rescue mission
06.30.05 (11:35 am) [edit]i promised i would retell the story a patient told me earlier this week; here that story is.
myself, a tech, a therapist, and couple patients (if i didn't know better, this sounds like the beginning to a joke) were discussing natalie- the girl that's currently missing in aruba- which brought up the movie man on fire. that's when this story came spilling out of one of the patients i was watching. the patient was in the armed forces-i can't recall which branch he said he was in- in the early 1950s. he had just returned from a post in england which had caused him to loose his spanish accent, as he speaks spanish fluently. he was allowed to take some vacation time before reporting to his next post. he went to mexico city, and found himself at a bar. there happened to be an officer of the u.s. armed forces there in the bar that night. the officer noticed a young troop-now "my" patient- at the bar and that he could understand the language well, with the absence of an accent, and could keep a straight face at his game of poker. when the troop got up to leave, the officer met him at the door, and requested the troop to return to the bar the following morning for a special ops mission. the troop thanked the officer for the offer, but declined, as he had to report to his post in the morning. the officer replied, "i'll take care of that." so the troop reported to his post come morning, and was informed the commander wished to speak with him. commander gave troop permission to participate in the special ops mission the officer had spoken of the night before in the bar. so off troop went on special ops. troop was not given any information on the mission except he was not to speak, and to carry a pile of clothes the officer handed to him. troop, and officer went deep into mexico city to small, town jail type of holding facilities and brought out americans. the americans had been kidnapped, robbed of all their possessions including clothes, and left in these tiny jails with corrupt police officers until they could be sold into slavery over seas. or that was the plan, until officer and troop appeared to rescue them. these two men went into these dangerous slums alone, negotiated with the corrupt police and resuced seven americans in two days. let's give a hand for our armed forces; they do more for the american people than we could ever dream up. only hollywood could/has created something similiar to our troops' bravery.
awesome story, huh? so, that's my independence day speech. have a great one!
observation, marriage, tv
06.27.05 (3:00 pm) [edit]sorry i haven't really blogged in a long time. no topic has really sparked my interest, so i will talk about me, since i am the expert. :-D
*sings* me, me, me!!! :wink: ok, sooo....
i finally got a spot observing at one of the local hospitals. :-D it is all very interesting. i'm learning alot everyday, but the downside is that i'm not technically employed at the hospital, so i can't legally do anything. i get to sit and watch, and that is the extent of my "job". *hoo-rah* :p i'm only there from 8-12 in the morning, but it wears me out because it is so boring. you know, like driving for hours in the backseat of a car with a person behind the wheel that like peace and quiet when they drive. :shock: that level of boringness. occasionally the monotony is broken by a call, "bria, fetch me an ice pack/cold pack/more pillows/timer" or "watch this patient for a sec for me" *patient does nothing that needs assistance* *sigh* i don't think i can convey with words how boring it is. it zaps energy out of you! i was so tired from boredom by the end of the week, all i could do on saturday was sleep! i had planned to go to the lake with friends, but i was just zapped! i really hope that doesn't happen eVeRy weekend. i NEED some excitement! luckly, most of my friends work in the mornings too, so we get to hang out in the afternoons/evenings still. :D that's a plus for sure. i have noticed with all my watching that some patients try really really really hard, and others are so determined to show the therapists that nothing they try will work, they won't ever get better. that's really sad. having a good attitude is vital in medicine i have learned; i had better step mine up! i'll tell ya a story i heard from one of the patients today later.
how is it that so many of my friends are getting married?! it is SO weird! i know i've said this before, but one long time internet buddy got married last week, and so did a new net pal. it is just plain creepy. don't get me wrong, i'm ecstatic for them, but it is still weird seeing your friends all married... and then there are the few that have kids already... then there are my new co-workers, who are all 3-6 years older than me, and all= but 3 including myself- married. i am NOT whining that i want to be married. oh, NO, i do not. not right now, anyway. i have an education to get for myself first. found out today that if i do happen upon that lucky guy-*bursts out laughing at my own irony*- in the next 4 years, that unless he is capable of fully supporting himself and i, that wedding bells would not ring, because according to the physical therapists i am working with, it is impossible to work through pt school at hardin-simmons, because it is a doctorate program, so you end up taking 18-19 hours a semester as a graduate student. :shock: i nearly choked on that bit of info. that's a whole lot of studying at once for such a high level degree! but i guess that would be expected. that's the price i'll pay- along with countless other pt students past, present, and future- for going straight to the doctorate level, and skipping the masters all together. more salary, less tuition in the end, so it all works out.
i've decided to cut down on my tv/movie viewing time. i'm cutting out sitcoms/reality tv altogether. i'm not sure for how long. i've limited myself to viewing 2 movies, and the daily news this week. followed by 1 movie plus news next week. only the news the following week, and then at least 1 week of absolutely no tv at all. i haven't decided how long to go for no tv. i need my news. i'm a loser; i know it; i'm proud of it. i'll have to see how i like npr (national public radio) news, i guess. don't get the local news with that though.
well, dinner calls, but i promise i will come back with that story from the mouth of one of the patients either later today (more than likely not) or tomorrow. later, taters!
baby got back (sir mix-a-lot) spoof
06.19.05 (9:30 pm) [edit]this goes out to all my Christian bro's and sis's! i laughed so hard at this when i first saw it i nearly fell out of my chair! anyway, click below and play the video!
