July 28, 2010
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Motivation
So I am doing somewhat better today. I guess my blood pressure got out of control because I had been anemic and while I was anemic my blood pressure was at a perfect level. Now it skyrocketed or at least it did by my standards. They put me on a BP medicine and a water pill. That water pill is making me piss every 15 minutes. I feel like an old man. At least the swelling is down and there is no more leaking. It was nice for the first hour of rest with my legs elevated watching The Big Bang Theory and then it got boring and I missed my Xanga family...yes, family, I'm a creeper like that.
I get a phone call from my mom this afternoon hinting that she needed my blazer to haul some stuff from Menard's for my aunt. Well I got out but it did hell on my legs. The strange thing was that the swelling went down more after walking around the store. My mom thanked me by buying me some of those Topsy Turvy tomato hangers. My aunt got me some solar lights for my driveway and she bought me supper. I felt like such a deadbeat but gas is expensive. I bought myself another raspberry bush. I am going to turn my back yard into an orchard just like my grandfather. I have blueberries, raspberries, rhubarb, 2 apple trees, about 10 tomato plants, 10 bell pepper plants, 10 ground cherry plants, and 5 jalapeno plants. That keeps me busy when I'm not teaching.
Wow...I'm not being incredibly dirty tonight. See, I'm getting old and mature...finally.
Here's your weekly dose of motivation:
OK for a chance to redeem myself....look at the shellfish one. I was reading a report the other day that a group of people was recommending a substitution for oysters because of the oil spill in the gulf. They claim that there is a substance produced by the body that has the same taste and texture of oysters. Of course the group was mostly men and they were talking about semen.
I think Myspace has become the fannypack of the internet.
Did you know Chef Gordon Ramsay's favorite meal is roasted chicken ramen while taking a bubble bath and watching Gossip Girl.
Don't you find a tad disturbing when guys wear sweat pants to a strip club?
There was a time when I thought I met Tyler Perry but when the wig didn't come off I realized it was Queen Latifah.
Spoiler Alert: Inception is NOT about me.
You better have a great day.
Comments (27)
I'm glad you're feeling a bit better and it sounds like you have a pretty nice back yard.
Dang, you're the third person I know who has recently been put on water pills. Do you have to watch your sodium intake and make sure to get lots of potassium, too?
Good motivational posters! Many laughs to be had.
Oh man, hope your blood pressure is going to come back to normal.
Oh good, i'm glad you're feeling better!
...although, i can't decide if i'm glad or not that you might be maturing. hehe ;)
So, you finally found Waldo, huh?
Oh, and you know Phish? i love them. (i can't see the song thingys on your page right now for some reason... i could on my subs page though) Anywayyyy, last song i heard of theirs was Poor Heart... that's a fun one!
We have a lot of apple trees. But the apples are barely bigger than golf balls.
Sometimes I pretend theyre bigger. Not the same :O
I heard from the Ragin Cajun comedian shrimp are easier to peel, now. Can't wait for the photos of your back yard.
lol @ the "first mobile PC".
Lol you're last sentence sounded like a threat!
Glad you're feeling better today. You also sound like my mother and grandfather with all those edible plants in your yard. They are gardeners and will plant just about anything.
Love the Waldo one.
Hey, unless it's some sort of outdoor event I always find it weird when dudes where sweat pants to public events: concerts, bars, very nice resturants....um.....lurking around the craft department where there is yarn in a Walmart at 1am like I saw this one guy doing once.
Of course that in no way explains why I was in the craft department of Walmart at 1am, not that I'm going to...
I don't think you are a moocher at all! They should front you some food and gas money for all the runaround.
And I'm all for a orchard backyard. My grandfather use to have a grapefruit and lemon orchard in his.
I don't know why but for some reason I'm in the mood for shellfish.
Take care of yourself man! Puhleeze!
@Shining_Garnet -
Thanks...yeah it is fun but requires a lot of work and I am not up for it when it gets too hot.
@methodElevated -
Yes, I have to watch all of that. I started the sodium intake years ago because my parents had to monitor theirs so I figure why not, I am getting older. I had low potassium after I had pneumonia and had to get a prescription. Potassium pills can be dangerous.
