schmuk?  Absolutely.  But I've also been told several times that I've also got to do what's right for me. 

My father smoked for years and years and years - unfiltered Camels for eons.  He had 1/2 a lung removed when he was younger, too, because of pneumonia (from what I was told, and I remember the huge scar he had on his back).  The bastage lived to be over 70.  I bet it was the formaldehyde that made him live longer than he should.  He should have died sooner.  But I digress.

But we ARE!!!  Soon everyone will be addicted to maple syrup and poutine.  And finally spelling properly!   

You know it!  Aaaah - the things we do to entertain ourselves. 

I've been addicted to real maple syrup since I was wee lad; however, I don't think I can correctly say "aboot" and wear a tuque.

I'll still listen to April Wine, Rush, The Guess Who, The Kings, and Gordon Lightfoot (yeah, yeah, whatever) but do not think you'll ever convince me to like Anne Murray.

Those were the times, wasn't it?  It seemed that everyone did that.

Oh, yeah - I forgot about Lucky Strikes, too.  My dad had those, too.  Possibly even did Chesterfields.

As a kid, I liked the Lucky Strikes' cover.  It was simple and cool to me.  Darn glad that I didn't start his habit, though.

Drive by TAN!

Getting caught up in all the gossip:

Monica has 1 (2) job offers (CONGRATS!)

Lisa is still single, which blows my mind

Cord is also, which doesn't blow my mind

Tony is not, which goes back to blowing my mind

Marilyn still struggling with hip pain; feel your pain (literally). Going to ART 2/week has help me.

Salty is superwoman

Miss anything?

This series of posts has smiley face overload. 

I agree

a top what?