December 31, 2013

New Years' Resolutions Thread
— Ace

I have one. After giving up cigarettes for a year and a half, I picked the habit up again. Now I feel awful literally every day of my life.

What about you guys?

Posted by: Ace at 03:13 PM | Comments (559)
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1 Stop being First!

Posted by: Sharkman at December 31, 2013 03:13 PM (G5uUm)

2 At first glance I thought the title is New Year's Retributions.

Posted by: too many to list, then at December 31, 2013 03:14 PM (s8V4u)

3 I feel awful that you feel awful.  Happy New Year!

Posted by: profligatewaste at December 31, 2013 03:15 PM (R3JkO)

4 Don't make New Years resolutions because I always break them....

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at December 31, 2013 03:15 PM (9+ccr)

5 I picked the habit up again. Now I feel awful literally every day of my life. ***** NOOOOOO!!!!! GAWD DMN IT! You do not want HEALTH PROBLEMS-- NOW. GAWD

Posted by: Britney Spears at December 31, 2013 03:16 PM (RJMhd)

6 I'm not going to drink any more.... However, I'm not going to drink any less...

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 31, 2013 03:16 PM (JMmQ9)

7 Get a new job - mine is going away NLT March 31 when they close our office.

Posted by: Nancy at December 31, 2013 03:16 PM (CH3mr)

8 Good news: I won't drink any more. Bad news: I won't drink any less.

Posted by: angler at December 31, 2013 03:16 PM (+zZOH)

9 Going to quit my job and go Galt.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:16 PM (EWsrI)

10 Switch to cigars, ace.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:17 PM (EWsrI)

11 so you're resolving to remaster the habit or requit Ace?

Best of luck either way.

I resolve to walk more, rage less, and try to smile for more reasons.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:17 PM (TE35l)

12
I promise to have sex with only men instead of women too!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 31, 2013 03:18 PM (pJF+c)

13 Jeezuz. Holy crap. Don't talk about it like it is a fait accompli. Quit again. And again. And again f you have to.

Posted by: Britney Spears at December 31, 2013 03:18 PM (RJMhd)

14 I resolve to hate hate hate statists and control freaks.

Posted by: traye at December 31, 2013 03:18 PM (PW2Nc)

15 All snark aside I'd prefer you quit Ace.

I'd like to bother you another decade.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:18 PM (TE35l)

16 Fuck you action jackson carl weathers predator cia guy fucker.

Posted by: angler at December 31, 2013 03:18 PM (+zZOH)

17 Crush up some Kaboom and roll a fatty. Have a trusted friend nearby.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:18 PM (EWsrI)

18 Ace, get back on electronic smokes, go straight to Apple Pie flavored nicotine juice. After 2 weeks, buy yourself a pie and throw everything nicotine related away. Then attempt to kick the apple pie habit. That's a tough one.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at December 31, 2013 03:19 PM (xJS2Q)

19 Find a way to get my liver enzyme count down without drinking less.

Posted by: Pavel at December 31, 2013 03:19 PM (lh0MV)

20 Ace,
Do what my friend did. He didn't quit. He just stopped smoking until his 80th birthday. He will then resume with gusto

Posted by: Bruce at December 31, 2013 03:19 PM (nZ561)

21 17 eman at December 31, 2013 07:18 PM (EWsrI)

Mainlining Kaboom....?

Whoa dude too much even for me!

//Zombie Keith Richards

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:20 PM (TE35l)

22 Ace, get a job pulling carriages in Central Park. You'll be too tired to smoke.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:20 PM (EWsrI)

23 My resolution is to hate liberals more.

Distinctly achievable, and way more important than just quitting the cigs.

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at December 31, 2013 03:21 PM (ZMzpb)

24 Resolution? Resolved, that when in the course of human eventsÂ…

Posted by: The Resolved Hat at December 31, 2013 03:21 PM (AymDN)

25 Ridiculous. Re-quit. Just do it, get the gum, the e-cigs, whatever. I quit 5 ish years ago and have smoked twice since, both times made me remember why I hated it. Smoke cigars if you have to, just get out of the inhaling mode of nicotine consumption.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 31, 2013 03:21 PM (ZshNr)

26 Reduce pornography consumption... by 10-15%.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 03:21 PM (zeV2E)

27 I'm getting back on Heroin, she doesn't judge me.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 31, 2013 03:21 PM (DpEwG)

28 21 17 eman at December 31, 2013 07:18 PM (EWsrI) Mainlining Kaboom....? Whoa dude too much even for me! //Zombie Keith Richards Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 07:20 PM (TE35l) Dilute it with meth if you have to, pansy.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:21 PM (EWsrI)

29
I intend to quit making excuses for my heroism in Vietnam, and especially my ability to create a world of peace and harmony as accomplished as Secretary of State.

Posted by: John F'n Kerry at December 31, 2013 03:21 PM (pJF+c)

30 Never smoked but I still feel awful. Happy New Year!

Posted by: redguy at December 31, 2013 03:22 PM (d8wEw)

31 Why not try using an e-cig? I'm down to 5-10 regulars per day from a pack to a pack and a 1/2 a day.

Posted by: William Teach at December 31, 2013 03:22 PM (vRNdo)

32 I'm giving up rage. It has become my natural state over the last five years. Not healthy.

Posted by: Charts and Darts at December 31, 2013 03:22 PM (FfZoj)

33 Elbows.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at December 31, 2013 03:22 PM (l7DqC)

34 25 Lincolntf at December 31, 2013 07:21 PM (ZshNr)

I smoked when I was a distance runner, quit cigs and switched to cigarillos.

Quitting the cigarillos was harder than switching, BUT probably less deleterious to respiratory function.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:22 PM (TE35l)

35 26 Reduce pornography consumption... by 10-15%. Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 07:21 PM (zeV2E) That kind of talk can get you banned, dude.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:23 PM (EWsrI)

36 The FIN brand ecigs at Walmart have a pretty good flavor, the bold do anyway. I know several folks including my brother who've kicked the packs and even with different levels of nicotine, know they can lay aside ecigs any time they want now w/o going back to analogs. FWIW.

Posted by: too many to list, then at December 31, 2013 03:23 PM (s8V4u)

37 I hereby resolved to clean my pipes in private.

Posted by: Paul Ruebens at December 31, 2013 03:23 PM (Pr6hk)

38 Yep, the smokes, again. But also, per your earlier thread, I do resolve to read some difficult works this new year. I think the only thing classic I read, or reread, this year was Thucydides. Come on, Homer!

Posted by: toby928© establishes prior art at December 31, 2013 03:23 PM (QupBk)

39 Gave up doing NY resolutions several years ago. I feel better for doing so.

Posted by: Empire1 at December 31, 2013 03:23 PM (J7+xS)

40 Smoke Canadian or European cigs. Switch to those. You get more of what you are looking for--then you don't want the other ones and then they get too expensive-- and/or too hard to find.

Posted by: Britney Spears at December 31, 2013 03:23 PM (RJMhd)

41 Darnit Ace! Be happy and healthy! We command it.

Posted by: .87c at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (vRl9O)

42 I plan on being even more curmudgeony and will buy a more powerfully amplified bullhorn to tell the kids to get further off my lawn.

It's really just a matter of determining the caliber at this point.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (eHIJJ)

43 Try to think of something other than the need for Pills.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (ndlFj)

44 My resolution is to stop reading all the comments before commenting - never pays off ...

Posted by: Joe who is always late at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (69fz+)

45 33 Elbows. Posted by: Dave in Texas at December 31, 2013 07:22 PM (l7DqC) You're getting implants?

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (EWsrI)

46
I plan on reducing my fapping from four time daily to a more manageable three times.  

Posted by: Jo Jo Biden at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (pJF+c)

47 You get a cold this time of year--if you smoke the damn cold lasts twice as long.

Posted by: Britney Spears at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (RJMhd)

48 Achieve a basic enough level of fitness that I can bound up three flights of stairs without wheezing.


Related:  not get scurvy.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 03:24 PM (Gk3SS)

49 ace put the cancer sticks down.  You're better than that.  I need to make my business take off.  Need to rebuild what I lost due to intermittent employment over the last 3 years.  Need to lose 50 pounds.  Need to be happy.  Probably need to spend more time away from my computer and among people in meat space.

Posted by: Truck Monkey, Gruntled New Business Owner at December 31, 2013 03:25 PM (jucos)

50 Here is a word of encouragement. Keep at it (giving up smoking), the more you try to give it up, the more it will not be a part of your life. The less it is part of your life, the healthier you will be. So try, try again.

Posted by: Harry at December 31, 2013 03:25 PM (ao2LR)

51 I also plan on giving up sobriety. Not sure what I was thinking on that one.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 31, 2013 03:25 PM (DpEwG)

52 Ace, I quit 30 years ago. I still want one now and then. I remember being pissed when they went to 75 cents a pack in the vending machine at work. My lawn. Get off it.

Posted by: Oklahomie at December 31, 2013 03:25 PM (ul+8R)

53 With e-cigs, gum, patches, and losenges? C'mon ace, pick a less dangerous crutch.

Posted by: Beagle at December 31, 2013 03:25 PM (sOtz/)

54 47 alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 07:24 PM (Gk3SS)

Tangelos my queen....

I want Tangelade like there is orange and lemonade.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:26 PM (TE35l)

55 Well, I don't do resolutions per se, but after a month of not watching my calories/exercise over-much, I'm getting back on that gradual weight loss horse. I lost about 17 lbs last year, but regained a couple this past month. I'd like to lose 10 more by summer when I'm hoping Mr Moxie is taking me to Hawaii for our 30th. I've also resolved to be a little more patient with people and especially to back off from fights with my fellow morons. I think I did a good job of that on this morning's thread. *pats self on back*

Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at December 31, 2013 03:26 PM (zDsvJ)

56
I promise to give up fucking my next door neighbors wife Bonnie, but not as a New Years resolution, but because the bitch is bat shit crazy. 

Posted by: Andrew Dice Clay at December 31, 2013 03:26 PM (pJF+c)

57 I need to get back to the gym regularly.  I think I'm pushing 160#.  I'm 5'8 so that = a bit of pudge.  (The average marine in WWII, IIRC, was 5'8/150.)  I also resolve to get my band going finally.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 31, 2013 03:26 PM (NYAei)

58 Now I feel awful literally every day of my life.



That's my resolution too.

Posted by: Grumpy Cat at December 31, 2013 03:28 PM (2jQGY)

59 I resolve to show my wife who's boss, once and for all! ( j/k honey, you rokkkkkkk!)

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 31, 2013 03:28 PM (ZshNr)

60 Maybe tobacco just need to be the same schedule as that other weed.  Lord knows it seems to be considerably more addictive.  As far as I can tell, no one really enjoys a cig so much as it relieves whatever withdrawal symptoms they are experiencing at the moment.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 31, 2013 03:28 PM (NYAei)

61 >>22 Ace, get a job pulling carriages in Central Park. But avoid Beef-a-reeno!

Posted by: Y-not (@MoxieMom) at December 31, 2013 03:28 PM (zDsvJ)

62 Why not just go straight to pot? Look what it did for Mr. Moo Moo? He's soooo mellow now. Anyways-- leaving this for Mr. Moo Moo--when two ethics collide. You Better Work it Bitch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt8VYOfr8To

Posted by: Britney Spears at December 31, 2013 03:28 PM (RJMhd)

63 Nicotine suppository. Ace, if you can't insert it yourself, ask around, you'll find a helper.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:28 PM (EWsrI)

64 it's that FSC shit, ace

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 31, 2013 03:29 PM (RLTt1)

65 Even though I don't do resolutions, I'm gonna have to relinquish all candy, cookies, and sweets from my grasp.... Worked hard all year to lose 50 lbs. and I surely put 10 back on in just this last month..... Gonna be real hard to do......

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at December 31, 2013 03:29 PM (9+ccr)

66 Mine is to keep my mouth shut.

Not here but in RL

I get in way too much trouble and too much stink eye from running off at the mouth amongst strangers.

I have an "offbeat" (yeah let's go with that) way of looking at things that strangers don't get because they don't know me so they just think I'm weird. (which is true also)

BTW that old guy mumbling in the corner may not be a psycho, he's just talking to the only person who can understand him.

(and it's probably me, so be kind, say hi then walk away quickly)

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 31, 2013 03:29 PM (LSDdO)

67 I haven't set any resolutions with tangible results. . I'd like to be a happier person but I don't have the slightest idea how to make that happen.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 31, 2013 03:29 PM (UAMVq)

68 I resolve to find a way to make money off other people wanting to lose weight. But first, you will... I need to not grow into my own fat pants. It was touch and go last week.

Posted by: Beagle at December 31, 2013 03:30 PM (sOtz/)

69 My resolution is to end sin. By which I mean I want to stop people from being out of alignment with my values.

Posted by: Barack H. Obama at December 31, 2013 03:30 PM (jW8r8)

70 24 Resolution? Resolved, that when in the course of human eventsÂ… Posted by: The Resolved Hat at December 31, 2013 07:21 PM (AymDN) Is it too early to call thread winner?

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 03:30 PM (sdi6R)

71 Start learning Krav Maga. There must be a gym in my city.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 03:30 PM (zeV2E)

72 Thinking about getting my own couch

Posted by: The Horse at December 31, 2013 03:30 PM (69fz+)

73 My new years resolution is the same every year. To be me 24/7, and i never let me down.

Posted by: cowboyup at December 31, 2013 03:30 PM (wG6KW)

74 Mark Levin has a rerun on now with Glenn Beck as a guest. That segment is about half over, though.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 03:30 PM (sdi6R)

75 I promise to talk about myself in the 3rd person for an entire month, like I used to do.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (DpEwG)

76 I reloaded page before I posted. I donÂ’t have resolutions. I think they set you up to fail. I have been trying very hard to gain weight and was less than 4 pounds from my goal, but now IÂ’m sick and have been since December 13. I was okay enough to go to work last week but not this week. Ace, I was sick of the subs except when Steyn is on for Rush, Friday. I put your podcast on from iPhone while at work. I had volume lower than station websites I usually listen to. I have my own office & my boss walked by and took a second look. He thought I was on the phone but it was one of the many F words. I will use ear buds if I decided to listen again.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (z4WKX)

77
I promise to look for job, find gainful employment, and stop taking all the free stuff from government. 

Actually, everything I just said is a lie, but as a liberal, I can say anything I wish without repercussion.

Posted by: Obama Free Shit Army at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (pJF+c)

78 Good luck on the next try at quitting, Ace. Had a close relative die this year in his 50s due to smoking. #1 resolution is to exercise more I'm still pretty lean, so it's not a weight loss issue. More just to make more exercise party of my daily routine. So many things, good or bad, are about habits.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (ZPrif)

79 Addiction, not habit. Irks me when people try to minimize their addiction by calling it a habit. Picking your nose is a habit.

