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How's the baby Evil?
concealedG36
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EvilATF, haven't heard too much from you lately. How's the baby doing (remember, our wives had babies at almost the same time). My daughter is doing GREAT! She can almost walk now (7.5 months old) and her teeth are coming in! The teeth part is difficult, lots of crying, but it just means she's getting closer to the age that I can take her hunting!!
Also, still not smoking? I ended up quitting shortly after you did. I tried when you did, but I failed on that attempt. I haven't smoked a single cigarette since 02/11/02. So, I think I've licked it! I still want one when drinking coffee or beer, but I just think of the baby (I wanna be around when she's old enough to support ME!)
G36
Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
Also, still not smoking? I ended up quitting shortly after you did. I tried when you did, but I failed on that attempt. I haven't smoked a single cigarette since 02/11/02. So, I think I've licked it! I still want one when drinking coffee or beer, but I just think of the baby (I wanna be around when she's old enough to support ME!)
G36
Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
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Thanks for asking, brother. Little BATF is doing just fine. He's able to crawl on his hands and knees now, instead of the little Army crawl that he's been doing for awhile.
He can also pull himself up onto things like the couch and Dad's chair. He can't walk just yet, but he can guide himself throughout the living room as long as he has something to stabilize himself with, like the couch or a table. Cutest little fella! His teeth have started to come in, as well. Poor little guy has been fighting off a viral flu of some kind for the past week or more. Yesterday I found out that he just been exposed to chicken pox. Been a busy month, to say the least!
I'm glad to hear that your little one is doing well. Can you think back to what your life was like before you had your daughter? Life must have been pretty boring before my little one came along!
As to the smoking. Sigh. I'm ashamed to admit that while on my trip to Front Sight, I stopped in Boise and bought a pack of smokes. For some damn reason, being trapped on a 26 hour non-stop road trip did the trick and got me going again. Once I got back home from Front Sight, I promptly quit again.
So, other than the fact that we are ruled by Tyrannts, my life is going good!
Stand And Be Counted
Also, you know it! Life is so damn hectic now I could have earned a PhD in my spare time BEFORE baby. Oh well, she is the best thing (and most difficult/life changing) that ever happened to me.
Glad to hear you quit smoking again. And, if you should falter just don't quit quitting. I felt so weak after you quit and I tried but failed that I used that as my strength to try again. Now, I can actually BREATHE!
Well, take care....
G36
Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT Criminals
I know this isn't related, but I wanted to ask you what happened to the rest of your Front Sight postings? Did you finish posting the last days of your training? If so I missed it and am disappointed. I'm way over here in VA but would like to do the drive myself to Front Sight for some top notch training and vacation time.
Take care,
smokinggun
I'll be putting out the remaining chapters of my experience hopefully within the next two weeks.
Stand And Be Counted
Thats great on the not smokeing, but as He Dog said, don't get over confident ... espically since you still get cravings! I had been off them for 9 months when I slipped off the smoke free wagon, started with a beer in hand, then bumming a few at work which led to buying my co-workers "replacement packs" and eventually a pack for myself ... my only consolation is that now, about a year later I only smoke about 1/2 of what I did before I quit. Not smokeing in the house or around the wife or Abby helps in that reguard.
Glad to hear about yous guys kids, I can feel for you with their teeth comming in ... not a fun time, Abby used to get cold like symptoms (fever, runny nose) along with the teething pain ... glad its over.
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I used to know everything, then I grew up!...(kinda)
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? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
When I arrived in NY my boss smoked. His idea of going over the game plan for the day was stepping out behind the MP station at Fort Drum and having a cigarette and a cup of coffee while we talked things over. Once again my efforts were foiled. On Sunday I bumped into a teacher from one of the high schools to which I am assigned. He is a gun nut just like me and we were talking about our love of firearms and the shooting sports. He leaned over and told me in a whisper that the father of one of his students was diagnosed with lung cancer. This was completely out-of-the-blue. The he said, "I bet you know what they blamed it on too." I responded with, "Smoking." I was embarrassed because I knew he could smell the slight hint of smoke on my breath from the cigarette I had smoked just 90 minutes prior to that. It blew my mind. I couldn't taste it anymore nor could I smell it on me. I was embarassed and was put in my place in a very subtle manner but it wasn't that nagging type of "you need to quit" tone that everyone else has given me over the last eight years. It was one of those "you need to quit or you are going to die" tones. It was the first person that told me to quit because he actually cared about it--not because it was something he could use to nag me or talk down to me. Then on monday I got a phone call at the office while I was out back having a cigarette. Apparently the guy who answered the phone told the person on the other end that I was out back having a smoke. I picked up the phone to hear the beautiful southern voice of an incredibly attractive woman who I have been close friends with for years. The first thing she asked me was if I had a "cancer policy". She deals in insurance. She didn't tell me to quit. She just asked me if I was prepared for WHEN I get cancer because she cares about me and doesn't want to see me die or put my family through hell when it happens. I am currently re-evaluating some things in my life as a result of these two recent conversations. I think they are a sign. I'm not going to preach religion but it was a kind of epiphany that I had. It wasn't until Monday that I realized that I need to quit or I will die young. I am mapping out a plan and a course-of-action on the calendar to quit. Whenever I go cold-turkey I turn into a prick and end up starting again smoking even more than I did before.
Good luck Evil.
SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY