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Ok, help me out here:
These…
Eversince I signed up from USANA a couple of weeks ago, I am now currently taking eight groups of Vitamins. Apparently, I must confess that I juggle fewer obligations than an average citizen in this busy society. Taking vitamins everyday isn’t really hard but since it took me time to really start doing it routinely, I feel that I am now obligated and controlled of doing the things I have never done before.
When I arrive home after a long day at work, I’m free to hunch myself over a few friendly hours, posting a rant on my blog, free to respond to my e-mail and voice messages, free to be drawn into a chat with online buddy number twelve, free to glance at the magazines on my table.
By the time I’m finished enjoying all that freedom, I’ve nodded off on the tiny living room watching the ceiling from acute overstimulation. And I’ve survived yet another day without having had to experience real life.
What I’m saying is that, these routines has entirely making me look miserable. As I lie back and stare at the pleasing blankness of my ceiling, I’ve already become bored with it.
This?
While I try to quit my smoking (again), I really should start doing things on the positive. As far as I am concerned, there are a lot of obligation to achieve these goal. I’m thinking - Exercise! Smoke! Exercise! Smoke! I know it gives a rush of energy that may replace the nicotine craving. But one thing that makes me crave is when I start going online and write on my blog, I easily feel tempted to smoke.
So you mean, quit my blogging? I want freedom. I want something not having to remember to bring a pack with me. No more running out at 11 p.m. at the 7-11 store because to wake up without one was just too much of a stretch for my imagination. No more buying lighters. So ok, I said it. Quitting is admitting, it’s okay to only do one thing at a time. I can survive if I slow down. Do you think that’s easy?
Or maybe…
I think that maybe I am ready to quit, again, and let blogging replace my smoking habit. But then again, as we think of blogging, it also has a lot of hazzards to offer. Many of us knows about these. It say that blogging help shorten our life, (or at least make it more painful). Look at ourselves, we see eye strain, back problems, and many others. How many of us spend hours online to read every people in our blogroll? Isn’t that an obligation too? Financially, it also drain our wallet. DSL, hosting, phone bills, electric - blogging is a killer, I tell you.
If you realize it, it’s OK to do twelve things at once. When you blog, you are always multi-tasking. You can either be answering an email, doing HTML, talking on the phone with work colleagues, and adding people to your blogroll all at the same time, without missing a beat. Blogging lets us do this. We simply don’t pay attention to anything much when we’re blogging. I can ignore my family, friends, and my pet.
So on second thought, maybe I’ll quit blogging and keep smoking. I’m still not sure which one will be my final undoing. Ahh, I’ll take my vitamins, blog & smoke, one at a time.
The truth is that, like it or not, life is an endless spinning of plates.
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
by: The Temptations
Glad that you’ve made a move towards living a heathier life. It’s extremely hard to kick a habit (cigs… never blog, heh!) of many years, and it will definately take time. A family friend hasn’t puffed for 3 months now and commented feeling more calm. Maybe start with decreased daily cigs and then work your way to zero rather than doing a cold turkey?
Hi Pari, good to see you again.
Well, it is particularly difficult to stop when smoking is part of what everyone does when you are out together. I really must be determined to quit. Thanks for encouraging me to do it and I think going on a cold turkey is a nice method.
Damn K, I could so relate to this entry. I fucking hate routines man.
Haha, agree on the bit about ignoring ’stuff’ when blogging.. my kids gotta turn my house upside down just to get my attention when i’m here.
Nah, don’t quit blogging k… as for smoking.. just try cutting down on it and don’t think too much about it. Stay happy and healthy.
Have a good weekend ahead.
Asha, I’m glued both smoking and blogging. There are times that I left my cooking in the kitchen and burnt it becuz of blogging. When my mind tend to focus on something I write about - it’s hard to even give up for at least a couple minutes.
Everyone knows how to give up smoking right? Shit I must do it NOW… but wait, hand me a lighter! hahaha.
hey k! =) one at a time, one at a time… they’re each hard enough to achieve on their own, let alone all at once! ncie to hear from you, glad to see that you’ve decided to take a first step. have u tried patches as ciggie substitutes? i’ve heard they do their job ~ don’t totally give up blogging for smoking tho!! would still like to hear from you =)
i totally get you about the routine thing too. like asha, i absolutely hate them - makes me feel like a mindless robot. anyway… happy saint paddy’s day! sending lotsa four-leaf clovers your way =)
Hi Aemii, I’m listening. I haven’t tried that patches yet but once in a while I chew on a gum. I know smoking is bad, it’s like you’re hooked in taking starbucks coffee cuz it’s part of social life, particularly when you’re emotionally at your highest and lowest, they never let you down. I guess I am like that and maybe giving them up might feel like giving up a close friend. I’ll try your suggestions to quit on these habits - we humans are a creature of that.
Ok I’ll keep on blogging. Nice to see you around.
I agree….don’t quit blogging K! we will miss you
Sometimes, a cigarette is just a cigarette…and quitting won’t be easy. Just take it easy, stay active and continue blogging!
happy weekend K
.. and I’d die early & uglier… hehehe. Well there are many out there going on this batte, not easy so to speak but rather not say it all the time, I just have to do it…
I’ll give it a try. Will you send me a bazooka joe to chew on? Thanks Consuela.
for me, just couldnt find the desire and inspiration to write blogs that often … i know you’ve reminded me again and again to just write, write and write … still i can’t! i’m enjoying my time lurking at other people’s blogs and just read on on what they have to say
as for you, you NEED to continue blogging … we do enjoy your mind farts!
about the financial side ,,, good thing i’m here in the hotel … electricity, internet are all paid for! yahoo!
Hahaha Tita Grace, I understand. But oh cmon you can always write, ang galeng mo nga eh - write about India & be a bitch in a hotel, anything. It can be about your love of cooking.