Posted by: truth fairy at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (ue2Nm)

80 The genius of "New Year's Eve in a Haunted House"

http://tinyurl.com/lfsxxpr

Posted by: Ghost of Raymond Scott's clavivox at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (s8V4u)

81 71 The Horse at December 31, 2013 07:30 PM (69fz+)

thinking about trying to get the hoof sized switch removed....

//The Toaster

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (TE35l)

82 I resolve to find a new job and finally -- finally -- walk away from the current one.

Posted by: BethinPA at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (xhnCp)

83 I'm going to stop not winning the MegaMillions and PowerBall.

Posted by: Jon in TX at December 31, 2013 03:31 PM (K8ws3)

84 My NYR is a shopping list of prepping supplies to purchase by years end: ammo, silver, freeze-dried noms...

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 31, 2013 03:32 PM (Sq5z0)

85 I will not drink; But if I do, I will not get drunk; But if I do, I will not fall down; But if I do, I will fall face forward; So they cannot see my branch insignia! The Field Artilleryman's NY resolution

Posted by: AnthonyB at December 31, 2013 03:32 PM (eqRqW)

86 I'd certainly encourage you to switch to e-cigs if quitting outright can't be achieved.   At least be thumbing your nose at the tax men while you get your nicotine. 

I don't do resolutions, just goals.  My goal is to refute or point and laugh at idiocy as I see it.  I tend to want to just keep quiet and not cause even the slightest big of conflict. 

But the same brains that bought the BHO myth are likely to elect Lieawatha Warren if not mocked mercilessly --if the country even lasts that long.  

Posted by: palerider at December 31, 2013 03:32 PM (dkExz)

87
When I take a lovely lady out to eat
And she orders caviar instead of meat
I resolve to let the lady have her fill.
And of course I'll also let her pay the bill!

This is my New Year's Resolution...

http://youtu.be/3_4BrQeTFKo


Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at December 31, 2013 03:33 PM (kdS6q)

88 I have no problem with the legalization, to the level of alcohol, of weed in any State that chooses it. Hell, statist MA is right in the mix with their new pot salons. There has to be a way to parlay this into an individual liberty win, but I expect a corrupt State-run weedocracy in most cases.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 31, 2013 03:33 PM (ZshNr)

89 Work on my marksmanship . It's a perishable skill . Now , if they would only get some damn .22 rimfire available .

Posted by: awkward davies at December 31, 2013 03:33 PM (WK8VM)

90 A man with a cigarette is never alone.

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 03:33 PM (0GtXP)

91 I quit quitting smoking years ago. Either smoke and enjoy it or don't. No point beating oneself up about it.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (sdi6R)

92
I promise to never criticism another white person for finding a black baby and keeping it for their own instead of turning in to Lost and Found.  Truth!

Posted by: Martin "The Truth" Bashir at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (pJF+c)

93 Ace, you should make a top ten list of New Years' Resolutions.

Posted by: BuzzFeed at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (eHIJJ)

94 Fapping

Posted by: Albie Damned at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (cGaCp)

95 my nyr is quitting as well. but also getting the cellar done, cleaning the garage, and getting a gun safe

Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (RLTt1)

96 To say Good Morning to the spiders on my porch. To crush the spiders who don't say Good Morning back to me.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (EWsrI)

97 Ace, you should quit for one reason only. You are extremely over taxed! In MA every single time they need $, they add another $1 per pack of cigarettes. There have been at least three in the past five years than I can think of. IÂ’m willing to be there are more. Where does Ace live?

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (z4WKX)

98

I resolved many years ago to never make resolutions. This coming year will see a job search and probably other crap.

Posted by: puddleglum at December 31, 2013 03:34 PM (8SsiG)

99 My resolution is to take Sharkman's advice. Acquiesce is my word for 2014. I'll do whatever it takes to spend time with those kids - as hard as it seems at the time. Today was fcuking awesome. And eventually answer his email.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (4P/s6)

100 I resolve to not call the papparazzi homos and faggots so I don't lose what little work I have left.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (K8ws3)

101 I have COPD. I wish I'd never touched the fucking things. Just stop.

Posted by: ahem at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (lKGzI)

102 I'm done being Mr Nice Guy. (Of course I will be shopping for a bullwhip.)

Posted by: the monkeys at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (fb5Xr)

103 “For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.” — T.S. Eliot ------ “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.” ― Neil Gaiman "We are the masters of our fate" Happy New Year Ace and Horde. Surfin

Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (FIiPL)

104 Next year I resolve to be less old than I was this year.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (P6QsQ)

105 96 Carol at December 31, 2013 07:34 PM (z4WKX)

in an undisclosed thatch hut somehwere in New Englandistan

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (TE35l)

106 18 apple pie Skip the electronic cig. Get a pie vape. I usually let my apple pie dry out a little bit because dealers tend to sell wet pie since they measure weight. Actually they measure by mass since drug dealers are the only people in America who actually use the metric system. Next grind it up in my apple pie grinder before vaping it. 100 percent pie hi without all those additives. I know a guy who has the best bing strand just hit me up and I'll hook you up.

Posted by: bestie21 at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (AzO5R)

107 Not going to stop smoking (switched to cigars years ago) Not going to stop drinking alcohol ( it's mostly beer anyway) Fuck it, no new years resolutions here. They usually last only a week anyway

Posted by: Ma Bell at December 31, 2013 03:35 PM (RLdcX)

108 I'm sure Ace is in the 100 bucks a carton zone.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 31, 2013 03:36 PM (ZshNr)

109 More haiku.

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 03:36 PM (0GtXP)

110
I promise to never wear those footed pajamas again to avoid the criticism from right wing nutjobs.

Posted by: Pajama Boy at December 31, 2013 03:36 PM (pJF+c)

111 More Mazola parties, less Mazola.

Posted by: Marybel at December 31, 2013 03:37 PM (k0wRv)

112 Archery. Thwong!!!!

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:37 PM (EWsrI)

113 They say smoking takes ten years off your life. So what - it's the last ten.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 03:37 PM (4P/s6)

114 I'm surprised anyone can afford cigarettes in NYC.

Posted by: kartoffel at December 31, 2013 03:37 PM (EcHOO)

115 the first time I quit, I used some ditch weed I'd been given.

That lasted about 18 months.

smoked for another 20 years. finally quit cold turkey. (caveat: I had reduced myself to low nicotene low tar big filter cigarettes so it wasn't a heavy habit)

3 Days, 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 years.

Each of those are milestones in the progression.

The last is habit. doing stuff you used to automatically smoke while doing.

When you get to the point where you don't think about it at least once a day, you're probably ok but you can never take just one cigarette.

It's like alcoholics and drunks. Once a drunk, always a drunk. You're just not drinking/smoking today/now.

I didn't quit the second time until I would wake up and could barely breathe for a few minutes until I got my lungs flexing enough to work. Plus like you're saying, I felt like shit all the time and coughing.

I don't recommend crutches (If they work go to it) as it all boils down to mental anyway. The physical addiction is gone in at most 3 months.

you will gain weight unless you're observant and alert to it. (I did and I haven't lost any that I gained.)

My cardio doc said that it was better to be fat than to smoke so there's that.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 31, 2013 03:37 PM (LSDdO)

116 Do a clearer job of terminating contracts. Anthem cancelled my health insurance and offered me a new ObamaCare policy, for 176% more. I figured that simply walking away would be sufficient, as, for the past 2 or 3 years, a payment sent one day before the Due Date resulted in an ominous "Notice of Grace Period" letter. Apparently not. I got a bill for January in the mail today: $495.00. I sent the stub back, with a letter noting that they cancelled my policy and offered me a new one, which I did not accept, and that therefore our business relationship was terminated 30 days ago. Perhaps I should have written something around the first of December ... but, given their anal-retentiveness, I though waiting would be more fun.

Posted by: Arbalest at December 31, 2013 03:38 PM (FlRtG)

117 COPD (aka emphysema) killed the founding keyboardist/guitarist Allen Lanier of Blue Oyster Cult last year.  Wasn't the heroin, the coke, or the beer (he took to pot like a vampire to garlic, ironically), but the cigs.  Pernicious and disgusting things.  Glad my date tonight quit recently.  She'll taste much better at midnight.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 31, 2013 03:38 PM (NYAei)

118 "109 I promise to never wear those footed pajamas again to avoid the criticism from right wing nutjobs." I promise never to criticize a dude in footie pajamas lest I be accused of Antisemitism (somehow) or hetero-normative thought crime.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 03:38 PM (zeV2E)

119 To only fap when I'm drinking and only drink when I'm fapping.

Doesn't look like I'll be getting out much.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 31, 2013 03:39 PM (vHRtU)

120 My resolution is to read all the Kindle books I got for myself *last* Christmas since I got at least that many again this year. Also, to use the Anglican prayer beads (like a miniature rosary) I got last year as well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 31, 2013 03:39 PM (GDulk)

121 My son in law did laser treatment to quit smoking. I don't know how that works but it did.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 03:40 PM (P6QsQ)

122 I lost 60 pounds in 2013. One of my resolutions for 2014 is to lose another 10 pounds, maybe more.

Posted by: biancaneve at December 31, 2013 03:40 PM (cmFYO)

123 It took me three tries to quit. The last time was 25 years ago. Give it another go, Ace.

Posted by: fogbound at December 31, 2013 03:40 PM (1ngns)

124 My NYR is a shopping list of prepping supplies to purchase by years end: ammo, silver, freeze-dried noms... Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 31, 2013 07:32 PM (Sq5z0)


I read that as freeze dried ammo at first and was very confused.


In completely and totally unrelated news, wow this $5 bottle of brut from Trader Joe's is going down smoothly. 


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 03:40 PM (Gk3SS)

125 Glad my date tonight quit recently. She'll taste much better at midnight. That's awful late to eat. You slow roasting her?

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 03:40 PM (0GtXP)

126 Mine? Less roast canine and more cultural decline.

Posted by: Prez'nit 404 at December 31, 2013 03:41 PM (Dwehj)

127 My New Year's resolution is 1024 x 768.

Gleefully stolen from @RennaW

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 03:41 PM (gA69l)

128 124 garrett at December 31, 2013 07:40 PM (0GtXP)

I figured it was a slow drip intubation...vampires were mentioned and "goth" right?

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:41 PM (TE35l)

129 Albie Damned: "Fapping"

OK, is that to do less? Or more?

Not sure there's really a downside either way. Actually, there is a downside one way. You know, never mind. The entendre could get endless.

Oh, and I resolve to do less entendres. When I want those kids off my lawn, I don't want there to be any misunderstanding.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 31, 2013 03:41 PM (eHIJJ)

130 Snus, dude. Best nicotine delivery system evah. I'm still an addict, but it's five years of no lung damage now. It's not like dip. You don't have to spit, your mouth doesn't get all skanky, you just get sweet nicotine goodness straight to the bloodstream.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at December 31, 2013 03:41 PM (1xUj/)

131 Resolution? Wipe Israel off the map.

Posted by: Iran at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (0GtXP)

132 To crush my enemies, and enslave their women.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (WdbF7)

133 My son in law did laser treatment to quit smoking. I don't know how that works but it did.

They must laser your lips shut.

Posted by: Low Information Voter at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (Dwehj)

134

I quit smoking in August 2013.  It wasn't easy, I felt like I was going to go mad for a whole week.  The thing that keeps me from ever picking up another cigarette, I hope, is the knowledge that I'd have to go through that again to get rid of them again.

 

My New Year's Resolution last year was to get out of the rut I was in, with a dead-end job in a dead-end town.  I moved to Texas.  Problem solved.

 

My New Year's Resolution this year is to read more.  I'm out of serious problems that I can really do anything about, and that's a rare and wonderful thing in life.

Posted by: Cato at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (i+Vw2)

135 I need to quit this, I need to restart that and I need to eat much, much less of it. I'm not telling you what this, that and it are. You might hold me to them. Happy New Year, morons!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (bCEmE)

136

My resolutions include trying to be more happy and grateful - I'm lucky my dad's still around, 87 and still sharp as a hobo's stick - quit smoking, go back to church, not yell at other drivers so much (living in California I see every one of them as traitors so yelling at them is much deserved), loose weight and exercise more, try to laugh out loud once a day, and not be on the intertoob so much.  It just pisses me off too much and keeps me in a chronic state of pissoffedness.

 

Also, it would be fabulous, Ace, if we could get back to mocking people more.  We need an updated face-slapping list, for example.  Moar silly stuff!!

 

Happy New Year, Ace .... and thanks for this wonderful place where we can swear and stuff.

Posted by: joanne still loves Trey Gowdy's hair among other things at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (s/quq)

137 I'm sorry that you fell off the wagon, Ace. BUT.... you had the willpower to do it once before and you can surely do it again. God Bless you. I understand that it's a terrible habit to break.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (DmNpO)

138 Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. Mark Twain

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (teFlO)

139 Five years for me. Not a puff. Nicoderm patches and Ricola sugar free lemon mint cough drops. Best wishes to you!

Posted by: Snickers at December 31, 2013 03:42 PM (evF8r)

140 Expat to someplace where I have the freedom to buy incandescent light bulbs, and the freedom not to buy health insurance.

Posted by: Jack Nine at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (sGV69)

141 To throw a liberals crap back in their face every chance I get and to charge them more whenever I can for my product, make them pay for their folly!

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (uUXp6)

142 104, Thank you, Sven. Most of NE, except NH, is overtaxed. I saw today that all public parks in Boston banned any smoking, of any kind effective Monday. Ban includes vapor cigs, etc.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (z4WKX)

143 Coach, Washington Redskins. It could happen!

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (EWsrI)

144 129 Frumious Bandersnatch at December 31, 2013 07:41 PM (1xUj/)

it's a lot like caffeine...sometime in the future it will be an independent caplet.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (TE35l)

145 Stop sniffing glue.

Posted by: Steve McCroskey at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (s8V4u)

146 To quit wasting time on the Internet, commenting on blo...

Posted by: wooga at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (vvB6e)

147 I usually shun resolutions, but I worked really hard over the past two years to get some weight off and just fell completely off the wagon over Christmas. So I started the 21 Day Sugar Detox thingy today. Basically strict paleo minus all sweeteners. No sugars or artificial sweeteners at all. Not even stevia. I figure once I make it through the three weeks then going back to a less hard-core paleo should be pretty easy.

Posted by: Mandy P., lurking lurker who lurks at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (qFpRI)

148 I resolve to not get pissed at the overcrowded gym filled with people making new year resolutions. Fortunately it last only three or four months.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 31, 2013 03:43 PM (iReEb)

149 120 My son in law did laser treatment to quit smoking. I don't know how that works but it did. Huh? He could finally read the tiny warning on the side of the pack of smokes?

