Completely stop cursing

I am so proud of myself! I made up with my brother’s girlfriend and didn’t use a cuss word once in our conversation and am still curse free after the little incident on Sunday. I think that in a few more weeks I can store this goal away because thus far I have accomplished it. It feels nice to know that in any conversation I have with anyone I am not just blurting out cuss words because its “normal vocabulary”. This is one of the greatest goals I’ve put up on this site so far that I feel I am winning the war against.

my brother’s girlfriend went off on my last night because she wasn’t happy with the way I was speaking to MY brother. I have been doing so well with not swearing and its actually helping to keep my blood pressure down because I’m not getting SUPER upset about things. That was until last night. I was teasing my brother last night about us not giving him Christmas presents this year because he doesn’t believe in Jesus and God, which are both things he’s mentioned before, and she got extremley upset. Now I can stand behind someone who gets upset at a situation, mentions that it’s upsetting her, and asked me to please stop. That’s all fine and dandy but her methods of dealing with people are rather 5th gradeish.

She storms up from the table with my mother’s dishes in her hands, SLAMS them down in the sink, and then proceeds to yell F you to me and how could I say my brother couldn’t recieve Christmas presents and then opens and slams our front door. Everyone at the table froze with shocks looks on our faces. As she was storming out I tried to explain that I was just joking around with my brother but she wasn’t having any of that. So after she leaves I started swearing up a storm. For somenone to have that little of respect for my family that she would act like a child is ridiculous and she also explained through my brother she was never speaking to me again.

I understand if you’re angry but….I believe talking about your feelings on a particular incident is much better than blowing up like a lunatic and embarrassing yourself in front of my family. Maybe I was in the wrong but I reminded her I was in my parents house and I could speak to my brother, that it didn’t involve her. So I am back on the non swearing train again after falling off momentarily, but I refuse to apologize to this girl who acts like a child more often than not.

I hate drama and dhe thrives on it, a very ugly thing in my opinion.

Suprisingly I am doing very well with this goal. I maybe slip up once a day, if that, and immediatley catch myself. I didn’t think stopping this behavior was going to be this easy! I am going to keep it up on my 43things though because I want it to be that constant reminder that I still need to work on it. The only swearing I want to be doing is if I’m singing along with a song!!

My parents neighbor came to their door, I answered, and this lady started yelling me. Apparently my friend, who is visiting me from New Jersey, parked in front of my parents house but it was right behind her driveway. We’ve been through this with her before, she’s actually hit two or three of our friends and families cars and she previously asked us not to park there. Well, I hadn’t checked to see where my friend had parked but this woman was SO nasty. Came up to the door and ordered me to MOVE IT NOW! I lost it, totally cursed her out, I couldn’t help it. So after that I went back to not cursing but it’s SO hard to not cuss someone out who totally deserves it. And now my parents refuse to speak to her because of the way she treated me and my parents weren’t even mad I told her off. She def deserved it!

That incident aside I keep catching myself before I swear and I couldnt’ be prouder. I am on a non-cursing streak!

I have had this goal up here on my list for quite a while now and I still have not even come close to accomplishing it. I think my swearing dumbs me down when I have this large vocabulary I choose not to use because frustration gets the better of me. Well not anymore, I am pledging to myself to update this goal everyday until swearing isn’t the first thought that pops into my head when I get angry, upset or just want to goof around. Its such a bad and hard habbit to break but I will conquer this one. I swear to it!

not a single cuss word has slipped from my lips. Granted nothing really stressful has happened today but I am keeping my positive thoughts and will not be defeated by this. Time and effort and I can overcome this bad behavior.

If all else fails I can always wash my own mouth out with soap. That’ll teach me a lesson!

I am going to try my hardest from this day forward to NOT swear even when I get angry and emoitional. Those seem to be my triggers. If I continue swearing like this not only will it spill over in my work life, which it has already a little, but I will remain sounding stupid and unintellegent when I speak, and I can’t put up with that.

The entire other side of my family, all my cousin’s do not swear at all. They were raised ina family where swearing just wasn’t commonplace and my dad swears well like a salior. Part in fact that he was one but part that he just can’t find other words to express how he is feeling. Well, that is not me! This is day 1 no more swearing. Even as angry as I get, even if I stubb my pinky toe on the end of a coffee table, no more swearing!

Everytime I get frustrated, angry, flustered, even sometimes when I’m happy I curse! Its like these words have become ingrained as part of my everday vocabulary and I’m much smarter than that. Now the challenege is getting them out of my brain, which I am having a VERY hard time doing.

I think I need to think about what I am going to say before I say constantly and once I get into that habbit I can replace those vile words with “PG” or even “G” rated words. I find myself cussing a lot at work as well and that doesn’t sit well with me at all! Wish me luck!

NO! But I do swear like one and it sounds SO uneducated! I swear in the grocery store, mall, even around little kids. Its a VERY bad habbit and I need to kick it!

I’ve tried quater swear jars in the past and I end up with a bunch of quaters but I never end up stopping cussing. This time I am going to put myself in check and keep a tally on here everyday of how many times I swear. Hopefully once I see how many times its actually happening I can squash it!