CONGRATULATIONS EI !

Today's post is in honor of my good friend Ei who has managed not to have a cigarette for a year!
The news article excerpt below is more than a year old however I thought it was a nice way to
pay tribute to Ei's accomplishment today.
~sapphoq


Nonsmokers report better health and fewer symptoms of depression than smokers

Medical Study News
Published: Monday, 25-Jul-2005


People who have successfully quit smoking cigarettes are more likely to have visited a trusted health care provider and to report good mental health than current smokers, according to a recent study.
The analysis may help "identify individuals in need of additional resources and assist in efforts to more effectively target the next generation of tobacco control strategies," say authors led by Lila J. Finney Rutten of the National Cancer Institute.
The study, in the current issue of American Journal of Health Behavior, found those who had never smoked and sustained quitters - those who had not smoked for at least a year - were more likely to have health insurance and a usual source of care than current smokers. They were also more likely to have seen a health-care provider within the last 12 months and reported higher levels of trust in the information they received.
In addition, nonsmokers reported better health and fewer symptoms of depression than current smokers....http://www.news-medical.net/?id=11964 for the full article.

LIGHTBULB 8/9/06

I urgently needed a few days off but I knew that getting them would be next to impossible if I asked directly. Instead I jumped from the desk onto a ceiling fan and hung upside-down from it. My office-mate asked me what I was doing. I said, "I'm pretending to be a lightbulb, because I want a few days off."

Just then the boss walked in. "Get down from that ceiling!" he shouted. "I'm a lightbulb!" I shouted back. "A beautiful sexy lightbulb!"

He told me to go home for a few days since obviously I was stressed out and needed a doctor's care. I jumped off of the ceiling fan and started for the door. My office-mate was following me. "Where are you going?" he asked her. "I'm going home too," she told him. "I can't very well work in the dark!"



a joke making the internet rounds.
no ceiling fans were hurt in its' creation.
~sapphoq

IN CELEBRATION OF FRIENDSHIP 8/8/06

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
- Anais Nin

To my friends, I appreciate you more than words will ever be able to say.
Thank-you,
~sapphoq