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Posted on 06/26/2004 8:07:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Special Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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"TODAY IS DAY 37 SMOKE-FREE!! "
Congratulations!!!!
You're bad, man....
Amen to that! After 11 years of smoking routines and "rituals", the habit part of it is the part that I'm having the most difficulty with. Certain times of day, certain activities, alcohol, big meals, etc...all carried smoking rituals. The tough part is coming up with alternatives and substitutions.
The bonuses have been that I quit eating big meals and quit drinking alcohol at the same time!
I tell you though, the thought that did it for me was something I had read in passing on some "help for quitters" site.
"If you think quitting smoking it tough...try telling your kids that you have cancer because of something you did to yourself."
I could never bear to tell my daughter something like that. I began to see my smoking as a terribly selfish thing, and with every drag I took, I was short-changing my kid.
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Thanks for the wonderful note, Colonel. I've sent a bunch more knives recently, and I'll send some more this week. I'm also awaiting some Israeli bandages, which will go to your people.
Your story makes life number four that has been saved by one of these knives, that we know about. They were always intended just to give humble but dependable service, with no heroics involved.
The knives were also intended for any GI, even desk jockeys. The fact that they are seen as honors is beyond our wildest expectations for these simple items. We are both awed and humbled by praise like that.
Thanks again for the note, and we will continue to stuff into the mailbox anything we can think of to show our appreciation for you, your troops, and everyone else involved in this vital enterprise.
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Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:56:47 -0400
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Subject: Thank You
Rick
I would really like to thank you and yours for the superb knives and scissors, we have given all of the scissors to the medics and they actually loved them I was able to give a pair to Specialist Chin and it was actually on her birthday she was very flattered and thankful.
As for the knives we had a mortar attack at the airport, and one of my Marines grabbed his Combat life saver kit and he was able to use it and his Hobbit Hole knife which he was given that morning in recognition of outstanding performance of duty, he obviously used it in the way you intended because he is being recognized for actually saving a soldier from serious injury and assisting in stabilizing another wounded female soldier.
Coincidentally we looked at the knives and have been giving them out as awards for superior service and I assure you that everyone wants one now! It's like the Army coin thing only cooler!
I hope you know we really appreciate what you are doing for us, It takes true patriotism to stand up for the troops in light of everything else you hear, God Bless you all and God Bless America!
Semper Fidelis
Frank Johnson
Col USMC
CO SCP-Baghdad
jealous
Noooo....really? I never woulda guessed!
Heh...
I don't really like white hamburger buns or hotdog buns. Even when I was little, I'd eat just the hamburger a lot of the time. But I do like bread! Not mushy store bought white bread, though.
Most excellent news. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! That is an awesome story!
Thanks for sharing it!
Man...I've barely been a part of this, but it feels so good to know we're able to help.
Sourdough bread is my big weakness. Couldn't do Atkins without a break because of that. And pecan pie. Once a year, I have to have pecan pie.
OH MY STARS what an excellent letter!!! Thank you so much for posting it!!
Wow! What an e-mail! That's fantastic!
During this time I was researching ways to be 'low carb' but also get away from the over-processed foods that are flooding the market. That's when I came across Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions- a cookbook based on traditional diets from around the world. The emphasis is on old-fashioned, whole foods. While it's not expressly 'low-carb', it fits nicely with our maintenance plan. And is much healthier than the commercial low-carb crud.
I'm having tears again.
And I don't think I have this address for sending goodies.
I am getting boxes of goodies ready to send out in the next couple of days.... but I don't have a functioning camera with which to photograph them anymore so I'll probably just list the items and scan the customs forms.
Sourdough is allowed on SB...
And I reserve the right to have pecan pie and eggnog around the holidays. And fudge. If I'm good otherwise, I figure it'll be OK. I can diet in January if need be...
"We don't look at it as a diet...we look at it as a different way of eating after finding that the way we were eating was not nutritionally sound."
That's a good way to look at it. I guess that's how I've been approaching my eating changes, also, though I never put it in those terms consciously. I notice that I just don't feel inclined to eat certain things I used to because I'm more aware of their negative side-effects on my body.
~Very~ cool WinMag! Thank you!
Hmm, I may have to look at SB.
Ooh, yay, tonight starts off Amazing Race! It's the only reality show we watch - whole family sits around and watches.
I've noticed all these things too! I feel just generally better!
What about your nails?? Did your nails start growing? I actually have a ridge in my big toenails where you can see "something" different happened and the nail changed. My fingernails are so long I don't know what to do with them! I've never in my life had nails...they'd just split and flake off...now I have them!
I guess Ethiopia was actually a pretty well-off country until the 1980s or so when Communist-provoked wars combined with famine (I believe) destroyed the infrastructure. There's some pretty good traditional Ethiopian and African cuisine I've eaten.
"Your story makes life number four that has been saved by one of these knives, that we know about. . ."
Wow! That's great to hear! Thanks for posting that :)
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