Strangely Challenging Day

I am not really sure what it was about today, but it has been a helluva day to refrain from my pipes.  As I have stated before, it seems for the most part to have become managable to not indulge in my pipes.  I am soon to be hitting the 6 month mark of not smoking a pipe any longer.  But, even though today seemed generally like an average day, I have been having a lot of thoughts about my pipes and pretty strong longings to indulge in a bowl of burley leaf. 

In the mid afternoon, I even had it in my mind that I *was* going to smoke my pipe.  I grabbed one out of a drawer, and grabbed a pouch of pipe tobacco and my lighter.  I had plans to smoke some vanilla tinctured burley after I left for the day and started to do some errands.

Once I left, I was driving around, and I thought, well if I am going to do this, I should sit somewhere peaceful out-of-doors and indulge.  So, I knew of a place on my route that nice, and planned for that.  It took about 15 minutes to get there.  But, the day was quite hot and the bench I had wanted to sit at was in the baking sun, so that did not seem particularly appealing, so I decided to wait to find somewhere else.

The long and short of it, is that I spent most of the afternoon running a bunch of errands, and after not indulging in that park I like, I kept putting off smoking my pipe, truthfully NOT because I did not want to smoke, but because I kept wanting to get all the different errands accomplished while I had time.  I guess that turned out to be fortunate for me, because by the end of all the various errands, the urge to have the burley leaf had diminished enough that I ended up putting my pipe, pouch, and lighter away in my desk when I eventually arrived home.

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