Monday, January 31, 2011
The undumpable me
Last post of the month, at least from my voice-recognition computer.
OMG, it started! Today is the birthday of my sister-in-law, the first Aquarius of the season! I already called her and left her a message wishing her a happy birthday, but no sooner her birthday finished when the second Aquarius will be celebrating his birthday on Friday! Then I will follow, followed by my other brother and finally it will be my other sister-in-law's turn, then on my side I got the month of March and April! Yes! First I got the electromagnetic... Sorry, the electrician or the BFF of my sister-in-law, then it's my wife's sister's birthday, yes the girl romancing the guy formerly known as electromagnetic guru... It's complicated I know but stay with me; and finally it's little J's birthday, his first one so it's going to be special, right mommy? No hiring clowns or shit like that, I will however tolerate the presence of Playboy bunnies, relax people, prior to me meeting my wife I used to subscribed to the Playboy magazine and they had great articles, ask my wife she saw them...er... She read them.
Hey, did I tell you? My wife got the contract to clean the building where I live, it's amazing how much work she has, I feel like a pimp just cowing her for all the cash she makes! God you guys can't take a joke, I carry my own weight here, do you really think she would stick around if I didn't produce anything good with my life? Of course not, she knows that I'm a hot commodity and if she left me it would be a matter of seconds before the neighbor comes knocking on my door, granted the lady is 84 years old but boy can she crochet!
See you later people!
Blog stories
Well, the questions just keep on piling and I keep on coming up with great answers!
Today it was my daughter's turn, just before she took off to the library, I was praising my blog page and how many hits I am getting. Then she asked me, how do you know that these people are seeing you? Have they ever left you a comment? You're probably reading bad the statistics, you don't even make money out of your blog!
Well Einstein, it's true I wasn't the smartest guy in math at school but when I see that a post that I wrote X numbers of days ago getting hit, I'm pretty sure somebody must've read the post or at least the cool name I give them. As for them writing a comment on any post just to let me know that they read my blog, it's their life and they can write or not write it's totally up to them. Then she insisted that she sees other sites where the people that write the blog or YouTube their blog get paid for doing stuff like that. I told her that first of all if I YouTube myself I would probably get nickels and dimes, I'm not very presentable, then I told her, as I have told you guys, that this was therapy to me. I write what's on my mind and people read it, not only relatives like my sister-in-law, cousin or my second generation cousin, but other people as well. It doesn't matter the number of people that read my blog, even if only 50 people read it I'm getting something off my chest and I'm not paying for it. This seems to have done the trick!
Tata for now!
The Mexican ghosts
Above all, Egypt I hope things are better today, Asia New Year's coming for you soon.
How are we doing today?
Yes sorry I'm late but it was my morning bath today and my wife and kids are home, so voice-recognition is not exactly easy when they're around.
When my wife and I see ghosts shows there's always mentioned of orbs that people believe are ghosts, well yesterday night was question night Brossard for me. My wife asked me if I believe in orbs, I told her I wasn't sure that I never have felt the presence of one or the presence of a ghost, but I'm pretty sure if I ever see one I will then believe in them. She was asking me this question because on some pictures of her family in Mexico there appeared to be some in a place that the family knows as being haunted. I asked her if I could see the pictures, she showed them to me and I told her, sarcastically, that they appear to be lights far away. I told her I wasn't mocking her but as a logical man I always try to find an answer to something that appears far-fetched. She kept on insisting that these were orbs and she kept on repeating the stories that were told to her, people dying young, people dying suddenly, people just dying for no reason; I asked her if she had been present when this had happened. The obvious answer was no, I then told her if you didn't see it, you didn't experience it, chances are that these are just stories. Well guess what? Last night when the lights were off I could have swore that I saw a couple of orbs going up the stairs to the upper floor's rooms...nah it was only my daughters going upstairs to catch some Z's
Happy trails!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Electronically, I exist
My oldest daughter was using my computer when a loud yell came out of her, I asked her what was wrong. She told me that she was googling people and decided to Google my blog and she was surprised that she found it! Wow, Google has certified me as a walking, talking, breathing thing, people around the world will now know that Chuck Guzman exists, at least electronically. Either Google has done more improvements to its search engine or I'm capturing the attention of the Internet gods, that's good to know.
