tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post1975108864272973359..comments2023-09-13T15:54:37.447+01:00Comments on Stranded on Gaia: I've only known careless loveCycles Goffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00808599865674594022noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-88865844727127334112009-01-19T23:57:00.000+00:002009-01-19T23:57:00.000+00:00Medbh:Oh, you'll be fine. You're not nearly as blo...<B>Medbh:</B><BR/>Oh, you'll be fine. You're not nearly as bloodimindedly self-destructive as me.<BR/><BR/><B>Anonymous:</B><BR/>I don't know. <BR/><BR/>Because you use your visits to my bleugh as an opportunity to remind yourself of the correct use of question marks, perhaps?Cycles Goffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808599865674594022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-17778232126668098262009-01-19T18:07:00.000+00:002009-01-19T18:07:00.000+00:00Go on. Get cancer. Kill yourself. Why should I car...Go on. Get cancer. Kill yourself. Why should I care.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-31479818505600370662009-01-19T16:47:00.000+00:002009-01-19T16:47:00.000+00:00I dread going through withdrawl again.Stay strong ...I dread going through withdrawl again.<BR/><BR/>Stay strong Gimme!Megan McGurkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09673489472490377198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-11282046164733904822009-01-19T14:33:00.000+00:002009-01-19T14:33:00.000+00:00Conan:That's the guy. Hauls a Coke machine around ...<B>Conan:</B><BR/>That's the guy. Hauls a Coke machine around with him.<BR/><BR/><B>Red Leeroy:</B><BR/>It is, Red, it is. It was just the ten minutes I spent writing the post that kicked like a mule.<BR/><BR/>And this minute right here, for some reason. And now I'm fine again.<BR/><BR/><B>Grimsaburger:</B><BR/>Moral superiority had me flying through first time around. It's different this time, mostly due to the idiocy of my going back on them after seven years making it difficult to for me to feel morally superior to anyone.Cycles Goffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808599865674594022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-51645091935386051902009-01-19T13:56:00.000+00:002009-01-19T13:56:00.000+00:00I found that moral superiority carried me through ...I found that moral superiority carried me through the tough spots. Spouse was more likely to let himself have just one every now and then, and will probably still have just one or two every now and then for some time to come, but I took some delight in allowing myself this one bit of zealotry, shaming him in his weakness. I am an intolerable wife sometimes. Most of the time?<BR/>But still, it's gratifying that instead of trying to figure out when I had the last cigarette, and the one before that, I have a solid date: June 30, 2006. No wishy-washiness about it, no fear that I'll let one turn into ten or twenty.<BR/><BR/>Worse comes to worse, you go sit by Common Law's door and breathe deeply until it grosses you out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-39102156725540411652009-01-19T12:50:00.000+00:002009-01-19T12:50:00.000+00:00is your work/home/inlaw life not a whole lot easie...is your work/home/inlaw life not a whole lot easier when you are dragon free?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-50954315271379038542009-01-19T12:33:00.000+00:002009-01-19T12:33:00.000+00:00Thoreau, he was the Marvel hero with the hammer, r...Thoreau, he was the Marvel hero with the hammer, right?Conan Drummhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377667084973491628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-87647357412601136882009-01-19T11:49:00.000+00:002009-01-19T11:49:00.000+00:00Fatmammycat:Sure it is. I'm going to give that a g...<B>Fatmammycat:</B><BR/>Sure it is. I'm going to give that a go in February. It's a rolling wave of self-denial. By June I'll have even cast aside app store comfort shopping.<BR/><BR/><B>Annie:</B><BR/>Well, yes, that is the other option but not one I feel willing to embrace.<BR/><BR/>So go you, and by extension, go me.<BR/><BR/><B>Conan:</B><BR/>Thoreau fucked it up. Long before now I've been living not a life of quiet desperation but one of righteous indignation.<BR/><BR/><B>Terence McDanger:</B><BR/>Yeah, that's like the 'giving up' bit. I'm not 'giving up' shit. I've stopped.<BR/><BR/><B>Common Law:</B><BR/>Mmmmm, shame.Cycles Goffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808599865674594022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-47605568912910428902009-01-19T11:32:00.000+00:002009-01-19T11:32:00.000+00:00Conan - *hangs head in shame and sneaks off for fa...Conan - *hangs head in shame and sneaks off for fag*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-41016154703419529302009-01-19T11:12:00.000+00:002009-01-19T11:12:00.000+00:00I gave up 11 years ago or so. Being a psychology s...I gave up 11 years ago or so. Being a psychology student helped, we were studying addictions.<BR/><BR/>Lecturer told me of a trap that quitters fall into when offered a cigarette. They'd say: "No, I'm trying to quit," instead of "No. I don't smoke."<BR/><BR/>Slight difference I know but it worked for me. <BR/><BR/>You're physiologically over the worst now too I think, most of the challenge is mental. It'd be an awful shame to fold now. Like Annie says, cravings last for about 10 minutes, probably less in fact, and I personally refused to suffer the shame of having to say I couldn't sit on my hands a few minutes a couple of times a day and beat something so short-lived and insignificant in the grander scheme of things...Terence McDangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17583127956432566540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-32339000525649574902009-01-19T10:44:00.000+00:002009-01-19T10:44:00.000+00:00What, you're putting yourself though smokeless Hel...What, you're putting yourself though smokeless Hell and the Common Law is allowing Satanic waftings under the door?<BR/><BR/>It's time for some righteous indignation!!Conan Drummhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377667084973491628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-73020594460289999362009-01-19T10:38:00.000+00:002009-01-19T10:38:00.000+00:00I'm also two weeks off them now. Gimme, we are qui...I'm also two weeks off them now. Gimme, we are quitter-twins. Just wait ten minutes every time you feel an urge and it will have passed. What's the other option? Be smokers for the rest of our lives? No.Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06793047799910670620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-39321666856979079292009-01-19T10:28:00.000+00:002009-01-19T10:28:00.000+00:00Kick its fucking head in. The paramour hopped off ...Kick its fucking head in. The paramour hopped off the wagon this weekend and came home smiling and mildly tipsy on Saturday evening. I swear to you, I had such a flash of 'Say, those bottles of wine look so god dmaned tempting and he seems so laid back and jolly and...'<BR/>But I didn't get the corkscrew. I know it's not really the same, but yeah, it is.fatmammycathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12307960277363243051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-42071708870752120712009-01-19T07:59:00.000+00:002009-01-19T07:59:00.000+00:00Francis:Thanks.I've done it before, is the annoyin...<B>Francis:</B><BR/>Thanks.<BR/><BR/>I've done it before, is the annoying thing. It's all so irritatingly predictable.<BR/><BR/><B>Sarah Gostrangely:</B><BR/>I think I need some kind of replacement addiction. The exercise isn't working quite as well this time, what with it being mostly a job and all.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps something injecty.Cycles Goffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00808599865674594022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-67243256724780728852009-01-19T04:26:00.000+00:002009-01-19T04:26:00.000+00:00you go holemaster...slay that dragon...(insert Sla...you go holemaster...slay that dragon...(insert Slayer-esque hand symbol here).<BR/><BR/>You're doing good.Sarah Gostrangelyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15031984196987721992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6617364317572311350.post-76759493939986467472009-01-19T00:13:00.000+00:002009-01-19T00:13:00.000+00:00It's always hard to know what to say to people who...It's always hard to know what to say to people who are going through the early stages of giving up smoking. Even just saying 'well done' on making it this far comes across as being condescending...<BR/><BR/>So how about, "Keep fighting that dragon"?francis mahonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01567593050921261033noreply@blogger.com