Today

Well, I was busy yesterday and didn't get a chance to do any journaling.  Today I woke from such a fantastic dream.  Couldn't remember it 5 minutes after I woke up, but I was in such a good mood.  I grabbed my cup of coffee, and just enjoyed for once being in a good mood.  I even gave the boys a double snack in their lunches. So then yes, the phone rings and I see it's my dad (smokaholic) on the caller I.D.  Well, I answered it and as usual I could just hear him taking a drag after drag from his cigarette.  Oh, but I held strong and just listened to him as he rambled on about something.  Then we started talking about the cost of things now a days.  This is when I brought it up.........I finally told him that I stopped smoking because it just costs too much.  He thought I was joking!  He said that he didn't believe me. 
Now, when I tell people on here that I was a bad smoker and that there was no way in the world I ever thought I could stop, well the people that even know me the best find it impossible. I mean everyone knows me as such a chain smoker, plus with my horrible anxiety.  No one in the world would ever guess that I actually could go a day much less an hour without a cigarette.  Well, because my father was in such disbelief, he did not say anything positive.  In fact, he changed the subject altogether.  That made me sad, but that's also lwhen I knew I shouldn't have even said anything.  Oh well, that was that.
I did jog today, and I almost made it all the way through my whole route without stopping and walking.  Damn.  I almost had it.  But I had such a bad cramp in my lower calf that I had to walk it off.  But wow, what a great jog, even the dog was breathing pretty heavily. 
Well, that's all for now!

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well done you for not letting it get you down , after the negativity from your dad it would have been easy to have got down about it.
You should be chuffed and proud of yourself for having the strength to give up smoking. x