Well my Sunday has been a very lazy one so far, they are showing science shows on the tube, basically astronomy but later on today there will be the Pro bowl, either way I will be snoozing my ass off again. Tomorrow is the last day of the month and I'm happy to report that this month the page views counter has gone one notch up, thank you, I feel as important as Snooki from the Jersey shores TV show. The challenge will be the month of February seeing that it only has 28 days so the counter my drop a bit but I'll know the reason why, so it's okay.
Having said that I wish Asia has a nice beginning of the week and that North America has a well deserved rest tonight. I also wish that the problems going on in Egypt resolved themselves without any further bloodshed and tears, keep the faith brothers and sisters.
Have a cool day people!
Death note rules
How are you all doing?
So as my previous post stated I ate lots of guaraches yesterday and had two of them for breakfast this morning. Also my electric system is working properly thanks to the electrician who put up a show not worth watching, yeah the danger factor was not there.
Well my family is out with their grandmother to Chinatown to eat and to buy the ever infamous death note book, I wonder if my kid would be disappointed when she jolts down her mother's and auntie's names and they still around and kicking tomorrow. I'll bet she will want her money back seeing that the stupid book doesn't work as it's supposed to, but I'm pretty sure that she didn't read the fine print where it says that results may vary.
If I was a child I would be disappointed to, kids don't think these things through, let's say that my wife kicks the bucket, who's gonna take care of her? They think that the parents basically go out and chop down the nearest money tree so that they can pay all the bills and have money to take them out and amuse them, plus by stupid books. Well I will let you guys know if the book worked or not, also the electrician guy will be single again so he has a lot to thank me for, a lot to thank my daughter for.
Go death note go!
Adios amigos!
Shame!
How's everybody??
We had our guarache day today and I had 2 of them with all the treamings, it was good! But this wasn't the main event, the main event was the changing of my electric switches. So the person formerly known as electromagnetic guru went to work, he will now be known as the electrician. Why was he demoted? Well I wasn't impressed with the show, there was no danger factor. Even I went to the wild side when working on live syten, the danger factor. When I see a guy jump over 12 crocodiles and make it safely across, I get impressed! But the electrician let me down, no danger here, the guy plays it safe, I mean what does he do prior to start working with the electric switches?? Turns the braker off!!! I mean that is so childish, this is not what I was expecting, should he had worked with the braker on he would have earn my admiration, I would blog a different story. Instead he has now been demoted to the electrician, shame on you, shame!
Happy Sunday!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
What's normal?
Hope you are all well!
Live from my bed, it's me!! Just waiting for the people to get up do that they can spin & span me and put me on my chair.
Since we are having visits my wife will clean this place up and down, don't get md wrong I don't live in a pigsty, it's just that when we have guests my wife puts on that extra sparkle. All Mexican women are like this, except my mother-in-law, she lives in a state of cleanliness 24/7 or so I've been told. But I think that all Latin American women are likd this, why?? I would be happy just as I am, but then again I am a man and we are different than them. I would probably tell my visitors to move over the beer cans so that they may sit...
Have a great day!
Friday, January 28, 2011
BBS
I was going over the good old days with my daughter when she touched the Internet issue: How old was the Internet and what was there before?
I tried to explain to her that before broadband and DSL were around, there was something called modems. Wow was that hard for her to grasp.
"You had to use the telephone line?!"
And that was an easy questions!! Then I told her that prior to the Internet we had what was called BBSs and her daddy was part of that world, I was a sysop!
Boy did that brought back memories! I purchased a shareware software called QuickBBS, i configured it attached it to my modem and became the next biggest thing since God. I was powerfull then, at least in my head!
