I’ve been keeping this a secret…not to…bring about suspicion or worry…or attention or pity.

A month ago, I went to the doctor for Problem A. While problem A has since been resolved, they have identified problems B and C.
This is why last month was so stressful…I went in for Problem A but that was like, nothing compared to B and C…well, let’s just say C. B may/may not be anything.

So anyways, with this problem C, they’re still trying to identify what it is. A couple of weeks ago, I signed up for an MRI (on a Thursday). The following Wednesday, I had the MRI….a 6 day wait for an MRI is pretty unprecedented. I read that in BC, people wait 8-18 months for an MRI. I got mine is 6 days. I’m so thankful for such speedy results. It did worry me that such a rush MRI was due to a major health concern…but FYI – the MRI results came back and…well, the docs still not sure what I have but it looks to be benign or…non-threatening, which is a good thing.

The MRI was an interesting experience…my appointment was at 7:45am so I was waking up at 5:45am that day -_-; They hooked me up to an IV…and I went into the MRI machine. Just like in House! :D You know the sound the washing machine makes if it’s muffled (by a door or something?), that’s the sound the MRI made for the 45m-1hour I was in there. There were beeps and stuff and they told me to take big breaths, and hold them while they did…stuff. I’m not claustrophobic at all but it was…not very comfortable to not really be able to move for 45 minutes. To open your eyes and see the exact same thing…about 15 cm away from your face. I almost fell asleep twice inside the MRI but I wasn’t able to because they kept instructing me to breath normally or hold my breath. When I came out of the MRI, I was so groggy…I wouldn’t mind sleeping in an MRI…except that you can’t lift your head that far. I imagine it’s pretty similar to a coffin…but hopefully by the time I’m in a coffin, I’ll be…y’know, dead. And I won’t have to worry about such trivialities!

On a side note, I’ve been eating much better since the news of Problem B and C. While they told me to eat better, I’m going a bit to an extreme, I haven’t had beef in weeks and I haven’t really eaten anything fried in weeks. Well…I tried my best not to eat anything fried.

The food I’ve eaten within the last two weeks primarily consist of only these items
Low Fat Double Berry Muffin from Tim Hortons
Extra Large Steeped tea w/ 1 Milk + 2 Splenda from Tim Hortons
Large Chicken Salad (Chicken + Salad + Parmesan cheese) w/ Italian Dressing from the grocery store
Salmon sashimi/Salmon roll/Salmon Teriyaki w/ Rice
Large Turkey Breast sub on Whole Wheat w/ Veggies, Pepper and Mustard from Subway
40% Less Fat Triscuits
Kellogg’s All-Bran Bars
Activia Probiotic Yogurt
Coke Zero

Granted, I’ve cut some corners…had Fish and Chips (not really by choice)…but to my knowledge, my intake of unhealthy foods has been pretty minor since lately.

Let’s face it, I’ve eaten unhealthy for many, many years and it really took a good scare to straighten me out. I mean, I let the unhealthiness ride for as long as I could/as long as it did. It was a good ride but it’s over. Maximize the good eating and when things are better, take some liberties with my food here and there. When things are better. That’s my plan at least.

And yeah, also learning about Harvey and possible mouth surgery…I’ve had doctor appointments like, 1-3 times per week every week, it’s really been interfering with my work.

Anyways, after a month, things are better. I don’t have problem A, I never felt anything wrong with problem B and C so I feel…normal. I’m starting to de-stress. It feels nice. I still have dentist appointments and doctor appointments, specialists, oral surgeons (for Harvey) to deal with though. Looks like it’ll be a while before things settle down back to normal.

/off to sleep :D I think I’m out of blog topics for now…I’m trying not to blog more than once per day so I had this MRI post and Harvey post “saved” since Feb (cuz my 1st is the accomplishments post and my 2nd is my monthly WTB post).

This weekend I have 3 main goals + a few others:
1. Start study ASP.NET 4.0
2. Play Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3. Do some ASP development (for work)
4. Back up the irreplaceable items (like pictures) somewhere
5. Put my music onto the Macbook Pro, along with iTunes…and maybe my Photoshp stuff

Before

After!

As I may have said, I was going to purchase a Macbook today. And I did.

I rearranged my desk recently, moved my two monitors a bit….behind my Macbook are my 3 external hard drives. But anyways, everything spaces out PERFECTLY! :D I’m excited to play with the Mac tho I’m pretty darn tired….not sure if I can do it today.

Upcoming Posts:
1. March 1: Accomplishments Post
2. March 2: WTB Post
3. March ?: Harvey (This’ll make sense when I write it)
4. March ?: Social Network post: I really wanted to finish this tonight (so I could check that off in my accomplishments post, tomorrow) but I’m too tired, decided to write this post instead…it’ll come. Promise.

/off the play with my new laptop….

Massage

I went for a one-hour massage yesterday. I’d never gotten a massage before but with Feb being a pretty difficult month physically, mentally, and emotionally, I’d be experiencing more than usual stress and tension. I don’t quite know how people manage to sit through massages with the tension and pain they bring…I mean, I had to ask the masseuse to ease up on the pressure because she was hitting a pain tolerance level of mine….but she definitely could have used a lot more force. I couldn’t take it like a man and had her give me a less painful massage…which was still pretty painful. I got my upper, mid, and lower back done, as well as my neck and my calf and feet area. I probably could have done w/o the calf part but it had been feeling strange the last 3 days, as if it were going to cramp up.

