Random Musings Of A Xinher

Hi.

Yeah, I got nothing to say. Not much is really going on with me. My day is pretty much: work, home, Facebook, food, Sharky, shower, sleep.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

If I could blog about work, you’d get all kinds of news but since I won’t, you don’t.

I hope you all have a good 4th of July weekend.

Dude.
First, David Carradine. Then Ed McMahon. Then Farrah Fawcett. And now Michael Jackson.
Holy cow.

Hi all.

I’m back.

Sorry for the absence. I was in the hospital, without internet access, and I didn’t anticipate being their long enough that I might need to call people.

I was having stomach pains on Friday at work. I went home early, went to sleep, woke up with some tenderness, but no pain. So I went back to sleep and thought all was well. Which it was until Saturday morning, when I started vomitting and dry heaving. I thought it was just a flare up of the diverticulitus.

So, after having walked Sharky, I drove to the ER, prepared to wait to see a doctor. Oddly enough, not a lot of people in the ER on a Saturday afternoon. So I got seen pretty much right away. And then the ER doc called my PCP, and all of a sudden, I’m being admitted to the hospital. After a blood test, urine test, CT scan, and pelvic ultrasound, it’s determined that I don’t have diverticulitus this time. But I do have some sort of infection because my white blood cell count is extrememly high and I have a fever. So I’m put on an IV drip, and given some antibiotics. 3 days later, I’m fine. Kidneys are good, fever is gone. Unfortunately, I have developed a cough and my iron, potassium, and magnesium levels are low.

After a chest x-ray, a cardiac ultrasound (which, I admit, was pretty awesome), and more blood tests, it’s determined that I don’t have congestive heart failure, just a cough, and so I’m put on a breathing treatment.

Finally, I put my foot down with my doctor yesterday so I got released last night and am home now. I’ll be back to work tomorrow.

email me at xinher at gmail dot com to get the password to the previous post.

My poor little blog’s been so neglected. Nothing really big is happening in my life right now, except work, which I won’t blog about, so it seems as if I’ve got nothing to say. Which isn’t true. I do have stuff to say, but not a lot of stuff, which is why I put the stuff on Facebook instead. Because it’s little tidbits, not big chunks, of information that I have to share.

Things are going well. I am still employed by the big pipe manufacturing company that has its corporate offices near LAX. Things could be better but I’m not going to test my karma and will just thank my lucky stars that I have a job.

So let me tell you about my day thus far. Nathan and I decided to go to the 9:35am showing of Up. We figured it wouldn’t be too crowded, because really, what SANE person gets up that early to go to the movies on a Saturday? Apparently, kids and their parents. Because the movie was SOLD. OUT. Let me repeat that. The Saturday 9:35am showing of the movie was SOLD OUT. WTF? Seriously?!!? Seriously!! And the showing after that was sold out as well. The next movie we could possibly buy tickets for was the 11:30am showing, but I had a lunch to go to at 1:30pm and I wouldn’t have made it on time.

Instead, we decided to go to breakfast, where I proceeded to eat a lot of food. I mean, A LOT. Chicken fried steak (shut up! yes I had it for breakfast. there’s nothing wrong with that!), 2 eggs, hash browns, 3 strips of bacon, and 2 pieces of toast. Plus a glass of water and a cup of coffee. What can I say? I was hungry.

After breakfast, I came back home to rest. I had planned to nap, but instead I got caught up with watching the last audition round for So You Think You Can Dance. Then I drove out to Pasadena to meet up with some friends at Bucca di Beppo . I always forget what parking is like in Pasadena (it SUCKS) so I drove around for 10 minutes trying to find a place to park before finally finding a public lot that wasn’t full. The rest of my friends came along soon after me and good conversation was had and great food was eaten and I was full full full!! Of course, drinking 4 glasses of iced tea didn’t help.

After lunch, I drove home and on a lark, stopped at the nail salon to see if parking was going to be a problem. However, the Parking Goddess (Asphalta) was smiling upon me and I managed to get a metered space right in front. I fed the meter my quarters (which in the old days would’ve gotten me 30 minutes per quarter but is now 15 minutes per quarter) and went inside. I love the fake nails but for some reason, they make my nails grow faster than normal so what works one day doesn’t work for me 3 days later. So I had the manicurist take the fake nails off and just give me a regular manicure. Not as pretty but at least I can type like a normal person now.

Now I’m home, checking out blogs and Facebook and am about ready to watch a movie. I’ve had these Netflix movies for about 3 weeks now and I haven’t bothered to watch them. Since it’s summer and no new tv is really on (except SYTYCD and upcoming Burn Notice and possibly some other USA channel shows and maybe a Sci-Fi channel show [and yes, I know it's not Sci-Fi anymore but I refuse to type out the stupid new spelling]), I should really watch more movies and reading more books (I have a bunch of books on hold at the local library and am just waiting for them to get here).

And with that, you are all caught up with me.