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I've never ever smoked ANYTHING

not even tried it ONCE. Neither my sister nor I ever smoked. I hate the smell/ VERY FEW of my friends smoke. Everyone KNOWS better to even THINK about smoking in my car, home, etc. Both of our parents smoked, and paid a high price for it. I won't go into details, but, suffice it to say, both of them have awfully gruesome deaths. Sadly, I witnessed both of them.
As far as pa9n management goes, most of you might know that I suffer with headaches. In a given month, I may have a headache 20 days out of 31. Excedrin is the only thing that helps me.
Especially when all of the carpenters were here working on the house, I had a developed a little pharmacy in one of the drawers. There is... aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, and Alleve. Most of that is there for other people.
 
I've never tasted alcohol, either.

I'm sure some people think I'm an alcoholic. My organs are practically "factory direct". I AM an organ donor, too. Never drank, smoked, or did drugs. I'm libel to get killed by the ice cream truck. I can just see the obituary: "John Long, dies with a Nutty Buddy dripping down his face after being struck by The Good Humor Man".... film at 11:00. .....leaving hundreds of Hoover products behind.
 
<a name="start_34897.376892"></a>"John Long, dies with a Nutty Buddy dripping down his face after being struck by The Good Humor Man".... film at 11:00. .....leaving hundreds of Hoover products behind.


 


If  your day job ever fails, John....you might give standup a shot...lol. You have a wealth of material from your house 'guests' ...you know, the ones you can't see and don't forget the bat invasion.


 


Kevin
 
I needed a sugar fix

yesterday. Some times the craving is stronger than the will. So I'm done with it for at least a month. Nutty Buddies are tasty, as was the sour cream with Nutella filling cake I made, and no I did not polish it all off. I sent it to work this morning with my step son.
I nip the red wine about every other day. Just a nip or two, for the ticker.
I also enjoy a nice scotch now and then, but only on a holiday. I keep Cognac brandy in the pantry for making coque' au' vin, along with dry and sweet marsala for other dishes. Yes I nip those also when I cook with them.
I could live to a ripe old age and deny all the pleasures of alcohol, unhealthy foods, and end up with Alzheimers too. Quality and moderation of life.
A friend I worked with was stricken with Lewey cell dementia. He was gone by age 58. Never drank or smoked.
 
That's true...you can do everything in the world 'healthy' and still die early. Of course all things in moderation. Hell, who knows....maybe if I make it to 85 I'll take up cigarettes...what could I lose...lol?! (Kidding)


 


I'm always wary of the people who brag & push their 'perfect' lives.....like the original guy who pushed jogging as the end-all healthy exercise, died of a heart attack. Vegans will tell you that all the meat eaters are going to suffer & die early. I live next to an Adventist colony and they have a big grocery store called Andy's. Most of the aging Adventists in that store look like they are in misery and have horrible dispositions....no thanks. They will also be happy to tell you, you are going to Hell if you're gay, meat eater, or anything else contrary to what they believe.


 


I don't know anybody that has it 'all' figured out....including me...lol.


 


Kevin


 


 
 
I must be another odd duck here, I enjoy the smell when it's being smoked. Not the smell pre-smoking, and especially not the smell of stale smoke in someone's house (I have 2 friends whose houses smell awful), and not particularly fond of the taste. I do smoke regularly (but very little) to help me sleep, but I almost never do during the day. Just not a good combination for my already laid back personality, two puffs and I turn into a vegetable! I alternate with melatonin on nights I don't want to or can't smoke, and it works well. I could probably be considered an insomniac, and add to that I'm an extremely light sleeper.. Extremely light sleeper... Like someone walking to the bathroom 2 rooms away through a closed door with a fan on WILL wake me up. Without any type of sleep aid I will wake up several times during the night and take hours to fall asleep again. I took melatonin for about a month straight once, and got to the point where it did nothing, and over the counter pharmaceutical sleep aids do absolutely nothing. A few puffs and I'll drift off to sleep and actually sleep through the night. No, I don't believe it's the miracle cure that some people do, but I do see benefits. Like another post above, I find it to be absolutely repulsive that marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 drug, but meets none of the criteria to BE a schedule 1 drug! It's non addictive, impossible to fatally overdose (I've done a bit too much a couple times, and the only side effect was being a bit uncomfortable), and not likely to be abused. I can smoke daily for a period of time, then go weeks without, with no ill effects or withdrawals whatsoever. I do respect others who choose not to use it for any reason, don't like the smell, etc. If it's not your thing, it's not your thing. So be it, more for the rest of us! In our county, posession and use of up to an ounce on private property is decriminalized, so I'm in the clear there. In public, all laws still apply.
 
Give your lungs a break and get the chocolates/caramels. They'll do the same thing, just takes a half hr. Smoke of any kind inhaled into your lungs is not a good thing. Vaporizers are better...eating the best. I can't imagine anyone liking the smell of skunk weed....replusive, especially rolling down the street in a neighborhood with kids.


 


Kevin
 
Kevin,

I hope/trust you weren't inferring that I think I'm perfect, or have a perfect life". Because, I absolutely do think I have that life. I may be luckier than some.... never having had to give up anything.
At the moment, I have more "upholstery" than I'd like.... working on that too.As I mentioned, I'm having a problem which is causing horrendous headaches. Perfect is not my life at all.
 
Absolutely.....

not John. It was aimed at all the media popular do-good-nicks that constantly grind their faux perfect lives into everyone's face. I know some really decent people that have been fortunate/lucky and have good all around lives. But none of them would tell you theirs lives are exemplary/perfect or grind their lifestyle into your face. 


 


We're a country of fads. Time and time again I have seen people get uber popular and rich only to see them crash and burn yrs later because it was a flawed, even dumb/dishonest idea in the first place.


 


Kevin
 
<a name="start_34897.377282"></a>i meant, "because I absolutely do NOT have that perfect life".
I re read and say what I typed.




I knew that because you said the opposite in the rest of the paragraph. I was gonna say something but did not want to seem like a bitch picky editor.


 


And again if you didn't read my reply, I was NOT talking about you in any way shape or form.


 


Kevin
 
Lol...that would definitely work but they NEVER leave.....somebody is always there. They have shirt-tail relatives that live there too and watch the place. It's like the Beverly Hillbilly show but not funny.  The upwardly mobile millennials that live on the block are not amused. You could almost throw a baseball from their house and hit the elementary school.


 


Kevin
 
I live in WA, it was one of the first 'legal' states to own and grow. The growers would turn this town into one giant greenhouse for pot if they could. The City Council fought them tooth & nail, but the growers won out in the end. Something about the local banks though....they banded together against having grower accounts, which forced them into a cash & carry business, which means they had the expense of added security.


 


Kevin


 


 
 

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