Thinking About Things

Well it is 532am and instead of blogging I should perhaps be sorting through paperwork and making sure that my bills are up to date. I should perhaps be trying to catch up on work-work. I should perhaps be sorting clothes for laundry or folding what was washed over the weekend. Well none of those ideas were appealing so I decided to start typing.

So the other day I went for my first-ever cardiologist visit. There have been lots of first-times this year. Some positive and some negative. I would classify this visit as a positive. According to what the doctor saw in my tests my heart and upper body seem to be okay. He was a bit surprised that I was recommended to him considering that my issues to date this year seem to be more related to some sort of vascularity problems in my legs and especially with my right one. If anything the doctor told me that I need to push myself a little bit harder exercise-wise which will have the benefit of hopefully improving my legs as well as well as the added benefit of either losing some weight or toning up somewhat. Surprisingly after a little over 7 weeks of not smoking I have not put on that much weight. I have tried to be careful in my caloric intake and think that I have not replaced cigarettes with some sort of bad food choice. I know that I definitely have an exercise partner. LOL! If there is one thing that I know or absolutely am certain about is that I have someone that will be there to help me get better or fitter.

Hmmmm okay just received a weird message from Blogger. I may not be able to save this blog. I think I better stop before I lose even more.

Yinglingtingding...

Or is that Yinglingdingting? Hmmm. Another one of life's conundrums! So what the heck am I babbling about one may ask? This is an inside joke. Actually it is so inside that I am probably the only person that knows this joke. LOL. Okay that is messed up.

Here's the back story. I tend to not have a favorite beer. I will pretty much buy any beer though I tend to stay away from the cheapest much like I stay away from the most expensive ones. Anyways I used to be on Myspace and Facebook a lot and I used to update my status at times with the beverage of choice that I was imbibing at the time of my site visit. More often than not I was name-dropping the coffee I was enjoying. When it wasn't about coffee I would mention the beer that I was enjoying. The love of my life (Jackie M.) has a fav cheap beer and that is Yuengling. My Yinglingtingding is a stab at humour. LOL. Humor for you Yanks. I never know how to type this brand name so I add rhymes to it. Call me a very middle aged out of touch rapper why don't ya! I think lots of people would be erroneous in the spelling of this traditional lager. LOL. I am sure I am not the only one.

So why am I typing about that beer from Pottstown, Pa. Well here's why for those with inquisitive minds. Jackie is at the Detroit airport right now and on her way to KC for a three-day training session in becoming a scrum master. LOL. Scrum not scrub master. She's already a scrub master. LOL. This is coming from my perspective mind you so this may not hold much water as I am not exactly a neat person.

Whereas I am sitting on my deck (upper deck that is) in wonderful Simpsonville, SC listening to a classic rock station on TV while drinking a couple of Yuenglings and rambling nonsensically about a word that rhymes with ting ding sing wing! I think I just invented a new item on a Chinese food menu!

So I am on my upper deck, typing away and making sure that Jinx/Jynx is still near me and not chasing some flies. I am waiting for Harrison, Eean, Mark and Alex to come back from their frisbee golf adventure before I cook supper for everyone. I think it is time to play some poker.

I'll be blogging again real soon. I miss it.

"Google Me" a review of sorts

I spent a pleasant evening watching a movie online called "Google Me". I thought that Jim Killeen had a great idea. He googled his name and kind of made a docudrama of six other Jim Killeens around the world. It is a cool concept. I loved the answers that the Jims gave as the reasons for their purpose here. It made me think and gave me a positive vibe! I needed a happy break!

Beautiful Day

Okay this ramble will not be about the U2 song though it could be I would surmise. LOL. I don't even know if if makes sense to have structured that last sentence in that way. This is an example of my quirky writing or should I say bad and slow typing. Ha! I sit myself down in front of a keyboard and I have a plan Stan but before you know it I am meandering along typing all about whatever comes to mind. Today or this moment is a good day or moment!

I am off work today as it is Good Friday in Canada and they are observing it as a holiday. Given that my work revolves around 100% Canadian stuff I am off today. It is Good Friday down here also! It just doesn't seem the same mind you.

