Saturday, March 29, 2008
Massage therapy advisory board
So I had my first meeting of the massage therapy advisory board at southwestern college on Thursday night. the meeting went well. I was the only one there who was not a massage therapist. I learned quite a bit about massage school, got to put in my opinion on their curriculum and hopefully this can lead to a part time faculty spot teaching A & P. She said they should probably have an opening in 3 months. I really want to try teaching I think I would like it!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The government finally acknowledges that mercury causes autism!
U.S. Government Concedes That Mercury Causes Autism
The U.S. government has concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of autism in 9-year-old Hannah Poling. The unprecedented concession was in response to one of three test cases that allege the mercury-containing vaccine preservative thimerosal caused autism in children.According to the case, the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, where she received vaccinations for nine diseases, two of which contained thimerosal. Within 48 hours of the shots, Hannah become ill, refused to walk and could not sleep through the night. Within three months, she began showing signs of autism.According to U.S. Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder."Although federal officials continue to say there is no link between autism and vaccines, this concession says otherwise. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that Hannah’s family is entitled to compensation from a federal vaccine injury fund in an amount that is still being determined. There are currently 4,900 autism cases pending in Federal "Vaccine Court."
Sources:
Organic Consumers Organization February 25, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution March 6, 2008
The U.S. government has concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of autism in 9-year-old Hannah Poling. The unprecedented concession was in response to one of three test cases that allege the mercury-containing vaccine preservative thimerosal caused autism in children.According to the case, the child was healthy and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, where she received vaccinations for nine diseases, two of which contained thimerosal. Within 48 hours of the shots, Hannah become ill, refused to walk and could not sleep through the night. Within three months, she began showing signs of autism.According to U.S. Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder" and resulted in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder."Although federal officials continue to say there is no link between autism and vaccines, this concession says otherwise. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has determined that Hannah’s family is entitled to compensation from a federal vaccine injury fund in an amount that is still being determined. There are currently 4,900 autism cases pending in Federal "Vaccine Court."
Sources:
Organic Consumers Organization February 25, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution March 6, 2008
Diet soda
Diet soda makes you GAIN weight.
Skip the Diet Soda
Posted Mon, Mar 24, 2008, 11:33 am PDT
Get ready to ditch your soda habit. I’m kicking Diet Coke — it takes time, and I’m down to five a week from a high of 12, but it’s worth it.
Here’s why: Recent research has shown that artificial sweeteners in soda may interfere with your body’s ability to estimate how many calories you’ve ingested, so you eat more than you need.
In a new rat study, animals that ate fake sugar consumed more calories overall and gained weight, compared to those that didn’t eat artificially sweetened treats.
This is just one study, but it’s enough to make me want to kick the can habit. Need more convincing? For every diet soda you sip daily, your risk of becoming overweight can rise by 37 percent, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. We also know that regular soda is a total sugar bomb — most people I know gave it up long ago. At roughly 225 calories a pop, a 20-ounce bottle of regular soda packs nearly as many calories as a chocolate bar (but is much less satisfying).
Typically, soda also contains zero nutrients — so who needs it? Still have some soda around? Fine, stow it for guests who haven’t decided to quit. Next time you want a fizz hit, try seltzer with lime (or for a caffeine fix, green tea). What are your favorite low-cal soda substitutes?
Skip the Diet Soda
Posted Mon, Mar 24, 2008, 11:33 am PDT
Get ready to ditch your soda habit. I’m kicking Diet Coke — it takes time, and I’m down to five a week from a high of 12, but it’s worth it.
Here’s why: Recent research has shown that artificial sweeteners in soda may interfere with your body’s ability to estimate how many calories you’ve ingested, so you eat more than you need.
In a new rat study, animals that ate fake sugar consumed more calories overall and gained weight, compared to those that didn’t eat artificially sweetened treats.
This is just one study, but it’s enough to make me want to kick the can habit. Need more convincing? For every diet soda you sip daily, your risk of becoming overweight can rise by 37 percent, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. We also know that regular soda is a total sugar bomb — most people I know gave it up long ago. At roughly 225 calories a pop, a 20-ounce bottle of regular soda packs nearly as many calories as a chocolate bar (but is much less satisfying).