Anyways…it was fun. But painful. The masseuse said I was pretty tense…that may have been why it hurt so much. I’d like to go again….but yeah, even a day later….while I don’t feel that my muscles are THAT much looser (though, they definitely are), I’m wondering that if they used more pressure, maybe my results would have been better.

It’s crazy, hour of massage stuff is like, $91 I think. Jeez, who am I, Mark Zuckerberg!? Fortunately, I think a good portion of it, 80% or something, is covered by my benefits, up to $X00. Z’s benefits cover the other portion.

It’d still like to go again, I definitely felt different right after the massage…I’m wondering how much looser I’ll be tomorrow…it was fun tho.

I originally thought: “an hour of massage? that’s so long! what’re they gonna do in an hour!?” but it goes by pretty quick, I wish I had another hour.

Cost Co.

Just came back from Cost Co. I’d never been to a place like that, they have awesome prices but often too much of stuff. Like, Mayo or Mustard to last a lifetime! I went there for toilet paper and tissue boxes…that kinda stuff can go pretty fast and it’s something you can just keep in your place w/o it going bad. Like, it’s not food…and it’s large and troublesome to buy….so I like to stock up and not have to go out to buy it for months. Seems to make sense to me.

Spent $300 there. Ouch. Speaking of a lot of money…

Macbook Pro + My computer stuff

Going to the dentist tomorrow, and with that, possibly purchasing a Macbook Pro on my way out of the mall (Yorkdale). I’ve never had a laptop, ever in my life. I can see something like that being useful.
It’s also a good opportunity to learn Mac OS and stuff. Z is also giving me her old laptop, which I will be putting Linux on. Yes, I’m aware I can do dual-boots and VMware….but…I dunno, I’d much rather have physical boxes. I imagine the only use out of Z’s current, 6 year old laptop, would be to put something like Linux on it.

Anyways…Macbook Pro tomorrow? Still thinking about it…I don’t see why not though.
Dual Monitor PC for home w/ Win 7
Macbook Pro w/ Mac OS
Laptop w/ Linux

My PC’s a bit old now….4 years now I think. That’s pretty old. It’s still not bad, I’ve done a CPU upgrade, RAM upgrades, a MOBO upgrade, HD upgrades, and a GFX card upgrade within those 4 years. Hm. I think I’ve upgraded everything at some point….making this computer not REALLY 4 years old. But yeah, while it’s still good, I think that in 2 more years or so, I will get a new one.

I really like the my Antec nine hundred case…I may have to get parts that fit inside it.

2 fans w/ blue light at the front. Awesome.

1 added Antec fan w/ LED blue light to the side. 4GB of RAM on 4 sticks, 2 of the sticks light up upon usage. I stole these 2 sticks of RAM from Z’s old computer….they’re some of the best lights on my computer as they’re always flickering and moving. Open up a graphic intensive game like WoW and you really seem them red line…it’s fun :)

Inside…1 added Antec fan w/ LED blue light at the back, as well as an Antec Power Supply w/ LED blue light.

So in total, including CPU fan, GFX card fan, and PSU fan, I have 8 fans and 7 items that light up blue.

I <3 my computer so much. DON'T YOU DIE EVER. THE MACBOOK PRO WILL NOT REPLACE YOU, I SWEAR. You still speak English while the Macbook Pro speaks some foreign crap....Asgardian or some sh!t like that. English, but not really english...like, you kinda get what it's saying but it's so f***ing annoying with the no right click. Oops. Raged for a moment. I hate Macs. But more so, I think I misunderstand them. Maybe a little communication will bring us closer together. <3? We'll see.

World of Warcraft

Yesterday, on a whim, I decided to get the 7-day trial account for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. While I did this recently, I was not able to play my 10 characters last time, making the trial effectively useless. This time though, I am able to play my characters…it’s nice :) Like they haven’t died off or anything…

I played quite a bit yesterday, a few hours hours running the 2 new intro Cataclysm dungeons. I only wanted to play a bit but my friend was online and he wanted to play together, so he kept queuing me for stuff. Anyways, eventually I had to call it. In the next 7 days: I plan to explore Azeroth on my flying mount….but that’s it.
I’m going to leave 19 of my 20 specs (i have 10 chars) talentless (as I had to spec yesterday on 1 char to play with my friend). I just wanna see the world. While I explored it quite a bit yesterday, it’s quite different…from my very strong memories that I already have. I mean, I know the world so well already right now…so seeing stuff change it quite…interesting.

I think it’s been long enough that I don’t see myself getting hooked on WoW. Even playing the amount I played yesterday was….tiring. The idea of talenting all my characters with the new trees, replacing all my purple gear with blues and greens, getting new addons and configuring them…it just seems like too much work. I don’t wanna do that ever again…

Stupid WoW. That thing is just a huge waste of time. That said, I still don’t mind spending a few hours still exploring the world. It’s still a game, I spend a few hours mindlessly writing blog posts after all. Oh look, here’s one now.