I swear my skin is out to get me.
Just as one issue is clearing up, another one shows up. I had hives the other day, HIVES! I have never before had them. It was quite perplexing for a while. They cleared up as the day went on so I didn't think much of it. Then they came back again that night and I woke up with them again. So then I googled skin issues and by self diagnosis I determined that I had hives. Now I haven't had them for about a day. I wonder what brought them on for a day and a half.
I'm just happy that they stuck to my legs and didn't go on my face or something. That wound have been nasty.
Yesterday was a good day. I finally went to a Brewer game. It has been since May that I last graced the concourses of Miller Park. I'm going on Sunday as well and then again in September at least once. It might be a second time as well. Sunday is Jeff Suppan bobblehead day and if you donate school supplies you get a Manny Parra pin! What! I am so there! I need to run into Target tomorrow to get some supplies though. I hope they aren't picky. I'll buy some RoseArt Crayons. No way am I shilling out for Crayola. I'm all for helping those in need but I can't afford the fancy stuff.
Any frequent blog reader, which would be one-me, might have noticed some changes. Yes, I have updated my links. Enjoy. I also changed the name of a few things on that side. I decided I wanted to call past entries "archives" now. And that sums up the changes.
Alright. That's all I got now party people. Keep on keeping on!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Selling it away
I have come up with a plan to make money. I should sell my eggs and my plasma.
Did you know the average going rate for donating your eggs is $5,000 to $10,000? Holy cats! That is a lot of dough. Too bad the process seems a little bitching. Needles, prodding, complications. Not to mention 90 percent of people don't get accepted to donate. It'd be so much easier if I could just jerk it in a cup. But for 5,000 bucks how can you not give it some thought?
I'm not saying I'm gonna do it. I'd like to not risk my ovaries since someday I'd like to crank out a few kids that I get to keep. If I remain unemployed or can't get a good job in a few years then say hello to selling my eggs! You could almost get a car for that!
Plasma doesn't offer quite the financial payout. 20 to 30 bucks a go, but you can do it more often and it carries less risk then the eggs. I read that if you spend 8 hours a month donating you can get about $250. Plus you get to keep your blood! Though I have never donated blood because it scares me.
I should look into kidney selling. Though it would be a shame to get rid of one and then have the other one give out. I wonder, to you pee less if you have only one kidney? Or does your body compensate for it and speed up your heart rate so the blood filters through the one kidney faster?
All sorts of questions!
I should also look into doing those research things. I'm a healthy non-smoker between the ages of 18 and 50. I just don't want to be given the real drug, placebo me please!
Ok enough of that. Yes I could always turn to prostitution for some money but that is illegal. If I'm going to be selling my body I would like it to be a legal activity, which means I should probably not sell a kidney, and benefit others...in a non-dirty way. Ethics be damned.
Did you know the average going rate for donating your eggs is $5,000 to $10,000? Holy cats! That is a lot of dough. Too bad the process seems a little bitching. Needles, prodding, complications. Not to mention 90 percent of people don't get accepted to donate. It'd be so much easier if I could just jerk it in a cup. But for 5,000 bucks how can you not give it some thought?
I'm not saying I'm gonna do it. I'd like to not risk my ovaries since someday I'd like to crank out a few kids that I get to keep. If I remain unemployed or can't get a good job in a few years then say hello to selling my eggs! You could almost get a car for that!
Plasma doesn't offer quite the financial payout. 20 to 30 bucks a go, but you can do it more often and it carries less risk then the eggs. I read that if you spend 8 hours a month donating you can get about $250. Plus you get to keep your blood! Though I have never donated blood because it scares me.
I should look into kidney selling. Though it would be a shame to get rid of one and then have the other one give out. I wonder, to you pee less if you have only one kidney? Or does your body compensate for it and speed up your heart rate so the blood filters through the one kidney faster?
All sorts of questions!
I should also look into doing those research things. I'm a healthy non-smoker between the ages of 18 and 50. I just don't want to be given the real drug, placebo me please!
Ok enough of that. Yes I could always turn to prostitution for some money but that is illegal. If I'm going to be selling my body I would like it to be a legal activity, which means I should probably not sell a kidney, and benefit others...in a non-dirty way. Ethics be damned.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Cumpleaños feliz
Guess what today is?
It is.....
Yes, Craig Counsell's birthday!
Let's just not discuss how old he is...
It is.....
Yes, Craig Counsell's birthday!
Let's just not discuss how old he is...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The devil went up to Minnesota
Oh Brett Favre. Seriously? Are you kidding me? The Vikings? Now I'm not that much of a Packer fan, I'll watch but I don't get all hot and bothered over them losing. But this, this is just ri-goddamn-diculous.
What better way to represent this debacle then in pictures.
Yes Brett, you are the Devil in Wisconsin. I can't tell you how many fbook statuses I've read damning you, how many people are going to deface their Favre jerseys.
I'm sure many people are wishing this on you if you do play Friday night
Unless you want to leave Green Bay on one of these in November
May I suggest this, an armored car
Or one of these, a posse of rough riders.
There you have it. I wrote about all this last year and well, I don't think I've wrote about Favre at all since.