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for those who haven't figured it out (mom) "baby got book" shown here is a spoof of sir mix-a-lot's "baby got back". anyway, spread it like wildfire! i'm sure it will make someone you know laugh out loud!
awesome shoes alert!
06.19.05 (10:55 am) [edit]ok, i realize my blogs have all been retarded here lately, and have no literary, comic, or spiritual merit, but i just HAD to spread the word about these shoes! they are so awesome!
these shoes-"barb 624" from the touch ups collection by benjamin walk corp. are the best! you can wear them to prom, then the next day wear them with jeans, and a cute top! so versitile, and they come with 13 different colored ribbons, so they can match virtually everything in your closet! never go shoe shopping again! *hallelujah chorus erupts* i am a fan, just so you know. :-D you can click the picture to see the entire collection of touch ups, cause there are some more shoes there that are pretty neat-o if i do say so myself. i don't call shoes neat-o very often, so that's a BIG compliment. :-D
current top 30 keyword searches on the internet
06.18.05 (5:56 pm) [edit]the current top 30 keywords:
rank word searches per day
1 carmen electra 4491
2 paris hilton 4115
3 playstation 2 cheats 3987
4 music lyrics 2988
5 google 2902
6 tattoos 2786
7 yahoo 2597
8 jessica simpson 2391
9 ebay 2374
10 games 2308
11 amoxil 2211
12 jokes 2204
13 games cheat 2180
14 mapquest 2004
15 katie holmes 1842
16 top 100 baby names 1838
17 sedu hair styles 1724
18 poetry 1686
19 angelina jolie 1614
20 2006 pt cruiser 1579
21 britney spears 1571
22 pamela anderson 1562
23 50 cent 1532
24 anime 1483
25 yahoo.com 1482
26 dogs 1452
27 lindsay lohan 1384
28 wedding vows 1380
29 downing memo 1342
30 eminem 1323
-provided by wordtracker.com
let's see if that doesn't up my hit count! *BWAHAHA* i can understand all the famous people on the list, game cheats, lyrics, and search enginges, but what about those random ones... dogs? poetry? baby names? sedu hair styles? (what is that anyway?... maybe i should google it ;-) ) tatoos? ok, there are some either very strange, or very random people surfing the net. hey, whatever happened to porn? anybody with half a brain (terri schiavo included ;-) i'm really not that mean, but i couldn't resist a joke) knows at least 98% of the male population that has access to a comp has used the net to pull up porn. (not an actual statistic) *shrugs* maybe wordtracker.com thought they'd save the world from that knowledge. again, *shrugs* ah well, i'm done with my random post. :-D
the dark side may have cookies but the light side has joy
06.16.05 (5:03 pm) [edit]hehe, i'm so mean; i've been depriving my poor-and very few- regular readers. *slaps wrist* bad me! i have been meaning to post the following for about 2 weeks though, so here, to the roving internet community i give you my latest "master piece" blog entitled, the dark side may have cookies, but the light side has joy.
so you know how i do; i do lil experiments with myself, and others-usually without informing my subjects. (i know that's totally aweful, but in order to maintain good results...natural results, i guess you could say, the subject must remain oblivious to my experiment.) anyway, i got a new betta fish. i train my fish to feed when their tank light comes on. so when i go to feed the fish, i turn the light on, he swims to the top of the tank, and i dump food in. he eats; he's happy. most or all the food is consumed making tank cleaner longer; i am happy. so, when i first got my fish, erasmus, i would do the above, then leave the light on for a few hours because the packaging the tank hood came in recommended leaving it on no longer than 4 hours at a time. so that's about what i did, and figured erasmus would be fine, because my room gets alot of sunlight. a few days later-or maybe even a week- i noticed erasmus's color was fading, and he wasn't as perky when i first got him at the pet store. (i picked him because he was very fiesty.) then one evening, i noticed he would hardly even swim! he just sat at the bottom of the tank on the gravel. fish have to swim in order to push water through their gills to get oxygen. i knew this was a huge problem, so i turned the light back on so i could keep an eye on him, and see if he might have ick, or parasites or something. not but a few hours later i looked over and he was his normal bouncy self again. :D the difference was the light; most living creatures (except the nocturnal ones) crave light, apparently. i didn't know the quantity of light one gets really does effect your health! i had heard that before, and seen "sunshine lamps" sold in magazines for those unable to leave their homes, or those who live far north or far south on the globe.
next time you're feeling a lil down in the mouth, go for a walk, or just sit in the brightest room in your house and turn on all the lights, and open the curtains. just soak up the light. the dark side may have cookies, but the light side has joy. :D happiness, and light to you all!
the end of an era pics!!
