Yes I still Smoke Cigarettes and I am addicted to the smoking habit - support and chat thread.

[Claudia P]

I am a bit anti social as well but not the word that the forum deleted and replaced with .......... LOL There are many people I adore and love to spend time with, most of them just happen to be online rather than close by. For me I'm sure it was being an only child and spending a lot of time with my dad doing things like fishing and with my grandparents, fishing and hiking with my grandfather, and spending time with them at the family cabin in the mountains, playing cards and enjoying nature and the animals. Then my husband was a paraplegic and didn't work so he and I spent a lot of our time together doing things we enjoyed and living in a rural area with livestock. That just didn't lead to a social life like most people have, our social life was at the drag races and dog and goat shows and fairs with people who shared the same interests. Then after he died and I met Cliff and moved here to TN from southern Cal, I REALLY had little in common with the local people so I didn't venture out to become friends with the neighbors who had small kids (I was 50) and were all into decorating and fashion and church, and gossip. After Cliff was injured and couldn't work we fished and now he is drag racing.
When I was younger I was into kids and I spent a lot of time with my granddaughters but they are now grown and in Cal and I have two great grandkids I've never met and probably never will unless they decide to come here to visit, it's just too far and I don't travel well, even if I could afford to, which I can't. So I do my computer stuff and my artwork and crafts and really enjoy my solitude, I go to the races much of the time, but other times I choose to stay home and have the house all to myself and putter around cleaning and doing stuff that is easier without him under foot.

If I want to play girly all I have to do is call his cousin who is ALL ABOUT appearances and going shopping and out to lunch and making sure everything in her house is just so at all times and decorates for everything. I love her dearly but in very small doses please. We are just too different to hang together too much, she is up by 5 and wants to have everything done by noon, with three meals carefully cooked and served at exactly the same time every day. I get up about 10 and my eyes are starting to focus about noon, and we pretty much eat when we feel like it, lol. Her meals are planned days in advance, (she is a widow and lives alone, and all of her other family is in MD) ours planned maybe 5 minutes before I start fixing whatever we decide sounds good. LOL

I almost didn't write what I did...I admit that I AM a bit antisocial, which is funny because of how I make my living (sales, customer service). I can turn it off/on and I'm not mean, but my natural inclination is to just be left alone. I think that's why me and BF get along so well most of the time...he works constantly, and even though he works in the garage, I may only see him at dinnertime.

I think the combination of my upbringing (not cold, but dad was a work-a-holic and mom was depressed and sleeping most of the time--now I know it was the thyroid issue) and my own personality type that makes me OK with not maintaining close relationships.

I also got along better with guys than with girls growing up...the girls I get along with now are more like me (not into gossip or catty behavior).

 

[kittyn]

Well today has just been stupidly stressful. I really just want to go away. Ruined my slowing down on smoking. Smoked about 1.5 packs, and two clearos...Blergh, time for bed. Night night.

You also were up for like 21 hours and have slept maybe a grand total of 18 this week.

(If you're gonna make excuses/explanations to start with at least use the good ones hun )
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[VoodooZero]

You also were up for like 21 hours and have slept maybe a grand total of 18 this week.

(If you're gonna make excuses/explanations to start with at least use the good ones hun )
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Just pretend it makes sense.

Yep, really doesn't have much to do with it being Halloween weekend and being so busy I didn't have time to pee.

 

[Uncle]

You also were up for like 21 hours and have slept maybe a grand total of 18 this week.

(If you're gonna make excuses/explanations to start with at least use the good ones hun )
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Swype + Tapatalk = maybe it's right
Just pretend it makes sense.

Yep, really doesn't have much to do with it being Halloween weekend and being so busy I didn't have time to pee.

WOW - I can't wait to see how this turns out . . .

. . . Or . . .

Okay - Time for "Me" to go back to what I do best . . .

.

 

[VoodooZero]

I apologize then go to sleep Uncle. Also she knows my sarcastic attitude well, and hopefully takes it in stride.

How's Uncle today?

 

[ShariR]

Hi Claudia. No, not yet on the teeth. I will give them a call this week. Don't want to bug them because they were sent to the lab and I don't want them to be rushed, I want them perfect. Of course. But you are right, it has been long enough to inquire. Hope you are having a nice quiet day at home to do whatever you want.

