Fly White Guy

Friday, May 16th, 2008

hot new glasses.

Hot New Glasses, originally uploaded by Ryski.

i felt like i wanted to have more options on the go for my optometrical health and well being. so i traded my glasses in for these babies.

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

i guess i didnt finish that one…

i got side tracked when writing that last post. i had to call the nurse advice line cause i started feeling pretty crappy.

what i learned is this:

a. needles in the butt will always hurt. no matter how prepared you think you are or how much extra padding you’ve gained over the last few months and years.

b. that a steroid shot in the butt will help you breathe better almost immediately. within 2 hours i could breathe through my nose. something i hadnt been able to do for almost 4 months.

c. there are side effects to steroids believe it or not. the next evening i was sitting on the couch when kim came home and she said i looked really red. i was feeling quite flustered. so i took my heart rate. after sitting on the couch for over 30 min, my resting heart rate was back and forth between 120 and 140 or so. im pretty sure the doctor forgot to mention that part. the “you’ll almost have a heart attack” part.

there’s what ive learned. not much. but whatever. still waiting for the chest x-ray to come back. oh well.

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

you learn something new every day

well. ive been having some breathing problems, a lot of coughing and not being able to fully inhale.

i had pumenoia back in february. and i took anti-biotics for over a week. i figured that would be the end of it. not so much.

i went back to the doctor yesterday, they did some listening and a couple of breathing tests. he determined that i have at the very least bronchitis. fabulous. i also have an ear infection. whoopie.

they sent me across the street for a chest xray to check on the pumenoia that I had and make sure that i did get rid of it. maybe it came back, maybe it never went away. who knows.

but the point of this story (as of now, i dont have x-ray results yet) the dr decided that since he had no chest x-ray, he didnt want to give me any antibiotics yet. he asked if i had ever gotten a shot for breathing problems.

“no.” i said.

he called out in the hall for a nurse, muttered and she came back with a really long needle.

she told me to “drop em”

i then got a steroid shot it my butt. fun.

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

overheard at dinner.

“this veal parmesan is so good!”

“oh yeah?”

“yeah, i could just rub it all over my body.”

I love you mom. Happy Mother’s Day.

(yes, my mom said that.)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

hot new glasses?

Hot new glasses?, originally uploaded by Ryski.

now that im gonna be a teacher, i thought i should get something a little more stylish to impress the masses as i go out to edumakate the world.

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

allergies, huh?

so somehow when my allergies got really bad driving to reno on wednesday, i thought, “wow, this sucks.” well, thursday they didnt get any better. friday they felt more like the flu. friday was a tough one to get through. friday night about 7 i decided to take my temperature. wow. i didnt know that allergies could give you a fever of 100 degrees. crazy.

im never getting a flu shot again. that’s the third time ive gotten the flu this season. and the first time ever i think that ive gotten a flu shot.

last year, didnt get the flu once. lame.

Monday, April 28th, 2008

here we are again.

im pretty sure it was just a few months ago that i posted that i got a new job. love the new job. love the vibe they give me. that whole, “we actually care about you” kind of vibe. quite a bit unlike the camera shop in days of old.

well, my new job has once again made me quite a happy person. today i start a new adventure. i got promoted last week and i start today. i will be an instructor for the company, training our customers and their employees in all sorts of health and safety topics. forklift to AED and in between.

im definitely scared and nervous. only because i think that its a huge responsibility in two ways. one, that’s a hefty job in and of itself. b, this is the first time ive ever been promoted at a job. ever. so i feel a great responsibility to live up to the standards of the company and the image which i have portrayed for myself while working there. they trust me. kim says ill do great and i have a tendency to believe everything she says. so, here’s to nothin’ to loose, eh?

huzzah.

Friday, April 25th, 2008

what could have been overheard at dinner.

“i think i need an eye exam.”

“yeah? you’d look cute in glasses”

“ive always wanted glasses. id just have to make sure i failed the test.”

“i could stab you in the eye with a fork.”

“glasses, not an eye patch.”

“oh.”

“although then i could ask people when they bring in their film, ‘would you like singles arrrrrgh doubles?”