Milestones

I turned 30 yesterday. The weather was horrible-it still is as I write this- and it never stopped raining in our part in Lapu-Lapu City. Marlen and I took the day off from work and went out for a quick pasta meal. We stayed indoors with Dylan, who did not have a class yesterday, and Lennon, who never stopped running from one corner of the house to another until he fell asleep close to midnight.

I smoked only two cigarette sticks yesterday. I used to smoke at least a pack (20 sticks), often more, every day. I started drastically cutting down on smoking earlier this year, with the approach of my self-imposed deadline to quit, which was set arbitrarily several years back in one of those drinking sessions with friends. I know it’s still too early to tell but I just might be able to pull this off.

Even until a few years back, I thought 30 was old. A former editor, who was in her early 40s at that time, called my attention when I used “old woman” in the headline for a crime victim who was in her 40s.

I don’t feel old. I’m not as fit as I want to be but I’m working on that with life hacks on smoking and diet. I want to return to playing football (or soccer as Americans stubbornly call it) regularly. In the meantime, I’m playing table tennis regularly and narrowly missed a slot to the finals in our office tournament.

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5 responses

  1. Belated Happy Birthday!!!…:D

    I quit smoking in 2004, Cold Turkey…I think the downside is that I now have this addiction to menthol candies and am prone to excessive nail biting… I just hope there won’t be a relapse again…*snicker*

  2. hey hey! Happy beerday! 🙂

  3. Yuga, Hoop
    Thanks!
    I’m also eating a lot of candies and Oishi’s Boogyman and peanuts and cornicks and other junk–just to get my mind off smoking. It seems I’ve replaced my cigarette breaks with junk food breaks.

  4. Belated Happy Birthday, bai. Nya congrats pod sa journalism certificate. I like your template 🙂

  5. Thanks Norms, tiguwang na ta.

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