To have found my support group before I'd even begun looking for one is an incredible gift - I came here prepared to be told that e-cigarettes worked best for "social smokers," and that my ilk should take our chances with pills and zucchini spears.
ROFL! It is gloriously bad! And now you have immortalized me in TWO art forms! And once again, I shall spend the rest of the day strutting around like a peacock with new designer feathers!
I actually remember getting those emails ... but no, In case there are people who don't know, I won't spoil it!
That's OK, it's a multi-function hippopotamus. It likes to give Barbie rides and bounce with you on the bunk beds, and it especially enjoys being featured prominently (along with its good friend Hoosier's purple elephant pillow) in dramatizations (or simple narrative, when it's sleepy) of epic tales involving adventure, mysterious islands, princes and princesses, heaps of glittering treasure and happy endings. Plus you can cuddle it when it takes a nap.
"good at it" will take a while. But I'm developing strategies to help me work out exactly what to shoot for, a key element of "getting good" at anything.
I've just started working on my threatened blogrant on this topic, and was wondering if I even ought to do it, as the kr808d-1 is the only one I've ever even seen, much less used, but then it occurred to me - that's exactly the point!
For example, I have "low vision," but I was successful in getting the cartomizer on with my eyes completely closed, so I can attest that it can be done with no vision at all!
(I wonder which vendor will be the first to add Braille labels to cartomizers?)
As I've poked around the forum, I've thought that very thing! So many people have shared so many encouraging, helpful and hopeful stories, that the thread has become a sort of ECF zeitgeist flavor capsule!
I hope you'll exhume it, because it's a story that will give hope to lots of people in similar situations - and a reminder that we do not all have the luxury of making that gradual transition.
I should have committed a blogrant about it already, but better late than never - I have now!
Thank you for such a nice compliment! If you think anything might be useful, I'd be very honored if you post it wherever you like!
What utorrent are you running? The new one doesn't slow your browser down at all.
ROFLMAO! I'm used to losing my eyeliner on here, but this time the thief was a fit of carcajadas!
I couldn't help it, I had to click you, and discovered we have something in common besides our love of words - one of the most enjoyable times of my life were the years I spent watching people learn an additional language. (I don't believe it's possible to teach anybody anything, all any of us can do is make resources available and watch hilarity ensue).
Aren't you a one to be talking about eloquence! I looked it up, and your picture was there!
Don't worry, he/she does! I'm both touched and honored by your sweet protective instincts, and somebody out there either already is, or is going to be a very lucky Ms or Mrscorpindio!
But in this case, I think you can safely lay down your sword. You and revolver are kindred spirits - you both share a love of words and a special gift for stringing them together. He/She's in South America, and people from there love to make people laugh! Her/His post is a whimsical tribute to the spirits of Alfredo Casero and Juan Carlos Mesa (not to be confused with the Meso-American comic genius Florinda Meza).
Upon clicking her/him, I discovered that she/he mentioned the embedded microchip idea months before I ever came here, and was gracious enough to refrain from so much as pointing that out!
You are all making me laugh too hard to type now, jtpjc is on an Authentic Roll, and you remind us that the True Meaning of the electric hookah-doodle is "OK, tell me again - why would anybody want to be more than 3 feet from the computer?"
Well and succinctly said! And you and I are charged with the sweet task of practicing our pronouns, because that great group now includes us!
Cool and Hooray indeed! I do hope someone has begun designing our Official Comical Hat.
That reminds me, bassthumper, I saw something extremely awesome the other day!
Congratulations and bravo back atcha! Thanks for inspiring me!
LOL from my perspective, the members here have 'something' that brings me more determination, optimism, and hopefulness than I would have thought possible!
In my first post, I used the term "smoking cessation ideation." That's really what it was. I was at the very beginning of that first tentative "educate self re: options" step.
And today, I spend part of every day learning to puff - I'm Officially In The Process of Making The Transition!
I just did one - about people who can't make a gradual transition!
He smoked for a while in his college years, and quit cold turkey. The difficulty of that experience left him very sympathetic to people for whom cold turkey just didn't work.
LOL I did get him to try a a puff, and he was very polite.
He's delighted that I like it, and has a tremendous appreciation of it for the good it's doing me - and his own peace of mind, but I suspect that he may have been somewhat less than captivated by "wowboy."
Oh, THAT he thoroughly enjoys - for all the solemn reasons stated above, and as a source of boundless amusement!
Each half hour I practice means several cigarettes not smoked.
Smart Shaman is over the moon!
Totally! Not tomorrow, nor next week, but I'm feeling extremely confident that eventually, I will be able to completely phase out the Marlboros!
Of course you are adopted! In fact, just this morning the cat pillow (pearl gray with a pink nose) asked for you specifically, and meowed the hope that you would arrive soon!
I thought you already were adopted! Anyway, you are now, and there's plenty of room in the Dream Garage, as well as a number of GI Joes who've renounced conflict for the peaceful harmony of fashion already there, so he'll have plenty of instant BFFs, as well as a selection of stretch satin-bodiced prom dresses. I'd try the violet first - of course the skirt is just plain tulle, but by candlelight, the raspberry underlayer makes it look almost like shot silk!
You'll laugh, you'll cry - It's better than CATS!
LOL Tracker II, I think he is being mischievous. The blogs are just rambling bleatage intended as tips for my fellow Aged and Infirm changing over to e-cigarettes, whereas this thread contains so many inspiring stories and thoughtful musings and rollicking hilarity from so many wonderful people - I hope you will find time to read it -
Hurry now, so when the movie comes out you can assume a supercilious air and hmmph that you liked the thread much better, and who did the casting anyhow? Because while you can live with Johnny Depp as Del Boy, and found Michele Rodriguez refreshingly believable as classwife, Madhuri Dixit is simply NOT how you'd pictured scorpindio, and frankly, you didn't feel Russell Crowe really understood jtpjc, and Selena Gomez seemed similarly out of her element as WomanofHeart although you are obliged, like everybody else, including, of course, The Academy, that as much as you hate to see another James Cameron sweep, Meryl Streep was the ONLY choice for Vocaltek...
You are all posting such excellent stuff that I didn't turn the computer off like I'm supposed to when the pills kick in, and now look! I'm skipping around and losing my place and rambling and getting behinder, because thanks to all of you, I'm laughing too hard to type - again!