Like myself, I have also nothing to say that hasn’t been said before. Sometimes when I’m not infront of my keyboard, I have all those little things whispering in my head until it just totally vanish when I log-in. End of the day, I write shits anyways. Hahaha. Perhaps I write mostly that attributes about my personal life. Do you think because I’m depressed?
Oh someone’s pressing the doorbell, must be the Room Service. Did you order some salad?
Hey Knoizki.. Good luck quitting the cigs. I’m behind you on this one, definitely. =) But just as you said, don’t quit blogging aight?
Hi Brennie - break a leg. I won’t quit. Shit I made compromises all the time. I say No, then later I’m like doing it again - so fickle minded really. But for as long as you keep on too, I’ll stay.
hey off topic muna, noon andoon ako sa germany ang web ko has over 120 spams nabura sigurado comment ko
i was soo f… pissed.
anyway…. I will be slowing down with blog soon
am off march 28th to italy one month muna ako doon work dear.
mug na italy kaya.
naku have you heard about carpal tunnel yan isang yan problema sa over blogging.
maliban ng back problem… blogging has given the audience of my passion and just like any exhibionist blogging whore.. i need to keep up.
oh well…. too much vits out there. any effect?
Sha spam ka jan. hahaha akala ko nga binato mo ako ng cotton candy sa mukha at nawala yung comments. We eat spams, it’s a family and I know you lurve me.
Get rid of those plug-ins na gamit mo. I think it’s where the “vegemites” come from!
And why slowing down the carbs?
Yes I heard of that CTS - it attacks your nerve because we uses our hands/fingers all the time. More and more women have been suffering from this hands/finger syndrome (hahaha read my lips). Ya, sarap mag-yosi pagkatapos kumain pero mas masarap matulog pag naka vitamins. hahaha.
Don’t tease me about going to Italy. Ampootah ang ganda diyan!! SAMA AKO!
hehehe
I did try a shot called that…
1/2 oz Bailey’s irish cream, 1/2 oz Blue Curacao and
1/2 oz Banana liqueur and it tasted like bubble gum!
*yum!!!*
it’s okay..totally understand…my boy-boy smokes as well…told me that he would quit…he’ll quit for me…hah! he still smokes ;P
Hahah Consuela, does it make me tipsy? Seems like you are giving me option to drink liqour instead of quitting ciggies.
ahh a milk shake?
“…my milk shake brings all the boys to the yard, and there like, its better than yours, damn right its better than yours,
i can teach you, but i have to charge…”
Hahaha.
hahahahahah! no not the salad … that’s the “momos” i ordered for you! heheheheeehehehe
same happens to me all the time! i have conversations in my head (oops! sounds like i need a doctor) and soon as i’m in front of the computer … NADA!
Oh the MOMOS?? Does your hubby cook those momos-memes-mamas too? Hotel is such a luxury to stay as your 2nd home where anything & everything is at your convenience - clean and easy with a push of a button.
So next time, let us hear about the housekeeper.
oo come on K don’t quit blogging. Don’t think blogging as something that is important or required. You blog when you feel like blogging. You read when you feel like reading. Blogging IS NOT your life. You’re not one of those teenagers out there who think blog is a religion. I read an article regarding blogging and these two girls are battling each other on which blog is the best. I almost threw up. THERE IS NO OBLIGATION HERE. Lots of blog only have entries like 2 or 5 per month. Don’t beat yourself over this.
I know I don’t speak for everyone else but I don’t expect anyone to read my blog regularly. Once a week is enough…more even and that’s fine by me. I travel often so I won’t be reading or blogging everyday.
I see that blogging is a way to connect with my friends from other world. Especially to those I can’t chat online with. I actually kept my credit on those blog directory 0 so that I don’t get any hits during random surfing. I just kept my blog for my close friends.
Ok…now I gotta say the same thing to Asha…copy and paste :p
yeah i know i’m lazy
EAR - well said, for blogging out loud. I’ve been telling this to myself, ‘Why Blog’? I think it started with my Mr Brownie post when Asha was laughing her ass about it, other people starting to leave comments don’t know where these people are coming from. It hit me like, maybe it’s fun to write (and it still is) until I get deeper into the blog thing. I signed up a host (and died for heaven’s sake!) and I still write… and complaining. I get more intrigued. It feels like an email during 93 and web in 95, if you’re familiar - there’s an endless directions. When the blog comes in, there are many involves, blog sounded as if more political than just a plain hobby. As I recall back I tried to convince myself that blogging was a bunch of useless chatter but thankfully, I’ve found a lot fun doing it - well there are days that they are not. It’s like an extension of my existence - I learn about technology, communicating with people I don’t even know, ideas that I think creates impact to the society - then again, I said, “why am I still complaining”?
I think it’s an addicting medium - I don’t know when to stop (cuz I talk too much all the time replying to comments hahaha), maybe tomorrow or next summer, it’s chaotic don’t you think?
I read this great qoute elsewhere and it says, “blogging is like giving everyone a printing press - and NOT everyone deserves a printing press”. I agree on what you said, we just need tools to decide whether or not to read what others write.
Thanks Ear, give me a hug!
ack! no quit blog! just lessen it one cig at a time. you’ll eventually get to a quitting place.
after being in theater and now in advertising, i’ve been surrounded by people smoking. it’s a good thing i’ve never felt the pressure to light one up. it also helped that my doc told me i had weak lungs and was allergic to it.
so K, blog ka parin ha?
I guess everyone has the right to choose to smoke - but not to expose another person to smoke toxins, particularly in an indoor workplace. Kaya stay away ka sa kanila before getting the asthma.
Salamat Ms Dez. I will let you know when to stop blogging.
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