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 03:44 PM (4P/s6)

150

**** Unable to provide New Year's Resolution ****

Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at December 31, 2013 03:44 PM (Pr6hk)

151 No more Cheesing.

Posted by: Gerald Brovlofsky at December 31, 2013 03:44 PM (0GtXP)

152 Heard fireworks nearby, did some digging, found some old firecrackers, and rediscovered the simple joy of putting cans from the trash over them and making them fly.  The dog seemed to enjoy it more than I did but my resolution is to make more rediscoveries of that type next year.

Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at December 31, 2013 03:44 PM (kxSZr)

153 Next year I resolve to be less old than I was this year. Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 07:35 PM (P6QsQ)


*fistbump*

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 03:44 PM (Gk3SS)

154

I'm going to thay lot-th of really thmart thing-th.

Maybe get thome new glatheth.

Posted by: Melitha Hawwith-Pewwy at December 31, 2013 03:45 PM (wAQA5)

155 134 I need to quit this, I need to restart that and I need to eat much, much less of it. I'm not telling you what this, that and it are. You might hold me to them. Happy New Year, morons! Posted by: Tami at December 31, 2013 07:42 PM (bCEmE) this sums up mine as well!

Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl Happy 7th day of Christmas at December 31, 2013 03:45 PM (u8GsB)

156 My resolution?  To inflict more PAIN on the American way of life

Posted by: Barry 'Clubber Lang' Soetoro at December 31, 2013 03:45 PM (Pr6hk)

157 I resolve that in 2014, I will kill more cleanly.

Posted by: Kasper in Arlington at December 31, 2013 03:46 PM (OVmhO)

158 And Happy New Year to all you wickedly brilliant morons!!

Posted by: joanne still loves Trey Gowdy's hair amoung other things at December 31, 2013 03:46 PM (s/quq)

159 I make the same New Year's resolution every year (clears throat)

I resolve to have more fun this year than I did last year!!!!

I have no trouble keeping that one.

Happy New Year to all!  May you all enjoy good health and great success in 2014!

Posted by: Theresa D at December 31, 2013 03:46 PM (Z8VQW)

160 I'm going to tell people to lick me on Facebook more often.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 31, 2013 03:46 PM (fb5Xr)

161 Congratulations Ace for 10 years of success.

Posted by: tbodie at December 31, 2013 03:46 PM (i5xnd)

162 No moar thix ways...

Posted by: Bawny Fwank at December 31, 2013 03:46 PM (vHRtU)

163 My resolution... I usually do not make them but, in light of the fact that I MAY be returning to work in the near future, I will make an exception. I resolve to remember that my life means more than the company that employs me. I resolve to spend as much time fulfilling my personal and spiritual needs as I spend fulfilling my obligations to my job. I forgot these things over the course of my career and it damn near killed me. Never again.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 03:47 PM (DmNpO)

164 Get adopted by Mitt Romney's newest grand kid.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 03:47 PM (EWsrI)

165 Try not to laugh too loud come May 16th.

Posted by: Godzilla, Showa era at December 31, 2013 03:47 PM (s8V4u)

166 I resolve to revive my career

Posted by: Justin Bieber at December 31, 2013 03:47 PM (K8ws3)

167 Tonight's date is not goth.  In fact, she's a biochem Phd with an M.D. and will be starting residency soon.  She also runs marathons AND used to smoke.  Ugh.  No slow-roasting, just french kissing.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 31, 2013 03:47 PM (NYAei)

168 141 Carol at December 31, 2013 07:43 PM (z4WKX)

right, the best guess is he is in NYC btw.

The Boston parks thing, e-cigs over taxation paradigm sorta gets to the heart of the matter I was pointing out to Moo-Moo on the "pro pot" bent of his thread....

I find it hilarious that the $uper $tati$ts who want to control every aspect of your life down to how you fold the paper on the toilet paper holder in your lavatory are so "Sensimilia Libre!' on that topic.

The E-cig ban tells me the bastards are just interested in inflicting their preferences and morals across the spectrum of human behavior and every justification post Nanny Bloomby and Big Gulps rings more and more hollow.

Life is a full contact sport on a pretty unforgiving bell kept by a bastard timekeeper....

nothing the state does grants you immortality, and quite the contrary thanks to Ogabecare and the Liverpool Protocols sorta is really in the business of trying to interdict maximum optimal lifespan.

Happy New Year...wife and lad want cookies and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly I may get scarce.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:48 PM (TE35l)

169 No moar thix ways...

I resolve to cut it back to a baker's dozen.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at December 31, 2013 03:48 PM (Dwehj)

170 And to think I was going to ask Ace about eCigs last night.

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 03:48 PM (0GtXP)

171 my resolution is to smile several times a day until it becomes a habit . and perhaps work  it into a real laugh.
.


Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 03:48 PM (nqBYe)

172 Getting the hell out of Dodge; i.e. continuing the long-term plan to move even farther out in the country, in the reddest area we can find. Artesian water and decent farming soil a plus. Getting all my investments into cash, then into machine tools, food, and ammunition. No more cable TV. Keep on practicing Krav Maga. Get a CCW. Oh, and give up cigs when my stress levels make this even remotely feasible. (hope you succeed with that Ace). A Happy New Year to all people of good will with a love of liberty, hoping that we can all have a better year than the one just passed. ( People of ill will who hate liberty can (insert your preference here, as long as it's unpleasant)). (hoping for the best while preparing for the worst, amirite ?) God bless you all, Horde.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 31, 2013 03:48 PM (SwHqo)

173 152 Next year I resolve to be less old than I was this year.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 07:35 PM (P6QsQ)


Thank you very much mama winger for a wonderful suggestion....

/passes glass of Iron Horse Blanc de Blancs through intertubes

Posted by: Barry 'Clubber Lang' Soetoro at December 31, 2013 03:48 PM (Pr6hk)

174 Carve a shitty country out of a nice one.

Posted by: PLO and Hamas at December 31, 2013 03:48 PM (zeV2E)

175 New Year's Resolutions:
 
1. Stop procrastinating.
2.
3.

 
I'll finish it tomorrow.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 31, 2013 03:49 PM (o9Rp5)

176 137 Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. Mark Twain Posted by: olddog in mo at December 31, 2013 07:42 PM (teFlO) I quit smoking every half an hour or so. No biggie.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 03:49 PM (sdi6R)

177 No more Cheesing. Posted by: Gerald Brovlofsky at December 31, 2013 07:44 PM (0GtXP) *** Awesome rocking tits will not be denied!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 03:49 PM (DmNpO)

178 New Year's Eve?  Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 31, 2013 03:49 PM (Pr6hk)

179 Buy more ammo, making a bugout pack and water supply I be hidin from da MoFos

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 03:49 PM (uUXp6)

180 The Lung Health Study showed pretty conclusively that smoking cessation results in an IMMEDIATE reversal of the additional loss of lung function that is caused by smoking. So Bro--please stop.

Posted by: Caliban at December 31, 2013 03:49 PM (2ArJQ)

181 I'm going to try to figure out a better posting name than just using my initials in lower case.

Posted by: wth at December 31, 2013 03:49 PM (wAQA5)

182 I resolve to find myself a new pseudonym on this site.

Posted by: My Name is Nobody at December 31, 2013 03:50 PM (5Q1ZU)

183 Been on pipes or 20 years. Cigars are nice too.

Posted by: davo119 at December 31, 2013 03:50 PM (JdQXP)

184 Heh. Babies sure ain't what they used to be. http://t.co/0D2NMaSyDF

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 03:50 PM (DmNpO)

185 NDH, did you work in the railroad industry? Son is interviewing with Union Pac. Any thoughts of them as a company? *Disregard if I got your previous employment wrong.*

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 31, 2013 03:50 PM (bCEmE)

186 More vacations and golf and stuff.  And wear long pants more when I golf.

Posted by: Barry O'Worthless at December 31, 2013 03:51 PM (s/quq)

187 wth, yeah i want a new nick also.

maybe i'll do ..
smile or else!
or just smiley
or grimace until it hurts

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 03:51 PM (nqBYe)

188 184 NDH, did you work in the railroad industry? Son is interviewing with Union Pac. Any thoughts of them as a company?

No, she was "railroaded" by the Democrats...

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 03:51 PM (gA69l)

189 May all of you have a very happy, healthy new year. You 'rons are what keep me sane here in the liberal utopia known as NYC (now 100% horse drawn carriage free).

Posted by: Throat Wobbler Mangrove at December 31, 2013 03:52 PM (sZBpq)

190 I'm going to try to figure out a better posting name than just using my initials in lower case. *** I think I used jmflynny for about 7 years before mixing it up. Finally settled on this one about a year ago.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 03:52 PM (DmNpO)

191 Stock up on poppers and lube. And more outrage.

*checks bedside drawer*

More outrage.

Posted by: GLAAD at December 31, 2013 03:52 PM (s8V4u)

192 Bag my first drone!

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 03:52 PM (uUXp6)

193 oh wow, nice to see your name Wyatt Earp. hope life is being kind to you.

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 03:52 PM (nqBYe)

194
I'm going to try to give it to my wife more, ya know, when she's conscious.

In 7 days it will be 3 years since I quit the chewy tobbaccy, so I'll keep that up.

One push up per day.  Let's just see how that works out first before we get crazy.  One sit up every other day.


Floss.  Always a good one.



Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 31, 2013 03:53 PM (MaP11)

195 "188 May all of you have a very happy, healthy new year. You 'rons are what keep me sane here in the liberal utopia known as NYC (now 100% horse drawn carriage free)." Is it true glue prices are plunging in the city?

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 03:53 PM (zeV2E)

196 I'm going to finally get mandible reduction surgery.

Posted by: David Gregory at December 31, 2013 03:53 PM (wAQA5)

197 what about the porn, ace?

Posted by: Eton Cox at December 31, 2013 03:53 PM (q177U)

198 I'm going to scream less at the RNC fund raisers that call here. Or more. Can't decide.

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (P6QsQ)

199 Smaller gut, less gray, faster, smarter, less attractive to the opposite sex....

Posted by: Jeff E at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (djvH4)

200 You 'rons are what keep me sane here in the liberal utopia known as NYC (now 100% horse drawn carriage free).

Except for Senorita lesbian sotomayor.

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (uUXp6)

201 What does it matter anyway?

Posted by: Hillary FOB at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (5Q1ZU)

202 Ace, your smoking because of some blasphemous YouTube video. So you'll end up dead.  What difference does it make! 

Posted by: Hillary Rodham Clinton at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (K8ws3)

203 192 oh wow, nice to see your name Wyatt Earp. hope life is being kind to you.

Thanks Willow!  Life is good.  Working now, but no shootings yet.  We don't expect them until closer to midnight.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (gA69l)

204 I am going to try and listen to more Ramones this year.

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (0GtXP)

205 I quit cigarettes in May 2009;  other than almost getting me arrested in Atlanta, haven't had major problems.  Had my last cigarette in Feb. 2013.  (Don't hang around with drunks who smoke.  Just a suggestion.)

You can beat it, if you want to.  Otherwise it will own your ass.

Posted by: Retired Spook at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (VIp/r)

206 I think I'm finally going to stay awake for day, now the night. I'm sick, I took a nap that was close to 7 hours & another one for over an hour, maybe two. I should do the work I'm supposed to be from here. I did the most important things. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. I have to eat.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (z4WKX)

207 I've never made a resolution and am not going to start now.

Posted by: steevy at December 31, 2013 03:54 PM (zqvg6)

208 NDH, did you work in the railroad industry? Son is interviewing with Union Pac. Any thoughts of them as a company? *** They are the mac-daddy of railroads. The largest of all Class-Is. All major railroads pay well and all have excellent benefits. As to what they offer, specifically, I couldn't begin to guess.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (DmNpO)

209 I'm going to finally get mandible reduction surgery.

Newsletter?

Posted by: Jon Carry what served in Vietnam at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (Dwehj)

210 Thinking about going Kommando Obamo.  Obamaphone, Obamacare, ObamaEBT and food stamps, Obama disability, and I think some kind of Obama"financing" for everything else.  I don't think I can swing the Obamavacations, but I resolve to get my CongressCritter to investigate that for me.  And oh yeah, I'd like to know  to get one of those "public servant" gigs and become a zillionaire.  Then I could give up all my Obama bennies and become a real Taker.

Posted by: Taker 2014 at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (rznx3)

211 I'm going to go live in a shed in the woods.

Posted by: TC at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (ygAxO)

212 It isn't a habit.  It's an addiction.
And you and the rest of the nicotine slaves are weak.  WEAK!
You will be the first to be assimilated.  Or ass-raped.  Or something.

Posted by: Dan Patterson at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (zpWhI)

213 Same one I make every year - no New Year's resolutions.

Posted by: MDH3 at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (GKyUC)

214 I resolve to post more atopical Maury Resets from youtube

http://youtu.be/GDZ4fjZq-H4

YOU ARE NOT THE FATHER!

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (TE35l)

215 Wyatt, well watch your six. and I hope you and your co workers and loved ones never get that close to a moving bullet!

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (nqBYe)

216 Screw off less at work

Posted by: My Name is Nobody at December 31, 2013 03:55 PM (5Q1ZU)

217 To wake up w/o a hangover.

Posted by: James at December 31, 2013 03:56 PM (fmWws)

218 For the New Year I will redouble my efforts to achieve no less than an A- crease every day

Posted by: David Brooks at December 31, 2013 03:56 PM (Pr6hk)

219 I am going start using the computer with my pants on....just kidding.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 31, 2013 03:56 PM (z+4T3)

220 202 Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 07:54 PM (gA69l)

I've been worried and wondering about ya buddy...

I listen to the scanner occasionally when I am on the road.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:56 PM (TE35l)

Posted by: gracepmc at December 31, 2013 03:56 PM (rznx3)

222 Quitting the whiskey. Gonna dry out for a couple of months, then limit myself to beer. Good beer. Like the old days. My drinking was never an issue before I took up the whiskey.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 31, 2013 03:56 PM (6rcHp)

223 I'm also going to hide more porn in the forest.

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 03:57 PM (0GtXP)

224 Crush the Tea Party

Posted by: Karl Rove at December 31, 2013 03:58 PM (K8ws3)

225 Sorry, Ace - honestly. I did roughly the same thing, actually I did it twice and felt terrible both times. Quit for ten years the first time, then two the second. Now I've "been quit" for something like 3.5 years. We will NEVER quit wanting them. I think for most of us it takes a health scare to get motivated enough. The stigma or family members not liking it, even the higher (and rising) costs and inconvenience just aren't enough. Don't despair too badly, though, you can always quit again. Hardest thing in the world to do, but you can, you've done it before. GL, man - and Happy New Year.