I am in one of my don't feel like talking a lot modes. Comes in fits and starts. I like people when I can sit down and have a conversation with them that does not include gossip, the Joneses, religion, politics, and people who are button pushers for entertainment. There are other categories too, but that eliminates a lot of the population right at the get go. Casual conversations at public venues where I can walk away when I want work good too. It is lovely to find people who enjoy what you do so you have an opportunity to share ideas and experiences. I find I do not have much patience with children. I think it is the parents I have less patience with then the actual children, really. I have not spent a lot of time around children except for my own son. At one point I thought I might like to teach in a school setting. But not in today's world. Sometimes I think in a past life I must have been a Buddist Monk in a solitary monastery high in the Himilayas. Or maybe one of the ancient philosophers.

I almost hit cancel on that one cause I thought it made me sound like an anti social ...... lol
I do really care about people, but not so much up close and personal, and they have this way of trying to tell me how to live my life so I am more like them. Thanks but no thanks, I am quite happy with my life the way it is, until the nic fits hit and it's been a while since that has happened. Keeping fingers and toes crossed.

Speaking of online friends, Shari do you have teeth yet?

 

[loxmythe]

So Shari how was the waffle? Coffee? Werthers? Did they suck?

 

[ShariR]

So Shari how was the waffle? Coffee? Werthers? Did they suck?

They have not been tasted yet. I am still dealing with repercussions of that nasty allergy situation. I have been nursing a 30ml bottle of my Gold which you know is sweet, that I can swear is Renegade which is about as rough a tobacco as I have had. My tastebuds are all over the place. I am still doing some of the straight vg once in a while. There is no pain or burning at all and everything seems normal, except for my tastebuds. Several of my flavors are tasting very 'off' so I am not going to taste or issue an opinion on anything new until this aggravating situation calms itself down. It is not vapers tongue; I have had that and know what that is. I thought it was over. Apparently not. Just too frustrating to talk about since I seem to have no control over it. I will end up saving a lot of money if they don't start performing properly. How much can unflavored nic cost to vape? Sorry for the rant. I just wanted to explain to you and everyone what is going on and why I am not myself.

 

[Claudia P]

That really sux Shari, I was hoping all of that was behind you. I don't have any suggestions just offering some support.

I've been trying out my new I 30 S for a few days and I like it so much better than a ProTank that I can't put it into words, I will get at least one more. I wanted to try it out with a juice I was very familiar with so I haven't been vaping new ones much. I have been vaping JJ's Carmel Mocha Cocoa whatever it is, lol, and it just keeps getting better and better, I think it's a new fav, and I lost my mind and got a bottle of Nicoticket's Creme Brulee that just came yesterday. Clark specifically said it is one that needs to steep so I promptly ignored that and tried it right out of the mail knowing it wouldn't be right yet. It was way way too vanilla yesterday, but after giving it a couple of hours in the ultra sonic today I can taste the other flavors starting to come through and the vanilla calming down a bit. I think it is going to be really really good once it is fully steeped. I had gotten a vanilla in my first order with my twists that was the best thing I had ever tasted for a few days and then I just couldn't handle it at all, so I have shied away from vanilla since, but my taste buds are still changing a lot and hopefully starting to settle down again. I still don't begin to understand how mixing these flavors works, maybe someday it will sink in.

They have not been tasted yet. I am still dealing with repercussions of that nasty allergy situation. I have been nursing a 30ml bottle of my Gold which you know is sweet, that I can swear is Renegade which is about as rough a tobacco as I have had. My tastebuds are all over the place. I am still doing some of the straight vg once in a while. There is no pain or burning at all and everything seems normal, except for my tastebuds. Several of my flavors are tasting very 'off' so I am not going to taste or issue an opinion on anything new until this aggravating situation calms itself down. It is not vapers tongue; I have had that and know what that is. I thought it was over. Apparently not. Just too frustrating to talk about since I seem to have no control over it. I will end up saving a lot of money if they don't start performing properly. How much can unflavored nic cost to vape? Sorry for the rant. I just wanted to explain to you and everyone what is going on and why I am not myself.

