So I made it to 11 am today before I smoked

Real talk. If your not doing something you love for a living. You didn’t try hard enough and you settled. That’s just me. If your 30 something stocking chips. You made a wrong turn somewhere. Unless that’s your dream job. I think everyone has the one chance they may or may not see. And blow past it. Essp when 75% of my circle are in a place of work they can say they enjoy and plan to stay long term. And trust me. They clean their own toilets lol

Apalchen said:

I do sometimes feel like having a job made for better mental health, but I hate the idea of spending my time making very little money. I’ve been looking at some business ideas where I wouldn’t mind going to work, hydro store, micro business ect. But maybe for the mean time I can get a few shifts at the hydro store I go to now. I do spend like 4 hours a day in my garden but it’s at night (also considering switching to day time gardening now that have enough cooling).

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Get a job that you learn how to install this type of shit. They require you to be high.

Coffee, breakfast, exercise and then I smoke. Afterwards its usually followed up by household duties and then shopping with the wife. Motivation depends on what it is I'm smoking. Weather today is complete atmospheric river so the exercise part is mandatory or I won't get anything done.

a mongo frog said:

Get a job that you learn how to install this type of shit. They require you to be high.

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How do they require you to be high while using equipment to install security gates

Apalchen said:

I don’t get much exercise at all, I have intentions in doing lots of stuff but most of it doesn’t get done.

Yes I used to wait until after work to smoke which was like 4, since I moved and no longer have a set schedule it’s harder to moderate.


The food thing is a definite issue, and so is lack of exercise.

I’m thinking of setting a daily schedule and enlist the wife to help enforce it til I get in a better routine. Might start with a morning routine cause otherswise it seems overwhelming to have something scheduled all the time.

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I do my chores first, a little tai chi, some beep breathing. Get some breakfast or milk or juice.
get a shower. Then take a toke or whatever.

Good for you for waiting.

DrOgkush said:

How do they require you to be high while using equipment to install security gates

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Because most of the time you have to dig holes clean up dirt and mix concrete before the security gate gets installed. And to do that day in and day out takes an incredibly high individual. Hope that helps.

a mongo frog said:

Because most of the time you have to dig holes clean up dirt and mix concrete before the security gate gets installed. And to do that day in and day out takes an incredibly high individual. Hope that helps.

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Totally agree

Apalchen said:

Lol like the title says it’s a sorta victory I waited a full 3-4 hours after waking up to smoke. No but in all seriousness has cutting back smoking helped anyone with being depressed and/or lazy feeling.

I never have any energy, I’m not even to 40 yet. I feel like I’ve never had much energy but it’s definitely gotten worse over the last year or so.

Lately I’ve been thinking maybe it’s just smoking too much, but I’m so uncomfortable and anxious when I don’t smoke that I eventually give in. Well most morning I just start smoking when I get back from dropping kids at bus stop.

I thought maybe it was because I had hep c but that has been officially cured and no change in how I feel.

I’ve never been good at denying myself stuff and have a very addictive personality, I spent my teens and twenties addicted to opiates and it took me several years of being locked up to get over that.

Honestly though if I didn’t smoke I’m not sure it would even be any better It could posssibly be like low testerone? Any other middle aged guys ever have that issue? I only ask cuss I see commercial talking about it and energy in men.

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I like to get to 1400 b4 I light up, regular exercise and good diet can only be weed that fucks you up,
, please consider your Tolerance and how you can manipulate it,
just think the first time you got stoned and how you felt,

managing your tolerance means better hits

Check this link out.
No you don't have to be a body builder to benefit from exercise and strength training. And strength training can mean anything where you lift some weight a few times.

Severed Tongue said:

Check this link out.
No you don't have to be a body builder to benefit from exercise and strength training. And strength training can mean anything where you lift some weight a few times.

The Benefits of Working Out for Our Mental Health

For those who find solace working out in a gym, you're not alone; exercise has been proven to be an essential coping strategy for managing feelings of depression or anxiety.

www.bodybuilding.com

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Yeah I used to do that ...downing 2 dozen eggs a day compared to my buddies dropping steroids' ...its was fun

DrOgkush said:

Real talk. If your not doing something you love for a living. You didn’t try hard enough and you settled. That’s just me. If your 30 something stocking chips. You made a wrong turn somewhere. Unless that’s your dream job. I think everyone has the one chance they may or may not see. And blow past it. Essp when 75% of my circle are in a place of work they can say they enjoy and plan to stay long term. And trust me. They clean their own toilets lol

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Luckily I am doing what I love for work


Don’t wanna sound pretentious I’ve worked all
Kinda jobs even on the back of the garbage truck for a while. But I needed the money. It would take a lot of money to get 40 hours of my week now. I would like something to do though so maybe I will look at volunteering for something.