Posted by: Bill in TN at December 31, 2013 03:58 PM (gi/0z)

226 I resolve to shut down all productive economic activity within our realm

Posted by: EPA Administrator at December 31, 2013 03:58 PM (Pr6hk)

227 Lyin Kings Crony Crapitalist Railroad BNSF damn near burned down ND town, anyone wonder why Lyin kINg doesn't authorize far safer keystone pipeline? Did i say Warren Buffett Crony Crapitalist? Fuck Them! Both of em!

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 03:58 PM (uUXp6)

228 Get my novels, yes plural, published this year.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 03:58 PM (d0bTF)

229 My other resolution is one I have been doing for quite some time is to have television on only when I'm watching it. I have FNC on now & see Shep Smith & I can't stand him.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 03:58 PM (z4WKX)

230 Willow - Yeah, I'm in North Philly, so we get the bulk of the shootings.  No biggie.  It's just another day at work.

Sven - Thanks much!  Wish I could stop by here more often, but the holidays are the crazy time in my profession*.

*I'm not really a professional, just a typist with a gun.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 03:58 PM (gA69l)

231 I'm gonna try to eat more bacon!

Posted by: Killerdog at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (Oi60j)

232 My resolution is 1920X1080

Posted by: KennyM at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (wfN1g)

233 this is turrible just turreble.
I had no idea this was new years eve until this thread.

o sure i knew the date , but it didn't connect!

and no. no alcohol to blame.

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (nqBYe)

234 225 EPA Administrator at December 31, 2013 07:58 PM (Pr6hk)

I resolve to do everything possible within the rule of law to destroy you and all your underlings.


Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (TE35l)

235 Read more. I started doing this already, so I'm cheating, but whatever.

Posted by: Big T Party at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (YVWNt)

236 it's vodka for me, the devils drink would like less of that soul suck in my life

Posted by: Eton Cox at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (q177U)

237 Crush Karl Rove and Boner and McConnell

The Tea Party!

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (uUXp6)

238 I resolve to touch the lives of more young 'men'

Posted by: Harry Reid is a pederast at December 31, 2013 03:59 PM (Pr6hk)

239 229 Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 07:58 PM (gA69l)

Well from what I recall being a cop in the rust belt is a lot like being a sober Maury, crossed with an armed Jerry Springer....

Happy New year

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:00 PM (TE35l)

240 Wyatt srsly, thanks for being  out there for us , and fgs don't get hurt.
love ,
willow.

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 04:00 PM (nqBYe)

241 They are the mac-daddy of railroads. The largest of all Class-Is. All major railroads pay well and all have excellent benefits. As to what they offer, specifically, I couldn't begin to guess. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 07:55 PM (DmNpO) Ok, thanks for the info!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at December 31, 2013 04:00 PM (bCEmE)

242 Willow - lol

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 04:00 PM (P6QsQ)

243 Television is off now, unless I find something on demand.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 04:00 PM (z4WKX)

244 I resolve to lose weight, attend Mass on a regular basis and to quit my current job and get another one that has daytime working hours.

Fingers crossed.

Posted by: fluke_boy at December 31, 2013 04:00 PM (WD/FF)

245 Sven - You too, my friend. 

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 04:01 PM (gA69l)

246 So your New Year's resolution is to feel awful about yourself every day of your life?

Posted by: notropis at December 31, 2013 04:01 PM (Cx83a)

247 Maybe if Ace could get cigarettes that are shaped like dicks it would be easier to quit?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 31, 2013 04:01 PM (oFCZn)

248 226 Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 07:58 PM (uUXp6)

Caught that did you....?

Something charming I saw on my 3200 mile trek was a line of Burlington trucks with the words "mobile Pipeline" on the mud flaps....

hey Warren Buffet....

fuck you

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:01 PM (TE35l)

249 236 Crush Karl Rove and Boner and McConnell

The Tea Party!

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 07:59 PM (uUXp6)


Bring it on.  My American Crossroads will raise and spend $300 million to end the Tea Party, along with the Chamber of Commerce.  You pansies don't stand a chance

Posted by: Karl Rove at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (K8ws3)

250

Any suggestions/recommendations for boots for big ankles – which preferably zip up on the outside or rear?

Posted by: Shrillary Clitnot at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (wAQA5)

251 grammie winger (lol at name)

and omg could this be a sign of what's to come for me!?

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (nqBYe)

252 I resolve to drink less and bed the wife more. Or was it drink more and bed the wife more? MOAR!

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my Hate cannot be found) at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (ial2b)

253 Since they occur about six months apart, I tend to forget about what the nights of 1000 firecrackers do to my kittehs.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (DmNpO)

254 Watch Sarah and the Duck guys at 8 central

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (uUXp6)

255 Your new years' resolution is to feel awful every day of your life?

Mine too!

Posted by: JohnJ at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (TF/YA)

256 Willow - Always careful, and thank you.  Have a great 2014!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (gA69l)

257 Another resolution will be employment.  Which would be nice.

Tonight BBCA re-broadcasts the 2013 Doctor Who Christmas episode.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (d0bTF)

258 Try Chantix, you'll never crave them again.

Posted by: Liberty Lover at December 31, 2013 04:02 PM (EYwUB)

259 I hear smoking bath salts takes your mind off the nicotine urge.

Posted by: Yojimbo at December 31, 2013 04:03 PM (qCPTw)

260 Ok, we need to remind willow about new Threads and Holidays.

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 04:03 PM (0GtXP)

261 Yes, it is nice to see you again, Wyatt Earp. Hope you have a Happy New Year. (I'm in the Philly burbs.)

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 04:03 PM (sdi6R)

262 Cigarettes are about as useful as a cock flavored lollipop

Posted by: Non-smoker at December 31, 2013 04:03 PM (K8ws3)

263 257 Try Chantix, you'll never crave them again. Posted by: Liberty Lover at December 31, 2013 08:02 PM (EYwUB) Quit smoking stay for the suicidal ideation!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 31, 2013 04:03 PM (oFCZn)

264 I resolve to self publish the two novels I wrote this year, and to complete another and finish the non-fiction book that's been on the back burner. Six books and counting. And yes, I am a writer and editor.

Posted by: Ruthless at December 31, 2013 04:04 PM (Hslsk)

265 I made a New Year's resolution years ago to never again make any such resolutions, and I've kept to that.

However, I do have a game plan for 2014.

I'm going to live quietly, work hard, conserve capital, stay healthy, remain far away from the Obamacare mess, pay as little in taxes as I can legally manage to, and generally not cooperate with the various schemes My Betters and the Top Men have cooked up to try to force me to comply with.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 31, 2013 04:04 PM (gqT4g)

266 We resolve to deny coverage to those who don't match the OFA donation list.

Posted by: IPAB at December 31, 2013 04:04 PM (Pr6hk)

267 236, That's an admirable resolution. I will help too. I should join MA chapter off Tea Party.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 04:04 PM (z4WKX)

268 I'm going to take a dump down my own throat.

Posted by: Martin Bashir at December 31, 2013 04:04 PM (GgPam)

269 (I'm in the Philly burbs.)

Last year, we finally received permission to move outside the city... two years after we put a $100,000 addition on my house.

D'oh!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 04:04 PM (gA69l)

270 189 I'm going to try to figure out a better posting name than just using my initials in lower case.  ***  I think I used jmflynny for about 7 years before mixing it up. Finally settled on this one about a year ago Of I could just figure out who the hell Charlie Gibson is, I'd be happy. Seems like every other comment I make, he's "never heard of it." And Carol - Seven hours is not a nap. That is called a good nights' sleep. Glad you got the rest. Chicken soup is on the way - put a bowl under your USB port.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 04:04 PM (4P/s6)

271 I resolve to achieve enlightenment, I want to be like this guy: http://bit.ly/KjEcvr

Posted by: Yojimbo at December 31, 2013 04:05 PM (qCPTw)

272 garret, you do, i have been feeling depressed and out there.

so a tap on shoulder or kick in the rear is needed. stat.

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 04:05 PM (nqBYe)

273 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 07:58 PM (d0bTF) Please make sure to let us know when they're available Anna Puma.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 31, 2013 04:05 PM (GDulk)

274 what about the porn I'm out. **slaps down $20**

Posted by: toby928© establishes prior art at December 31, 2013 04:05 PM (QupBk)

275 Fight the good fight every moment, every minute, every day

Posted by: Triumph at December 31, 2013 04:05 PM (K8ws3)

276 Bring it on. My American Crossroads will raise and spend $300 million to end the Tea Party, along with the Chamber of Commerce. You pansies don't stand a chance

Hows the Fund raising going there Carl cause everytime one of the Repunks calls here I yell Tea Party into the phone as loud as I can. Damn near gives the dog and cat a heart attack, wife laughs her ass off and kids think i'm nuts.
Well Carl fuck with nuts if ya want, oh yea more ammo!

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 04:05 PM (uUXp6)

277 Try to wake up less often in the gutter behind the Chicken Bone Saloon.

Posted by: Swillary Clitnot at December 31, 2013 04:06 PM (wAQA5)

278 I resolve to reach across the isle, and bend over for my 'friends'

Posted by: Rino Senator at December 31, 2013 04:07 PM (Pr6hk)

279

Get a colonoscopy. And try to get the government out of my ass. (it was more a promise to someone than resolution - at first I thought she said colostomy   

Posted by: meleager at December 31, 2013 04:07 PM (xUIPt)

280 I'm gonna try and hate myself a little less, and find a new spark since the other one burned out.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at December 31, 2013 04:07 PM (vHRtU)

281 275 Bring it on. My American Crossroads will raise and spend $300 million to
end the Tea Party, along with the Chamber of Commerce. You pansies
don't stand a chance

Hows the Fund raising going there Carl cause everytime one of the Repunks calls here I yell Tea Party into the phone as loud as I can. Damn near gives the dog and cat a heart attack, wife laughs her ass off and kids think i'm nuts.
Well Carl fuck with nuts if ya want, oh yea more ammo!

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 08:05 PM (uUXp6)


We know all about you and your kind, but we aren't worried about you.  We have all our crony capitalists lined up in support.  Money is not a problem.  Prepare to be assimiliated.

Posted by: Karl Rove at December 31, 2013 04:08 PM (K8ws3)

282 Nope. Got no resolutions.
I'm perfect, just the way I am!
Happy New Year, all you knuckleheads!

Posted by: Nick Shaw at December 31, 2013 04:08 PM (9Xn+t)

283 275 Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 08:05 PM (uUXp6)

Never forget Karl Rove's batting average is making Bob Eucker look like Babe fucking Ruth...

any right leaning donor who gives to rove would do better to give the cash to Kos....

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:08 PM (TE35l)

284 Chik Fil A Hate Bowl starting

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 04:08 PM (P6QsQ)

285
The key to resolutions is to break them as soon as possible.  That way you forget it sooner.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 31, 2013 04:08 PM (MaP11)

286 Phil Robertson had such a HUGE impact on all of us this year -- like this new happy couple: http://tinyurl.com/nzlgrjo

Posted by: Rex the Wonder God at December 31, 2013 04:08 PM (w45V0)

287 I resolve to double down on my gayness. Might be hard since I already look as queer as a three dollar bill, but wearing leather at work should help.

Posted by: Robin Roberts at December 31, 2013 04:08 PM (oFCZn)

288 I resolve to avoid skiing...

Posted by: Michael Schumacher at December 31, 2013 04:09 PM (gA69l)

289 I quit smoking cigarettes once for five years, once for three, once for two.... I'm off'm again three years this time.  Just quit again, Ace - learn from your choice and move on. You now know that starting up again sucks more than anything. So, stop and don't start up again.

It's really that easy.

Posted by: Jazz at December 31, 2013 04:09 PM (roO4n)

290 garret, you do, i have been feeling depressed and out there.

so a tap on shoulder or kick in the rear is needed. stat.
Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 08:05 PM (nqBYe)


*hugs willow tight*


This helps me when I feel like I just can't anymore.   Smile when you talk to people.  I can't remember where I read it but when you smile it makes you sound more upbeat and you look more upbeat and people will react positively.   Even when you just want to curl up in a ball, do that and eventually it stops being fake. 

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 04:09 PM (Gk3SS)

291 Quit drinkin?  Nah. Mebbe jes take some drivin' lessons.

Posted by: Uncle Omar at December 31, 2013 04:09 PM (wAQA5)

292 Switch to vaping -- quickly. If you can buy Logic brand it is best because it is totally unflavored and is the most pure of all. Worst case you keep vaping but at least you won't be polluting yourself with 2000 chemicals -- just nicotine. Best case it is much easier to quit because it does not have the additional additives that the cigarette companies add to make cigarettes more addictive.

Posted by: SunSwordTiger at December 31, 2013 04:09 PM (cVtEO)

293

I would like to retire to the beach, and thus my resolution is to continue to invest in lottery tickets.

Posted by: ALH at December 31, 2013 04:09 PM (btTLZ)

294 Posted by: Ruthless at December 31, 2013 08:04 PM (Hslsk) Please make sure to email Oregon Muse (address at bottom of any Sunday Book Thread) with your info so the Horde can support your work.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 31, 2013 04:09 PM (GDulk)

295 Find a candidate for 2016 who will 'take care of all family business'

Posted by: Michael Corleone at December 31, 2013 04:10 PM (Pr6hk)

296 Smile when you talk to people. I can't remember where I read it but when you smile it makes you sound more upbeat and you look more upbeat and people will react positively. Even when you just want to curl up in a ball, do that and eventually it stops being fake.

Dennis Prager says the same thing.  It's good advice.

Posted by: Michael Schumacher at December 31, 2013 04:10 PM (gA69l)

297 Figure out the 9000 steps involved in getting Swiss citizenship.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 04:10 PM (zeV2E)

298 227 Get my novels, yes plural, published this year. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 07:58 PM (d0bTF) Amen, same here. "Plural" x 6.

Posted by: Caliban at December 31, 2013 04:10 PM (2ArJQ)

299 Create 30 million new democrat republican voters by giving away amnesty a pathway to citizenship to all the illegals undocumented immigrants in this country.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at December 31, 2013 04:10 PM (K8ws3)

300 Off damned sock!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 04:10 PM (gA69l)

301 Thanks Polliwogette

Still thinking of spending $40 to support this.  It amuses me greatly.
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/facerig

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:10 PM (d0bTF)

302 This year I resolve to travel to last year.

Posted by: John Titor at December 31, 2013 04:11 PM (JawqV)

303 287 I resolve to avoid skiing...

Posted by: Michael Schumacher at December 31, 2013 08:09 PM (gA69l)

 


Might be too soon, just saying

Posted by: Sonny Bono at December 31, 2013 04:11 PM (Pr6hk)

304 296 Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 08:10 PM (zeV2E)

Step 1) have a t least 1.5 million dollars petty cash....

