Monday, January 25, 2010

2009 in review

  • Just a quick review of 2009 to see how I did and what I still need to do....
  • I want to .......
    • ....Lose weight. Go from 290 to 250...  Went from 295 down to 275 and back up to 295... damn Christmas cookies.
    • ....Spend more time with my kids....(OK ok I did not do that bad with that this year) Not a bad year, lot of movies and fishing time with them. I would still love to spend more quality time w/ em.
    • ....Learn more things. That is always a challenge based on time available. I'd love to learn a 3rd language, finish a degree or something useful.  I learned Ubuntu OS and am working on how to make wooden arrows and strings for my bows and wooden bows.
    • ...work on the house. That is always money and time dependent. There are some things I'd like to do and some things I have to do .  - Patched roof, made water barrel , took are of toilets and the list never stops.... lol
    • ..take a vacation.
    • ..dig out the damn root thats in my back yard....
    • ... go camping with my kids. I want to go to Starved rock. I'd like to go fishing with them and actually catch something outside of just weeds. Went back yard camping down state , but it was a rather cold summer this year... but I think they are in to it now. We caught lots of bluegill, bull heads and Carp.
    • ... sleep for a day with out end. I did that for three day s with a massive sinus infection...
    • .... work out more....I need to make time for that. No ones going to make time but me.
    • .....get a new camera or even an old digital camera. Mine bit the dust and I want to catch my kids before they grow old.
    • .... fly a kite.Just pick a day and go fly a kite. Done, I need to pick out a few more days now.
    • ....for the umpteenth year I want a new tattoo
    • .... get drunk. Done.
    • ......read more books. (I read about 20 in the last year, but more is better) . Up to about 3 books a month...... Mostly horror, zombie, werewolf books, but its still a book.
    • ..... write a book...(about what I have no Idea..)
    • ..... ride 200 miles on my bicycle this year. - about 50
    • ..... get my motorcycle up and running. (I need a new battery and carbs cleaned)
    • ...ride 500 miles on a motorcycle.
    • .....finish my motorcycle tech class.
    • ..... eat healthier. During the week - not a prob, weekends and anything goes.
    • .....fast once a month.
    • ...... get back in to meditating
    • ....to get away from everything for a week
    • ....to cook a banquet for friends
    • ....to brew my own beer . I brewed my own root beer this year!
    • ...to go to the movies more. Ahh the cheep show, how I love you and your $3.00 movies and six visit punch card.
    • ....to learn how to weld or solder copper pipe . I learned how to solder wire....
    • .....to make a potato gun
    • .....have my back looked at by a professional
    • ...get a straight razor shave. DOne, and I bought a leather strop so I can keep it honed.
    • ....to have some one fine me attractive.
    • ....to win 25 million dollars.
    • ....to sleep with a beautiful stranger.
    • .....write down my dreams again.
    • .....get back in to the bow and arrow. Done, I bought 2 news bows , a long bow and a bow from the 50's for my sone. Arrow making is nxt on my list.
    • ...build a pinewood derby.
    • ....buy a lever action rifle.
    • .....go hunting for whitetail deer.
    • .....make an award winning chili
    • .....help the homeless. no but I did help the people in Haiti as best as I could.
    • ....drive on rt 66 from end to end.
    • .....to back to Quaker Steak and Lube.
    • ....buy a rolex.
    • ....upgrade my cars.
    • ....buy my parents a new home.
    • ....cry and feel good while doing it.
    • .....laugh ntil I cry.
    • ....paint the garage.
    • ....watch battlestar galactica. - I saw the season ender . Now I watch fringe.
    • .....do so many things befor my time runs out.
    • ....go to India.
    • ...go to Antarticia.
    • ...go to Spain.
    • ...go to Japan.
    • ...Place a bet in the Kentucky Derby.

     

    So all in all not too bad in what I wanted to do. I just need to make more personal time for myself.....

  • Pax.

     

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

guilt

I watch quite a bit  of NO RESERVATIONS w/ Anthony Bordain. He gave the world one of the best quotes yesterday when he was in Turkey.  Some things taste better with a touch of guilt. .... How true how true. 

Saturday, January 09, 2010


sick again.


It started out as what I thought was a small cold last Saturday. Sunday my head was throbbing and I had a low grade fever all day long. I just could not shake it. Monday, I called in to work. I felt slow and dopy all day long. My eyes hurt and teeth startted to ache. Tuesday I went to work and it was rough. I came home beat and hot. Wendsday. I know I had a sinus infection again. I was spitting up green snot and blood. My eyes and teeth ached more. I went in to work because I had a late appointment. I called in to the doc to have him send a standard amoxcillian perscription to the walgreens. It was all set up when he called in to say he needed to see me. - Ahhhh. My head feels like its going to pop off.  Im crying in my sleep and I can not sleep well. 930 am I have a walk in appt with my doc. I tell him that last night was a very hard night for me. I have a 102 fever that wont break. My neck, back throat, ear, teeth and face hurt. The nurse says its the flu. I correct her and say - I know my body and its not the flu. Wrong type of body achs and no cough or lung issues. The doc confirs w/ me and says my lungs are mostly clear. Again 875 mg amox.... folks thats a horse pill. Not quite 1 gram of pure meds 2x a day for ten days + all the tramidol cocktails I have been making to stop feeling pain and to slow fever every 4 hours.1 tramidol and 3 gel caps or tylenol..... thats allot of pills...
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Well its 2 days on pills after 2 days pure bed rest and soup. the days blur together with a small run out to walgreens to buy real coke and not diet soda. of course i shoveled a but because in chicago when your sick it will snow 8 inched and drop in temp. ... I'm no where near 100%  maby 65-70 % but I feel much better.  I still spit up green snot and blood, but its less green ans less bloody. and the strep I caught early enough not to get too bad.... at one point I woke up at 3 am had coffee a coke a chocolate pie and watched the weather channel for an hour before going back to bed.... my clothes were sweaty even in the cold.....
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folks please listen to your body and go see a doc when you can .....