 

[GtrSoloist]

Hey everyone, still super tired today. I haven't gotten a good nights (days) sleep in at least a week. I'm hoping that will change tomorrow.

I was looking at those Iclear 30s, but decided against them because they are not pyrex. Plastic is evil.

Last night I wrapped a 2.5Ω micro-coil for my IGO-L and it kicks ..... Good flavor, it wicks well, and puts out a ton of vapor.

 

[FinallyQuit]

So Shari how was the waffle? Coffee? Werthers? Did they suck?

Oh lawd!! Is it awesome? Is it?????

 

[FinallyQuit]

Oh, and hello everyone. Sorry was lost in the ether all afternoon. I don't know what time I fell asleep but I just woke up at 7. So I should be up all night, refreshed, and ready to play in the mad scientist lab.

On the friends and personal acquaintance issue, I have social anxiety. I find it very hard to meet new people, make eye contact, talk about random topics, and generally appear normal. I do make friends but it takes me a long time to warm up to people, which is why most of those are people I work with {being forced to interact daily finally makes me comfortable enough to get to know people} and once we no longer work together, we never see or speak to each other again. I am horrible at keeping in touch. It's not just that I hate talking on the phone, but that is a huge part of it. Friendships/relationships take a large amount of energy to maintain, and most days I'm running on empty just trying to take care of me and my kids. I never make time to get away and meet someone for coffee, and only one buddy of mine considers a trip to the grocery store to be a fun outing. Oddness/weirdness. . .

 

[FinallyQuit]

One more interesting tidbit and then I'll leave you all alone. Yesterday's paycheck was $30 fatter thanks to the old Tobacco Surcharge going byebye. It's the little things. . .that's half a tank of gas!

 

[Karen N Daytona]

Shari, I am sorry to hear that you are still having trouble, I went through something , not the same, but just as troubling for a few months with the coughing. some days I thought, ok, i can do this, then suddenly it took over and I was coughing again. I am so happy that you are able to vape with the flavorless, I could not when I went through that.

I am sorry, did you try flavored VG only liquid? I can't remember. I understand that the allergy to PG may sometimes take a while so maybe that is the problem? I know we have been over this before, I have a poor memory and you may not want to rehash , but I would love to see you happy and conquer the problem. I just kept vaping through the coughing, I refused to give it up completely, I know this works.
We are both too stubborn to give in and go back all the way!!!!!!!!!!!

Say hey to stubborn woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ShariR]

Are you tasting cinnamon or vanilla custard in the Nicoticket Crème Brulee? I so do want to try that but I am afraid to order it. The flavor profile of crème brulee is right up my alley. I am pretty much in a 'tobacco is not working for me' spot right now, so I am adrift. Actually, it is a nothing is working for me right now spot.

But I have to send a huge thanks out to FQ. She and her deft mixing have thrown me an anchor this past week or two. The only thing I seem to be tasting right most of the time is her Caramel Coffee, Vanilla Pudding and .... Cream. They are the only juices that I can taste on and off. In between stretches of vg; sometimes spike with some nic that our same angel FQ sent me.

That really sux Shari, I was hoping all of that was behind you. I don't have any suggestions just offering some support.

I've been trying out my new I 30 S for a few days and I like it so much better than a ProTank that I can't put it into words, I will get at least one more. I wanted to try it out with a juice I was very familiar with so I haven't been vaping new ones much. I have been vaping JJ's Carmel Mocha Cocoa whatever it is, lol, and it just keeps getting better and better, I think it's a new fav, and I lost my mind and got a bottle of Nicoticket's Creme Brulee that just came yesterday. Clark specifically said it is one that needs to steep so I promptly ignored that and tried it right out of the mail knowing it wouldn't be right yet. It was way way too vanilla yesterday, but after giving it a couple of hours in the ultra sonic today I can taste the other flavors starting to come through and the vanilla calming down a bit. I think it is going to be really really good once it is fully steeped. I had gotten a vanilla in my first order with my twists that was the best thing I had ever tasted for a few days and then I just couldn't handle it at all, so I have shied away from vanilla since, but my taste buds are still changing a lot and hopefully starting to settle down again. I still don't begin to understand how mixing these flavors works, maybe someday it will sink in.

