Team Skinny (Feb 09) The month of Love (Page 15)

Well gang of mine I have been thinking and you know that is always a bad thing coming from me.  I was thinking about things in my past that I had an epiphany about and it got me thinking.  See about 38 years ago I thought drugs were way cool.  Then one day I got to thinking that drugs never made me smarter, better a sports or cuter to the fairer sex.  So I wondered what the heck I was doing it for, Answer was for NOTHING!!.  So that was the end of that at the ripe old age of 16.  Then again about 30 years ago when I was still drinking and getting hangovers I asked myself the same type of question:  What was I gaining by losing days of my life with massive hangovers?  Answer:  NOTHING.  So now I have a glass of wine now and again,  but that is about it.  Now I have asked myself the same question about smoking and the answer again to "What am I gaining?" is NOTHING.  It does cost me a couple hundred dollars a month,  It does give me an excuse to stop doing something that I am doing,  but a gain NO.  Heck I would take cigs on my Triathlons just in case I decided to take a break.  If I run longer then 6 miles I carry them with me.  So next week (wed,thur or Fri) I am going to break up with my best friend of 40 years.  I just hope I have the mental toughness to do it.  I must say that I am scared already and I haven't done it yet.  Smoking is the one thing in my life that has stayed constant and always there if I needed them.  I am going to attempt cold turkey since I can't see substituting one drug for another.  So for my 53rd birthday (Mar 9)  I am going to give myself the gift of breathing.  I think I will start a thread of this in COJ and try to make myself accountable to more people.  Wish me luck gang and maybe my runs will even improve.  Oh heck,  I am sure my weight will suffer but I will deal with that with you guys when that time comes.  Thanks for being here Team Skinny.

Brian

the computer program does the comparing, I have to peer at little stars to show where any mutations are.  I got one of these degrees for folks who aren't sure what they want to do; biology, psychology, sociology and economics.  Followed that up with Foundation Arts and an MBA (which I will one day finish).  Drifited into research, first in reproductive biology and latterly in genetics of cholestrol problems.   Then I did my best work and had a baby.  Have been out the lab for 5 years and the Munchkin is now at school full-time, so doing a bit of consulting for a biotech company while I decide what to do.  I NEVER want to work in a lab ever again.  What fills your time Katie (apart from this, of course)?