cigarette smoke

Back in the ancient days of my twenties, I would often be a trooper and join some horde headed to a nightclub. It would not take long after being rubber-stamped or enduring other various entry rituals that I would begin mentally writing a story about how god-awful the place and the people were.

Today is the first day in about, oh gosh, a month maybe, that I have really felt like myself. 

This last month has found me in an unusually stressed out mode of being that frankly, I just don’t like.  I mean, we all have our moments and all that, but, me and stressed out/tense/wired/wound up mode just do not mix. 

Hennessy reports,

According University of Illinois’s Cryosphere Today, Antarctic sea ice is at an all-time high. (Yeah, I know “all-time” is relative, since records go back only 30 years.

this is our last week in oklahoma city. two of our closest friends each wanted to celebrate the future with us one last time before we escape to nashville.

last wednesday, our friend aaron called chris and asked him if he, and his wife lorren, could take us somewhere.

where?

somewhere.

Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner Susan Cooper, the Campaign for a Healthy and Responsible Tennessee, The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and more than 150 similar anti-smoking orgs from across the state

I woke up at 7:30 this morning in my high school friend's guest bedroom. It took me a second to realize where I was, but when I did, I immediately put my hand to my forehead. Hmm. No headache. Gingerly, I sat up in bed and put my feet on the floor, waiting for the room to spin.

It didn't.

I got up, smirking over having slept an hour later than usual, and began getting ready to return to my parents' house. When I picked up my clothes tossed on the floor from the night before, I f

After reading Kym’s comment on the post about the Pea Pod closing, I stopped by again for another visit and tried their meat & two.  I had the grilled chicken, green beans, and mac & cheese.  I really wanted the burger, but felt it would be healthier for me to go the other route (it would’ve been much better had I selected a salad or something instead of the mac, but whatever).

The company I work for removed all smoking areas upon our return on Wednesday as the second part of their plan to eliminate smoking on our campus completely.  The State of Tennessee is eventually going to make us do it anyway, right?  As of January 2, employees are only allowed to smoke in their cars.

I did not get a photograph, so I will try to paint you a picture with words.

Sofa on front porch
Hard hair, red nails, cigarette
Smoke entwines cell phone