Step 2) know whicih wheels to grease

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:11 PM (TE35l)

305 289 garret, you do, i have been feeling depressed and out there. so a tap on shoulder or kick in the rear is needed. stat. Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 08:05 PM (nqBYe) ------------------------ *hugs willow tight* This helps me when I feel like I just can't anymore. Smile when you talk to people. I can't remember where I read it but when you smile it makes you sound more upbeat and you look more upbeat and people will react positively. Even when you just want to curl up in a ball, do that and eventually it stops being fake. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 08:09 PM (Gk3SS) I find that a trip to the range isÂ….enjoyable and relaxing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 31, 2013 04:12 PM (JpFMR)

306 282 275 Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 08:05 PM (uUXp6)

Never forget Karl Rove's batting average is making Bob Eucker look like Babe fucking Ruth...

any right leaning donor who gives to rove would do better to give the cash to Kos....

Hey, we got North Carolina back in the win column!

Posted by: Karl Rove at December 31, 2013 04:12 PM (K8ws3)

307 I will love President Obama more than I did in 2013 and hope Bush still goes to jail for lying to America and our black president.

Posted by: Chrissy Liebowitz at December 31, 2013 04:12 PM (iB0Q2)

308

Might try to git with Omar, that sexy thang.

Posted by: Auntie Zeituni at December 31, 2013 04:13 PM (wAQA5)

309 Happy New Year!
May what you see in the mirror delight you, and what others see in you delight them. May someone love you enough to forgive your faults, be blind to your blemishes, and tell the world about your virtues.

May you remember to say "I love you" at least once a day to your spouse, your child, your parent, your siblings; but not to your secretary, your nurse, your masseuse, your hairdresser or your tennis instructor.

And may we live in a world at peace and with the awareness of God's love in every sunset, every flower's unfolding petals, every baby's smile, every lover's kiss, and every wonderful, astonishing, miraculous beat of our heart.

Let's make it a good one in 2014 ..

Posted by: armadillo at December 31, 2013 04:13 PM (qQk+U)

310 alex, yes, i am practicing my smiling tonight,  i hadn't realized i haven't been until a loved one made a comment.
anyway..

 Yes I Can!
(snorts)
at the least i can chuckle.

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 04:13 PM (nqBYe)

311 I find that a trip to the range isÂ….enjoyable and relaxing.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 31, 2013 08:12 PM (JpFMR)


Well, the Horde is fond of cleaning their guns, yes.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 04:13 PM (Gk3SS)

312 307 Might try to git with Omar, that sexy thang.

Omar's comin', yo!

Posted by: Avon Barksdale at December 31, 2013 04:13 PM (gA69l)

313 I resolve to send Karl rove a Tea Bag everytime he drags that chart out and starts blowing out his ass and do same to Lyin King for every lie he tells during SOTU address, one bag per lie each day til equal to total lies

Posted by: Concealedkerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 04:13 PM (uUXp6)

314 AlextheChick and BCochran I sense a money making opportunity ...

Range targets with spiders on them.  Should I start a Kickstarter on this?  Or on Indiegogo?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:13 PM (d0bTF)

315 Posted by: Caliban at December 31, 2013 08:10 PM (2ArJQ) Same as for 'Ruthless'. Please let OM know when your books are available. I've been known to by Horde books with no intention of reading them but the truth is that there are a lot of very talented writers who comment here.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at December 31, 2013 04:14 PM (GDulk)

316 To exterminate all hippies!

Posted by: Eric Cartman at December 31, 2013 04:14 PM (vHRtU)

317 More resolutions: Start and end each day with prayer. Get my finances under control. Make a real plan to move to NC to be close to my aging parents. Hire a hit man to take out my cousins if their 8-year-long lawsuit against my mother drags on for another year.

Posted by: biancaneve at December 31, 2013 04:15 PM (cmFYO)

318 312 I resolve to send Karl rove a Tea Bag everytime he drags that chart out and starts blowing out his ass and do same to Lyin King for every lie he tells during SOTU address, one bag per lie each day til equal to total lies


Loves me some tea.  Chill green mint whole leaf please.

Posted by: Karl Rove at December 31, 2013 04:15 PM (K8ws3)

319 How many hours a year does the average person spend in the toilet? Asking for a friend

Posted by: grammie winger at December 31, 2013 04:15 PM (P6QsQ)

320 Daleks, hippies.
Hippies, Daleks.

Ah that would be fun as hippy chick tries to Kumbayah with a Dalek...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:15 PM (d0bTF)

321 Same as for 'Ruthless'. Please let OM know when your books are available. I've been known to by Horde books with no intention of reading them but the truth is that there are a lot of very talented writers who comment here.

Agreed wholeheartedly.  An AoS pimping does wonders.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp, Struggling Author at December 31, 2013 04:15 PM (gA69l)

322 2014 will be a year closer to the one where I have the final showdown with Shai'tan.

Posted by: Rand al' Thor at December 31, 2013 04:16 PM (R6JT1)

323 Also, I'm going to start reading the Threads.

Posted by: garrett at December 31, 2013 04:16 PM (0GtXP)

324 To exterminate all hippies!

Posted by: Eric Cartman at December 31, 2013 08:14 PM (vHRtU)


well just remember some of us bitterclingers still slip on birkenstocks and flowered skirts and gauzy blouses  so watch your aim.!

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 04:16 PM (nqBYe)

325 I resolve to send Karl rove a Tea Bag everytime he drags that chart out and starts blowing out his ass and do same to Lyin King for every lie he tells during SOTU address, one bag per lie each day til equal to total lies
Good plan!

Posted by: Thomas Lipton at December 31, 2013 04:16 PM (Ua6T/)

326 Learn how to make a few tasty Indian dishes. Go to Japan. Quit job. Go Galt in NC or someplace like it.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 04:16 PM (EWsrI)

327 Weep less

Posted by: Samwise Gamgee at December 31, 2013 04:17 PM (K8ws3)

328 Will someone please make a resolution to hose me out once in a while?  It's not like I enjoy stinking like this.

Posted by: The Barrel at December 31, 2013 04:17 PM (JawqV)

329 I was sleeping during last thread. Who o Is Pat O'Brien? Isn't he the squeaky clean type or do I have him mixed up with someone else?

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 04:17 PM (z4WKX)

330 Make it through at least one movie without dying!

Posted by: Sean Bean at December 31, 2013 04:17 PM (K8ws3)

331 Legitimate question:

Why do you want to stop smoking cigarettes?

You say you feel awful, is this physical/health or money/psychological?

What pleasure do you derive from smoking?

Can this pleasure be derived from any other source?


I have never smoked so I have no idea how hard it is to stop smoking.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 31, 2013 04:17 PM (Xkr8I)

332 Carol - He was a CBS sports guy.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 04:18 PM (gA69l)

333 I know I can't quit drinking, but I hope to cut down how much I drink.  My goal is half of what I drank in 2013...in a single day! 

I also am going to try and do something creative every day.  Maybe learn some of the software I keep thinking I need.


Posted by: Null at December 31, 2013 04:18 PM (xjpRj)

334 eman, some Japanese New Year traditions explained.
http://tinyurl.com/o7fbauj

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:18 PM (d0bTF)

335 Go to Japan. Of all the times I've been, I never did feel welcome there. I'm thinking Brussels, this year.

Posted by: Godzilla at December 31, 2013 04:19 PM (0GtXP)

336
   Same resolution every year--to make another year.

   Worked so far.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 31, 2013 04:19 PM (SAMxH)

337 328 Carol,

You may well be thinking of the ACTOR Pat O'brien who played Knute Rockne...

Pat O'Brien was a male Mary Hart who was a Horrywood red carpet booster and be used by in trouble celebs for PR recovery and spin control.

So Pat's schtick was listening to people like Billy Joel explain away their misdeeds while coming across as slightly smugly superior.....

the reason the world took such glee in kicking him in the nuts was never has someone built so much Hollywood Pretension of Celebrity from so thin a resume for  so long.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:20 PM (TE35l)

338 I find that a trip to the range isÂ….enjoyable and relaxing. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 31, 2013 08:12 PM That's why it's called "recoil therapy"

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 31, 2013 04:20 PM (JMmQ9)

339 Less fist, more twist.

Posted by: Reggie Love at December 31, 2013 04:20 PM (vHRtU)

340 I have been working on two novels, it has been really tough.  I have wanted to just give it up many times but have stuck with it and I am certain that once I actually learn to write it will get a shitload easier!

Posted by: Killerdog at December 31, 2013 04:20 PM (Oi60j)

341 271 garret, you do, i have been feeling depressed and out there. so a tap on shoulder or kick in the rear is needed. stat. Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 08:05 PM (nqBYe) OK. *hauls off and kicks willow* What?

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 04:20 PM (sdi6R)

342 Stay out of trouble. *crosses fingers*

Posted by: George Zimmerman at December 31, 2013 04:20 PM (oFCZn)

343 If you would all get on board ConcealedKerrys Tea bag mailing schedule we would be outta the red/red and into the red/black in no time

Posted by: US Postal Service at December 31, 2013 04:20 PM (uUXp6)

344  To exterminate all hippies!

Posted by: Eric Cartman at December 31, 2013 08:14 PM (vHRtU)

 

Global Warming theme cruises to the Antarctica for starters?

Posted by: wth at December 31, 2013 04:21 PM (wAQA5)

345 I have been working on two novels, it has been really tough.  I have wanted to just give it up many times but have stuck with it and I am certain that once I actually learn to write it will get a shitload easier!

Posted by: Killerdog at December 31, 2013 04:21 PM (Oi60j)

346 Make it through at least one movie without dying! Posted by: Sean Bean at December 31, 2013 08:17 PM
You have survived Sharpe's Rifles & Sharpe's Eagle so far. Got twelve more to watch.

Posted by: fluffy at December 31, 2013 04:21 PM (Ua6T/)

347 Ace, don't be hard on yourself. I've been fortunate that I've been able to kick a lot of hard drugs and not kick myself when I indulge occasionally. (Sadly, I've found smoking even a social cigarette gives me an awful hangover if not a nasty respiratory infection.) But I've read that diet can help a lot, and it certainly helped me. Maybe it was a placebo effect. OATS. I read it somewhere, and it's worked for me. What I remember is it smoking alkalizes your blood and oats correct the balance very quickly, thus helping to stave off cravings and calm your nervous system. That's all I remember. I lived on oatmeal, apples and Fillet-O-Fish, and I lost a lot of weight, too.. Avoid coffee, meat and sugar. Even bread's ok.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 31, 2013 04:21 PM (Y92Nd)

348 Well, the Horde is fond of cleaning their guns, yes. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 08:13 PM (Gk3SS) ISWYDT

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 31, 2013 04:21 PM (JpFMR)

349 Move to Milwaukee to discover first hand if there's anything to the Michael Vagnini story.

Posted by: GLAAD at December 31, 2013 04:21 PM (s8V4u)

350 Fit my pants,  run up the Hill of Doom like Rocky only in small pants.

Posted by: SarahW at December 31, 2013 04:21 PM (LYwCh)

351 This year, I resolve that my band will finally finish mixing our CD and get it on iTunes. For God's sake, it's taking longer than Boston's Third Stage!

Posted by: Jon in TX at December 31, 2013 04:22 PM (K8ws3)

352 331 Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 08:18 PM (gA69l)

http://tinyurl.com/q7anrg7

That too, also the Access Hollywood dude...

guy has a great announcer voice no doubt...


Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:22 PM (TE35l)

353 Learn how to make a few tasty Indian dishes. Step 1. Find Reshma Shetty Step 2. Impregnate her with multiples Step 3. Let simmer 18 years

Posted by: Raj can cook at December 31, 2013 04:22 PM (R6JT1)

354 I'm feelin ya ace. Here is mt nicotine habit. I smoke three when I walk the dogs, unless I'm driving to work then I smoke two on the way and two on the way back. I keep them in my car so I can have one if I go to the store or something. I never smoke in front of my wife and children, I never smoke in my house. When I am unable to get to said smokes, I will enjoy a peiece of 2mg nicotine gum. I've been fighting this shit for 26 years and I am done. If five or six smoky treats a day are gonna kill me, than I'm fine with that. My New Years resolution, Stop hating myself for smoking when there are so many other reasons far more important.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at December 31, 2013 04:22 PM (XIxXP)

355 Null,  sharing  alex's hug with you.,adds my own.

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 04:23 PM (nqBYe)

356 GOATS. I read it somewhere, and it's worked for me. This.

Posted by: mohammed at December 31, 2013 04:23 PM (0GtXP)

357 Speak Swedish gud.

Posted by: SarahW at December 31, 2013 04:23 PM (LYwCh)

358 guy has a great announcer voice no doubt...

And a quality pr0n stache...

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 31, 2013 04:23 PM (gA69l)

359 Wean myself off watching sports or learn to not get as upset when my teams lose.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 04:23 PM (zeV2E)

360 333 eman, some Japanese New Year traditions explained. http://tinyurl.com/o7fbauj Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 08:18 PM (d0bTF) Arigato gozaimas, Anna-san

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 04:24 PM (EWsrI)

361 To prove to myself that I can be kind to those who wish me harm.  For the New Year I hope Debbie Washerman-Schlitz gets a new hair-do.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:24 PM (d0bTF)

362 And I'm out.  Merry New Year everyone

Posted by: Lionel Joseph aka Jon in TX at December 31, 2013 04:24 PM (K8ws3)

363 I find that a trip to the range isÂ….enjoyable and relaxing.
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at December 31, 2013 08:12 PM (JpFMR)


What, note that the Horde is keen on taking proper care of its equipment?


I just discovered a flaw in watching the Chick Fil A Hate Bowl.   There are Chick Fil A commercials and I am waaaaaay too drunk to go get a Hate Shake.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 04:24 PM (Gk3SS)

364 OK, my crab stuffed Mushrooms are done. Dinner party later, Redneck dinner party, we'll prolly blow something up. Happy New Year Rons.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at December 31, 2013 04:24 PM (XIxXP)

365 rickl,
*ow*

o  and thanks.

Posted by: willow at December 31, 2013 04:24 PM (nqBYe)

366 Have fun OSP.  Remember not to blow up the Bandit Trans Am though...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:25 PM (d0bTF)

367 Sorry to hear about the nicotine Ace. As a former smoker, chewer, nic gum & nic lozenge user I know where you are coming from. Good luck on quitting. Resolutions? Fuck I'm too old to make them. Maybe be nicer to a couple of posters here. Nope

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 31, 2013 04:25 PM (HVff2)

368
I went cold turkey on the nicotine, it sucked but never looked back.  I think that is the best way to go.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 31, 2013 04:26 PM (MaP11)

369 Consider a pipe. It's got that whole Lord of the Rings vibe. Hobbits smoke them. Can you picture an Ewok with a pipe? I can. Seems very natural.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2013 04:26 PM (bKA83)

370 Same resolution as last year, same resolution as the year before.  I resolve to be a

RAAAAAAGING BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHAHAHAHAHATCH!