Apalchen said:

I do sometimes feel like having a job made for better mental health, but I hate the idea of spending my time making very little money. I’ve been looking at some business ideas where I wouldn’t mind going to work, hydro store, micro business ect. But maybe for the mean time I can get a few shifts at the hydro store I go to now. I do spend like 4 hours a day in my garden but it’s at night (also considering switching to day time gardening now that have enough cooling).

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This had me under the impression you barely work since you can pickup shifts at the hydro store. I work for big flower here in so cal and the growers are never complaining about not having enough to do. Usually the opposite.

is that last pic a small commercial or just your personal?

DrOgkush said:

This had me under the impression you barely work since you can pickup shifts at the hydro store. I work for big flower here in so cal and the growers are never complaining about not having enough to do. Usually the opposite.

is that last pic a small commercial or just your personal?

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That’d be my personal lol

Paul Drake said:

That’d be my personal lol

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Wait. So he works for you? I’m confused ?

DrOgkush said:

Wait. So he works for you? I’m confused ?

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The LOL in my post is kind of a flag Meaning this is a joke.

DrOgkush said:

This had me under the impression you barely work since you can pickup shifts at the hydro store. I work for big flower here in so cal and the growers are never complaining about not having enough to do. Usually the opposite.

is that last pic a small commercial or just your personal?

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I have two of these rooms, and a veg room. It’s for me and my patients. I do about 4 hours of gardening a day and at least 8 more hours through out the week. So roughly 35 hours a week or so. Most of it is from 8-12 at night.

My wife does the trimming and helps de leaf. She also does the cloning most of the time.

I just have so much of my day open that I feel I could be doing more.

Apalchen said:

I have two of these rooms, and a veg room. It’s for me and my patients. I do about 4 hours of gardening a day and at least 8 more hours through out the week. So roughly 35 hours a week or so. Most of it is from 8-12 at night.

My wife does the trimming and helps de leaf. She also does the cloning most of the time.

I just have so much of my day open that I feel I could be doing more.

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Well that alone should be plenty therapeutic.
And if your running two rooms with a 2 man army. Pat yourself on the back. That’s impressive

so your running perpetual and all no problem from propagation to finish. Trim cure and all that. Just you and your wife? That’s pretty cool. My ol lady trims. But when she feels like it.

DrOgkush said:

so your running perpetual and all no problem from propagation to finish. Trim cure and all that. Just you and your wife? That’s pretty cool. My ol lady trims. But when she feels like it.

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I take down one flower room at a time, and thoroughly clean in between runs. I use prokure gas and liquid prokure as well as spray the whole room with zerotol.

My veg room does have plants in it at all times so it’s harder to clean but I do veg for a few weeks in my flower room after going to bigger pots, and every couple months I’ll move my mothers and new clones to that room and do the same thing in veg.

My veg room still exchanges air so if I do have any issues it’s usually in that room and in the summer. I plan on adding ac and sealing that room as well before next summer.

And yes we do it all, well we have paid for help trimming a couple times but they never work out and she has to touch up the product to get it how we like it.

I only had one other friend help with the whole building, no hvac, no electricians. Well besides the spray foam guy it was just me and one laborer. The building started off as metal pole barn with no insulation, basic electric and no water or drain. I wired up new 200 amp service, framed out rooms, painted, water line, drainage, installed 3 mini splits and set up the rooms.

I have another garage and just replaced the roof in plans to start another build, but they are talking about doing away with caregivers at some point so I’m debating whether or not I want to invest so much in that or just try to get a commercial building in town for a micro business. It’s not like I’ll stop if they change the laws it’s still only a misdemeanor for up to 200 plants, but I’m kinda just waiting to see how it plays out before going bigger here. The growing part of the micro I have no problems with it’s the paperwork and storefront that has me hesitant, but a small grow without a storefront will really take a hit when wholesale prices go down.

I promise you man, you just need some good uplifting morning habits, healthier food throughout the week and some decent physical movement. Even just a brisk walk. Oh and don't forget to drink your water! None of that "gallon a day" nonsense but a few glasses of plain ice water a day makes a HUGE difference.