Today marks four weeks that I’ve been 100% smoke free.
At least, I haven’t inhaled. Or rather, I haven’t put a cigarette in my mouth and voluntarily inhaled so that I could enjoy that sweet satisfaction that can only come from smoke breezing down your throat and into your lungs. Second hand poker night smoke just isn’t the same.
Four weeks of successful quitting. I know, yeah me, go girl, etc. etc. Thank you.
Milestones like this always make me stop a moment to re-examine myself and ask,
“What else is wrong with you?”
In my passionate pursuit of perfection, I find that rather than being able to enjoy one victory for very long - no matter how big or small - I am constantly looking for the next battle. If I can do this, what else can I do? What’s next on my endless list of Things To Do To Fix Me?
To name a few…
- lose weight - I’d like to lose 9 more pounds. Preferably by the time Prince sees me naked.
- get in shape - not at all the same as losing weight. I’d like to be able to “bounce a quarter” off various parts of my body. That’s always sounded like a great party trick to me.
- make more money - specifically, make more sales. This is really less about the money and more about the winning. And the shit of it is I know I can do it, I just haven’t buckled down and psyched myself up for long periods of time lately. I’ve done ah’ight - but not as well as I could. That annoys the shit out of me.
- get organized - my time, my space, my desk, my basement. Unfortunately, in order to do this I’m going to have to enlist massive amounts of cooperation from the people I live with. Which brings me to a big one…
- grow cult following. At some point I’d like to take over the World. Right now, I’d settle for mind control of the husband, kids and boss. And the Publisher’s Clearing House guy.
I figure the first two I can do at the same time, if I can just drag my ass out of bed early enough on a consistent enough basis. I’ve never had a problem getting up early, but this year it has been an insane struggle. I’ll go great for two days, and suck ass for 10. In the steps forward and backward analogy, I think I’ve lapped myself.
But I’ve quit smoking - thus far. If I can kick nicotine, surely I can conquer fat ass laziness. Right?
I used to have a Denise Austin workout video and while she was torturing you with a highly modified sit up routine, she would chant,
“Bikini. Bikini. Think. Bikini.”
Perhaps at 5:15 in the morning I should try that.
“Prince. Prince. Love Child. Prince”
If that doesn’t get me out of bed, I don’t know what will.
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I’m glad that you’ve stayed smoke-free for so long. Maybe your kids will have a mom who lives past 40 because she doesn’t get lung cancer now!
:)
February 7th, 2007 at 9:21 am
You kinda remind me of that cartoon Pinky and The Brain with your whole world domination thing…
So Miss Britt what are we going to do today?
Same thing we do everyday TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!
Congrats on the smoking think that is $140 you saved!~!!
February 7th, 2007 at 9:24 am
You’ve been nominated for one or more RFS Blog awards! Hooray!
Go to my blog to pick up the nomination button!
Let the games begin!
February 7th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Congrats on being smoke-free for a two fortnights!
I’m thinking about charging those who want to quit smoking to stay at my house for a week. The deal is you can only smoke outside though and it’s like 15 degrees below zero…who in the hell wants to go out when it’s that frickin’ cold?
I need to look into this more…
February 7th, 2007 at 10:22 am
Congrats!!! And, you think you are doing bad? I haven’t worked out since I got sick. In my opinion you have to be able to BREATHE to workout.
On the upside, I’m really not eating either.
And, I’m telling you PILATES… it does amazing things.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
re: smoking. good job you whorebitchslut.
Jealous? Me? Never.
re: Prince. fuck off you whorebitchslut.
re: world domination/mind control. focus is everything.
re: i nominated you so you better love me, whorebitchslut.
February 7th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I’m just so amazed at the whole quitting smoking thing.
That’s quite the accomplishment.
I suck.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Hey, Paco here. Not a big fan of your theme switching. Once I go blue I can’t go back!