Take care
Guaraches weekend
My last post of the day on the voice-recognition computer, if I do another post it would be on my Itouch live from my bed.
So it appears it will be a busy weekend for me and my family, my sister-in-law, electromagnetic guru and little J will be coming over for a visit and the installation of the electric switches for the light so that I can control them with my RT 64. My wife will invite them for some Mexican chow which knowing them very well they will probably refuse and just install the switches and go home. They are very antisocial group of people, I hope little J doesn't turn out like them.
My meeting with the CMR has been moved from its original location, it will now be held at my house seeing that they have to adapt something or other and it turns out well because if electromagnetic guru man doesn't install well the switches, these people will let me know and probably ask me who was the moron who did the installation. But seeing that he's part of the family I will blame the janitor.
This weekend we will be having guaraches which basically means sandals, this is because the tortilla is shaped like a sandal and they put food on top of it; beans, chicken, cheese, cream... My mouth is watering already, it's my favorite Mexican food and it's delicious... Too bad my sister-in-law and electromagnetic guru will miss the meal.
Other than that I had a great afternoon watching astronomy shows on the National Geographic Channel, man maybe I should write a book on astronomy shit instead of my blog or my genealogy tree. Here' s a link of the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGVYG0ce1Ps
Happy trails people, happy trails!
The feminine side of me
First of all, USA thank you so much you have viewd over 3000 pages so far and it just keeps on going up and up, also France you are now officially in fourth place viewing pages every day,alors là Bravo!
That being said, did I ever tell you about my winning Halloween costume? Yes well it happened six months after I started to work at Nuance, it was a shocker of a custom and people were talking months, nay years, after it happened.
Back in those days we were known as Locus Dialogue, we hadn't gone through the roller coaster ride of name changing, the HR team to boost morale decided that for Halloween they were going to give the price of $150 dollars to the best costume of the day and it was going to be the employees of the company who decided the winner. I was fairly new at the place and decided that I was going to make a name for myself, be it good or bad, it didn't matter. When the day came I went into the bathroom and changed into my outfit, came back and sat down behind my desk. Then my supervisor came in and asked me if I was wearing a costume, I said yes and step behind my desk. I think that's the loudest laugh I have ever heard to this day, as the day continued she started to bring people over to see me in my disguise. My costume was so popular that the HR team had to send an e-mail to the company letting them know that they had to vote for three individual customes and not one alone, apparently everybody was sending votes for my costume alone and not the other ones. Needless to say at the end of the day I was awarded the prize which basically consisted of me taking out my family on a $150 dollars eating spree and then the company would pick up the tab. That fall my wife was pregnant with my little one and she had picked up a peculiar craving for a Vietnamese soup called tonkinoiese soup, that fall I drank so much Tonkinoise soup that to this day when my wife offers me the soup I just say no.
But I can talk all day long about it but let the picture say it better.
Office slut 1999 |
Enjoy your day!
Technology
Good whatever people, hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Well another week is gone, another month as well. This morning I am using voice-recognition again, my wife connected my headset back so I could blog a bit.
It's funny how now I rely on my wheelchair and my headset to replace my legs and hands, I don't know how I did it before, believe it or not there was a time I used to stay in bed all day long until my wife came back from work. Then I got my wheelchair and it became my legs, not perfect legs granted but legs nevertheless. Then when my hands started to falter, an old colleague of mine suggested voice-recognition next thing you know I got my hands back. Thank God for technology, thank God that I live in a country where all of this is accessible to me.
So last night I was doing homework with my small one when she suddenly asked the question "Dada what is 15+9?". What?? This is basic first-grade if not second, why are you asking this question? You should know this by now! Needless to say I went on a rampage about how she could do better in school or at least try, "Dada I meant 15x9!". Let me see your homework, it says here 305x9. Why are you asking 15x9? So I told her the answer but then I called her sister to the floor to show her how multiplications were done, I asked my oldest one to write down on paper the table of five. Her answer left me in a state of shock. What do you mean you don't know what 5x9 is? You are in seventh grade, secondary one, you are supposed to know this! What are they teaching you at school? This is unacceptable! Then a soft voice came from her, "At school we use a calculator, it's called technology".