And that's the way it is going to be. Until the Packers play the Vikings at least.
What better way to represent this debacle then in pictures.
Yes Brett, you are the Devil in Wisconsin. I can't tell you how many fbook statuses I've read damning you, how many people are going to deface their Favre jerseys.
I'm sure many people are wishing this on you if you do play Friday night
Unless you want to leave Green Bay on one of these in November
May I suggest this, an armored car
Or one of these, a posse of rough riders.
There you have it. I wrote about all this last year and well, I don't think I've wrote about Favre at all since.
And that's the way it is going to be. Until the Packers play the Vikings at least.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Chi-Caaaa-Go!
So I have finally been to Chicago.
Yes. I had never really been there before. Sad? You betchya! It isn't my fault...I blame my parents. They don't like crowds. They would not have liked it this weekend. We got there at about 830 Friday night, had some grilled pizza, drank some beer, watched some tube.
Saturday we caught the Metra to downtown. Which, by the way, we didn't have to pay for. They never came around to get tickets. We walked around, saw the Sears, er, Willis Tower. Saw some other buildings and started to walk to Navy Pier. We were running late so we had to catch a bus. Holy crowded bus batman! It was jam frackin' packed. It was the Air and Water Show that weekend so that added to the madness. We saw Aladdin at the Shakespeare Theater. It was pretty good. No Abu, th
at made me a little sad.
After the show we walked along the beachfront up to the Lincoln Park Zoo. While walking we watched some of the planes. Crazy SOBs those pilots. Ca-ray-ze! From the park we walked to Wrigley Field and got there right as the Cubs game got out. It was packed. I felt a little nauseous being around all those Cubs fans. Yuck. We then walked from Wrigley back to Scott and Josh's to relax and have some dinner. I think we probably walked seven or eight miles that day. I googled it and from Navy Pier to Wrigley is about 5 and a half.
After dinner we went to Improv Olympic right by Wrigley and saw what I guess is the show they are best known for, The Harold. It is when they take an audience suggestion and do a thirty minute show from it. The first group did radio and the second did Wisconsin thanks to Scott. It was a really good show. It is pretty amazing what they can come up with on the fly. Plus it was neat to see were people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler got their start.
Sunday we caught the Metra out of town but this time we had to pay. Booooooo! It's alright. Five bucks for unlimited rides on the weekend, not a bad deal. We went up to the 'burb Winneetka. AB and me didn't know why we were going there. As we were walking down the residential streets with nothing but houses around us I was thinking it had to be a house from a movie. I thought maybe Ferris Bueller. No, no. It was the house from Home Alone! Right when we got there the guy who lived there came outside. Awkward! So we crossed the street to look at it some more. We took pictures in front of it but they are on Ashley's camera. Then we ate at the Panera which was the market in the film. Then we headed back to the city and left a little while later.
It was a blasty blast of a weekend.
Yes. I had never really been there before. Sad? You betchya! It isn't my fault...I blame my parents. They don't like crowds. They would not have liked it this weekend. We got there at about 830 Friday night, had some grilled pizza, drank some beer, watched some tube.
Saturday we caught the Metra to downtown. Which, by the way, we didn't have to pay for. They never came around to get tickets. We walked around, saw the Sears, er, Willis Tower. Saw some other buildings and started to walk to Navy Pier. We were running late so we had to catch a bus. Holy crowded bus batman! It was jam frackin' packed. It was the Air and Water Show that weekend so that added to the madness. We saw Aladdin at the Shakespeare Theater. It was pretty good. No Abu, th
at made me a little sad.After the show we walked along the beachfront up to the Lincoln Park Zoo. While walking we watched some of the planes. Crazy SOBs those pilots. Ca-ray-ze! From the park we walked to Wrigley Field and got there right as the Cubs game got out. It was packed. I felt a little nauseous being around all those Cubs fans. Yuck. We then walked from Wrigley back to Scott and Josh's to relax and have some dinner. I think we probably walked seven or eight miles that day. I googled it and from Navy Pier to Wrigley is about 5 and a half.
After dinner we went to Improv Olympic right by Wrigley and saw what I guess is the show they are best known for, The Harold. It is when they take an audience suggestion and do a thirty minute show from it. The first group did radio and the second did Wisconsin thanks to Scott. It was a really good show. It is pretty amazing what they can come up with on the fly. Plus it was neat to see were people like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler got their start.
Sunday we caught the Metra out of town but this time we had to pay. Booooooo! It's alright. Five bucks for unlimited rides on the weekend, not a bad deal. We went up to the 'burb Winneetka. AB and me didn't know why we were going there. As we were walking down the residential streets with nothing but houses around us I was thinking it had to be a house from a movie. I thought maybe Ferris Bueller. No, no. It was the house from Home Alone! Right when we got there the guy who lived there came outside. Awkward! So we crossed the street to look at it some more. We took pictures in front of it but they are on Ashley's camera. Then we ate at the Panera which was the market in the film. Then we headed back to the city and left a little while later.It was a blasty blast of a weekend.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Big News Day
So I haven't blogged in a while. I will blame in on a combination of poor internet connect and lack of anything going on.
