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I started this new job and as I mentioned I am very good at starting things -like coffee and smoking. However I am more of a starter of things, then I am of a continue-er of things or a finisher of things.

I guess that's why if I absolutely do not want to spend any time at say, a job I might possibly well-

You GOT IT

quit-

We always start our therapy sessions the same way. He asks me how my week was and such and such.

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"[hesitantly] Well I Guess thing are okay.

The quitter pigeon is back"

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[over the top] So I have an imaginary pigeon that regulates my emotional sanity.

No, not really

but still some of it is partly true

although he's more like a temperature reader for my ability to follow through with anything I have committed myself to doing.

And were not talking large engaging time consuming tasks always

Honestly, sometimes I decide it's too much of a long term relationship with the kitchen to make coffee, so I just

Between you and me, I don't think there is any juice in any of them either.

I once wanted to quit smoking.

I drove myself crazy about it.

Day and night.

ponder silly thinking about the cost, the health effects,

and how bad I wanted to quit.

And one night HE showed up.

Loud as a trainwreck.

] Rude as New York City

Blasting [cooing] Quitter, quitter Quitter Quitter

right into my ear.

but not like a person.

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and he was not really saying it either.

He was rather cooing it, like a dove or a pigeon. Incessantly all NIGHT LONG

Quitter, Quitter, quitter..

Well, I quit smoking and eventually after I went to therapy the pigeon went away.

[ Loud as a trainwreck.] Rude as New York City

Blasting [cooing] Quitter, quitter Quitter Quitter

right into my ear.

but not like a person.

quitter quitter quitter quitter

quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter

and he was not really saying it either.

He was rather cooing it, like a dove or a pigeon. Incessantly all NIGHT LONG Quitter, Quitter, quitter..

Well, I quit smoking and eventually after I went to therapy the pigeon went away.

( quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter quitter

We always start our therapy sessions the same way. He asks me how my week was and such and such.

"[hesitantly] Well I Guess thing are okay.

The quitter pigeon is back"