Thursday, December 29, 2005

Yep. It's almost New Year's. 2005 was good to me. It brought me a new position at work, a great year with my boyfriend, a great year with my brothers, and my most successful quit ever. It was a marked improvement on 2004.

It was also a very stressful year, work-wise. I hope to fix that in 2006, whatever it takes. I don't need to be 40 by the time I'm 26.

Just 5 more months to go, and I will be able to count a full year of not smoking. Come on, May!

Friday, December 16, 2005


It's mildly cold out tonight, in this fine city of Austin, Texas. This week we had at least three 75-degree days, and one 80-degree day, bookended by 40- and 50- degree days. That's okay with me; I love mild Austin winters. It gets cold long enough to give people that cozy Christmas-y feeling, and then warms up to t-shirt weather for a few days.


I seriously doubt anyone's really reading this blog, but in case anybody is, you will notice that I've found it more and more of a stretch to tie my conversation back to smoking. I mean, I could say that I'm glad I don't have to go outside on the cold, wet, windy or otherwise nasty days, but honestly, I just don't think about it as much as I used to.


When I used to smoke, I couldn't imagine how people at work didn't smoke, because the job is so stressful. Now that I've been away from it from several months, I don't know how I ever found the time, at least, while I was at work.


In completely different news, my boyfriend surprised me with the early Christmas present of a laptop, so here I am, pecking away on a Friday night, while my boyfriend is out being social with some work buddies. Sad? Maybe, but I just didn't feel like going out tonight, and at least I'm not spending any money.


Oh, by the way, if you like old video games from the 80s and 90s, you must check out www.goriya.com. My favorites so far are the classics Tetris and Pacman, but there are hundreds of emulated games you can play for free.

I'm just so thrilled at having home internet access again, after so long without it ( a year and a half, roughly.)

Peace out.

Sunday, December 04, 2005



It's December. I can't believe it's December already. I feel like I got shot out of a gun in January and just landed here.

It's coming up on January 1st, and New Year's Resolutions. Quitting smoking wasn't a New Year's Resolution for me this year, but no matter--New Year's will be a kind of finish line. It was a couple of years ago, when I last quit for six months. Now I've been off cigarettes for going on 7 months...

How are you doing?