The Art of Zen Living

On January first this year, I put “quit smoking” on my list of goals for this year.  Yesterday was my 100th day smoke free.  I have a mixture of emotions about it.  I expected to be ecstatic when I hit 100 days.  I wasn’t.  In fact, I almost didn’t notice.  A friend of mine asked me 2 days before when my 100th day was coming up.  I said I wasn’t sure, but thought it was a few weeks or so.  I pulled up my trusty Excel spreadsheet and discovered that it was yesterday.  “Oh, it’s this Sunday.” I said.

“What?  You need to blog about that!” She replied.

“Really?  I mean, do you really think so?”

I can’t exactly describe the look she gave me at this point.  It was somewhere between “what, are you stupid?” and “you’ve GOT to be kidding me!”.  All she said was “Yes.  I think you should blog about it.”.

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