I just came back from venti Starbucks run to Fairview Rd. I could have made some coffee here this morning but I just wanted to see people out and about. Hence I just spent $2.27 for a great tasting coffee.

One thing I have noticed about me is that I can be a loner. In some ways that is great but in other ways it is sad. It is as if I am afraid to completely let myself go around people. It is as if I am afraid to be hurt in some way. I don't even know the way. It is just a sense. I know that I am wary of asking others for help. I tend to try to sort things out on my own. Eventually! Sometimes it takes awhile.

Earlier this week someone I work with told me that I had been more "open" or less shy in the last little while. She kind of tied into my being with someone and that it brought out some of extrovert genes. LOL. I didn't realize it. I guess I had been. I hope that I don't lose that. I hope that I stay more open. LOL. Does that make sense? Sheesh I am asking myself a question as I type.

Anyways my idea for today had been to go to Charleston, SC for a short stay but that kind of fell by the wayside due to the "Saturday event". I could have gone on my own but as I am wont to do I didn't bring in my car for servicing to have that check engine light looked at. I need to take care of that in the coming week so that if I feel like going for a drive I need not worry about my car breaking down on the side of the road.

So now my plan is to work on my yard, to do some laundry, to straighten out the house, to find my digital camera and charge it up and then take some pictures and brighten up this blogspace of mine. Sounds okay!

24

Just watched last Monday's episode of 24 on Hulu. I love being able to watch a missed episode via Hulu. Episodes flow faster due to much less commercial breaks. Kind of wonder if it makes economic sense to make the shows available there but I guess there is some revenue from the 2-3 minutes of advertising. I'm guessing that it is some sort of revenue stream that would not be available if we were watching illegal episodes on some website somewhere. I am not even sure where those sites are. You hear it often enough as it relates to bit torrent sites but I don't even know what that means. LOL. A computer genius I am not!

What to do...

It's a bit unreal how things go sometimes. I've had an interesting 2010 so far. I ran into some health issues after not taking care of myself for many, many years. I'm thinking that living a rather sedentary lifestyle, smoking a pack day since I was 18 yrs. old, drinking tons of coffee and probably not having the best diet finally caught up with me.

The one positive is that I wasn't afraid to tell my doctor of everything that was physically bugging me. Boy oh boy did I open up and admit things that I never thought I would. Talk about opening up a can of worms. LOL. Since the middle of February I've had a regular stress test, a nuclear stress test, a CT scan, two ultrasounds and have filled plenty of vials with my blood. I am now taking a couple of blood pressure pills in the morning along with a low-dose aspirin to regulate my BP plus some cholesterol meds to regulate that as well. LOL. Sheesh this stuff better work. Plus I even stopped smoking 26 days ago. Hopefully on May 4th I will start seeing some progress. Not seeing or feeling it yet.

Even with the discovery of something that totally has shaken my faith in the opposite sex and makes me wonder when I will ever believe or buy into the romantic ideal I'm still trying to stay positive. I have to admit there are moments that I just want to scream at the top of my lungs. WHY ME? ARE PEOPLE THIS MEAN? IS THERE SUCH A THING AS INTEGRITY? IS IT ALL BS? I know deep down that I am only thinking this way because it is too fresh. It is too new. I'll get through it. I will get back to rambling on coherently and not so coherently and make myself actually laugh at loud at how quirky I look at things at times. I will get there! I will get there! I will be there!!!

Middle of the Night

Well here I am at 417am and I think I am pretty much wide awake. I woke up about 15 minutes ago wondering where I was. Not a good sign. Gawd I have too many things running through my head. Most of these things are negative in tone. It's amazing how one event just seems to overshadow everything else that is going on and makes everything seem kind of bleak. I know that this is just a temporary thing. It will get better. I just have to do what I need to do to make it so.

I am really looking forward to this long weekend. Pretty sure that the weather is going to be real nice and that will give me the chance to work on my front and back yards. This being my first ever spring as a homeowner this will be interesting. I was walking around my yard yesterday wondering what is good grass and what is a weed-like grass. I am really lost when it comes to any garden issues. I'm going to have to google all of this stuff to figure it out. LOL. I think I am going to try to get back to sleep. I can't be awake at 426am!