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I quit smoking over 5 months ago!

March 17, 2011 by Tricia

It’s hard to believe, but just a little over five months ago I didn’t think I’d ever be able to say I’d be a non-smoker. I had just quit, but the cravings I was going through, even though they were dulled with the help of Zyban .. were difficult. It was hard to imagine that I’d quit for good – forever.

Now days go by and I surprise myself when I catch myself thinking about a cigarette. I still get the occasional craving, but it only happens a few times a week instead of several times a day now. That’s what I’d call progress. Considering that I quit on October 12th I guess it’s about time that cigarettes stopped ruling my life.

It’s funny how when I first quit, I wrote several posts about it and I’d get encouraging comments or congratulation comments, but I”d also get people telling me that I should switch to e-cigarettes. When I was really craving a smoke I checked out the e-cigarette safety information just to see how safe they are since I don’t know much about them. Anyway since I was being so successful with quitting smoking right from the beginning I wasn’t going to fool around with an e-cigarette. I didn’t want to start another habit.

I’m just happy I quit. I feel a lot better. My husband quit too. We’re both healthier, our house smells better and we have a little bit of extra money. Yeah!





Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Items to Try Tagged With: crave, ecigarette, encourage, feel better, five months, Health Fitness and Beauty, house, husband, Money, progress, quit smoking, smell, success, zyban

Extreme wrist pain and a bad doctor

March 4, 2011 by Tricia

I don’t know what I’ve done to myself over the last several months. I’m just a painful tired mess. Other than being extremely sleepy most of the time since November it’s my right wrist that probably ranks next on my list of complaints.

Oddly enough it was my left wrist that started hurting in October or November, but I got a mouse pad with a memory foam cushion (I’m left handed), and I applied heat to my wrist regularly and the pain went away within a week or two of regular care.

Then my right wrist started acting up and nothing I do seems to help. It just aches across the top of it. I take Advil, apply heat, give it a rest, stretch it when it hurts after too much rest (believe me my wrist wakes me up at night with the pain probably from not moving) and nothing works. I wish there was something like an aircast boot for my wrist. It wouldn’t work for me during the day – not with me working on the computer, but maybe at night.

My lousy family doctor won’t even do an X-ray or anything at all. She’s convinced it’s fibromyalgia even though when she’s tested me for it I don’t have any trigger points or any other symptoms … so no, I don’t think so. I see her again in a couple of weeks, if I talk to her about my wrist again and she refuses to do anything I think that will pretty much be the end of my relationship with my doctor. I can’t continue to see a doctor that’s not helping me can I? In the meantime I hope my wrist starts to feel better because it really hurts … I mean, I almost feel like screaming at night with the pain and I’m used to being in all kinds of pain what with my Crohn’s and all – so it’s bad.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto, Trouble sleeping Tagged With: bad doctor, care, cushion, doctor, fibromyalgia, heat, hurts, joint pain, no symptoms, rest, sleepy, tendon, tendonitis, tired, trigger, wrist pain

Midnight barks too much when I video tape her

February 26, 2011 by Tricia

I was videotaping my dog again earlier today and I’m trying to figure out how to stop her from barking when I’m trying to do close ups of her.

The real problem is that what I want to video tape is her playing with her dog bone because she jumps up and down like she’s on a trampoline and it’s hilarious, but as she’s waiting for us to shove the bone across the floor at her she starts barking in excitement … and it seems that the camera makes things worse.

I’d had for all of my videos to have to be to music just because my dog barked way too much. She really is hilarious!

Oh and while I’m talking about making videos … what do you use to edit your videos? There’s the Flipshare software that came with the camera but that doesn’t look quite as advanced as I’d like if I want to piece together several videos. Any suggestions? Nothing too expensive!

As I said yesterday when I posted my first video of our Lab Midnight being the crazy dog that she is I’ll be posting more videos to my YouTube account probably by tomorrow so check here if you want.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Items to Try, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, Software, Toronto, Video Tagged With: audio, barking, crazy dog, dog, flipshare, ham, help, jumping, Midnight, quiet, silent, suggestions, video editing software, Youtube

My skin is tired of winters cold dry air

February 26, 2011 by Tricia

My skin is so dry. I hate winter! It’s so hard on the skin. We have humidifiers running in our house and I know that helps, my skin would be even drier without them, but I can’t wait until spring arrives and the air begins to have a little more moisture in it. I know my skin will appreciate it.

I complain that my skin feels dry but I’m not always the best about putting moisturizer on. So every few days when my skin really feels dry I really slather my hands and arms with hand cream until it feels better. I’m sure if I did it regularly my skin wouldn’t suddenly feel like I just came out of the desert or something. Of course, ever since we got our dog I kind of stopped putting hand and body cream on my skin because my dog is a licker. I can’t get a good answer from most of the skin cream companies as to whether their products are safe if pets lick them off our skin … so I don’t use them as much as I would if I didn’t have a dog that loved to lick.

I just slathered my hands with hand cream … I almost feel like I should have put wrinkle cream on them though! Hopefully they feel better soon. Does your skin ever get so dry that you feel like one coat of skin cream just won’t fix the problem?

As I said earlier I’ll be happier when spring and summer arrive. My skin loves the humidity.

Filed Under: Canada, Health Fitness and Beauty, Items to Try, skin care, Toronto Tagged With: air, cold, dry, dry air, humidifiers, humidity, skin, skin care, skin cream, slather, winter, winter air

Strange Addictions

February 26, 2011 by Tricia

OMG I kept hearing about this show “My Strange Addiction” so when I found it on the Learning Channel a couple of months ago I started taping it on my PVR, but I didn’t get around to watching any of the shows until this week and well … uhm … these people need help!

I don’t think on any of the shows that I’ve seen so far that any of the people have stopped their obsessive behaviors .. not the girl that loves to make and wear fur costumes, not the woman that eats toilet paper, not the woman that eats couch cushions and I’ll bet that the show that I’m currently watching – the one with the guy with the “real doll” and the woman who picks her scabs, I’ll bet that they both continue with their behaviors too.

I think everyone probably has something that they are a little too obsessed with or perhaps a little too unhealthily addicted too .. but these people really carry it too far. Most of their behaviors or addictions are harmful. One of the shows I watched was about a woman who was addicted to weight lifting. You’d think overall that that might be ok, but she was injecting growth hormone and taking large doses of supplements and who knows maybe too much calcium supplements for all I know. I don’t think the weight lifting itself was all that bad – at least not at an hour a day or so, but when it was at 6 hours a day and with everything else she was truly doing herself harm.

Do you have any strange addictions or obsessions? Hopefully they aren’t as bad as the ones on the show “My Strange Addiction” but if they are have you ever tried to do something about it?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try Tagged With: addicted, behavior, crazy, doll, man, Obsessed, odd, people, PVR, strange addiction, taping, too far, TV, tv show, unhealthy, woman

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