Back on the baccy

So, so sorry to hear you've had a bit of a relapse: especially as it is stress induced by the sounds of it

Hope your "discussion" resulted in 'patches, not matches' for you clue!

My "official" quit date is happening on Monday (4th)

 

Good luck "M"

 

I will be thinking of you "M". Good luck.

 

Thank you, Sheal and Lea: I've got a very positive feeling about this attempt

 

It is all frame of mind, if your heads not in the right place it will not happen, good luck ,I passed the 2000 pound mark today..

 

Well done Pam.

 

I'm in 'interesting times' at the moment, but just the other day, while stopped on the way home, standing looking over the Scaling reservoir at dusk, and enjoying a smoke, it dawned on me that I actually have a good life overall. I have a nice house where I want it, a lovely wife, two lovely kids, friends, and a job that I love.

The discussion with the bank went better than I'd hoped, and really is nothing to worry about. Although I did still buy more baccy, but, only because I was down to dust and it was friday evening, and I wanted to enjoy the weekend. So, I took the decision that I'll not quit until after the weekend. It will be easier that way anyway because I don't come out of the office to smoke, so on a work day I have a couple in the morning, a couple on my lunch break, then several when I get home. Whereas at the weekend when I have more time and energy, I tend to smoke loads more and with less to concentrate on, I notice the cravings more. If I quit on a work day I wont notice while I'm actually in work, and when I get home I'm usually tired enough to just chill out and will be less tempted to nip outside.

So on that note, "M", I reckon I might be joining you on a Monday quit day. Good luck to you, and good luck to me

 

And good luck to you both from me too.

 

Bravo!!!!!

Ditto, clue: we'll do it ... because we both like a challenge, neither of us likes to 'lose'

 

New stress today. Dear old Gothilda has been hurt in an accident.

 

Taking an old telly to the tip, I was careless in the way I loaded up. Went round a corner, BOOM, telly through the side window.

 

I just bit the bullet and phone autoglass. I'm insured fully comp so its just my excess that I've lost.

I know autoglass are overpriced, but it was surprisingly little hassle. I phoned them, got through to a human (amusingly called Osmond with a very posh voice ) very quickly. He took the reg number and my name and address and just had all the info in front of him. I didn't even have to look for my insurance documents. Unfortunately, as I suspected because there aren't that many Volvo 940s left, the piece of glass isn't in stock, but they'll have it by Wednesday they said, and they're coming to my work to do it.

For now, the window is botched up. Lucky for me my mate came round and he knew of some super strong tape called Gorilla tape, which fortunately was in stock at the local petrol shop, so between that and an old heavy duty sack, the window is temporarily sealed.