Typically, soda also contains zero nutrients — so who needs it? Still have some soda around? Fine, stow it for guests who haven’t decided to quit. Next time you want a fizz hit, try seltzer with lime (or for a caffeine fix, green tea). What are your favorite low-cal soda substitutes?
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
An alternative painkiller for amputees
This was a really neat article on CNN.
For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: Mirrors
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Army Sgt. Nick Paupore was in the lead Humvee in a convoy rolling through Kirkuk City, Iraq, when the vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
In a new therapy for "phantom pain," a mirror is placed next to the remaining leg.
Paupore says it wasn't a very big explosion, more like a loud firecracker. He could feel the rush going through the vehicle, the change of pressure, smoke filling the cab. He felt a burning sensation in the back of his legs, but he wasn't in pain, and he could actually move his legs. He felt lucky. He was alive. He got out of the vehicle, intending to help the others, and passed out.
When he regained consciousness, medics were working on him. The blast had ripped out a chunk of his leg, including 6 to 8 inches of an artery, and he was bleeding out. By the time they had stanched the flow, he had less than two pints of blood left. The average person has 10 pints of blood.
Paupore was flown to Germany, where doctors fought to save his life. He survived, but they couldn't save his leg.
And he was in excruciating pain -- in the leg he no longer had.
Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist with the Uniform Services University, was looking for ways to help soldiers like Paupore. He remembered reading in graduate school a paper by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran that talked about an unusual treatment for amputees suffering "phantom limb pain," using a simple $20 mirror.
The mirror tricks the brain into "seeing" the amputated leg, overriding mismatched nerve signals.
Here's how it works: The patient sits on a flat surface with his or her remaining leg straight out and then puts a 6-foot mirror lengthwise facing the limb. The patient moves the leg, flexing it, and watches the movement in the mirror. The reflection creates the illusion of two legs moving together.
Paupore was one of the first to give it a try. At first, he was skeptical. When approached about joining a clinical trial at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to test Tsao's theory, he declined. But sometimes his phantom pains were coming five to six times an hour and lasting up to a minute.
"I was laying in bed and it just, all of a sudden, it felt like I was getting shocked," he said. "I called the nurse, 'cause I was like, 'What's going on?' " The nurse told him, "This is probably your phantom pain."
Tsao explains it this way: "It's the sensation that the limb is still present, and phantom pain in particular is the sensation that the limb is experiencing pain of some form."
That pain is intense, and often medication brings very little relief. For Paupore, it was relentless.
"All of a sudden, it was like someone kept turning on and off the Taser, and my whole leg started twitching. ... I sat up, and I was holding on to my stump, and it just wouldn't stop. At that time, I was hooked up to the Dilaudid [a powerful narcotic], and I was pushing it. But you can push all the medicine in the world, and it won't stop it."
Paupore and 17 other amputees who joined Tsao's mirror therapy trial were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The first group used the mirror to look at their reflected image as they tried to move both legs. The second group used a covered mirror and did the same. And members of the third group were asked to visualize moving their amputated limbs.
After a month of treatment, all of the patients in the mirror group had significantly less phantom pain. In the covered mirror group, only one patient experienced a decrease in pain, and for half of those patients, the pain worsened. Sixty-seven percent of the patients visualizing their limbs got worse instead of better. The pain decreased in almost 90 percent of the patients who then switched to mirror therapy.
It worked wonders for Paupore, 32. Within five months, he was off painkillers completely. Tsao says the difference is like night and day.
"To see him walking, he's able to drive his car; he works downtown; I mean, that is incredibly gratifying!"
Phantom limb pain plagues as many as 95 percent of amputees, Tsao said.
He says even though phantom pain dates to Civil War days, no one knows what causes it. The current thinking is that it has to do with how the brain interprets signals from the pain pathways that are left after amputation.
The neurons that control leg movement are still there, but in the absence of a limb, they are not sure what they're suppose to do and begin firing randomly. Proprioception, the body's ability to sense the position of a limb, tells the body that the limb is still there, sending mismatched signals to the brain.