But! Oh those crazy Milwaukee Brewers, they provided me with a blog post. A little late but meh. On Wednesday there were some big, big changes in Milwaukee. True to form I have decided to put the proceedings to pictures. You know, like I did last year when they had that horrible slide. It isn't nearly as in depth and doesn't really have much of a narrative to it but, here it is.
First we have the news that pitching coach Billy Castro was fired. Why? Have you SEEN the pitchers this year? Somebody had to pay for it!
Then came the news that Bill Hall, oh horrible, horrible Bill Hall had been designated for assignment. Which means he had ten days to either be traded, accept an assignment to Nashville or be released. Which in this case meant, bye bye Billy. Bye bye! Let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Perhaps the news that was the most shocking was the fact that JJ Hardy was sent back the minors. Granted he has not been great as of late so it is for the best, but it is JJ! JJ!
Au Revior, hot stuff. See you in September.
So that pretty much sums it up. The Crew have been doing better since the cleaning house. There is always room for improvement though.
Random: While watching the game Thursday they had GM Doug Melvin on talking about the changes and one thing he said made me laugh a little. He said on the last road trip he went to "The Hangover" with Bill Castro. Really Doug Melvin? 'The Hangover?" I did not peg him as one to see that movie.
Ok. That's all I have for now. Me and the 'bag wen to Chicago this weekend, I'll blog about it later.
Hasta.
But! Oh those crazy Milwaukee Brewers, they provided me with a blog post. A little late but meh. On Wednesday there were some big, big changes in Milwaukee. True to form I have decided to put the proceedings to pictures. You know, like I did last year when they had that horrible slide. It isn't nearly as in depth and doesn't really have much of a narrative to it but, here it is.
First we have the news that pitching coach Billy Castro was fired. Why? Have you SEEN the pitchers this year? Somebody had to pay for it!
Then came the news that Bill Hall, oh horrible, horrible Bill Hall had been designated for assignment. Which means he had ten days to either be traded, accept an assignment to Nashville or be released. Which in this case meant, bye bye Billy. Bye bye! Let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Perhaps the news that was the most shocking was the fact that JJ Hardy was sent back the minors. Granted he has not been great as of late so it is for the best, but it is JJ! JJ!
Au Revior, hot stuff. See you in September.
So that pretty much sums it up. The Crew have been doing better since the cleaning house. There is always room for improvement though.
Random: While watching the game Thursday they had GM Doug Melvin on talking about the changes and one thing he said made me laugh a little. He said on the last road trip he went to "The Hangover" with Bill Castro. Really Doug Melvin? 'The Hangover?" I did not peg him as one to see that movie.
Ok. That's all I have for now. Me and the 'bag wen to Chicago this weekend, I'll blog about it later.
Hasta.
Monday, August 3, 2009
The Reason Why
I've got to thinking. Perhaps my new quasi-infatuation with Frank Catalanotto of the Brewers has something to do with more then just his at bat song. His batting stance somewhat resembles that of Craig Counsell's! Well, his old batting stance. You know the one where is ha
nds were above his head and he was all twisted up and looked like one wrong move and he'd bust something. Craig has now moved on to a more traditional stance, le sigh. While Frankie's is far from the strange contortion of Craigo's old one, it has some resemblance.
See that is the old Craig Counsell on the left. So strange, so strange. But oh how I loved it. I miss it. I can't lie. He's too normal now. I don't care that his batting has gotten way better, I miss the old. Ok that's a lie. I like it that he is doing amazazazazazaing this season.
See, now that is Frank's on the right. He gets his hand on up there, not nearly as high as what Craig used to do but there they are. All by his head, the bat kinda sticks out there too. Frank has a bit of a Gary Sheffield waggle going on with his stance. That adds pimp points to it. Did I really just say pimp points? Yes, yes I did. Wow.
Do you like how I'm spicing up the pictures? Not just smack dab in the middle. Thought I'd try something new. Experiment. Crazy stuff.
Nothing much is going on with me. Still trying to find a job before having to bite the bullet and go back to the store. I really do not want to go there. No no no.
Hasta la pasta punks.
nds were above his head and he was all twisted up and looked like one wrong move and he'd bust something. Craig has now moved on to a more traditional stance, le sigh. While Frankie's is far from the strange contortion of Craigo's old one, it has some resemblance.See that is the old Craig Counsell on the left. So strange, so strange. But oh how I loved it. I miss it. I can't lie. He's too normal now. I don't care that his batting has gotten way better, I miss the old. Ok that's a lie. I like it that he is doing amazazazazazaing this season.
See, now that is Frank's on the right. He gets his hand on up there, not nearly as high as what Craig used to do but there they are. All by his head, the bat kinda sticks out there too. Frank has a bit of a Gary Sheffield waggle going on with his stance. That adds pimp points to it. Did I really just say pimp points? Yes, yes I did. Wow.
Do you like how I'm spicing up the pictures? Not just smack dab in the middle. Thought I'd try something new. Experiment. Crazy stuff.
Nothing much is going on with me. Still trying to find a job before having to bite the bullet and go back to the store. I really do not want to go there. No no no.
Hasta la pasta punks.
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