Day 1

OK, here we go. I put the patch on about 45 minutes ago. And, my arm feels like it's asleep. But it's OK. This too shall pass. I am determined to quit, so therefore I will. We're going to dinner at a friends house tonight, and both she and her husband are non-smokers, so it'll be good. She knows it's my first day not smoking, and she told me to come over whenever I wanted today. Nice lady. I consider myself lucky that she wants to be friends. It's so difficult to make friends as an adult.
I've learned to knit to keep myself occupied while I quit, and I think it's going to work out well. I've got 3 projects going on right now, and I've found that the more I knit, the more I understand about how to do more complicated things. I'm making a Harry Potter inspired sweater for my son, and it calls for an H on the front, done in a different color yarn than the main sweater. I've never done this before, so I put it down a week ago. I'd read the instructions many times, even watched some videos about it on some knitting help sites, but couldn't wrap my mind around it. So, I put it down to work on a button up sweater I wanted to make for myself. Now, I've gotten to a part on my sweater that calls for a pocket insertion, and I have no clue how to do it. So, I put that down, and picked up a new project. I'm making a shawl for my best friend in Arizona. I'm about a quarter of the way done with that, so now I'll go back to my son's sweater to work on the letter part. I figure that once I have the letter done, I can go back to putting the pocket in my sweater. I started the shawl because, I figured that I needed something easy to make me feel like I was accomplishing something when I got too frustrated with the other projects. Hopefully all will continue to go well.