"The visual neurons are still intact, and they're firing off, telling the brain one thing," Tsao said. "The propriaceptive neurons are firing off, telling the brain something else. ...My thinking is that there is some sort of center in the brain that coordinates these signals. ... Somehow, this mismatched feedback is what's generating the sensation that the limb is frozen or in pain."
Since the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq began, more than 750 amputees have returned home from that area. Walter Reed has treated more than 550 of them. On any given day, between 100 and 125 amputees are there, working to rebuild their lives.
At Reed, mirror therapy is now offered routinely. Tsao says this treatment has the potential to benefit amputees worldwide, and the best part is, no special training is required to do it. He gives interested parties instructions over the phone or by e-mail.
And he's already taken this therapy halfway around the world to Cambodia, a country Tsao says has a large and growing amputee population because of mines left over from its civil war.
For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: Mirrors
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Army Sgt. Nick Paupore was in the lead Humvee in a convoy rolling through Kirkuk City, Iraq, when the vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
In a new therapy for "phantom pain," a mirror is placed next to the remaining leg.
Paupore says it wasn't a very big explosion, more like a loud firecracker. He could feel the rush going through the vehicle, the change of pressure, smoke filling the cab. He felt a burning sensation in the back of his legs, but he wasn't in pain, and he could actually move his legs. He felt lucky. He was alive. He got out of the vehicle, intending to help the others, and passed out.
When he regained consciousness, medics were working on him. The blast had ripped out a chunk of his leg, including 6 to 8 inches of an artery, and he was bleeding out. By the time they had stanched the flow, he had less than two pints of blood left. The average person has 10 pints of blood.
Paupore was flown to Germany, where doctors fought to save his life. He survived, but they couldn't save his leg.
And he was in excruciating pain -- in the leg he no longer had.
Dr. Jack Tsao, a Navy neurologist with the Uniform Services University, was looking for ways to help soldiers like Paupore. He remembered reading in graduate school a paper by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran that talked about an unusual treatment for amputees suffering "phantom limb pain," using a simple $20 mirror.
The mirror tricks the brain into "seeing" the amputated leg, overriding mismatched nerve signals.
Here's how it works: The patient sits on a flat surface with his or her remaining leg straight out and then puts a 6-foot mirror lengthwise facing the limb. The patient moves the leg, flexing it, and watches the movement in the mirror. The reflection creates the illusion of two legs moving together.
Paupore was one of the first to give it a try. At first, he was skeptical. When approached about joining a clinical trial at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to test Tsao's theory, he declined. But sometimes his phantom pains were coming five to six times an hour and lasting up to a minute.
"I was laying in bed and it just, all of a sudden, it felt like I was getting shocked," he said. "I called the nurse, 'cause I was like, 'What's going on?' " The nurse told him, "This is probably your phantom pain."
Tsao explains it this way: "It's the sensation that the limb is still present, and phantom pain in particular is the sensation that the limb is experiencing pain of some form."
That pain is intense, and often medication brings very little relief. For Paupore, it was relentless.
"All of a sudden, it was like someone kept turning on and off the Taser, and my whole leg started twitching. ... I sat up, and I was holding on to my stump, and it just wouldn't stop. At that time, I was hooked up to the Dilaudid [a powerful narcotic], and I was pushing it. But you can push all the medicine in the world, and it won't stop it."
Paupore and 17 other amputees who joined Tsao's mirror therapy trial were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The first group used the mirror to look at their reflected image as they tried to move both legs. The second group used a covered mirror and did the same. And members of the third group were asked to visualize moving their amputated limbs.
After a month of treatment, all of the patients in the mirror group had significantly less phantom pain. In the covered mirror group, only one patient experienced a decrease in pain, and for half of those patients, the pain worsened. Sixty-seven percent of the patients visualizing their limbs got worse instead of better. The pain decreased in almost 90 percent of the patients who then switched to mirror therapy.
It worked wonders for Paupore, 32. Within five months, he was off painkillers completely. Tsao says the difference is like night and day.
"To see him walking, he's able to drive his car; he works downtown; I mean, that is incredibly gratifying!"
Phantom limb pain plagues as many as 95 percent of amputees, Tsao said.
He says even though phantom pain dates to Civil War days, no one knows what causes it. The current thinking is that it has to do with how the brain interprets signals from the pain pathways that are left after amputation.
