“Milestones” and “That’s why it looks like that“…

Milestone #1- Eleven days ago…. I. Quit. Smoking.

Seriously.

This is HUGE!

Here’s why- I’ve smoked for nearly 20 years. Yes, you read that right. Nearly 20 years. Seriously, do the math. I’m 28, my mom was killed in the car accident when I was 11 and I started smoking a few years prior to her death. Everyone I’ve told that to gets the same sorry ass “That can’t be true” look on their face. Well screw you, it is. I smoked my first cigarette at 8 or 9- it was a way to cope.

I’ve attempted to quit twice before- both were failed attempts lasting only a day or less (I actually smoked while on the patch). What makes this attempt different is A/ It’s been 11 days! and B/ I’m using Chantix (a smoking cessation drug that just recently hit the market). I started taking it December 25th with a quit date of January 1st (you’re supposed to start taking the drug 7 days prior to your quit date). Of course D and I got into a giant fight Jan.1st (Milestone #2- which also happened to be our 9th year wedding anniversary) so the date got pushed up a few days…the 4th. So here I sit, 11 days into being a “non-smoker”. I can’t believe prior to my starting the habit in the first place that that’s the longest I’ve ever been a non-smoker.

Oh, and since I’ve not had a cigarette in 11 days I’d like to share a little secret I’ve learned while in public and at work; this secret is for all of you smokers out there (and yes, this applied to me 11 days ago). Ready? Here it is…You fucking stink!!! Seriously you smell bad, really bad!

And

That’s why it looks like that…

It just recently dawned on me after the untimely death of my 1 year and 1 month old laptop (burn in hell you piece of crap!) that my fonts don’t come through for everyone so my headers that were in “freehand591 bt” made it look like “SURREPTITIOUS PSYCHOSIS” instead of freehand591 bt. To fix the problem I put in a back up code that looks somewhat similar to freehand, hence the corsiva back up.