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2 of my current exercises in self control / improving my quality of life are my health (exercise, eating right) and money (spending less, saving more). And I have come to the conclusion that the biggest target for both of these goals is my smoking habbit.

So, today I have launched an aggressive campaign to kick it for good. It’s something that has always been in the works, but has never been at the center of my focus.

In this effort, I will be tweeting my cigarettes. This will be done for 2 reasons. 1) it will show publicallly my habit, and in such a way, will force me to kick it for good so as to stop shedding the light on it. And 2) to include my support groups (twitter followers, facebook friends, etc) in my efforts.

Hopefully, this new “cigarette spam” will be short lived, and I will be better off for it. If you would like to track these efforts, simply follow me on twitter

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What is is about the holidays that breaks our routine only to make us look through old photos and think of the past?  When ever we are at my grandparents we always somehow get around to watching the old home movies of when I was little.

In my case, It’s always the past years online updates.  This year I went through my old Xanga (it’s still online if you desire) and thought of all the good times that were behind those entries.  Back when i used to document every aspect of my every day.  Sure it was lame to do it back then but now I can relive those days.

Right now I’m at my uncle Robbies house, to whom we donated alot of our old furniture and my moms old Honda after the hurricane.  Seeing all of these things is also bringing me back to the past.  Especially going out to dinenr in the old minivan.  I remember riding to school every day in that since the 7th grade.

I dunno, I’m kind of entertained by the past.  Everytime I have these looks back I’d like to think how much I’ve grown as a person.  When in reality I haven’t.  I’ve just grown physically to some degree.  But it’s still fun to see the old me in action, or at least his actions documented.

Do you guys do the same thing?

The chicken or the egg?  No, similar question though.  I ask you which came first, lust or love?  I’ll speak in terms of man and woman, but you can switch them around as you see fit.

If the story of Adam and Eve is correct, than it was god who told man to love woman, and thus love came first.  But, if Mankind grew out of monkeys, than which came first?  Obviously the insticts of animals that we still hold today are for the mother to protect it’s young and for man to further the species, and so forth.  So if this is true, than lust came first?  And if this is the case, where did love come from?

Is love an invention of man or is it a characteristic of man?  Is it something that we posses and we gave a name to, or is it something that we talk about that maybe isn’t there?  Can love exist without lust and vice-versa?

What is the science of love?  Obviously we have cracked the science of lust.  It’s a reaction of chemicals in the brain.  And love is the same way is it not?  But where is the line drawn?  Is there a line?  Is love a subset of lust or is it the other way around?

These are just stupid hypotheticals, but feel free to share your thoughts, I’d like to hear them.