The neurons that control leg movement are still there, but in the absence of a limb, they are not sure what they're suppose to do and begin firing randomly. Proprioception, the body's ability to sense the position of a limb, tells the body that the limb is still there, sending mismatched signals to the brain.
"The visual neurons are still intact, and they're firing off, telling the brain one thing," Tsao said. "The propriaceptive neurons are firing off, telling the brain something else. ...My thinking is that there is some sort of center in the brain that coordinates these signals. ... Somehow, this mismatched feedback is what's generating the sensation that the limb is frozen or in pain."
Since the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq began, more than 750 amputees have returned home from that area. Walter Reed has treated more than 550 of them. On any given day, between 100 and 125 amputees are there, working to rebuild their lives.
At Reed, mirror therapy is now offered routinely. Tsao says this treatment has the potential to benefit amputees worldwide, and the best part is, no special training is required to do it. He gives interested parties instructions over the phone or by e-mail.
And he's already taken this therapy halfway around the world to Cambodia, a country Tsao says has a large and growing amputee population because of mines left over from its civil war.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Drugs in our drinking water
This is a great article from the green guide (National Geographic) about the contamination of our drinking water by pharmaceuticals.
Drugging Our Drinking Water
3:21 pm - March 11, 2008
A five-month-long Associated Press investigation has found pharmaceutical drugs in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas from Southern California to New York City, which provide water to 41 million Americans. In Philadelphia, the 56 drugs found in the drinking water included "medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems," according to the AP coverage. Only Albuquerque, N.M., Austin, Texas, and Virginia Beach, Va. had clear results. That's good news for them, although it's unclear how many drugs they may have tested for.
And it's not only medications given to people that are a concern. Cattle receive a slow-release anabolic steroid to help them bulk up like weightlifters. Ten percent of that steroid passes through the animal and can wind up in waterways where downstream fish, such as fathead minnows in Nebraska, show increased steroid levels and physical changes.
So what can you do? Bottled water isn't the answer, because steps generally aren't taken to remove pharmaceuticals from it either. Expensive reverse osmosis filters may help remove drugs, but given that this is a long-term rather than an immediate threat, working to keep pharmaceutical drugs from reaching waterways is our best bet. When disposing of drugs, avoid flushing them down the toilet unless specifically directed to by your physician. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the American Pharmacists Association recommend the following disposal methods:
Pour pills into a plastic bag before crushing to prevent airborne particles.
Pour liquid medications into a plastic bag. (Birth control patches may be folded over and disposed of in the garbage.)
Mix kitty litter or coffee grounds in the plastic bag containing the medication.
Seal the plastic bag to reduce the risk of potential poisoning.
Place sealed plastic bag in household trash for disposal.
Remove and destroy all identifying personal information (on the prescription label) from the medication container.
Recycle empty medication container as allowed in the local recycling area or throw it in the trash.
Remember: Don't hold onto excess pills once you're finished taking them.
For more, see "What Happens to Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater?"
© The Green Guide, 2008
Drugging Our Drinking Water
3:21 pm - March 11, 2008
A five-month-long Associated Press investigation has found pharmaceutical drugs in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas from Southern California to New York City, which provide water to 41 million Americans. In Philadelphia, the 56 drugs found in the drinking water included "medicines for pain, infection, high cholesterol, asthma, epilepsy, mental illness and heart problems," according to the AP coverage. Only Albuquerque, N.M., Austin, Texas, and Virginia Beach, Va. had clear results. That's good news for them, although it's unclear how many drugs they may have tested for.
And it's not only medications given to people that are a concern. Cattle receive a slow-release anabolic steroid to help them bulk up like weightlifters. Ten percent of that steroid passes through the animal and can wind up in waterways where downstream fish, such as fathead minnows in Nebraska, show increased steroid levels and physical changes.
So what can you do? Bottled water isn't the answer, because steps generally aren't taken to remove pharmaceuticals from it either. Expensive reverse osmosis filters may help remove drugs, but given that this is a long-term rather than an immediate threat, working to keep pharmaceutical drugs from reaching waterways is our best bet. When disposing of drugs, avoid flushing them down the toilet unless specifically directed to by your physician. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the American Pharmacists Association recommend the following disposal methods:
Pour pills into a plastic bag before crushing to prevent airborne particles.
