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Subject: Habits You Want To Break, But Can't
What are some annoying habits of yours? For me:-- BITING MY NAILS!!
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I suppose for me it would be running down the street naked. You have any idea how hard it is to find a support group for that? ;)
In all seriousness, though, I think for me it would be staying up late at night. I have such a hard time getting up in the morning, but if I go to bed early, I just can't get to sleep...
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Eating instead of smoking.....I mean, I don't want to go back to smoking, so what should I replace eating with? :-[
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I am trying to replace eating with something else. Not sure what, though. In a perfect world it would be exercise....this ain't a perfect world, though. ;)
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I tend to play with my eyebrows. There have been times where I had bald patches!! LOL
I now have a bad habit of munching on chips while in front of the comp. ::)
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Eating instead of smoking.....I mean, I don't want to go back to smoking, so what should I replace eating with? :-[End Quote
SHOPPING!
Since I am, for the better part, anonymous in this place, I can admit to this dreaded disease of the wallet. I love to shop for anything - shoes, clothes, music, entertainment, books, food (although, I've cut back on food in order to afford more clothes...), etcetera.
Tarzan Boy
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I suppose for me it would be running down the street naked. You have any idea how hard it is to find a support group for that? ;)
In all seriousness, though, I think for me it would be staying up late at night. I have such a hard time getting up in the morning, but if I go to bed early, I just can't get to sleep...
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Again, I not only feel your pain - I share it. Say Whacka-whacka!" (A reference to the church of Pac-Man ;D)
Our body clocks are screwed-up. Any suggestions?
And no going to bed early. It never works. :-/
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I tend to play with my eyebrows. There have been times where I had bald patches!! LOL
I now have a bad habit of munching on chips while in front of the comp. ::)
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Well,as for me,I can't stop plucking my eyebrows.I do it as a force of habit because of nervousness and anxiousness.I just pluck it out with my finger and it damn hurts like hell.
Also,Cracking my knuckles,neck,toes,feet,elbows,arms.Man,I'm flexible! :) -howard-
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For me it's overeating; then drinking too much pop. I think they're conspiring to get me… LOL… :)
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Yes, I crack my knuckles, too!!!! ugggh!!
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Eating instead of smoking.....I mean, I don't want to go back to smoking, so what should I replace eating with? :-[End Quote
Sex? ;D
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I have a bad habit of staying on the Internet too long. My fiance thinks I am addicted...I'm not, though (at least I don't think I am). :-/
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Well,as for me,I can't stop plucking my eyebrows.I do it as a force of habit because of nervousness and anxiousness.I just pluck it out with my finger and it damn hurts like hell.
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I wish I could pluck my eyebrows with my fingers...I have to use tweezers. I think I'm becoming a high maintenance chick. I have to pluck my eyebrows at least once a week, 'tis ridiculous. Oh, and now my fingernails are growing out and I have to manicure them at least once a week. It's never ending.
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I talk to myself. not just when I'm trying to fix a problem, all the time. I'll be thinking about something then I just blurt out some words some one in the room will say "what", I just respond Nevermind.
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I make this annoying noise with my tongue and the roof of my mouth. It drives my mom crazy, but I just can't stop.
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I suppose for me it would be running down the street naked. You have any idea how hard it is to find a support group for that? ;)
In all seriousness, though, I think for me it would be staying up late at night. I have such a hard time getting up in the morning, but if I go to bed early, I just can't get to sleep...
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That's me exactly! Er..the part about sleeping, not the part about running down the street naked. :D I just hate going to bed early, and even if I do, and even if I get a good night's sleep, I still can't get up in the morning. I used to work nights, and it was the only time I felt like my internal clock was set correctly. :(
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I used to work nights, and it was the only time I felt like my internal clock was set correctly. :(
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I hear you! I work nights now and when I'm not working, like tonite, i'm up until 1-2 am anyway. It totally screws me up!
