I am getting fat, well for me that is. I have quit smoking. As we speak I have gone from a 30 year 50 a day habit to 3 (not packs, 3 cigarettes). I have done it with the aid of Chantix but it has taken a great deal of willpower seeing as the Chantix takes away the cravings (it blocks the nicotine receptors in the brain) but it doesn't take away the habit. Anyhoo, the way I have done it is to deny myself that first ciggie when I wake up (6:30), I told myself, "no you can have one at 7" from there I said "no you can have one at 7:30" I have gone along in 30 minute increments from there. As of today I am up to 3pm, tomorrow my first cigarette will be at 3:30 (if I even want it). My biggest struggle is the one after dinner, I can handle the one after breakfast, I can handle the one after lunch, I can even handle the one after "well you know what" that one after dinner just does me in. My husband (who is also quitting) has not cracked the one as soon as he wakes up, so when he wakes he lights a cigarette, that is enough to send me scuttling from the bedroom into the kitchen, there is no way I want to be around the smoke when I know I have 9 hours until I "allow" myself to have a ciggie. I have tried, and better tried in the past to do this, this time I honestly think I can. I feel so good. However, having said that I am CONSTANTLY eating (as I type I am stuffing gummie bears into my mouth) because I am constantly hungry, I finish a meal and an hour later I am hungry. I have no idea how much weight I have put on (I have yet to weigh myself) all I know is that my clothes are a little snug right now. I hope it stops, while I can afford to put on weight I have no desire to buy a new wardrobe. :)

There is a Lenscrafters ad on TV right now it says (paraphrasing here) "it is time to put away the white shoes and get out the light sweaters" It is August 13, here in NC we have at least 3 more months of summer, and I don't mean gentle summer, I mean it is 110 degrees outside and only idiots venture beyond the air conditioning and lenscrafters are talking about "getting out the light sweaters" you wear a light sweater around here lately and you will expire after about 30 seconds. Do Madison Avenue even live on the same planet we do?

There was another ad on the radio this evening, "the 2007 vehicles are on clearance cause the 2008 vehicles are here" again this is August 2007, why are they saying that 2008 vehicles are on the lot? In fact when you think about it the 2007 vehicles that they are selling off are probably in reality 2006 (cause that is when they were manufactured) so the heavily touted 2008 vehicles were all manufactured in 2007 ( some could have even been manufactured in 2006) are there any people who actually fall for this marketing ploy, please tell me no, I would hate to think that some dumb ass goes out in August of 2007 and ACTUALLY thinks he is buying a 2008 vehicle please do not tell me that people are THAT stupid.