Pour liquid medications into a plastic bag. (Birth control patches may be folded over and disposed of in the garbage.)
Mix kitty litter or coffee grounds in the plastic bag containing the medication.
Seal the plastic bag to reduce the risk of potential poisoning.
Place sealed plastic bag in household trash for disposal.
Remove and destroy all identifying personal information (on the prescription label) from the medication container.
Recycle empty medication container as allowed in the local recycling area or throw it in the trash.
Remember: Don't hold onto excess pills once you're finished taking them.
For more, see "What Happens to Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater?"
© The Green Guide, 2008
3 year old explaining star wars
If you have not seen this clip yet you have to watch it. It is a very cute 3 year old girl explaining star wars. My favorite quotes "the shiny guy always worries" and "don't talk back to darth vader, he'll get ya"
http://gizmodo.com/360338/3+year+old-summarizes-star-wars
If this doesn't make you want to have kids, I don't know what will........
http://gizmodo.com/360338/3+year+old-summarizes-star-wars
If this doesn't make you want to have kids, I don't know what will........
Puppy playtime!
I saw this link on another blog, but it was too cute not to pass on! This little pup is having too much fun.
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/03/pull-tennis-bal.html
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/03/pull-tennis-bal.html
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Beef its not whats for dinner
I know this article is about a month old but in case you haven't heard there was a HUGE recall of beef last month. The humane society did an undercover operation in a meat processing plant and documented the treatment of downed cows. Well the story was on CNN (some of you may have gotten an email from me about it). This just re-enforces why I am a vegetarian! Not only the horrible treatment of these animals but the unhealthy meat that people are eating. Anyway the article is below if you would like to read it.
The Biggest Beef Recall in U.S. History
Filed under: Meat and poultry, Food Safety
10:23 am - February 21, 2008
We now face the biggest beef recall in U.S. history--143 million pounds of beef produced by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company's, recalled because of potential infection and contamination. That's over five times the amount of the second biggest meat recall in the U.S. (27.4 million pounds of poultry in 2002). Unfortunately, the government agencies in charge of our food safety weren't even the people to first bring this to our attention. It took a secret videotape made by the Humane Society during an undercover operation at a randomly selected meat processing facility (the graphic video can be viewed here). The tape shows cattle who were so sick they could not stand on their own being rolled to the slaughter by fork lift drivers. As The New York Times notes, the plant had five federal inspectors, including a veterinarian, who were evidently unaware of the treatment of these "downer" cattle. These inspectors had relied on Westland/Hallmark employees to notify them about "non-ambulatory" cattle following the pre-slaughter inspection, according to the USDA.
So one wonders about the USDA's statement that the Food Safety and Inspection Service believes this to be "an isolated incident of egregious violations to humane handling requirements and the prohibition of non-ambulatory disabled cattle from entering the food supply." The Humane Society says it witnessed consistent mishandling of downer cattle over the six-week period. Given that the plant was selected at random, it seems unlikely that the Humane Society would find itself at the only plant using such practices.
Most disturbingly, some 37 million pounds of this meat ended up in the U.S. school-lunch supply. While the USDA concludes that safeguards make it very unlikely the animals suffered from "mad cow," that may be scant assurance to concerned parents.
Furthermore, the Center for Science in the Public Interest notes that buyers aren't required to tell their customers if meat they sell is part of the recall. So far, Wegman's is the only retailer to alert customers who may have purchased the meat.
As distressing as this is, safer beef not raised in factory farm conditions is easy to find these days. See "Choosing Healthy Holiday Beef" for suppliers and a Smart Shopper's Card.