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I find sleeping a very difficult task in itself. Sometimes I can go for days without sleep without even knowing it. Perhaps my other annoying habit is making lame excuses to miss my school physiotherapy. I also like scaring people by popping my arm out of its socket and then replacing it - which, in all seriousness, is rather painful for them to watch, I think.
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I find sleeping a very difficult task in itself. Sometimes I can go for days without sleep without even knowing it. Perhaps my other annoying habit is making lame excuses to miss my school physiotherapy. I also like scaring people by popping my arm out of its socket and then replacing it - which, in all seriousness, is rather painful for them to watch, I think.
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Bobo, I'm a nurse and that would be painful for me to watch!
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Ouch, yes. There are just some things that I shouldn't share about my non-messageboard life. I do apologize.
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Bobo, I'm a nurse and that would be painful for me to watch!
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I also like scaring people by popping my arm out of its socket and then replacing it - which, in all seriousness, is rather painful for them to watch, I think.
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You can do that, too? I love grossing people out by doing that! You can actually hear it pop out! I can also bend my pinky finger all the way backwards. It just about touches the top of my wrist. If my camera were working, I would demonstrate.
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Ouch, yes. There are just some things that I shouldn't share about my non-messageboard life. I do apologize.
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No apology necessary!!
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I hear you! I work nights now and when I'm not working, like tonite, i'm up until 1-2 am anyway. It totally screws me up!
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When I worked nights I used to come home and stay up till about 4 p.m. then sleep till time to go back. So when I had a day off I would come home and just stay up all day and then crash at about midnight, after being up over 24 hours. It worked well for me, but then I was a lot younger then....
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When I worked nights I used to come home and stay up till about 4 p.m. then sleep till time to go back. So when I had a day off I would come home and just stay up all day and then crash at about midnight, after being up over 24 hours. It worked well for me, but then I was a lot younger then....
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I work 12 hours nights form 7pm-7am, so i am usually in bed between 9-10am and sleep until 3 or so. but i only work 3 nights a week.
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Thanks Jess. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one!
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You can do that, too? I love grossing people out by doing that! You can actually hear it pop out! I can also bend my pinky finger all the way backwards. It just about touches the top of my wrist. If my camera were working, I would demonstrate.
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I would like to cut down on the sodas and caffeine. I would also like to stop procrastinating.
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I would love to HATE chocolate and any other form of junkfood. And just recently I have become addicted to the Sims. HELP!!!
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I would like to be all Mary Poppins here ie: practically perfect in every way! But I have to agree with Tarzan boy shopping is my downfall and I wish I was more restrained when it comes to shopping I do try....
A friend bought me a postcard that says 'I shop therefore I am' says it all!
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Flirting with men on internet message boards.
(Awww, c'mon baby, you know I didn't mean it...) ;)
I actually broke the last of the bad habits I wanted to break back in January. Now I just need to work on getting myself set into some good habits.
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I talk to myself. not just when I'm trying to fix a problem, all the time. I'll be thinking about something then I just blurt out some words some one in the room will say "what", I just respond Nevermind.
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Hence you username?! LOL Just kidding with ya! ;)
Quoting:... I would also like to stop procrastinating. End Quote
Hey JC, I am bad at this!! :o Maybe we can help one another? ;D
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I suppose for me it would be running down the street naked. You have any idea how hard it is to find a support group for that? ;)
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I wholeheartedly SUPPORT you running down the street naked. You have my address, right?
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SHOPPING!
Since I am, for the better part, anonymous in this place, I can admit to this dreaded disease of the wallet. I love to shop for anything - shoes, clothes, music, entertainment, books, food (although, I've cut back on food in order to afford more clothes...), etcetera.
Tarzan Boy
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Ahhhhhh!!! I share all of your pain. Nail biting, ESPECIALLY SHOPPING (the money just flies out of my hands), sometimes eating, but I'm a dancing fiend. (people never want to dance with me )
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Oh yes I must admit
I HAVE A SHOE PROBLEM :o
the problem is I can't STOP buying them :o
i have probably 80 some pairs of shoes. And I wear them all from spike heels, to little heels, to flats, to sneakers, to boots, boots with small heels, boot's with spike heels, boots that reach above my knees(only one pair, never again), snow boots, timberland boots (In pink, blue, silver, brown) Oh yeah then I have the same shoes in different colors. Designer shoes, platforms (During my I wanna be a spice girl phase), etc. I LOVE SHOES
{Don't look at me like that...!}
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I ALSO have a shoe problem! Course my problem is that I can usually pick up quarters with my toes while wearing my sneakers. I think maybe I'll buy some new shoes this weekend...
Kryllith
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I would like to be all Mary Poppins here ie: practically perfect in every way! But I have to agree with Tarzan boy shopping is my downfall and I wish I was more restrained when it comes to shopping I do try....
A friend bought me a postcard that says 'I shop therefore I am' says it all!
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No way! I have a shirt that says that ;)
Co-workers and acquaintances look at me funny when I admit to this (shades of Clueless, I guess - except I'm ugly and straight :P ), but I make it a habit not to go out too much because sooner or later I'll show to work on a Harley or, worse, in a 2002 Mini Cooper...
Tarzan Boy
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http://www.plauder-smilies.de/lach.gif
http://www.plauder-smilies.de/lol2.gif
go to these and laugh
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You're all friggin' kidding, right? Am I the only blatantly self-destructive individual on the board? I'm down to five cigarettes a day, last night was the first night in three months I had no beer, I've cut caffiene entirely (TA-DAAAA!), but still take ephidrine before the gym, I don't eat for most of the day and then binge around eight or nine...and my cuticles are a disaster. Fortunately I can't afford any more expensive methods of self-medication.
As for sleeping? Try a vicodin e.s. and three beers. That'll put you out, trust me.
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Is that modeled on another Pacman?
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You're all friggin' kidding, right? Am I the only blatantly self-destructive individual on the board? I'm down to five cigarettes a day, last night was the first night in three months I had no beer, I've cut caffiene entirely (TA-DAAAA!), but still take ephidrine before the gym, I don't eat for most of the day and then binge around eight or nine...and my cuticles are a disaster. Fortunately I can't afford any more expensive methods of self-medication.
As for sleeping? Try a vicodin e.s. and three beers. That'll put you out, trust me.
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The more I get to know you, the more I like you!! You just crack me up!! :D And if I even thought about cutting out my caffeine, I'd be in a coma for a very long time. I don't think I'd have a heart rate without it!!
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And if I even thought about cutting out my caffeine, I'd be in a coma for a very long time. I don't think I'd have a heart rate without it!!
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Hee, hee, I hear ya! And the HEADACHES! Gods! I just kinda had to, seeing as of how it was causing heart palpitations and blackouts at work...fifteen cups a day too much, ya think?
They initially thought I had, oh, what is that conditions that makes chicks faint?...cardiomyoinfarction, no that's not it, distoneoteutonicalgia, no...gastrodueodenecomy? nope, some minor heart condition though, you know what I'm talking about. Turned out to be just too much coffee.
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Mitrovalveprolapse! That's the one!
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Hee, hee, I hear ya! And the HEADACHES! Gods! I just kinda had to, seeing as of how it was causing heart palpitations and blackouts at work...fifteen cups a day too much, ya think?
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OMG!! I'm surprised that they didn't have to peel you off of the ceiling!! Even I'm not that bad. Although on a bad night, I've been known to consume massive quantities of Diet Mt. Dew!! ;D
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goldie remember just because it's diet doesn't mean it's good for you
I do understand guys because i don't know how i'd make it through 1st period humanities history if i hadn't have atleast one cup of anything caffiene
goldie thanks for the help on my smiley project
http://www.plauder-smilies.de/tiere/catmilk.gif
isn't this cute
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Mitrovalveprolapse! That's the one!
