Day two

It is early afternoon on day two of my New Years project.  Its freezing outside, and that has actually been helpful in keeping the cravings at bay.  Truthfully, I have only been hit with the terrible urge twice.  I think the real cravings will begin when I go back to work tomorrow.

The first craving came when I was boiling hot water for my morning tea.  Smoking that morning Cig. had become synonymous with "waking up right." I  always enjoyed it with a hot cup of coffee in the morning.  It was a time for me to slowly wake up and quietly contemplate the oncoming day.  Since I am cutting out coffee too, I settled on vanilla Rooibos tea.  As I was waiting for the water to begin its slow rolling boil, it struck me that I am going to have to change-up even the little daily routines.  Ugh, I usually only run when people are chasing me but it looks like I might have to start running in the mornings.  Did I mention that I hate running?  If anyone out there has other "wake up and have a good morning" suggestions please let me know.

The second craving came when I went out to bring the garbage cans in from the street and I caught a whiff of smoke from one of my neighbors.  It smelled so delicious.  I could have chewed through the fence dividing me from them.  I can only imagine what they might have thought of their crazy neighbor running down the alleyway with garbage cans bouncing behind.  I felt like a rabid animal and I think I was slightly foamy at the mouth. 

Coming back from my garbage adventure my room-mate has awesomely reminded me of how much money I am going to be saving.  Which of course, caused me to crack out the calculator; I averaged 5 packs a week.  At 6 dollars a pack that is $30 a week. 52 weeks in a year = $1560.00 That is enough for a comfortable little vacation or the down payment on a new car.  Whew that's quite expensive for a slow suicide. 

The rest of my plans for this afternoon consists of  tackling a mountain of laundry, and Batman movie marathon with my 3 1/2 year old little buddy. He's my other room-mate.  Wish me luck whoever might be out there...so far so good:)