And to floss more.

Posted by: Amanda Marcotte at December 31, 2013 04:26 PM (x/lJo)

371 Thanks, Wyatt. I thought he might be Pat Boone, he's the squeaky clean type I was confusing him with. Tape was funny!

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 04:27 PM (z4WKX)

372 Dropped 4-5 pant sizes last year. This year the goal is toning. My resolution is to speak truthfully and kindly. Never say something online I couldn't say in front of my pastor. Get off my duff and submit the 3-4 articles I have sitting on my thumb drive.

Posted by: tms at December 31, 2013 04:27 PM (7ub16)

373 Have fun OSP. Remember not to blow up the Bandit Trans Am though... Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 08:25 PM (d0bTF) Shockingly, nobody here has one. Happy New Year AP.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at December 31, 2013 04:28 PM (XIxXP)

374 Now I want a cigar.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 04:28 PM (EWsrI)

375 Step 1. Find Reshma Shetty  Padma Lakshmi Step 2. Impregnate her with multiples  Step 3. Let simmer 18 years FIFY

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 04:28 PM (4P/s6)

376 Cigarettes, quit you must! There is no try, only do!

Posted by: Yoda at December 31, 2013 04:28 PM (rn0EN)

377 Eat less sugar and carbs. Eat more protein and fat. Bacon/sausage and eggs every day. Heavy cream in my coffee. I think Gary Taubes has it right.

Posted by: USA at December 31, 2013 04:28 PM (VIaw0)

378 370 Carol at December 31, 2013 08:27 PM (z4WKX)

Carol if you have ~ 30 minutes with LITERALLY nothing better to do watch the Dr Phil clip I posted and you'll grasp why he got slapped so hard.

Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:29 PM (TE35l)

379 Speaking of habits...in six hours state law will trump federal law in my neighboring state, and pot will be legal in Colorado. meanwhile, in my state, federal law trumps state law, and same sex marriage is legal. someone put me some logic there. On to the topic...besides first, the ongoing lose weight goal, I want to second, do better at seeking out those things that bring me peace and lasting happiness, and to do better at making that my default state. I have a feeling the 2014 elections and the preezy are going to test that resolution big time, hah. Third, prepare to go to grad school next year; will also test resolution #2, hah. And moar sleep!

Posted by: LizLem, already breaking out the sparkling cider, booyah at December 31, 2013 04:29 PM (ijXVY)

380 Actually prepare and plant the deer food plot at the cabin this year. Procrastinating this job so long already be to long since it is also prep for when I may need to change it to people food in the burning times.

Posted by: The Hickster at December 31, 2013 04:29 PM (TI3xG)

381 Remember that in the scheme wisdom counts more than health or wealth

Posted by: Butternut at December 31, 2013 04:30 PM (+8yte)

382 My resolution is to open up a constructive dialogue between the U.S. and every organization I can identify whose name includes the word Jihad.  Because tolerance.  And human rights, for everyone except the Jews.

Posted by: Samantha Power at December 31, 2013 04:30 PM (x/lJo)

383 My resolution is to continue to be an adult in what is increasingly a world of children.

Posted by: Splunge at December 31, 2013 04:31 PM (bKA83)

384 Another New Year Resolution, find the bag or the cat who is holding hostage my USB drives.

Happy New Year and much writing success OSP, Caliban, tms, and Ruthless.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:31 PM (d0bTF)

385 Deepika Padukone!

Posted by: 2014 IIFA squee! at December 31, 2013 04:31 PM (R6JT1)

386 100 COPD and more. To quit, read up on all the bad smoking does to you. Write it up in a post. Think lung problems, smelly hair and clothes, emphysema, your teeth will fall out. The truth is, it is both an addiction AND a decision with each smoke. Take it from an ex.

Posted by: die trying at December 31, 2013 04:31 PM (Xzj0B)

387 To try to get to worship services in other churches at least twice a month. I went to one tonight and we had communion; It was very nice. If you're busy with your own services it's hard to fine another service to go to yet it's so nice to just listen and appreciate and not have to be responsible for anything.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2013 04:32 PM (BC6cY)

388 Also, gonna write more. I made some really good drawings this year, but the writing fell by the wayside. Got too many interesting stories clogging my brain.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 31, 2013 04:32 PM (6rcHp)

389 as a minor anime character I would like to meet less knive wielding women.

Posted by: Kyon at December 31, 2013 04:32 PM (mT+TO)

390 I'm with those kids on TV-my new year's revolution is to eat more shit that's bad for me.

Posted by: Methos at December 31, 2013 04:32 PM (hO9ad)

391 Drive lots of new traffic. To the Federalist.

Posted by: CAC at December 31, 2013 04:33 PM (0gzbV)

392 1.5 years off cigs. Thats weak, because 5-10 weeks is long enough to stay off nicotine for good. And had it not been for bar whores I'd be still off them instead of a 5 year stint.

Posted by: UWP at December 31, 2013 04:33 PM (2hQRj)

393 I was having massive nose bleeds, I mean gushers, went to the doc and they checked my blood pressure......the techs eyes went wide,she went oh shit and ran out of the room.I thought hmmmm that's not good. The doc ran in and made me take some meds. My blood pressure was 200 over 100. that was 4 years ago and I have not had a cig since

Posted by: rainoflead at December 31, 2013 04:33 PM (RdTad)

394 Earth Pics ‏@ThatsEarth 15m For anyone feeling a bit sad, just remember that jumping spiders sometimes wear water droplets as hats http://t.co/N6EvJLXqWm

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 04:33 PM (DmNpO)

395 Kyon, try Urusei Yatsura and hang with Moroboshi Ataru.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:33 PM (d0bTF)

396 >>382 My resolution is to continue to be an adult in what is increasingly a world of children. +1

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 31, 2013 04:33 PM (V4CBV)

397

Not  to  be  sick  on  New  Year's  Eve.  6th  frigging  year  in  a  row!

 

Oh,  and  finish  my  book.

Posted by: Tired Wench at December 31, 2013 04:34 PM (HGPVQ)

398 cigs are vile and I wish them on Obamao

Posted by: torabora at December 31, 2013 04:34 PM (00AFZ)

399 But I will tell you. No one should quit smoking under Ogabe.

Posted by: UWP at December 31, 2013 04:34 PM (2hQRj)

400 Resolved to: Gotta go to work, but ironically, keep this gig with what is currently a decent HC Plan. Related, not crank anyone's mug around backwards at work that spouts any pro Jugears meme. Also, maintain ability to do sets of pushups with more reps than my years, which currently is not an issue but figures to gradually get more challenging. Happy 2014 Morons. Congrats on the !0th Ace

Posted by: ontherocks at December 31, 2013 04:35 PM (5tSu+)

401 390 Was that a sock? I'm not sure if that was funny as shit, or mean as shit... Either way, WIN.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 04:35 PM (4P/s6)

402 I have an "offbeat" (yeah let's go with that) way of looking at things that strangers don't get because they don't know me so they just think I'm weird. (which is true also) Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: Weirddave at December 31, 2013 04:35 PM (2rgqQ)

403 Honestly, I'm not into New Years resolutions because I'm constantly making "resolutions" all year long and constantly breaking them. I just pray that the path to happiness be made clear to me and I have the sense to try (at least) to follow it.

Posted by: Caliban at December 31, 2013 04:36 PM (2ArJQ)

404 2013 I finally dropped 20#, For 2014, just keep at the treadmill regularly and stay smart on earring. The pounds will drop.

Posted by: die trying at December 31, 2013 04:36 PM (Xzj0B)

405
I am resolved to make the spying on Barack Obama and obtain a clip of him saying Fo Shizzle in the manner of an awkward white fraternity man and put this clip on the YouTube.

Posted by: Angela Merkel at December 31, 2013 04:36 PM (x/lJo)

406 Okay you know my other resolution in this thread? Fuck it...... I resolve to reach into my right fucking pocket and pay to have a first world electrical grid on one of America's largest military posts.... Failing that I promise to burn in white hot rageat the dumbfucks in charge of this post's DPW&L........

Posted by: sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:37 PM (tRXFA)

407
My resolution is to get off breast milk once and for all.

Posted by: Matt Yglesias at December 31, 2013 04:38 PM (x/lJo)

408 18 trillion or more in debt and they can't kep the lights on for 25 sequential hours. Happy New Year army

Posted by: sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:38 PM (tRXFA)

409 I'm with those kids on TV-my new year's revolution is to eat more shit that's bad for me.
Posted by: Methos at December 31, 2013 08:32 PM (hO9ad)


That is a revolution with whose goals I agree and vow to work diligently to achieve.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD, you taunty bitch. at December 31, 2013 04:38 PM (Gk3SS)

410 There's much worse things than smoking. I'm sure some of the 'rons or 'ettes text while driving or talk on your cell phone when driving. Make the resolutions simple, like always signal when changing lanes in traffic. Stress kills many more people than smoking. Find ways to take stress out of your life.

Posted by: Soona at December 31, 2013 04:38 PM (42obl)

411 yo

Posted by: jump chump at December 31, 2013 04:39 PM (fXmf+)

412 ABC News ‏@ABC 2m JUST IN: Houston hospital confirms to @ABC that First Lady Barbara Bush hospitalized with early signs of pneumonia

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 04:40 PM (DmNpO)

413 Posted by: Sven10077 at December 31, 2013 08:29 PM (TE35l) Sven, is it in the Pat OÂ’Brien thread? I have to make something to eat, pay bills i should have paid a week ago and do a few things. I was going to go to a party but canÂ’t.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 04:40 PM (z4WKX)

414 Ace, try e-cigs, at least before Hugo DiBlasio bans them.  Still nicotine, but at least it gets rid of the tars and other carcinogens,

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 31, 2013 04:40 PM (XO6WW)

415 I quit in 1997. I have never looked back or wanted to see the inside of a convenience store every day ever again. What is the fascination?

Posted by: Steve In Tulsa at December 31, 2013 04:41 PM (UnFIU)

416 Ace, I feel for you man. I quit for about 5 years. Then for some fucking insane reason started up again. Just one or two here and there. Then that 1 or 2 turned into 3 or 4 then 5 or 6 and before I knew it I was back to buying a pack every couple of days. And I hated myself for it. I quit again. Cold turkey like the 1st time. It's been 3+ years and not a single cancer stick has touched my mouth.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 31, 2013 04:41 PM (0LHZx)

417 Get my man card back permanent this time!

Posted by: Mr. Michelle Obama at December 31, 2013 04:41 PM (fXmf+)

418 I resolve to dissolve.

Posted by: Your 2014 Alka-Seltzer at December 31, 2013 04:41 PM (v8mF+)

419 @411. Dang. Sending prayers.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 31, 2013 04:41 PM (6rcHp)

420 As a former smoker, I (1) know how hard it is to quit (people have an easier time kicking heroin then cigs); (2) how bad you feel when you start again -- especially after a long time; and (3) I hate to bitch at others who smoke as I hated when non-smokers did that to me.

Nonetheless: stop smoking. We need you.

Get over the fact that you slipped back into the habit -- we've all done it, big deal. Go back on the e-cigs and wean yourself off that way in combo with the nicorette gum. Please.


I wish everyone here a happy and joyous New Year filled with peace, love and prosperity.

Posted by: Dancing Queen at December 31, 2013 04:41 PM (FDGeg)

421 412 Carol, It is but it is so awesome it is likely a more stimulating and worthy use of your time to pay the bills.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:42 PM (tRXFA)

422 Would also like to get a stiffy looking at a woman too while we are at this

Posted by: Mr. Michelle Obama at December 31, 2013 04:43 PM (fXmf+)

423

Gonna blow some shit UP tonight for New Year's.

 

Because it's Texas.

And I can.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 31, 2013 04:44 PM (XO6WW)

424 I don't make New Year resolutions, that way I can't let myself down. Happy New Year everyone!

Posted by: DangerGirl at December 31, 2013 04:44 PM (GrtrJ)

425 411 ABC News ‏@ABC 2m JUST IN: Houston hospital confirms to @ABC that First Lady Barbara Bush hospitalized with early signs of pneumonia Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 08:40 PM (DmNpO) Shit. I hope she recovers, and quickly.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 04:44 PM (EWsrI)

426 Just saw something on the 2013 crohnut craze have these people never had an eclair?

Posted by: The Hickster at December 31, 2013 04:45 PM (TI3xG)

427 Ace, I'm an expert on quitting, did so 4 times, once for 4 years. I finally got pissed off and said, "No cigarette is going to tell me what to do." Sheer will power. Been 32 years. I think I'm good now.

Posted by: Meremortal, smooth tinfoil at December 31, 2013 04:45 PM (jTKU5)

428 Shit. I hope she recovers, and quickly. *** Pneumonia is deadly in the elderly and, frankly, I can't see GHWB making it without her.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 04:45 PM (DmNpO)

429 pneumonia? how apropos on a thread mentioning smoking. when the lungs fill up and you can't cough it out, you're afraid to sleep for fear of choking to death in your sleep, but being sleep deprived, you cut your chances at recovery.

Posted by: choking cough at December 31, 2013 04:46 PM (R6JT1)

430

Greetings from 2014 in OZ and a Happy New Year to everyone still back. in 2013!

 

 

Have a great night and may this year be a happy, healthy one for all of you!.

 

 

 

.

Posted by: aussie at December 31, 2013 04:46 PM (02Oi1)

431 I'd like to find just the right sock. Not to off, not to on, just right

Posted by: jump chump at December 31, 2013 04:46 PM (fXmf+)

432 Thanks, Aussie. Same to you and yours.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 31, 2013 04:47 PM (BC6cY)

433 Prayers and best wishes to Barbara Bush.  A truly great and classy lady.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:48 PM (d0bTF)

434 My resolution is 1600x900. I'm good with that

Posted by: Wiserbud at December 31, 2013 04:48 PM (Z3/y1)

435 Find Bigfoot. Bitch owes me money.

Posted by: eman at December 31, 2013 04:49 PM (EWsrI)

436 398 But I will tell you. No one should quit smoking under Ogabe. Posted by: UWP at December 31, 2013 08:34 PM (2hQRj) I'm sure as hell not going to quit drinking under Ogabe.

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 04:49 PM (sdi6R)

437 My mortgage is going to be late. I have been too tired to do regular things, except visit here. I found link and will watch it after I eat, Sven. I watched a second of it. I never saw this Pat OÂ’Brien. IÂ’ll be back later. There goes the phone, it is my brother in Maine. HeÂ’s back in rehab since December 6, he was in the hospital.

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 04:49 PM (z4WKX)

438 I resolve to turn knockout into glock out!

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 04:49 PM (uUXp6)

439 Thanks, aussie. What's it like living in the future?

Posted by: rickl at December 31, 2013 04:50 PM (sdi6R)

440 Frankly the idea that I am "under" Barry is rather alarming, if you know what I mean and I think you do.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 31, 2013 04:50 PM (oFCZn)

441 Make 6:30AM Mass on New Year's Morning, might as well break'em first thing and get it over with.

(and as a second resolution find a suitable revenge gift for those relatives who got our kids a Bop-it game, I'm thinking a gerbil or air rifle (their liberals).

Posted by: Jean at December 31, 2013 04:51 PM (4JkHl)

442 not to feign sympathy for libs who get fucked by obamacare. 'll tell them you deserved it

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 04:52 PM (kcF49)

443

I resolve to finish unpacking my new house...

...get my publishing imprint back on track...

...and find some way to continue riding the Democrats' asses from Texas...

 

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 31, 2013 04:52 PM (XO6WW)

444 Almost time to head to my New Year's Eve gig. Great club, great people who love to dance and have a blast, and great guys to play music with, it's going to be a guess what, great night. Happy New Year, you morons are an oasis in the madness and I appreciate ya.

Posted by: Meremortal, moar bass! at December 31, 2013 04:52 PM (jTKU5)

445 I pledge a renewed commitment to fecklessness

Posted by: Katrina at December 31, 2013 04:52 PM (aDwsi)

446 to leave my dogs shit on lib homes lawn

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 04:53 PM (kcF49)

447 Luckily Jean here its 9am for New Years service.

Get your relatives a Gaylord Chia pet...  see if they can keep it alive.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:53 PM (d0bTF)

448 to leave my dogs shit on lib homes lawn

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 04:53 PM (uUXp6)

449 More Cowbell!

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 31, 2013 04:54 PM (0LHZx)

450 Carol take care of yourself. I was being sarcastic it is Dr Phil about as important as rearranging your socks.... The installs they did Sunday must have sucked we just had power for less than a one count...... Nice use of Taxpayer funds there SCE&G

Posted by: sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:54 PM (tRXFA)

451 Strike doesnt work?
to shit on lib homes lawns

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 04:54 PM (uUXp6)

452 to have shadenfraude for New Yorkers who selected DeBalsio- did ou know his wife is black?

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 04:55 PM (kcF49)

453 Imagine a future without John Lennon's stupid, insipid song.  I'm so sick of its idiotic, childish platitudes.   (In a book by Lennon's personal assistant from mid 70's till his death-  Lennon was embarrassed by the song, and would have voted for Reagan in 1980)

Posted by: Ombudsman at December 31, 2013 04:55 PM (Sa+uF)

454 432 Prayers and best wishes to Barbara Bush. A truly great and classy lady. Doesn't it make you sick? Nancy Reagan Barbara Bush Laura Bush And now...

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 04:55 PM (4P/s6)

455 I was going to resolve to quit procrastinating and to be more decisive, but I'm going to wait until tomorrow...or the next day.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (g4TxM)

456 And now the power is back on...

Posted by: sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (tRXFA)

457 Posted by: I'd rather be surfin at December 31, 2013 07:35 PM (FIiPL) Gorgeous sentiment, definitely a good one. And ditto to all the artist/writer sentiments what have been said. Concur with the stories clogging the brain; this far, no farther!

Posted by: LizLem, already breaking out the sparkling cider, booyah at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (ijXVY)

458 Resolve to be thankful.  That you are not in North Korea
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/David-Guttenfelder-North-Korea-9.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (d0bTF)

459 Ahhhh. New Years eves celebrators. Just heard distinct pistol shots. I'd bet anything the asshole was shooting into the air. Stupid shits.

Posted by: Katrina at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (aDwsi)

460 Get back on the (cig) wagon, ace, for your own good. I quit my pack-a-day habit 35 years ago and the doc told me it was the best thing I ever did.

Happy New Year.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (xm1A1)

461 Doesn't it make you sick? Nancy Reagan Barbara Bush Laura Bush And now... **** C'mon! You skipped Hillary!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (DmNpO)

462 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 08:48 PM (d0bTF) She, and her d-I-l, are pro abort. Not exactly what we want.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (All my Hate cannot be found) at December 31, 2013 04:56 PM (ial2b)

463 to show no sympathy when my obama supporting mother starts complaining about Medicare cuts

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 04:57 PM (kcF49)

464 I'm going to try to be more polite and less judgemental, especially to you syphilitic, toothless reprobates.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at December 31, 2013 04:57 PM (qyfb5)

465 Shedding leftover Katrina sock

Posted by: Katrina at December 31, 2013 04:57 PM (aDwsi)

466 Prayers for Barbara Bush a woman with more class at breakfast than 2/3ds the following First ladies would by the evening snack.

Posted by: sven10077 at December 31, 2013 04:58 PM (tRXFA)

467 to wait for netflix before seeing a movie with high profile libs

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 04:59 PM (kcF49)

468 Ahhhh. New Years eves celebrators. Just heard distinct pistol shots. I'd bet anything the asshole was shooting into the air. Stupid shits. Posted by: Katrina at December 31, 2013 08:56 PM (aDwsi) Hide posts from (aDwsi) Are they early or are you on Cape Verde or something like that?

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at December 31, 2013 04:59 PM (qyfb5)

469 Could I resolve to be less sarcastic!!!

Posted by: Chandler Bing [/i] [/b] at December 31, 2013 04:59 PM (dwArK)

470 I'm going to hit my father on the nose with a rolled up newspaper every time I see him watching MSNBC.

Posted by: Naes1984 at December 31, 2013 04:59 PM (zeV2E)

471 Already hear the firework mortars go off along with lesser cannonades....

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at December 31, 2013 05:00 PM (d0bTF)

472 I have three resolutions for next year 1. stop letting my wife and daughter walk all over me 2. buy my cubs world series tickets early 3. try to be a little less awesome

Posted by: navycopjoe at December 31, 2013 05:00 PM (MX68J)

473 Finish a book I've started writing and get my income up to the point where I can hire a personal trainer and then hire said trainer to kick my heinie in the gym.

Posted by: Northernlurker, moron wannabe at December 31, 2013 05:00 PM (BLAfs)

474 I'm going to try to stop working so darn hard, and I'll try to be less urgently needed in the near future. -Hillary Clinton We'll try to be more objective, giving voice to the less qualified. Continue to only print what we see fit. -New York Times

Posted by: Jeff at December 31, 2013 05:00 PM (K3ZAn)

475 C'mon! You skipped Hillary! Huma didn't.

Posted by: shredded chi, the young curmudgeon at December 31, 2013 05:00 PM (4P/s6)

476 oh also 4. win powerball, buy the blog and ban every one of you who h8'd on da bears

Posted by: navycopjoe at December 31, 2013 05:02 PM (MX68J)

477 to stop wanting off to pics of DWS and Michelle Obama

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 05:02 PM (kcF49)

478 wanking not wanting

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 05:02 PM (kcF49)

479 Well, I've checked out 2014 as it's been running here for awhile. It's overated.

Posted by: otho at December 31, 2013 05:02 PM (9gNQd)

480 @468...heh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Hibernian Hooligan at December 31, 2013 05:02 PM (6rcHp)

481 When I was a kid, the old guy next door, from whom, btw, I learned a great deal about guns, wood working, and metal working, would haul out his .45-70 trapdoor Sharps rifle, and at midnight would loose a round. In the dark, it was an awesome sight.

Posted by: Katrina at December 31, 2013 05:03 PM (aDwsi)

482 471 NavtCupAJoe, How 'bout dem bears omae?

Posted by: sven10077 at December 31, 2013 05:03 PM (tRXFA)

483 Suck CAC in again--like he's Charlie Brown!

Posted by: Pennsylvania 2016 at December 31, 2013 05:03 PM (RJMhd)

484 to stop smirking at LIVs complaining at Home Depot that they can't get cheap incandecents

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 05:03 PM (kcF49)

485 I smoked 36 yrs. Quit from time to time for short duration. Daughter finally got me to read this book. Worked for me. I recommend it to anyone wanting to quit. Good luck and Happy New Year to all. (I have NO $$ interest in this. Just sincerely would like to see the health restored to those that suffer from smoking.) http://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/0615482155

Posted by: mike at December 31, 2013 05:03 PM (mt+kp)

486 471 I have three resolutions for next year 1. stop letting my wife and daughter walk all over me 2. buy my cubs world series tickets early 3. try to be a little less awesome Posted by: navycopjoe at December 31, 2013 09:00 PM (MX68J) Glad you decided not to hold out for da Bears & Super Bowl tickets. Lol

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 31, 2013 05:04 PM (HVff2)

487 He who wanks half heartedly leaves body wanting

Posted by: Confucius at December 31, 2013 05:04 PM (R6JT1)

488 We'll try to be more objective, giving voice to the less qualified. Continue to only print what we see fit, the way we see fit. -New York Times Posted by: Jeff --- FIFY

Posted by: Katrina at December 31, 2013 05:04 PM (aDwsi)

489 to hope someday that I can root against Putin

Posted by: Avi at December 31, 2013 05:04 PM (kcF49)

490 "also 4. win powerball, buy the blog and ban every one of you who h8'd on da bears"

About as likely as Bears ever winning the NFC North or the Cubs playing above .500. 

Posted by: lowandslow at December 31, 2013 05:05 PM (IV4od)

491 Quit peeing in the office bitchs coffee.

Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at December 31, 2013 05:05 PM (uUXp6)

492 ONT
On

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at December 31, 2013 05:05 PM (dwArK)

493 I resolve to learn all the words to the national anthem of Peruvia in the native Peruvian language, or die trying.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 31, 2013 05:06 PM (g4TxM)

494 oh
also 4. win powerball, buy the blog and ban every one of you who h8'd on da bears

Not our fault they suck.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 31, 2013 05:06 PM (JawqV)

495 475 oh also 4. win powerball, buy the blog and ban every one of you who h8'd on da bears Posted by: navycopjoe at December 31, 2013 09:02 PM (MX68J) It's not h8, it's ridicule. Jay Scruntler brings it out in us.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 31, 2013 05:07 PM (HVff2)

496 Pail talks too much about stupid things. He Just said he CAN MOVE HIS KNEES as of yesterday!

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 05:08 PM (z4WKX)

497 I plan on finally paying off the last bit of my student loans and adding at least one rifle to my gun collection. Damn the city of Boston for severely limiting my choices though.

Posted by: BlueFalcon in Boston at December 31, 2013 05:08 PM (KCvsd)

498 I resolve to make $7,000 a week on the internet like my cousin.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 31, 2013 05:08 PM (g4TxM)

499 Southern morons, an important note. Don't forget to soak your black eyed peas tonight. That is all. Carry on.

Posted by: Charts and Darts at December 31, 2013 05:10 PM (FfZoj)

500 Pail talks too much about stupid things. He Just said he CAN MOVE HIS KNEES as of yesterday!

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 09:08 PM (z4WKX)



Hope this year is better for you Carol and your brother.


And remember, for some of us days when we can move our knees are memorable ones.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 31, 2013 05:12 PM (o3MSL)

501 After reading this nonsense I am out to buy an extra carton...!

Posted by: Papa at December 31, 2013 05:13 PM (jECGF)

502 Any suggestions/recommendations for boots for big ankles – which preferably zip up on the outside or rear?

Posted by: Shrillary Clitnot at December 31, 2013 08:02 PM (wAQA5)


Two sacks of Portland cement?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2013 05:14 PM (8Fl6F)

503 Hope this year is better for you Carol and your brother. And remember, for some of us days when we can move our knees are memorable ones. Posted by: Hrothgar at December 31, 2013 09:12 PM (o3MSL) Thank you, Hrothgar. I was typing as I talked. I meant Paul!

Posted by: Carol at December 31, 2013 05:15 PM (z4WKX)

504 Is that news for your brother, Carol? If so, that's awesome! Progress is progress!

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at December 31, 2013 05:16 PM (qyfb5)

505 Now I feel awful literally every day of my life.

Pretty sure I'd feel the same way as a non-smoker, Ace.  Don't beat yourself up, you are dearly loved.

P.S.  just home from the UK NYE celebration, totally shitfaced, not actually any good at that.  Love you all!!!

Posted by: Peaches at December 31, 2013 05:19 PM (8lmkt)

506 452 Imagine a future without John Lennon's stupid, insipid song. I'm so sick of its idiotic, childish platitudes. (In a book by Lennon's personal assistant from mid 70's till his death- Lennon was embarrassed by the song, and would have voted for Reagan in 1980) Posted by: Ombudsman at December 31, 2013 08:55 PM (Sa+uF) ___________ That would have been hard to do given he wasn't a US citizen.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 31, 2013 05:19 PM (0LHZx)

507 Quit smoking in 1982, after 13 years. Was smoking Vantage ultralights (after tearing off the filters) at the end. Quit Copenhagen/Skoal in 2005 after 5 years (and being diagnosed with oral cancer). I looooved me some nicotine. But cancer, cancer take the romance out of smoking/dipping. Kinda like when you were a kid and pulled down your girlfriend's white panties only to find a brown streak. Yep, cancer is a brown streak on your life. I resolve to pray you quit, Ace. And, I am using less CAPS. That way, I can afford another small letter.

Posted by: Erowmero at December 31, 2013 05:20 PM (OONaw)

508 My resolutions are to not gain back the weight I have lost, exercise more, smoke cigars and drink in moderation, forgive my fellow Morons for their transgressions but not give an inch to the commie liberals, and to enjoy life in spite of the fact that the future looks pretty darn bleak.

Happy New Year to all you that post and/or lurk here.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 31, 2013 05:27 PM (o3MSL)

509 My resolution is to take up Krokodil to help curb my appetite.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at December 31, 2013 05:28 PM (X9Mnx)

510 Posted by: Hollowpoint at December 31, 2013 09:28 PM (X9Mnx)

That should do the trick!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 31, 2013 05:29 PM (o3MSL)

511 Ace, try e-cigs, at least before Hugo DiBlasio bans them. Still nicotine, but at least it gets rid of the tars and other carcinogens,

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 31, 2013 08:40 PM (XO6WW)


Those e-cigs. I wonder if you could just stick the vaporizer part of it in an inside pocket, and "smoke" it by way of a nasal cannula like those poor bastards who have to be tethered to an oxygen tank use? Doing it that way, you could "smoke" in areas where it is banned by the relentless nanny-state.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 31, 2013 05:33 PM (8Fl6F)

512 I resolve to self-edit.

Posted by: rdbrewer at December 31, 2013 05:34 PM (Iyg03)

513 Ace, I don't know if you actually read your blog, but I quit smoking based on your review of e-cigs in November 2012. Haven't had a cigarette since my Tornado Ego-C arrived from Totally Wicked based on your blog entry. I hope you find a way to put the cigs down again. You probably saved my life, dude.