February 7th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
good for you for quitting. I think 6 weeks is the furthest I’ve ever gotten - and I always go back, which I know sounds incredibly stupid…however, I’m in bars so much on the weekends and the temptation is too much for me to rezheest!!
February 7th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I have quit smoking too. It’s the second time today that I have quit.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
avitable: Ummm…. thanks?
debkitty: $140 I can put towards TAKING OVER THE WORLD!! :-)
Christie: Kick ass!!
The Kept Woman: Yeah it was -20 here this weekend. Maybe we could set up a time share system.
AmyD: I KNOW, I LOVED my pilates/yoga class - I told you that. But I can’t take it anymore and my Denise Austin Pilates just isn’t as good. I need Marni - or whatever the fuck her name is.
Miss Ann Thrope:
re: smoking. thankyouitsucksassandiwishiwasyourightnow
re: Prince. You can babysit our love child if you’d like!
re: world domination/mind control and focus - my head now hurts. Need break from focusing.
re: nomination. I DO! I DO! Thankyouverymuch and I also voted for you - whorebitchslut.
J.: and yet I have never been named “most inspirational”. WTF is up with that J? ;-)
Paco: why the fuck do you insist on using the alias “Paco”, Jesse? No one who reads this knows who the hell you are you ginormous dork. And I already know it’s you.
Dawn (webmiztris): Yeah, my life is old and boring now so it’s easier. the most temptation I have in my life is when there are three things on TV at once and I can’t figure out what to TiVo and what to watch.
Mist 1: I think that’s a yellow chip.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
what’s with the question mark? I’m glad you’re not smoking, although you’re still smoking hot!
February 7th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Good for you for being smoke free!
Denise Austin is EVIL… EVIL I tell you.
LOL She is too damn happy exercising. It is unnatural I tell ya.
February 7th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Denise. Fucking. Austin. :mad:
February 7th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Congrats on being smoke free.
I’m not going to say anything else… other than in the morning my motivation is…
“Love child with Britt. Love child with Britt. Love child with Britt.”
Just sayin
February 8th, 2007 at 3:16 am
I’m hugely proud of you for not smoking. I think about now you officially become a NON-SMOKER! Is that not cool, or what? You’ve kicked the addiction part, Britt, never ever take another hit.
I don’t think you’re overweight, but regardless, 9 lbs. is reasonable & if you’re just a tiny bit overweight, that’s how you stop from becoming fat. Reasonable is good.
Okay, I’m with you that Prince would definitely like to bounce a quarter off some naked part of your bod. In March, right?
I hope you get to the concert & if so, I want to see a YouTube of that quarter flyin’ in the air!
February 8th, 2007 at 3:19 am
avitable: the question mark was for all the cancer references!! compliments with cancer always make me a little uneasy ;-)
missi: my mom and I used to curse Denise Austin so bad.
Jennine: I know, evil, I know LOL
NYC Watchdog: LOL - just make sure you can pay child support. I use all of my love children as pawns to generate cash.
Just sayin
jane: Oooh - excellent idea for a YouTube video. Even better idea - video of me trying to workout! Too bad the camera has to be connected to the ‘puter.
I’ll consider myself a non-smoker if I can make it through Vegas without a drag. *everything crossed*
February 8th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Congrats on not smoking! It’s hard, but you can do it. I’ve managed to do it, somehow. Now I’m just going to the gym and making a fool of myself which is way more fun than smoking. :roll:
I saw Prince in 2001. You have to see him live. You have to! He puts on a great show!! And for the finale, he did purple rain. He left the stage and the purple lights came on and for about one minute they did strobe lights like lightning and this booming bass for the thunder, then he appeared on stage and did purple rain. I cried so hard because it was so awesome.
You have to see him!!!! Use the money you’re saving from now smoking to buy tickets next time he’s on tour. :mrgreen:
February 8th, 2007 at 8:41 am
from not smoking :mrgreen:
February 8th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Congratulations-that is awesome!
February 8th, 2007 at 11:06 am