Well, I’m sure the title says it all, today was not a good day, smoke free, but only by the skin of my teeth.
I woke up in a relatively okay mood, very tired from the beer and the late night before hand, but things could have been worse, I ended up leaving late for work, getting to work late, but that isn’t really an issue.
The morning started off pretty hectic, as expected. Due to my sickness I would imagine I will be catching up with myself for at least a week. Mid morning I got a lovely message from a friend who I used to live with about 2 years ago, saying we never paid a bill, and we owe them XXX amount, about £200. This was not the happiest of news to me, and stressed me out quite a lot, although I have the money, I don’t like parting with it! Needless to say, I will end up paying it, but we have to get hold of the third person who lived with us to cough up too. This is the unlikely part. So that stressed me.
Later in the day, I also had a run in with a guy who works for a printing firm. I hope he reads this, and I hope he realises what a total areshole he is. Basically to cut a long story short, he sent engineers out to repair a printer within the building last week, the day after, the printers broke, then the warranty ran out, and he is claiming no liability. I went mad at him eventually over the phone, due to his "I don’t give a shit" attitude, spent about an hour getting everyone’s attention in the office from my raised voice on the phone, and eventually gave up.
I did, however, get a result when his manager phoned back and honoured a free repair, it’s just a shame I had to trudge through hell to get there.
Still, I finished over an hour late, and pretty much had dinner and am now updating. The nerds/morons/fucktards at Wikipedia have finally blocked my site being posted anywhere on wikipedia, so it’s a shame that episode has ended; still, I hope I’ve built a small base of followers in the short time it’s been on there.
Let’s hope day 12 is less of a burden, and that I am not tempted just to scream at the top of my voice.
Take care all.
Andy
Do you think you would have reacted to printer guy the same way if you were still smoking?
ReplyDeleteHey Andy, just leaving you a few words to encourage you to keep at it! I quit Nov. 9 2010, not a cigarette since and I still crave at odd times but I crave less and it's fairly easy to deal with. You can make it, I know you can. Paradoxically it helped me to tell myself it was NOT the end of the world if I had a cigarette and in fact I still have about a full carton; I just choose, every day, not to smoke them, and somehow that makes the whole thing easier.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing, focus on the money you're saving and how cigarettes used to control you - and also how they make you cough when you wake up *if they do, yet) and how you enjoy being able to breathe. Go look up COPD support groups or read articles at http://whyquit.com when you have a craving - read the articles on how the tobacco companies manipulated nicotine levels. Look at X-Rays and images of diseased lungs, visit someone with end stage breast cancer in the hospital. Then get good and angry at the cigarettes; you thought you were calming down/getting high but really along with that you had to take all these poisons. Ugh, just ugh. Who'd want that, really?
I know you can do it! Hang in there!
Hey, thanks both for your comments. In hindsight, I probably would have reacted the same, only difference previously being after i got off the phone i would have slammed it down and stormed out for a cigarette.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you Emily, your words are very useful :)
Just about the Wikipedia thing.. a Link to your article is still on that page.. It's at the bottom under "External Links"...
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