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Good job, Lang!! You almost sound like a medical professional when you say that!! ;)
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goldie remember just because it's diet doesn't mean it's good for you
I do understand guys because i don't know how i'd make it through 1st period humanities history if i hadn't have atleast one cup of anything caffiene
goldie thanks for the help on my smiley project
http://www.plauder-smilies.de/tiere/catmilk.gif
isn't this cute
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Oh I know it's not good for me, but it's the one major vice that I can't give up!! In fact, I'm drinking one now!!
Glad my advice worked! I love the smiley!!
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Oh yeah, I do procrastinate a lot, too!!!!!!
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Lets see... I don't smoke. I quit caffiene earlier this year (and langdon, 15 cups a day? Amatuer! ;) ), and I have a really clean mind, so I don't guess there is anything...
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I've cut caffiene entirely (TA-DAAAA!),
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I couldn't ever cut out caffeine. My eyes won't even open without it.
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and I have a really clean mind, so I don't guess there is anything...
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And if you believe this, I have this bridge I would like to sell you...it is truly golden. ;)
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Sex? ;D
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LOL!! If I had sex every time I craved a cigarette, both my hubby and I would be in the hospital with broken hoozie-wutsits. ;)
But, hey, it never hurts to try....;)
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and I have a really clean mind, so I don't guess there is anything...
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Hah! **gasp** **cough** **choke** I need air!!! Oh, the laughing hurts....Oh, please, stop!! **lolololololol** Ahhh....you're killin' me!!
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Cigarettes would be mine...I had stopped smoking for over fours years and started back in March of 2001. I know...bad bad me..and now I smoke one right after the other!!
and I would stop twisting my hair when I am nervous or scared...I don't pull on it....just twist it into little knots!!!
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and I have a really clean mind, so I don't guess there is anything...
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Excuse me? Is this Wicked Lester or a innocent imitation? ;)
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and I have a really clean mind
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The ladies have said all there is to say, but I still feel I must add a big, echoing HA! But, honey, we looooove ya for it.
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Ahhhhhhh, it's great to be back!!!
If I have to give up one more thing that's remotely pleasurable, but, of course, BAD for me, I'm gonna take up TV9's bad habit and start running thru the streets starkers...
But then, with the astounding streak of good luck that I have been having, I would burn the retinas of some visiting dignitary from Outer Euthanaisa, thus setting myself up for a massive lawsuit. I will then end broke and naked, with nothing to show for it except a few frost-bitten naughty bits!
In the meantime, I am going to try and quit cigs.
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Everything............
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Sleeping and getting off the computer, definitely.
And procrastinating.
And stuttering. And repeating myself. repeating myself. repeating myself. ;D
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You're all friggin' kidding, right? Am I the only blatantly self-destructive individual on the board? I'm down to five cigarettes a day, last night was the first night in three months I had no beer, I've cut caffiene entirely (TA-DAAAA!), but still take ephidrine before the gym, I don't eat for most of the day and then binge around eight or nine...and my cuticles are a disaster. Fortunately I can't afford any more expensive methods of self-medication.
As for sleeping? Try a vicodin e.s. and three beers. That'll put you out, trust me.
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I hear ya LH. I have tried to quit smoking but to no avail. I used to take ephedrine before I went out, but it screwed me all up. Won't cut caffeine or beer though (or yummy margaritas).
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Mitrovalveprolapse! That's the one!
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Thought this was too wierd....In high school, I started having fainting spells. Doctor thought that my diet ups and downs were the problem. Nope... it was mitro valve prolapse. I'm still not giving up caffeine though.
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Won't cut caffeine or beer though (or yummy margaritas).
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not giving up my beer either!!!!!!!!!!
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I'm tellin' ya, you sure you and goldie weren't ripped from my folks? Or I from yours?
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I'm tellin' ya, you sure you and goldie weren't ripped from my folks? Or I from yours?