 

[ShariR]

Oh lawd!! Is it awesome? Is it?????

Don't torture me FQ. I am currently not able to play right now. I know I will not make it through the weekend without giving it a try, but my tastebuds are not working well, or consistently. I love Werthers, they are in my house at all times for when I have to have something sweet and make it last a long time.

 

[Claudia P]

First congratulations on the extra in your paycheck FQ,that is really good news.

Shari Clark is up front about his juices really needing a fairly long steeping time so it's no where near being what it will be. For the most part right now I taste vanilla, yesterday it was in your face I don't like it vanilla, I gave it a couple of hours in the ultra sonic, not all at once, and today I can almost taste something else but not sure what, the vanilla has calmed down considerably and I can almost taste the burnt caramel, or at least that is what I think it is. He shows a picture of it being a nice dark golden brown and mine is still very very pale, almost orange color in the bottle and almost clear with a slight yellowish tinge in the topper. If you go to his forum and ask I'm sure he will tell you if there is any cinnamon in it as he is there every evening and pretty talkative. Here is a link if you don't already have it, I haven't seen any posts from you so you may not have this one. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...emeet-eliquid-support-group-v-2-0-a-1538.html

Are you tasting cinnamon or vanilla custard in the Nicoticket Crème Brulee? I so do want to try that but I am afraid to order it. The flavor profile of crème brulee is right up my alley. I am pretty much in a 'tobacco is not working for me' spot right now, so I am adrift. Actually, it is a nothing is working for me right now spot.

But I have to send a huge thanks out to FQ. She and her deft mixing have thrown me an anchor this past week or two. The only thing I seem to be tasting right most of the time is her Caramel Coffee, Vanilla Pudding and .... Cream. They are the only juices that I can taste on and off. In between stretches of vg; sometimes spike with some nic that our same angel FQ sent me.

 

[Claudia P]

Well he just called, they got rained out and are going to run it tomorrow so he left the car and trailer there and will be home in a few minutes. Shari he will be running at the Buffalo Valley track up your way, that is why I stayed home cause it's a two hour drive and just makes it too long a day to keep the poor pups crated. I won't be going with him in the morning but if you decided to go you know what the car looks like. It's a big race, there are 75 cars in his class and it's a pretty big money race.

 

[DoloresB]

Shari, if you are looking for a good price on unflavoured nic juice, My Freedom Smokes offers a really good price on their juices. Here is the link:

Our Unflavored Smoke Juice (Nic. Juice, Nicotine Juice) - My Freedom Smokes

It's offered in 100% VG if you need it that way. 250 ml of 24 mg juice for $13.95. It would ship to you in 2 days (if I'm reading their shipping map correctly). Maybe it's something worth considering.

 

[ShariR]

Thanks for the link. I have been there lurking on several occasions but have not posted. Until I get this mouth/tastebud thing behind me I am, like I said, pretty adrift and do not feel up to trying much of anything new since I am afraid I won't taste it properly or will find that something I love will set me off again. Not like me to be so overly cautious but I would not wish this allergy stuff on anyone and I am trying my hardest to get back to 'normal.' I am hoping that you will give me your take on it in a couple of weeks. Of course I will ask him specifically when I am ready to take the plunge. I do not know when I will get there. He strikes me as the type of person that would try to make up a bottle custom for me and I do not want to have him go to that trouble until I have nailed down my issue.

First congratulations on the extra in your paycheck FQ,that is really good news.

Shari Clark is up front about his juices really needing a fairly long steeping time so it's no where near being what it will be. For the most part right now I taste vanilla, yesterday it was in your face I don't like it vanilla, I gave it a couple of hours in the ultra sonic, not all at once, and today I can almost taste something else but not sure what, the vanilla has calmed down considerably and I can almost taste the burnt caramel, or at least that is what I think it is. He shows a picture of it being a nice dark golden brown and mine is still very very pale, almost orange color in the bottle and almost clear with a slight yellowish tinge in the topper. If you go to his forum and ask I'm sure he will tell you if there is any cinnamon in it as he is there every evening and pretty talkative. Here is a link if you don't already have it, I haven't seen any posts from you so you may not have this one. http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...emeet-eliquid-support-group-v-2-0-a-1538.html