06.08.05 (8:56 am) [edit]new pics! they're from "the end of an era" aka high school, so take a gander and have fun! ;-)
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the start of something new
06.03.05 (9:33 am) [edit]so ya, i haven't blogged in a while... forgive me? please?! just alot going on, so there's plenty to tell! aren't you excited?
i'm gradumatated! (graduated) *big ol' grin* i'm nearly as edumacated as you! :wink: it was fun!! i sat between one of the funniest guys in school, and a talkitive girl during the ceremony, so we had fun, let's just say that. they pronounced my name wrong :roll: but no one noticed except me. greg yelled my name at the top of his lungs as i crossed the stage. thanks, greg! one kid fell flat on his face when he crossed the stage, and according to his mortified face after his fall from glory, i don't think he did it on purpose. poor thing. i mean, he face planted bad, and walked off with a limp. i wanted to throw my cap so bad, but didn't because the ceremony was held in our coliseum which had just hosted the barnum bros. circus; i didn't want my cap landing in elephant poo residue. :-p remember, we're not hick, oh no. :wink: we just hold our really important events in our rodeo arena. i guess it could be worse, maybe the high schools' cafeteria, or the gym. *gag* i don't think it has quite hit me yet that i'm no longer in high school, but no matter, i don't miss it. i ran into my childhood friends yesterday evening; they miss it horribly all ready. one said she cried everyday for 3 weeks prior to graduation. shesh. given she's moving away for school, and i'm not and neither are most of my friends-cause we're all SO cool- so i really don't feel like i'm losing anything. given only 1 of my friends is going to the same school as i am, but i like to meet new friends, and i didn't have a really deep relationship with too many of those people. kenny kinda cut me off from all my friends, so the few i have left i'm very close to anymore.
i've been analyzing kenny some more here lately. he has issues. well, we all knew that, but i didn't realize how he was manipulating me in the palm of his hand. i changed for him, big time. and that's not me at all. haha no pun intended. why i didn't see this, i have no idea. i saw him manipulate other people all the time, and it scared me at the thought that he would do it to me, but i never saw that he WAS! so currently i'm trying to sort the real me from the me kenny created for himself, so i'm a little lost, and have started at square one. i'm beginning to become the fun loving person i once was, and not so quiet, and cautious like the me kenny made. i'm wearing clothes more my style, and not his. i'm becoming more intuned to myself, and my needs, which is hard for me, because i'm a really other people oriented person, and always have been. i feel like i'm being selfish all the time now, but i realize i need to concentrate on myself right now in order to fix me. so sorry if i haven't reached out to you when i normally would have, i'm busy with myself. geez, that sounds REALLy self-centered, but as you can see, i need that right now, so please excuse me. this re-transformation is going to take a lot of time, but with patience and love from my friends, and family, i'll make it through. i'd like to take this moment to thank my mom, greg, and all the others that saw kenny for what he was, and haven't thrown "i told ya so!" in my face. i love ya'll! thanks for hanging in there!
i got my hair lopped off! :D it makes me smile like that! so i no longer have long flowing locks, but a above-the-shoulders razored ends doo, that can go business or party. (no, i did not get a mullet.) depending on how i style it, i'm prepared for any hairy situation haha, i made a funny. speaking of mullets though, i ran into a whole mullet family at the gym yesterday, i almost burst out laughing until i saw the kid- a he/she wearing either a pink swimsuit, or a pink body builder suit covered by a pair of dingy once-white shorts, with tube socks pulled up to his/her knees, and very worn, dirty velcro closure shoes, with a mullet on the top of this. now, that's just sad. but back to MY hair... :-) i love it, and everyone likes it- friends, family, and older friends alike.
speaking of old people, i'd just like to say that old people are awesome! get to know your grandparents, and parents before they're gone! they really are cool! if you don't have an old person, adopt one! i'm sure there's a lonely old man or woman in a local rest home that would love to have a dominoes partner, and someone to listen to their stories of "the good ol' days". i love hearing their stories. when i was younger, my friends groaned when we went caroling or just to visit the nursing homes. i loved to just sit with the people, and listen to the stories they told about themselves in their younger years, their families, or the hilarious renditions of the slop on a plate they were served for lunch. not to mention the dominoes! that's one good thing i got out of attending all those family reunions when i was young; i'm a mean dominoes player, especially chicken foot! those old people give me a run for my money though!
well, hey, i gotta go fix lunch. i'll blog more often, promise. :D blessings on you all!
