Currently Listening The Backyardigans By The Backyardigans My nieces are watching Backyardigans, so I'm stuck with the music. Not all that bad, really. see related

Redken for Men

Soooo....in case anyone's wondering.  I'm sure you're all dying to know this.  Ready?  Anxious?  Pro Cuts at Danforth & Sante Fe has their Redken for Men products on sale right now.  You can take your choice of any shampoo and any styling products for $14.95, and if you're lucky like me and get the girl that doesn't know how to ring up the sale, you just get charged $13.93, tax included for both products.  Pretty good deal, considering my "Get Relaxed" shampoo was originally $9.95 and the "Work Hard" paste was $12.95.  Good deal, galore.  Save on, saver.

Shock therapy

So, some of you know that my accident has been revealing some neck/upper back issues here in the past 3-4 weeks.  I had some pain the 2-3 weeks after the accident but not much and was trying to wait until I had a vehicle so that I could have transportation to where I wanted to get treatment (63rd & Independence in OKC).  The pain got pretty intense and I started treatments February 20th...luckily got a car February 22nd.  Anyway, today they started me on a new set of treatments.  They told me they were going to put electrodes on my back, do an ultra-sound and then do massage thearpy.  We started with 4 electrode things on my back and the girl told me to tell her when I could feel tingling in them.  I did and then she told me to let her know when the intensity level was good for me.  Well, I've never had anything like that done before and so really didn't have any idea what was good for me.  I let her raise up the intensity some and then told her I thought it was good there.  For 5-10 minutes she did the ultra-sound thing and then told me she would leave the electrodes on me for 15 minutes.  As she laid the warm towels over my back and shut that door, I had no idea what I was about to be hit with.  For the next 15 minutes, my body laid there writhing and jumping from pain.  Don't get me wrong...it felt some good, but mostly it just felt like a zillion needles stabbing my back.  Pretty sure the intensity level was too high.  I mean, let's face it people, I'm a big guy, and there were literally times when it would get so strong I felt like my body was gonna be lifted on the table.  Crazy stuff.  Then she came in after what felt like 15 hours instead of 15 minutes and gave me a massage.  If you know me at all, you'd know I'm not a fan of massages.  Frankly, I think they're painful.  3 more of these treatments, and then if I still don't feel much better the doctor wants to do an MRI.  I hate this whole situation.

Oklahoma Aquarium

So, today I was given babysitting duty.  From 7:30 a.m. until just a few minutes ago, about 10:30 p.m., I was responsible for my nieces.  Scary, people.  Truly frightening.  We went to the Oklahoma Aquarium today in Jenks and the girls def enjoyed themselves.  Celicia wasn't so keen on it and kept saying, "Don't want it."  However, Cristina probably would have gotten in with the fish if she could have.  All in all, good times.  Click the link here ---> share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AYsmbVs3ZtmOe to view the pictures.  I just had my camera phone with me so they're not all that great, but some turned out pretty good.  Enjoy!

Currently Listening Hardcore By Lil Kim Big Momma Thang see related

Okay, so it's 12:30 a.m. and I don't know what the crap I'm still doing awake.  Not only am I still awake, I'm still at my parents' house because I came over to visit them.  Not only am I still awake, and still at my parents' house, but when I get home I plan on watching Monday's episode of 24.  I didn't watch it Monday because of Fiona/Coldplay and I wanna know, I need to know, what's happened with the Suvarov's motorcade.  Okay, so by the time I get myself home, watch 24, and get into bed, I'm gonna get about 5 hours of sleep.  Joy for me.  And tomorrow evening, I get to spend time with my co-workers going to a play.  Joy.  As if I don't spend enough time with them already.  It could be fun though.  We'll see.

As Sweet Mama Katy would say, "Ah, bless it."

This is being posted per the request of Sweet Mama Katy.

10 Things People May Not Know About Me:

1. I don't speak Spanish.  Seriously, you probably know as much or more than I do.
2. I was born in Guthrie and have never left.  How sick is that?
3. I went through a ridiculous Airwalk shoe fetish during high school.  (Still have my favorite pair---green, olive, tan suede.  You can bet your bottom dollar when I have those on that my feet are smiling with un-healthy amounts of glee.)
4. I have had the same best friend since I was like 5 years old.  To this day, we pretty much have no-limits discussions.
5. You can rarely catch me watching more than 2-3 hours of TV a week.
6. I'm lonely living alone.  (Will be getting a roommate soon.)
7. I miss all of you people lots when I'm not with you.
8. I have a really anal issue of using only Conoco fuel.
9. Don't have many hates, but I do hate injustice.  It's probably my biggest issue.
10. Noises people make with their mouths drive me ABSOLUTELY insane.  It's a sick, sick issue, and Laura Ballard, Katy Pruitt, David AZ, & Ghezal could all attest to that.  I send them e-mails all the time from work about how noisy my co-workers chew and how they are CONSTANTLY eating.

7 Things I want to do before I Die:

1. Go to Wellington, New Zealand.
2. Start writing poetry again, regularly.
3. There's a great house in Guthrie that used to be a bed & breakfast 1/2 a block from me that I've wanted to own for like 15 years.
4. Live some place that's grey-skied, misty, cloudy, and rainy 90% of the time. 
5. Pack up and do missions without leaving any baggage behind.
6. Go to New York.
7. Read through all of Shakespeare's work.

7 Things I Can't Do:

1. Play a single instrument.  I'd kill to learn to play the piano.
2. Eat raw onions...sick!
3. Bring myself to smoke.  Not that I want to, but I mean just the thought of it is pretty repulsive.
4. Hold my alcohol.  I'm pretty much puss-n-boots when it comes to drinking.  (Ballard, Ghezal, I can hear you guys laughing now.)
5. Have a good friend for very long without giving them a nick-name.
6. Stop drinking soy triple-shot caramel macchiatos. 
7. ?

7 Things I say all the time:

1. Friend 
2. Umm... 
3. What the crap do you want? 
4. Basically 
5. Ya know?
6. Pretty much
7. Right....

7 Books/Magazines I love:

1. The Fixer 
2. Velvet Elvis
3. Rolling Stone 
4. Walking on Water:  Reflections on Faith and Art (You need to read this, Sweet Mama Katy.) 
5. Searching for God Kows What
6. Hosea 
7. Ezekiel 

7 DVDs I can't stop watching:

1. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?  (All-time favorite movie) 
2. A Beautiful Mind 
3. Elizabeth
4. Minority Report 
5. Girl, Interrupted 
6. Moulin Rouge 
7. Rent

7 Bands I Can't Stop Listening to:

1. Fiona Apple 
2. Tracy Chapman
3. Jewel
4. Smashing Pumpkins
5. Eastmountainsouth
6. Norah Jones
7. Sarah McLachlan
8. Sheryl Crow
9. Madonna
10. Natalie Merchant
11. Sade
12. Counting Crows
13. Everything But The Girl
14. Frente
15. Foxy Brown
16. Alanis Morissette
17. Coldplay
18. The Cranberries  (Yeah, I know that's eleventy million more than 7....can you tell music is my thing?  I could live without a lot of things, but not music.)

7 People to do this survey:

1. All of you better do this...or else.