So I was having this affair over the summer with this married chick. Yeah, I know, bad karma. Anyway, it's annoying me because we ended it and she now wants to start it up again. I'm not digging that, since I'm not in that low place anymore where I would do that again. Well, not anytime soon, anyway.
She's been pestering me again as of late, and I've been ignoring her, but it's been annoying. Do'oh well, lesson learned.
That's not what I'm writing about. I'm back on my feet again. Still no job and no car, but the former will soon be remedied. In the meantime, I recently came into money due to the school I formerly attended screwing up my scholarship, and a few other things, so I'm set monetarily quite easily for at least another eight months, a year and a half if I wanted to stay being a bum and not work that entire time. So that's enjoyable.
Tonight, my friend gave me a call out of the blue, and we've made plans to hang out this weekend, which is nice. Things are looking up, and so far, they're just getting better.
I'm even trying to quit smoking but switching entirely to shisha. Better for the lungs, and I can smoke less frequently, since most of the time that I would light up a cigarette was habit or just to kill time.
So everything is going quite well for me. Only thing left for me to do is remedy this sexual frustration that's been building up for a while now. It's been simply getting as annoying as the repercussions of my infidelities.

tell the married chick to leave you alone if thats what you really want, FL try to focus on getting yourself out of this rut you are in right now, you have so much to gain in life at your age, dont be too harsh on yourself, we all learn by our mistakes.
remember that.

That is outstanding man....Not the married chick part, screw her...I mean, DON'T screw her, not actually SCREW her, I meant figuratively as in the hell with her. *S* Now that we have THAT outa the way. Seriously, That is outstanding. Like Anrora said, we are just a bundle of learned experiences. That's what makes us who we are. I'm a firm believer that you can never know extreme joy until you've known extreme pain. You have to have a develope a reference point. I have personally went from average high school grad, to U.S. Marine, to being a mule in a steel shop to being homeless and then dragging myself up to a 200K plus a year job doing web pages. All before I 30 years old. All of those experiences make's me who I am, what I am. I would not change any of it (Except that I smoke as well and that's something that I have really wanted to get rid of lately). So, this may sound goofy, but relish your experiences ALL of them and fold them into the unique person that is you. (Damn, I shouldn't speak before I get my first cup of coffee, it makes me say weird shit..*S*)

Hang in there, Life is wonderful, now that your've seen the lows' the highs will start to become much clearer.

El Daverino (hope you don't mind your new name), that was beautiful. Made me laugh and I have to admit that you offered some great wisdom. Thanks.

Anrora, thanks for your support. You've helped me quite a bit as of late. And thanks for the avatar. I love it.

Brother, I'm thick skinned as hell....I don't care what I'm called as long as I'm not called late to supper! LOL

Anytime. What good is life and experience if you can't share it.

Oh, keep me up to date on your attempt to quell the nicotine, maybe you'll find something that works that I can use....:)

You, sir, are in Bagdad. There is this fantabulous little waterpipe used for smoking shisha. It's called many things, including shisha and hookah. Use it, love it. It has a lot less nicotine, and the way the nicotine enters your body, it will temper your cravings. And I know cigs are dirt cheap over there (at least in Egypt they are), hookah is just as cheap. You can buy a top of the line hookah for fifteen bucks over there. You get yourself some good shisha and coals, and you'll love it. Just try it out. I can smoke a bowl of tobacco once a day and have my craving quelled. And this is coming from smoking LS/MFT Lucky Strikes multiple packs a day.
Less tar, nicotine, cleaner smoke, social activity, and shows that you are hip to the college crowd? What's not to love?

*Goes outside, empties the old water out and starts wiping the accumulated dust off his Hooka.....*

Thanks! Good idea! They have one at one of the Haji shop that is billed as a "traveling hookah". I breaks down into a small briefcase sized carrying case....I might have to pick one of those up to...

Those carrying cases are shit. Trust me on this. They aren't made for transportation.
The best ones that are affordable, at least in my experience, are the type that comprise most of the ones in my collection. They're thirty to thirty six inches tall. They do not have a rubber seal gasket that connects to a glass (not plastic, NEVER metal, not plexiglass, but honest to goodness glass) via a pinch-like seal. It doesn't screw in. The bowl should be wide, that way the shisha lasts longer because you don't just char the very top layer. Get one that lucks good, and if it's made out of copper or something other than stainless steel, the better. Bronze is good for preserving the flavor. They're low maintenance, too. Now you are in the Middle East. Arabs assume you to be a stupid American, so first thing you do is check to make sure the release valve work. On any hookah, you have a hose attachment, maybe some bolts covering where you can put other hoses, and a final thing that sticks out around that area. It has tiny holes in it. Unscrew it, and make sure the ball can come out. If there is no ball or the ball is stuck, that hookah is a piece of shit, and they're just trying to screw you over.
If you get one, I can tell you all sorts of fun things to do to play with your hookah. Oh, and don't spend more than thirty dollars US on a hookah at most. Well, over there, anyway. More than that, and they're ripping you off.


I see you also have one. Try putting an apple instead of the bowl on the top. If you can get ahold of an apple, let me know. I'll tell you how to do it if you want. Also, try milk, wine, white russians, and lots of ice in the base to improve your smoking experience.