As I said before, thank God for technology and smart Alec kids!
See you soon people.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Stuck in a moment
Getting ready for the weekend?
Today after talking to the nurse, I called my neurologist office to ask them to get me an appointment with urologist ASAP; my neurologist likes to be on top of everything so any specialist I must consul, I have to go through him. So the 23rd of February I have an appointment with the urologist.
Next week I have to go to the CMR so that they I can test a joystick that will be replacing the mouse on my PC. I don't know how many other appointments I am looking at this year, but sometimes you get tired of going to these appointments, makes you remember that your stuck somewhere that you don't want to be, that you are forced to be.
Just feeling blah tonight.
Itouch you
All is well?
Seems once again I am having a 1 on 1 versus the universe and it is kicking my ass big time! Maybe I should consider euthanasia but then again that would be throwing in the towel and admitting that the universe won, that's not happening right now. I know that in the end it will win but while I'm breathing, I will do my best to win every round I can.
So why am I in such gloomy mood? Well besides the catheter blocking every single day, I'm used to it by now, I am feeling blues because my daughter disconnected my head set for voice recognition and I am blogging via my Itouch! So it coplicates my life, I will have to send this to my PC, edit the freaking thing by hand, post it by hand and then share it BY FREAKING HAND!!! This is the reason why I am down! They play with my toys and then they don't put them back!!
This is how I feel, okay, how all Canadians feel
See you later!
How am I going to break the view page record if they keep doing stuff like this?!?
Limbo land
Hope every one is doing great.
Well my adventures started early today, about 7:10AM, yes the catheter was blocked. So when my wife came down at around 7:30 and did the irrigation procedure and it didn't work, I was caught in limbo land, who do I call for support?
I did leave a message to the nurses at the CLSC, but they had told me that if it was prior to 8:00AM I should contact the emergency service, so I placed a call and after putting me on hold for a bit they suggested that I called back the CLSC after 8 so they could send some one, so I blogged...er...I did again....
See you when I'm up!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Kill the hairdresser
Well the food was really good, my wife really made the recipe come alive, it was delicious. What about the hair cut? Well, there was crying and cursing the hairdresser, even if we told her that it look good, we told her that her hair was going to grow back...no dice! That hairdresser has been cursed for a hundred years!
But now she's feeling better knowing that tomorrow her friends are going to like it and she will have a story of pain and suffering, even now she's started to smile and laugh, she likes her hair but fuck the hairdresser, her name is going on the death note...she's dead!
Stupid hormones!
My wife the cook, my daughter the nut
The latest development of the day are my daughter is getting a crew cut and my wife is cooking Rachelle Ray. Okay so my daughter is not getting a crew cut but she swore to me that it was going to be really really really short, as for my wife we have been recording Rachelle Ray's show in the morning and we have been seeing her recipes and today she tackling one of them and I tasted the sauce, holy shit I'm in love with either my wife or Rachelle Ray. It's amazing what this woman can do with a knife, a few ingredients and all under 30 minutes. I loved her before when she had a show on food network channel but now that my wife is cooking something from her recipe collection I have falling in love with them all over again. I have to say them because my wife is also a great cook, this is just one more recipe that she has mastered throughout the years.
Tomorrow's morning post is going to be the first time that I try uploading a video, I have never done it before because blogspot was timing out on me and I hope that tomorrow it won't do the same thing.
Have a good one people!
MS attack
South Korea is back! Happy to see you guys, I hope I didn't offend the do anything silly that I wrote.
I know that I'm not posting as much as is used to but I always have a reason, today's reason is that my MS is acting up again today, why? No clue, but I'm used to that by now, I have good days and I have bad ones! Today was a bad one, okay let's call it so-so because I still did some things.