Posted by: Donner at December 31, 2013 05:41 PM (gxPh6)

514 I gave up new year's resolutions for lent, and vice-versa

Posted by: Chuck at December 31, 2013 05:41 PM (pHEHJ)

515 32 I'm giving up rage. It has become my natural state over the last five years. Not healthy.

***

Me too.  And then MSNBC went and did the Romney grandchild thing.  

Posted by: Randy at December 31, 2013 05:43 PM (YBusZ)

516 510 Ace, try e-cigs, at least before Hugo DiBlasio bans them. Still nicotine, but at least it gets rid of the tars and other carcinogens, Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 31, 2013 08:40 PM (XO6WW) that reminds me, anyone who has a resolution to take a carriage ride in NYC better do it soon, DiBlahsio has threatened to ban them ASAP. good luck Ace! the only failure is to stop trying entirely. Keep trying!

Posted by: LizLem, already breaking out the sparkling cider, booyah at December 31, 2013 06:03 PM (ijXVY)

517 Ace, the worst cravings only last 5 minutes. Because there's always a 7-11 5 minutes away.

Posted by: RokShox at December 31, 2013 06:09 PM (8MMMw)

518 Re: mike at December 31, 2013 09:03 PM I recommend that book "Easy Stop" by Allen Carr. If for no other reason just the simple observation he makes that your next cigarette is only to relieve the temporary discomfort of your last one wearing off.

Posted by: RokShox at December 31, 2013 06:13 PM (8MMMw)

519 I'm giving up this place for the new year... JK

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] at December 31, 2013 06:18 PM (gJeT3)

520 First of all, both of my parents had their lives surely shortened by tobacco.  Second, I must be a genetic anomaly because it has no fucking appeal to me whatsoever.  That said, I'm not an absolutist or a dipshit MADD type fuckhead about it.  Don't get me wrong, when smoking was still allowed in music clubs, I used to hate smelling like shit from all the fucking smoke I was immersed in.  So I don't miss that one goddamn bit.  But I understand how smoking gives some people a lift so I'm not about to tell them how to do things.  Plus I used to work with a guy who was at least a pack a day guy who decided to go cold turkey one day,  He became the most miserable POS after doing that that I pretty much urged him to stop being such a pain in the fucking balls and start sucking on the coffin nails again.


You have to be in the right mind set to stop.  Some people never are.  There are worse things they could do.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 31, 2013 06:29 PM (gkPS1)

521 Resolution? Why, the same one we make every night, Pinky: try to take over the world!!

Posted by: The Brain at December 31, 2013 06:37 PM (3sZO1)

522 Many years ago, I made a New Year's resolution that I've found very easy to keep. "I will make no more New Year's resolutions."

Posted by: Buford Gooch at December 31, 2013 06:37 PM (VN2qJ)

523 Since 518 beat me to it... a variant...
The same resolution I make every year... to get a job that doesn't suck my will to live.

Posted by: Sockless Joe at December 31, 2013 06:49 PM (kQb6I)

524 My New Year's resolution... would get me put on a multi-agency 'Watch List'.

And that's all I'll say on that score...

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 31, 2013 07:15 PM (lJaja)

525 Me too. And then MSNBC went and did the Romney grandchild thing. Posted by: Randy at December 31, 2013 09:43 PM (YBusZ) That was my last FB post all year cuz I had to read all my progtard friends' posts all year and try to be nice. My resolution is stop being so fucking nice. In fact, there might be some arson in the cards for me. Here is what I've learned -- People are happy for you until they envy you, if they know you. If they don't know you, they worship you, like some paunchy comedian on an island of cannibals.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 31, 2013 07:16 PM (Y92Nd)

526 I'm going t take a carriage ride in Central Park tomorrow, too, and I'm bringing a bag of apples.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at December 31, 2013 07:19 PM (Y92Nd)

527 Sucks about the cigarette thing, Ace.  Especially since your e-cig post got me to quit smoking almost 4 years ago.

Try the e-cig EGO-C. 

I tried the Titan as you suggested and it was just barely strong enough to replace smokes.  The EGO-C blows it away.  I haven't felt the desire to smoke a real smoke in years, and I'm about as addicted to nicotine as they come.

Try it.  You'll feel a lot better all of the time.  Plus, you can smoke on planes if you're sneaky.

Posted by: Kevin at December 31, 2013 07:20 PM (7qWpV)

528

Actually finish some of the epic literature I've started, like The Iliad, Lord of the Rings, Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

It bugs me that my 12-year-old kid has outread me this year, so peeling myself away from the screen and putting in some dead-tree time is my resolution.

Posted by: Steve the Pirate's Wife at December 31, 2013 07:51 PM (MS21K)

529 I quit about three times over the past seven years.   The last time I quit I was finally successful.

I found that for me there were two levels of addiction going on. 

One was the nicotine craving, which is really hard to break for the first few days.  In mid winter during a Northeaster at 2 a.m. in the morning, I would go outside with a flash light and look for cigarette butts in the bottom of my trash barrels.   Good times.  However after about six days the cravings would go away and I'd feel normal.

The secondary addiction was very low level and I'm not sure physical.   It would start happening about 3 to 6 months after I quit.   A lot of it probably had to do with the belief that I was past any addiction stage.   

The third time I quit I spent special attention to the 3 to 9 month period after I quit.  Refusing to have a single smoke.  That seemed to work.

Most people I know had to quit several times before they got to a place where they truly kicked the habit.

Here's hoping you get there.


Posted by: Levin at December 31, 2013 08:06 PM (cQ4Va)

530 My New Year's Resolution is to watch the first episode of the third series of Sherlock on Jan 1, via BBC iPlayer, instead of waiting until PBS airs it. This will be accomplished in about 14 hours.

Posted by: MathMom at December 31, 2013 08:15 PM (p68km)

531 What about you guys? Nothing. Don't do New Year's resolutions.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at December 31, 2013 08:18 PM (G5cc0)

532 Ace, that's why I love you. Me too buddy. Me too. Happy New Year morans!!! Thanks for all the memories.

Posted by: prescient11 at December 31, 2013 08:25 PM (u+Dc+)

533 I resolve to always finish my senten...

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 31, 2013 08:50 PM (l0lja)

534 I resolve to no longer use sandpaper as diaper wipes.

Posted by: Felix Cortez at December 31, 2013 08:52 PM (l0lja)

535 Resolution: drink better Scotch. Finally a resolution I can keep.

Posted by: Xavier at December 31, 2013 09:23 PM (JqAxf)

536 I quit smoking cigarettes and switched to e-cigs.  Haven't looked back.  Now at a zero nicotine liquid and will get off the habit once the addiction is gone.

Also gave up caffeine and all alcohol.

I'm now the most boring human in the world.

My resolution is to get back to the weight I was in college, passing USAF weight standards: 286 lbs.  (Body fat, not raw weight, obviously.)  I think I can do it.

My next drink of bourbon will be one year from yesterday.

Posted by: SARDiver at December 31, 2013 09:33 PM (LgxPj)

537 I'm re learning to walk from a spine injury. Going to keep at it.

Posted by: Owlpellets at December 31, 2013 10:24 PM (0Ltoz)

538 Keep on the e-Cigs man, eventually you'll break it. Your thread last year got me totally on them (as opposed to patches). Now, I hardly ever smoke even them - you can do it man!

Posted by: specialkayel at December 31, 2013 11:34 PM (NIc0Q)

539 I stopped drinking for 8 years, then I lost my way again. I think I'll try to go for a walk tomorrow. If my hands don't shake so hard that I can't tie my shoes. I can't even help out on the forums very well anymore, typing makes my heart beat so hard from trying to hit the right keys. Haven't written a good line of code in months. I resolve to find someone to love in 2014 and save me from myself. Let this be my prayer wheel.

Posted by: and irresolute at January 01, 2014 12:32 AM (RqHWH)

540 I quit those sticks 7 years ago, and you shouldn' t feel bad. I still get cravings for smokes 7 yrs later. . It's a hard habit to break.

Posted by: L, elle at January 01, 2014 12:38 AM (0xqKe)

541 Colorado Rocky Mountain High 2014 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Maynard Krebbs at January 01, 2014 12:42 AM (iB0Q2)

542 I am proud to announce the new motto for Colorado: Colorado will be known as "The Stoner State , Man" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Gov John Hikenlooper at January 01, 2014 12:43 AM (iB0Q2)

543 I quit 2 years ago using ecigs. They work.

Posted by: Amartel at January 01, 2014 12:43 AM (jmk3s)

544 2013: Does not take orders; gives them. 2014: Consents to take an order, but only rarely.

Posted by: General Zod at January 01, 2014 02:51 AM (2+bRt)

545 Ace,

Pick up the book "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr.

I tried to stop smoking many, many times and went nuts each time.

When I used this book, it was a million times easier for me.

That was 15 years ago.

I'm pretty sure it's self hypnosis, but hey it works and that's all I care about.

Good Luck!

Posted by: Lost in Maryland at January 01, 2014 03:09 AM (xbogj)

546 Try the Chantix Ace.  After countless attempts to quit smoking this worked for me, and the Porn Dreams were so good that I considered starting again just so I could take Chantix to quit.

Posted by: Ron at January 01, 2014 03:27 AM (A9AEG)

547 Owlpellets - My thoughts and prayers will be with you as you relearn to walk. Never give up. My husband had to relearn how to talk and use his right hand after a stroke. They always tell you that what you have at 6-months post stroke is all you'll get. I'm here to say that is wrong. He is nine years out, and he's still improving. So will you. It's all just nerves, trying to find a way to connect and do what they were designed to do. Go for it!

Posted by: MathMom at January 01, 2014 04:01 AM (p68km)

548 Never take on partners in a meth operation.

Posted by: Walter White at January 01, 2014 04:20 AM (DdwEb)

549 I'm gonna audit my enemies taxes back into the Stone Age, starting with Ace.

Posted by: Obama at January 01, 2014 04:23 AM (DdwEb)

550 My husband died 2 weeks ago, and within 3 days I was smoking in the house.  I despise myself for this.  OK, my brother was in town as a driver of this naughtiness, and I wanted to be an accommodating hostess.  Given the circumstances we were both sort of chainsmoking.  Death is stressful on the living.  But my brother left 4 days ago and I'm still smoking in the house and it reeks.

I'm not ready to make a commitment as to exactly WHEN I plan to stop smoking in the house, so maybe this doesn't count as a resolution.

Posted by: Miley's Tongue at January 01, 2014 04:23 AM (R+h7Q)

551 #543

I did Chantix.  It prevents that brain-brightening you get from smoking.  So you can suck, and suck, and suck, but you don't get what your brain wants from that cigg.  So there's no point.

Problem is, within 6 weeks I could actually feel myself get stupid.  My job is fairly straightforward, and I have a routine with a follow-up system that works well for me.  But I would completely forget to perform basic steps and found myself misfiling and misdirecting work.  It was pretty horrible.

For what it's worth, I was looking forward to some freaky dreams, but never had any.  Stupidity was the only side effect I noticed.

Then, once the Chantix is out of your system, your brain gets bright again when you smoke, so there you are.

RULE #1 WHEN QUITTING SMOKING:  YOU MUST TAKE THE PLEDGE "NOT ONE PUFF."

Period.

Posted by: Miley's Tongue at January 01, 2014 04:39 AM (R+h7Q)

552 I smoked for twenty years , and after I quit, I realized I stunk like shit for twenty years. I'll never go back to that.

Posted by: ccoffer at January 01, 2014 04:42 AM (ELo+l)

553 Quitting smoking is actually pretty easy.  I must have done it a dozen times.

Posted by: Buddha at January 01, 2014 04:45 AM (s/sIv)

554 Too bad about the smoking thing, Ace. I started again a few months ago after not smoking for almost 20 years. I've been keeping it to no more than 1 to 3 cigs a day, but still feel kind of rotten. A couple of months ago I tapered down and quit completely using ecigs, which I don't like that much. One of my resolutions is to do that again and stick to it.

Posted by: Emily at January 01, 2014 05:45 AM (7Rn+/)

555 Move to Hawaii where smokes are 11 smackers a pack. I can hook you up with my dealer, who can get them at cost.

Posted by: Barrack at January 01, 2014 06:44 AM (+cRTP)

556 Try e-cigs. I bought my first one more than 2 years ago, and I wouldn't go back to cigarettes if you paid me. Find a reputable vaping store that will let you try flavors and nicotine concentrations as well as a delivery mechanism that works best for you and your personal style. If you wake up today and crave lots of nicotine and a good tobacco hit, you just fill your tank with an e-liquid that delivers both. Maybe you want something light and sweet, you can get that too - just switch out tanks. It takes a matter of seconds to go from one to the next.

Nicotine, in and of itself, is no more harmful than caffeine. All the nasty stuff (cancer, smelly clothes, etc.) comes from burning the tobacco itself. My wife HATED my cigarette habit, but she loves the vaping instead.

Bonus? I used to smoke a pack a day for 25 years. You can do the math on the cost of that habit. I now spend about $10-$15 a month to vape pretty much non-stop all day long.

Posted by: Jim_B at January 01, 2014 06:52 AM (XIF5o)

557 Never quit quitting! I quit after failing many times, a couple as long as you did. Sooner or later the stars will align.

Posted by: rt at January 01, 2014 09:08 AM (HuFbk)

558 Don't beat yourself up for smoking again. Just keep quitting. It will stick eventually. DH quit when our daughter was on the way, then took up smoking again 3 years later after our twin boys arrived and he learned his company was facing a merger. I could hardly blame him. 3 kids, a wife, a mortgage and possibly no job?  When he was ready he quit again (it certainly helped that he still kept his job).

The boys are 5 now and DH has been smoke free 4 years. We both still gravitate towards the humidor whenever we're at the wine shop...cigars and pipe tobacco still represent the smell of prosperity to us both since he used to smoke both when we were a bit more flush with cash. Now we just take a deep breath for old time's sake and move on. My mom was a smoker for 50 years and it's been hard seeing her struggle with COPD and other smoking-related health issues that could have been avoided.

Posted by: Banglabou at January 01, 2014 01:39 PM (L4wqR)

559 Simple solution, Ace. Develop a back injury that leaves you prostrate on the floor for six weeks, with no one willing to bring you cigarettes. Worked for my husband. He's been clean for almost two years.

Posted by: Vixen at January 01, 2014 04:22 PM (w/r78)

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