@Anonymous wrote:or happy new year!
this next year i plan to stop over spending on silly things, not blow all my vacation days by the third week in january and stop smoking (please help me jesus with that one) and read more books
what are you saying good riddance to for 2009?
Happy New Year, pgsparx, & wishing you the best as far as stopping smoking.
Personally speaking, it is probably the most difficult thing I've ever done, but if I can do it, anybody can! It took me more than 25 attempts in almost 6 years, but so far, so good at 6 1/2 months tobacco-free!
It goes without saying that the first few days are the most difficult, & it gets easier with time. The time-frame can vary, but I noticed that after the first 2-3 weeks, the cravings began to subside.
Aside from the most important aspect of quitting (health reasons), another thing that helped me was putting all the money I would have spent on cigarettes in a piggy-bank.
You can do it! 
@haulingthescoreup wrote:@WhirledPeasPlease wrote:... socks that no longer have mates...
YES!!!
Like all my missing teaspoons, they ain't coming back, folks!
In my experience the best way to find a long-lost glove or sock is to chuck out the one that can't be matched: it seems like about half the time shortly after doing that its mate turns up
Yeah, what's with that? I started the set with 16, the other day I counted 13 and the dishwasher was empty. All I could think is that the ex now has a few mismatched teaspoons in her drawer.
haulingthescoreup wrote:WhirledPeasPlease wrote:... socks that no longer have mates...
YES!!!
Like all my missing teaspoons, they ain't coming back, folks!
(darn kids)
Starting Score: 469
ByrdMan wrote:Yeah, what's with that? I started the set with 16, the other day I counted 13 and the dishwasher was empty. All I could think is that the ex now has a few mismatched teaspoons in her drawer.
haulingthescoreup wrote:WhirledPeasPlease wrote:... socks that no longer have mates...
YES!!!
Like all my missing teaspoons, they ain't coming back, folks!
All I can guess is that if you flipped our youngest's car upside down and gave a good shake, a couple dozen would come rattling out. But that doesn't explain the disappearing act by spoons from the time she was about 2 until she got her driver's license!
@haulingthescoreup wrote:
@Junejer wrote:Yeah, what's with that? I started the set with 16, the other day I counted 13 and the dishwasher was empty. All I could think is that the ex now has a few mismatched teaspoons in her drawer.
@haulingthescoreup wrote:@WhirledPeasPlease wrote:... socks that no longer have mates...
YES!!!
Like all my missing teaspoons, they ain't coming back, folks!
All I can guess is that if you flipped our youngest's car upside down and gave a good shake, a couple dozen would come rattling out. But that doesn't explain the disappearing act by spoons from the time she was about 2 until she got her driver's license!
Okay, I just found 2 teaspoons in the couch cushions...and 1 in an empty yogurt cup under DS#!1 bed!!!!! Darn kids is right Hauling...
I am betting that they are in my DD's car, as they have a horrible habit of not leaving enough time to sit down and eat breakfast before school, so they are all eating Cream of Wheat or yogurt on the way to school. The thing that baffles me is that I have all of my bowls.
haulingthescoreup wrote:
ByrdMan wrote:Yeah, what's with that? I started the set with 16, the other day I counted 13 and the dishwasher was empty. All I could think is that the ex now has a few mismatched teaspoons in her drawer.
haulingthescoreup wrote:WhirledPeasPlease wrote:... socks that no longer have mates...
YES!!!
Like all my missing teaspoons, they ain't coming back, folks!
All I can guess is that if you flipped our youngest's car upside down and gave a good shake, a couple dozen would come rattling out. But that doesn't explain the disappearing act by spoons from the time she was about 2 until she got her driver's license!
ByrdMan wrote:
I am betting that they are in my DD's car, as they have a horrible habit of not leaving enough time to sit down and eat breakfast before school, so they are all eating Cream of Wheat or yogurt on the way to school. The thing that baffles me is that I have all of my bowls.
lol, now that's scary.
Speaking of things that kids do in cars that they shouldn't, DD#2 (the spoon thief) casually mentioned the other day that she thought her New Year's resolution would be to stop text messaging while driving.
I swear, I can now feel grey hairs popping out! *sproing* *sproing*
I never thought she was that dumb. Her friends always used to call her "Granny" because she was such a careful, paranoid driver.
One of her roommates' friends died over the weekend on the way to some concert in Oklahoma. Sitting in the back seat, no seatbelt, driver crashed, he was thrown from the SUV (which rolled three times and burned) and pretty much died from unsurvivable brain trauma. He would have been 20 this coming Thursday. Driver and front-seat passenger were wearing belts and walked away.
I'm wondering if there's a link between this and the resolution...