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Maybe so Lang, you could be our long lost sister!! ;D
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I'm tellin' ya, you sure you and goldie weren't ripped from my folks? Or I from yours?
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see...our "sperm donor" was a cop...always out and about....so you might want to talk to your mom...I have always wondered how many more of "us" are really out there!!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o
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I spend too danged much time playing on this computer!!
If I'm not online, I'm playing with a couple of games I have on it.
I also stay up far too late at night. It started in elementary school, when I would stay up late reading by flashlight. Then during my teens I stayed up watching cable tv, (which had finally come to our neck of the woods) till mom threatened to smash the screen. Then I would plug in my headphones and listen to music till the sun came up.
I finally got a night job, which lasted till my daughter was born. Then, reluctantly, I tried to have a more conventional schedule. But the second they open up a nighttime elementary school for the children of night shift workers, we are soooo there!!!
I will not give up my caffeine. Not for anyone, or anything. I can't. If I don't have a minimum of three cups of coffee, or the equivalent in soda, per day the migraine fairy comes to get me with her sledgehammer. And even that's pushing it. A "normal" day is about ten cups of coffee.
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In the meantime, I am going to try and quit cigs.
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Good luck!! I will be the first to admit, if I hadn't gotten the scare of my life (and near death), I would still be smoking. I quit cold turkey, and it was hard. Every once in a while, I still get a craving. (I've been off smokes for 1 year, 5 months, 1 week and 1 day. ;D )
Now, use sugarless gum, carrots and/or celery sticks, and stuff like that when you quit. Trust me...I O.D.'d on Lifesavers. Not good. LOL If you need someone to vent to when the withdrawals hit you and you want to smoke, please feel free to PM me. I'll understand perfectly! :)
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see...our "sperm donor" was a cop...End Quote
You had a sperm donor and a Mom?! OMG!! I had an egg donor and a Dad!! We're like mirror opposites or something!
edited to get rid of that ??? face
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I talk to myself all the time :-/ But I dont listen. AAAARGH! >:( ::)
Edited to add: I think it's time to change my avatar...
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I talk to myself all the time :-/ But I dont listen. AAAARGH! >:( ::)
Edited to add: I think it's time to change my avatar...
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Sometimes,I talk to myself too and also I repeat myself when i don't even realize i said something before and then I said it again the next time after. -howard-
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Oh yes I must admit
I HAVE A SHOE PROBLEM :o
the problem is I can't STOP buying them :o
i have probably 80 some pairs of shoes. And I wear them all from spike heels, to little heels, to flats, to sneakers, to boots, boots with small heels, boot's with spike heels, boots that reach above my knees(only one pair, never again), snow boots, timberland boots (In pink, blue, silver, brown) Oh yeah then I have the same shoes in different colors. Designer shoes, platforms (During my I wanna be a spice girl phase), etc. I LOVE SHOES
{Don't look at me like that...!}
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You sound perfect, a girl that appreciates shoes make the girl and you like to dance. If only you were a little older. So what are your bad habits?
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Smoking and Coffee....but I must admit I still enjoy both.
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Well, my most annoying bad habit (which anyone who reads my posts knows) is that I'm hyperverbal. In person, I either don't talk at all, or talk too much too fast. This drives many people up a wall. I'm also an unconscious accent mimic, which means that after a few minutes of talking to someone with an accent I start to slip into their speech rhythyms. I have to be really careful about that one because people usually think I'm making fun of them.
I tend to break into song (singing if there's no one around, whistling if there are people there). And I sometimes tap my feet, drum on tables, etc. in rhythym with whatever song is stuck in my head at the time. It's no big deal at work (I work for a performing arts college) or with my friends (most of whom are also musicians) but I have to be careful on the subway, at Starbucks, etc. because people look at me funny. :-[
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Flirting with strangers online...No that's not it! ;D I have a terrible potty-mouth and during times of stress or anger, the expletives come flying forth. If I'm alone, it's not such a big deal but in front of others, my favorite word is not so well received!! ;)