© The Green Guide, 2008
The Biggest Beef Recall in U.S. History
Filed under: Meat and poultry, Food Safety
10:23 am - February 21, 2008
We now face the biggest beef recall in U.S. history--143 million pounds of beef produced by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company's, recalled because of potential infection and contamination. That's over five times the amount of the second biggest meat recall in the U.S. (27.4 million pounds of poultry in 2002). Unfortunately, the government agencies in charge of our food safety weren't even the people to first bring this to our attention. It took a secret videotape made by the Humane Society during an undercover operation at a randomly selected meat processing facility (the graphic video can be viewed here). The tape shows cattle who were so sick they could not stand on their own being rolled to the slaughter by fork lift drivers. As The New York Times notes, the plant had five federal inspectors, including a veterinarian, who were evidently unaware of the treatment of these "downer" cattle. These inspectors had relied on Westland/Hallmark employees to notify them about "non-ambulatory" cattle following the pre-slaughter inspection, according to the USDA.
So one wonders about the USDA's statement that the Food Safety and Inspection Service believes this to be "an isolated incident of egregious violations to humane handling requirements and the prohibition of non-ambulatory disabled cattle from entering the food supply." The Humane Society says it witnessed consistent mishandling of downer cattle over the six-week period. Given that the plant was selected at random, it seems unlikely that the Humane Society would find itself at the only plant using such practices.
Most disturbingly, some 37 million pounds of this meat ended up in the U.S. school-lunch supply. While the USDA concludes that safeguards make it very unlikely the animals suffered from "mad cow," that may be scant assurance to concerned parents.
Furthermore, the Center for Science in the Public Interest notes that buyers aren't required to tell their customers if meat they sell is part of the recall. So far, Wegman's is the only retailer to alert customers who may have purchased the meat.
As distressing as this is, safer beef not raised in factory farm conditions is easy to find these days. See "Choosing Healthy Holiday Beef" for suppliers and a Smart Shopper's Card.
© The Green Guide, 2008
We moved........again!
For those of you who haven't heard, we have moved yet again. I swear this is the last time for quite a while. Basically the reason for this move is 2 fold; Paul was not loving Columbus, mostly due to his work situation and my work situation was less than ideal (to say the least)! So we were both keeping our eyes open for other opportunities. Well opportunity knocked twice!
I got offered a position in a satellite office in Dayton. I am the only doctor and there is one other staff member. Paul also got offered a much better job in the Dayton area so we decided to take the leap and move.
On a side note we moved the weekend of "the Blizzard of 08." That pretty much sucked. We were supposed to move on Saturday (and had the truck loaded with ALL of our stuff) but due to the 20" of snow Columbus got we couldn't leave till Sunday at noon. Then we went to start the penske truck and it wouldn't start, we had to wait 3 1/2 hrs for a diesel mechanic to come and jump it..........but we finally made it. We arrived Sunday night (and I started work Monday morning).
We are renting a duplex outside of Troy. So far we are really liking it. Its nice and quite out here and my new workplace is very low stress which is GREAT. I am looking forward to a happy future here, lets hope the universe sees things the same way.
I got offered a position in a satellite office in Dayton. I am the only doctor and there is one other staff member. Paul also got offered a much better job in the Dayton area so we decided to take the leap and move.
On a side note we moved the weekend of "the Blizzard of 08." That pretty much sucked. We were supposed to move on Saturday (and had the truck loaded with ALL of our stuff) but due to the 20" of snow Columbus got we couldn't leave till Sunday at noon. Then we went to start the penske truck and it wouldn't start, we had to wait 3 1/2 hrs for a diesel mechanic to come and jump it..........but we finally made it. We arrived Sunday night (and I started work Monday morning).
We are renting a duplex outside of Troy. So far we are really liking it. Its nice and quite out here and my new workplace is very low stress which is GREAT. I am looking forward to a happy future here, lets hope the universe sees things the same way.
Welcome to my world!
Greetings.
So this is my first ever blog (besides a few posts on myspace) and I just decided that it would be a great way for people to keep up with what is going on in our lives. I am really looking forward to putting all my thoughts and opinions out there (especially since I have so many). This is basically going to be a mix of what we are up to, my opinion on things, funny stories and maybe some interesting info that I come across.
Hope you enjoy the puzzle pieces of my life!
So this is my first ever blog (besides a few posts on myspace) and I just decided that it would be a great way for people to keep up with what is going on in our lives. I am really looking forward to putting all my thoughts and opinions out there (especially since I have so many). This is basically going to be a mix of what we are up to, my opinion on things, funny stories and maybe some interesting info that I come across.
Hope you enjoy the puzzle pieces of my life!
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