Adventures of a Man Mountain

What is it with all the trademe sellers these days?

You login to www.trademe.co.nz and start browsing for items that you might want to buy and MOST if not all sellers will not allow pickups of sold items.

Now me personally I’m a pickup kinda person so that I can inspect the item I’m buying. Plus in the back of my mind, I think that more than half the sellers on the website are not telling the whole truth in their descriptions about said item.

I guess what I’m saying is that I will not buy an item on trademe unless I can pick up the item and pay cash!

Just a little rant, need to get my blogging flow back on!

Not entirely true.. if you don’t believe me take a look at Brent Barry soaring to the rim

Well had my first game in a long time of organized basketball. It was a lot of things - it was fun, exciting and really really exhausting!

First time up and down the court was all good, and then it started to gradually go down hill. Then I started looking up and down the court for a wheelchair and an oxygen mask.. luckily for me and the team I had a worthy substitute on the bench that would come on the court and give me a much needed spell and breather

Every time I came back down the court after our team had scored a basket I managed to whisper to every player in our team “Let’s play ZONE DEFENSE, forget MAN to MAN I’m not 16 anymore!” I think that’s the best way to play anyway even if I was fit! Just more opportunity for us to get defensive rebounds when the other team misses rather than being scattered all over the court.

Must say the best thing about the game, was that we WON! And the smallest guy in the court was the dagger in the heart of the opposing team, he buried a trey when we really needed it. And that is how it ended, our team winning by 3 points.

On the long drive back home over the Greenhithe Bridge - I was craving nicotine like $%#%$!!… I managed to get home have a shower and something to eat and then just fell asleep where I sat down. All without having a cigarette and tasting the nicotine I so dearly craved.

Felt sore, but felt soo good at the same time :D!

Well as most people know the Blues beat the Hurricanes in the Super 14, so they have a slim chance of making the semi-finals of the competition.

Blues beat Canes

In saying that they don’t really deserve it, having been playing really really poor this season in my opinion.

They are in a bad position at the moment anyway looking at the table they are 3rd behind Wellington and then Canterbury who are 1st in the competition. But they are waiting on 3 games to complete before the weekend ends to find out their fate.

And it’s likely those 3 teams will win and will then move ahead of the Blues in the lead up to the semi-finals.

Should be interesting..

since 2 days ago.

I’m ok not going insane, but would be lying if I said I was not having the cravings for nicotine. This being my 2nd time giving it my all to give up. I’m ready to overcome the challenge.

After smoking just on 9 months, I’ve decided to give the disgusting habit the almighty boot. Round 2 has begun.

Why now you ask, would I give up smoking? Apart from it destroying your health. Well first you have to look at why was I enjoying smoking - When I started was stressing out about certain things at work and it helped to alleviate things. Also I was starting to enjoy waking up in the morning and having a nice cup of coffee followed by a cigarette. Or again I would be out with some friends at dinner and after really nice and yummy food, I would quickly just nip out for a quiet ciggie before anyone noticed I was missing.

I really wanna look after my health over the next few years. 30 years of age this year, not the strapping young lad that I used to be. And wanting to get back in to playing sports again ruggers and bit of bball, without coughing and spluttering up and down the field/court has to be a good thing.

There were the 3 Main Reasons why I decided to give up:

I spoke to some workmates who both smoke and they were surprised (there’s that word again) to find out that I had only been smoking for 9 months and not the 10-12 years they had been smoking for. Mentioned something about giving up now would be a hell of a lot easier than when you have a 3-5 years of smoking that foul shit under your belt.

One of said workmates, had a bit of bad news a couple of months ago, which is related in its entirety to smoking. He’s only young too, but has been smoking for however long (more than 10 years) takes it’s toll on your lungs and other parts of your breathing apparatus like your heart.

Lastly was helping my father with the dishes a few nights ago, we got on the topic of smoking and it was cordial no hard words or anything. I had NO IDEA my father had smoked for 20 years! I mean here I am almost 30 years of age and not recalling or remembering my father having a cigarette at all was quite a shock in the least. And when he said it was a dirty habit I made up my mind then and there.

Farewell Filthy Smokers! (Roderick, Glenn, Pierre, Panz, Wayne, John, Darrin and Colt etc) ;D!

P.S. Only thing I will be missing is the always interesting conversation that smokers are blessed with

UPDATE: Have not quite given up, well I haven’t but am down to smoking 2 cigarette’s a day. Which is an improvement