Awe, Hell! A Hookah Master. I'm gonna print your last post off and grab my boy Yasser (He's local, works in our Armoring shop as a shop manager) and go shopping!! I always take one of my local buds along, the shop keeper's get a little pissy, but I always pay fair and don't haggle with them to much. Just enough to where they feel they "got me". LOL With the money I make, I can afford to be generous to these guys who are brave enough to run open markets.

Please, Post away with any ideas. The apple thing intrigues me....*S*

I worked at a hookah bar with a bunch of Egyptians, so there you have it.
The apple is the easiest fruit to do this wit.
To do this, you need a knife, a spoon, a hookah, and some steel wool type stuff. It looks more like this stainless steel cleaning ball that's thickly coiled. If you can find something like it, it'll work.
Cut the apple so that the bottom of it is gone. You gotta use either a granny smith or red delicious apple. Reds are bigger, so go for them. The bottom of the apple is the smaller end with the bumps on it. Dig out the inside of the apple, so that you have a hole, but don't dig out to the skin of the apple. Leave a very tiny lining of stuff inside the apple for support. When you empty it out so that it looks like a bowl, turn it upside down and where the stem is, place it and push it down over where you normally put the bowl for your hookah. Remember to remove the rubber seal. That will give you a nice tight seal around your apple-bowl. Remove any innards that are left from pushing down on the hookah pipe from the hookah and/or apple. Now stick some of that coily steel wool stuff or whatever you found, and fill a the hole you just made with it. Pack your shisha as usual, cover the top with aluminum foil, perform your standard perforation, and there you have it. The juices from the apple make the smoke smoother. Add ice to the base to condense the smoke and make it easier on the lungs. Milk works fantastically to this endeavor as well. Trust me, you'll love it. I wish I could give you a pictorial demonstration, but alas, I have no apples nor more importantly, a digital camera.

Thanks! I'll give it a try and shoot you a post mission report!!

you want to see a choking and gasping anrora sitting in a restaurant in Cairo ? that was me a couple of years ago :D

i swore NEVER AGAIN would i try to smoke shisha :P


guys i can even still feel the burning pain in my chest!!! :P

Anrora, thanks for your support. You've helped me quite a bit as of late. And thanks for the avatar. I love it.
am always here for my pal FL...
ps.... glad you like the avatar..

It is heresy to dislike shisha!
Clearly you got bad shisha or an inappropriate flavor.
You should try it again some day when I make the shisha and prepare the hookah.

mine tasted of apple FL!
the smell as absolutelly delicious but hell when i went to swallow that smoke :P

ps. the men egyptians were smoking it the smoke was coming out of their noses :P

Ahh, so you had bahrini, two apple, apple, or a combination of flavors that was too heavy on the apple mix.
You don't swallow the smoke, you just gently breathe it in. Don't puff on it like a cigar, nor do you breathe it into your mouth and then inhale it.

hmmmmmmm mebbe you are right but no ways am i going to try it ever again! :P

Fooling with a married chick is a great way of getting one shot!

My first wife I cheated on her numerous times. BUT, never with a married woman. Good friend did though. He woke up in the hospital with three bullet holes in his hide.

But if your groovy enough to lay married women, why cant you get a single one? Plenty of them out there.

Fooling with a married chick is a great way of getting one shot!

My first wife I cheated on her numerous times. BUT, never with a married woman. Good friend did though. He woke up in the hospital with three bullet holes in his hide.

But if your groovy enough to lay married women, why cant you get a single one? Plenty of them out there.

So, it's okay for a married man to cheat as long as it's with a single woman, but it's not okay for a married woman to cheat with a single man?

Wow! Hypocrisy much?

:werd: Bear!

Rut ro, we're getting off topic here, methinks.

Although BS has a good point here, let's not turn the thread in that direction. It is FL's journal, after all, so the focus should stay on him around here, I'd say.

One could use skytrooper's post as the basis of a new Relationships thread, though.

Fooling with a married chick is a great way of getting one shot!

My first wife I cheated on her numerous times. BUT, never with a married woman. Good friend did though. He woke up in the hospital with three bullet holes in his hide.

But if your groovy enough to lay married women, why cant you get a single one? Plenty of them out there.

Please do not post in my journal anymore. You are unwelcomed. No need to respond, just don't come 'round here no more.

Warning issued by Betty.

Please do not post in my journal anymore. You are unwelcomed. No need to respond, just don't come 'round here no more.
Screw you.....this is an open forum and the last time I looked you are not a mod to make up rules as you go. If I had an journal, I wouldn't be a big crybaby telling others they cannot post because this is my space. Your just like the kids that owns the ball. Either play by his rules or he goes home taking the ball with him.

As for what's OK for men to do and not women. Show me where is said its OK for either to cheat. I just stated that I cheated on my first, never claimed it was right or wrong. Nor did I say that a woman cannot have an affair. I just said that my friend got caught by the husband and got shot over it.

So don't get your panties in a wad. Must also have some guilty feeling deep inside.:D

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^ ditto. try and behave, for crying out loud.