@kachino -
Well I have to go back in a month to see how everything is progressing so in the meantime I have to take pills and work on other things.
@Peridot21 -
Yeah, the whole maturing thing sucks because now I am getting all retrospective and thinking of will writing and whose going to come to my house and get out all the contraband if something drastic happens to me.
I love Phish. I have been disappointed that I never got to see one of their shows but then I have so many on cd. I don't know if you followed their career and how they released all those concerts and you could buy a commerative binder because each concert came with a special page for the binder where you could place your cds. Anyway I went out of my way to find all the Halloween shows they released. They had 20 concerts covering their career from 1989 to 2000 and the Halloween shows were awesome because they would cover entire albums. In 94 they covered the Beatles White Album, 95 they covered Quadrophenia, 96 they covered Talking Heads' Remain in the Light, 97 they covered The Velvet Underground's Loaded, and in 98 covered Dark Side of the Moon. I never completed the set because I could never find the cds and they did get pricey. Maybe I'm not that devout.
@anonymiaous -
The apples on one of my trees aren't that big this year but the other tree already has some red apples that are about the size of baseballs.
@POETIC_ISIS -
Yeah, I have to get out there and take some photos.
@SoapAndShampoo -
That is a good one. I would love to see that in action.
@NightlyDreams -
I was going to make it a threat but I stopped halfway. I am starting to plant more because of the higher costs at the grocery store. Thankfully the farmer's market in town is cheap.
@ExposedWrists -
Yes, sweat pants anywhere are not a good thing but I think they are especially creepy at a strip club because as one patron told me: "It's easier for a stripper to rub up on my junk."
I still remember going to a 24 hour grocery store at 3AM and seeing a guy wearing a tank top, boxer shorts, safety goggles, argyle socks, and flippers. I love going to 24 hour businesses because you see stuff like that.
I wish I could have lemon or orange trees but this harsh climate would kill them off in the winter. I have heard of a family that has a lemon tree inside their house but I would think that would be too much of a hassle.
@Aloysius_son -
Even though they aren't kosher, I am in the mood for shellfish as well.
I am slowly but surely getting better but not better in the head.
I heard that since the disaster, (BP oil spill, not Cocky's inability to get it up) ~~ you guys have been buying up tons of mussels, clams, all kinds of seafood from our Maritime Provinces. It's too bad the spill didn't affect marijuana production down there, I could get rich quick.
My partner in crime and I were just talking about going garden raiding the other night. Seems she use to do it when she was younger, just for fun too. Give us your address. I love peppers - and rhubarb, and -- hell, plant a couple of gooseberry bushes next year too. We like them.
@DickDoktorII -
Yeah, the prices of seafood have skyrocketed around here. Every time I go to the store it seems shrimp prices jump $2. I think the last time I looked a bag of shrimp was around $20. It's a good thing I'm allergic to those slimy little fuckers.
Well my rhubarb is done for the season as are my blueberries and raspberries. My tomatoes are just starting to ripen so I'll be busy with them.
It looks like you like to make people smile, or laugh with your blogs. That is great. You seem like a beautiful person to me.
Have a wonderful day.
@Positive__Thoughts -
Thanks, you have a great day as well. I necessarily wouldn't call myself beautiful but I'll take your compliment.
@godfatherofgreenbay - lol yeah, it's one of those catch 22 thingys...
i didn't really follow their career, per se, cause i didn't know about the binder... i guess that means i'm not a true Phish head, huh? ...sounds like you are though. ;)
@Peridot21 -
I wish I had listened to my grandfather and obeyed him when he told me to never get old.
The main reason why I followed Phish was because of how they were like a modern-day Grateful Dead in that no two shows were alike as well as no two songs were alike. Also they had fascinating concerts as I explained to you in the previous comment. I had heard of another thing they liked to do where they would throw beach balls into the crowd. They threw out I can't remember how many single colored balls but each ball was for a different piece of the band and that piece would play in the rhythm the ball would bounce around the crowd.
@godfatherofgreenbay -
Take all the time you need in order to get better man!