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Days 6 & 7
2004-08-30, 2:27 p.m.

Day 6 8/28/04

1st Saturday morning having coffee & no cigarettes. I can stay inside & do the crossword puzzle. Oldest son called, he's helping his girlfriend move into an apartment near her school, couple of towns east of us. Looks like I get to go over and help too. She has her parents, aunt & uncle, my son & me helping her move. They need to be back in their hometown for a 2pm wedding, so we'll be hustling.

Managed to finish the move without melting. Went back later that evening and built a computer desk. Sweat out about everything I drank in during the day. Desk is done tho. Apparently some friends of our son are throwing him a going away party tonight, before he heads back to school Sunday. They happen to live a couple of buildings over from where his girlfriend is now located. How handy.

Managed to keep busy enough during the day & early evening that craves & urges were no issue. So beat at night don't have the energy to build up a crave. Gardening helps some too - got come of the perennials trimmed now that their flowering is done.

Day 7 8/29/04

1st Sunday morning having coffee & no cigarettes. I can stay inside & do the crossword puzzle. Again. Sense a theme here??

Went out & finished off some more perennial trimming. Got a little weeding in. Have had such a craptacular summer, most of the potted annuals got mildew and are now nearly dead. Got all those taken care of and put the pots away. Hit the veggie garden - picked a bunch of tomatoes (cherry & regular) salsa peppers, portugal peppers (hot), and enough beans for dinner. Tons of lightning as oldest son & I were getting to the beans. Sky busted open, we headed indoors with our haul. Decided to make a batch of salsa with what we had managed to pick. Did a whopping 5 pints. Thought the salsa peppers were going to be a bit hot, but in the finished salsa - not so hot at all. Shoulda put in a couple of the portugals.

All that gardening/cooking was to keep occupied. Finding the craving for a cigarette seems to be reduced. Eye twitching thing seems better. Combination of better rest & glasses may be helping there.

Wife still sneaking out for a smoke every now & then. Wouldn't be so bad, but today she got upwind of me. Don't think she realized it, but some of her smoke was blowing from the Riviera right into the family room. We'll have to work on that one a bit.

Was going to go bowling with my brother in the afternoon. After the salsa making, I headed upstaris for a shower. Yes, at something like 2:30 in the afternoon. Took a nice cool shower. With the weather finally cooling off some, and me fresh out of a cool shower, I actually hadn't sweated in like 2 hours. Rather than go bowling and work up yet another sweat, I opted to go into energy conservation mode and stay cool.

After dinner, oldest son finished packing and headed back to college (SUNY ESF) That puts us back into the empty nest situation.

Another day crossed off the list. 7 down, rest of my life to go.


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