High School Never Ends

4 Years you think for sure
That's all you've got to endure
All the Total Dicks
All the Stuck-up Chicks
So superficial, so immature

Then When you graduate,
Ya take a look around and you say "Hey Wait!"
This is the same as where I just came from,
I thought it was over, Aw that's just great.

The Whole Damned World is just as obsessed
With who‘s the best dressed and who's having sex
Who‘s got the money. Who gets the Honeys,
Who‘s kinda cute and who‘s just a mess

And you still don't have the right look
And you don't have the right friends
Nothing changes but the faces, the names, and the trends

-High School Never Ends, Bowling For Soup

So lately I have been catching up. Either by e-mail with various people, or via Facebook I've been hearing about people I knew around 10 years ago when I was in High School. I had to laugh, because this morning, this song popped into my head, reminding me perhaps High School had never ended, LOL!!

Being involved in politics this song rings pretty true. It's amazing how things don't change. People still gossip. Still care about their cars. We have all these boring entertainment TV shows that I never watch. It's really all just very silly.

Ah well, back to listening to MP3's.

Employee fired over free Timbit getting job back

This story about a Timmie's employee who was fired for giving a free timbit to a toddler upset me so much, that it's now here on my blog.

COME ON Tim Hortons!!! Get a life! Perhaps I'll have to start buying my donuts at the Gorcery Store, or Country Style. Yeesh.

The Day in May went striaght to Fay

Helllllllllllo everybody!!

I come to you live from my living room. It's small, quaint, and cozy. So what is happening in the life of the Peter?

I've been suffering migraines since the end of December, which I'm almost certain that I've mentioned. Then I got a bad cold for 3 - 4 weeks, followed by a severe outbreak of extremely bad acne, that to many looked like a rash, some sort of reaction. The acne is slowly starting to get better. The dermatologist has me on Doxycycline. I see him again in a few weeks.

I'm still off work on short term disability, which I suppose is my saving grace. For those who don't read or watch the national news, the company I work for (they will remain nameless) is laying off the entire site here in Ottawa. It's likely I'll be laid off after I'm off of my short term disability.

But I'm still dealing with high blood pressure, and other assorted health issues. So I've decided to move to Barrie. At least for the immediate future. My parents are there, and my sister is in Toronto, with other family close by. It was the hardest decision I've ever had to make, but I think the move will help me recuperate, and having family around when the need is there, is something that I require right now.

I signed some of the paperwork required to transfer my dialysis to their centre on Thursday. I must say, the nurses there seem really nice. I hope I can stay on evenings.

I really hope my blood pressure comes down. With how extremely high it has been, it's not good for me.

Otherwise things are pretty quiet. I need to find some low impact activity that I can do, to get out and not feel so bored.

Picking at my zits

My acne seems to have really flared up lately. The nurses think I might be having an allergic reaction to a new medication. I'm going to have to talk with the Doctor about it on Tuesday. Some of them are pretty big, almost the size of a nickel. I've started washing my face 3 times a day in hopes that might help reduce some of them.

Dialysis I suppose is going ok. I'm not too sure what expectations I should have for it besides wanting to actually be on by my designated time. Last night wasn't the greatest though. They spent 20 minutes trying to get air out of the circuit.

I still continue to be frustrated by The Ottawa Hospital's lack of emergency preparedness. About 3 weeks ago we had that big snow storm, and despite the advice to stay off the roads, I still had to go in for dialysis. They don't have a back up plan.

This week promises to be better, and more positive. :-)

time for a post

Once again, due to public demand, I present an updated blog post.

In Tai Chi today we did the entire set. It was cool, actually despite the fact I have yet to learn the 2 snakes, but I faked it pretty well I think. It was fun. Very... wonderful. Hard to put into words.

Dialysis is. I'm tired all the time, with headaches. No results yet. Evening dialysis is going better, I like the doctor's so far, but yeah. Still tired. Still headachy.

Working hard to improve my health

So besides Tai Chi, I am trying to actively improve my health.

I have booked a MedsCheck review. On Monday I'm going to go over every last medication with my pharmacist. I've also decided to give massage therapy a try. I hope it may improve these darned headaches.

We'll see how this goes. I'm hoping that these two things that I can actively do myself may help my overall health.

the month that was

So we're a month into 2008 now. What's been going on with me?

Well I started Tai Chi this past January, and have been at it for 3 - 4 weeks now. It's been going really well. Our instructor, Francine, describes it as meditation in movement. I was just reflecting on how it's one of the few places where you don't think about the outside world while there.

I'm going back on short term disability at work. I've been having migraine-like headaches since the end of December, and the doctor hasn't started investigating it yet. They're interfering not only with work, but every day life.

On the dialysis front I have moved to the evenings. I didn't like one of the doctor's covering the afternoon. My only options were to switch times or dialysis centres. I hope these headaches go away soon.