Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Day 12


 

All is well, though I am incredibly cranky. There's a huge storm forecast for Thursday so I have to plough outwards tomorrow and stock up on the essentials to get me through. I placed the grocery order for curbside pickup and was thrilled to see more books ready at the library for me to pickup. I have loads of books now which always makes me feel secure, more than food does.

It takes 21 days to change a habit. I remember learning this when I quite smoking. 21 days, they said, and physical cravings diminish, that's a promise. And they were right. Psychological takes a bit longer. I remember still looking for a cigarette when phones rang a year later. And I couldn't sit down and chat after dinner for a while but had to go out for a walk. So 9 more days and cravings for sugary sweeties and little pastries and choccie bickies and ice cream won't be as intense and I won't be so restless.

I was pondering on self-service which technically is no service. Like how we clean up after ourselves in cafes, and pump our own gas, and use the bank machines, and are encouraged to perform our own checkouts at supermarkets. Social interaction pared back to zero in such cases. Corporations yielding higher and higher profits. Unpaid labour for the rest of us. And I wonder where it all ends. Does it end? I am lucky that all my medications get delivered and my groceries are selected and loaded into my car. I never take such things for granted.

But as I say, all is well, and I feel even "weller" having written this and realizing how truly lucky I am. And I only blasted off one politician today. 

16 comments:

  1. *Smile* I quit smoking more than 30 years ago - Gosh! that long ... really! And I could still need a smoke while writing in the late evenings.
    But I'm so happy for you and admire you resolve and positivity.

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    1. PS. I never use the self service in the supermarket ... inhumane thingies making people superfluous. And even thougt in some supermarkets they're making it troublesome. Using the place with a pillar in front of the shop assistant, or the one with least room for a queue, fewer manned checkouts than really necessary etc. I sill stay in the line!

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    2. I'm off the old smokes 33 years now Charlotte. When I get the whiff of one I inhale deeply. LOL. As to self serve checkouts, we are on the last bastion of rebelling against them. I never use them but then again, I don't shop anymore either.

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  2. I'm glad you are feeling a little weller. I know too well the cravings for the sweet things, the creamy things, the chocolate. I had a backslide there this week and now must give up the chocolate again.

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    1. Yes, it seems once I get even a small taste I want more more and then more. I went off sugar for 6 years one time and the clarity of my thinking was amazing. I read a book called Sugar Blues which was enlightening. I'm an all or nothing person. :)

      XO
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  3. Oh, the sole poor politician who received your full reserve of venom. 21 days to get over smoking? Phone ringing is a trigger point. I am not so sure about that. We don't mind self service when it works and for a few things only. Yesterday we bought half a dozen things at a supermarket and three times we needed the attendant to fix the scanner. Just unlucky I guess. Aldi where most of our shopping is done does not have self service.

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    1. Yes, and he was the premier. LOL. Saying we need to fix the LTC facility situation, top priority when 6,000 senior women are in poverty living independently in his province. Wake up dingbat, your privileged twat, etc. But nicer.

      Physical cravings are so different to psychological, aren't they? Also the appetite suppressant element to smoking and also it is known as the only antidote to anger. I can vouch.

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  4. Have you tried Kindle? I usually have about fifteen books waiting to be read in it and I don't have to worry about stocking up on hard copies.

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    1. I gave mine away, Ramana, nothing beats paper and a book to me. Especially the second hand kind and library copies, I think of all the previous readers. Love the smell of the print, etc.

      Call me luddite.

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  5. Well my dear friend, I'm just a-lovin' you from afar.
    You're one of the smart ones who's taken this plague seriously from the beginning, and good on ya, I say. Good for you, and good for those around you at seeing your example.
    I don't like reading on a Kindle. I don't even like reading anything for long on a larger computer screen.
    Not sure I'll get out of the house today; waiting to see what the wind and snow are going to do. So a second pot of coffee has been made, at my request. I think I have to realize how fortunate I am to have company, unlike those who live alone. Then again, sometimes too much constant company wouldn't be best either, now would it?
    You don't actually *sound* cranky.
    xoxox
    Kate

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    1. I guess my not-nice face doesn't translate to the screen Kate. Oh I'm very glad to live alone. I am not fit a lot of the time. And I get too much into my own worlds.

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  6. Bringing you cheer and love from Hawaii.

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  7. You are making progress! When I quit smoking folks warned I'd shove mountains of food into my mouth. I'd quit sugar long before. The first time I hit on food big time it was chocolate cake. It was awful, but I speed ate three pieces--of straight sugar. I felt like I needed to die. I never tried the food "cure" again. Story told to let you know, when you kick it, you'll hate it. So hang tough and yell at politicians instead. I yelled at a fellow employee. Told him what a lazy layabout he was. He started doing his job better, but he didn't do it well enough and was fired anyway.

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    1. When I quit smoking I had to into massive therapy Joanne. I was in such a rage all the time and felt seriously murderous towards anyone who crossed me particularly drivers.

      I stuffed down a lot of these feelings with food.

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    2. Ahha--thus the current tough go at ditching sugar. Nevertheless, it's still just a matter of time.

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