You know that surprise I was working for my wife? Completed! I even saved a copy of what I did on my computer and when the project comes to the door, I will be happy with the look on her face and on my kids faces. I even did something that will surprise my Gazette mouth sister-in-law and her electric magnetic man. Now I know what is going to happen when she comes home today, "what is the surprise?! Tell me please, I won't tell anybody."
Hello!? It's a surprise, you're supposed to be surprised by it, so be patient you would like it.
My little brother came today and feed me, God I sound like some animal that gets feed every time at noon, he was telling me about his problems that are currently happening in his life: his car and his computer. Boy when life hits you, she knows where to hit you. These are the most sacred thing to a man, the car and in our days the computer. He probably will purchase another computer come April when the taxes start coming in, but a car it's going to be a bit more difficult.
Well, once again South Korea happy to see you back as for the rest of the world have a good one.
Carpe diem
How are you guys doing this morning?
Well I just had my bath today and it was a quick one, I think the conversation at the end lasted longer than the actual bath. Perhaps it's because I touched a nerve with the person that gives me my bath, I told him that last night I went to my daughter's school because they were organizing a trip to China and it seems very interesting. Well, we started ranting about his daughter and ex-wife not liking traveling, the daughter just had a chance to go to New York a couple of weeks ago but she turned it down, stating that her boyfriend didn't want her to go.
Then he told the story about her daughter not wanting to go to San Francisco because her mother had never gone there. My caregiver assures me that when they were a couple he often insisted on going somewhere but she always decline for some reason or another making him upset because they had to stay home.
Then I started thinking, your boyfriend doesn't want you to go!? Your mother hasn't gone there so you are not going!? That is a stupid way of thinking things out! My wife and I already warned our daughter about such things, we told her that while she's young and has the capacity and resources to travel and get to know the world, Do It! Don't let any men dictate what you should or shouldn't do, it's your life and you are young, nothing should hold you back. As for going to places where mommy or daddy have never been, well that's hardluck for us baby, we had our moments and now it's your turn to have yours. When you get older and have a family then you will miss the days when you could have travel but you didn't. Carpe diem baby, carpe diem...
But I tell you my caregiver really doesn't like that his kids are wasting their time away by not traveling anywhere and getting to know other cultures. I wish them good luck...
See you in the funny papers!
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
China
My practical daughter
How are you doing today?
I apologize once again for being late but I had a bath and my nurse came over to change my catheter because once again it was blocked. But yesterday night I started to take cranberry gelcaps that is supposed to protect me against infection and is supposed to add acidity to my urine, I hope it works.
So yesterday evening I was talking with my oldest daughter and she brought up a point that made sense but that it was scary. She asked me what I wanted to do with all my electronic shit, you know Facebook, twitter, bank account, blog... But wait a minute I told her, I'm just 42 I still have 20 to 30 years more to give! She then concentrated on the blog and asked me what I would like it to say he found on, WTF?!! You're killing me already??! Give me a break I'm still the man of the house, I'm still alive and kicking, so why am I being killed already? She then said that she just wanted to make sure that what I want is respected. Okay, why don't you go ask your mother what her plans are? I'm feeling fine, I mean besides the MS I'm okay! She then insisted and insisted so I told her what I wanted my blog to say in case I kicked the bucket... Patio door is knocking, be read back!
It was the Courier coming to pick up a urine sample to take to the hospital to be analyzed, hopefully I will be getting the results this afternoon and perhaps the doctor is going to put me on antibiotics
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So my oldest daughter has all the information that she needs to know in case I die and go to heaven or become dark matter. She knows that when I die I want to be the incinerated and given to a mountain climber on an expedition to Mount Everest, she knows that she gets my electric guitar but she cannot paint it as she wants to, she knows she has to contact my lover and tell her that all my orgasms were fake and she knows what she has to put in my blog to let the public know that I am no longer available to blog on this planet.
I tell you that kid can scare me sometimes...
Take care yourself!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday night recap
How is everybody?
I bought those cranberry pills already and started to take them and I hope that with time my catheter situation will have improved.
Hey since my wife told me about the korean new year, I read about it and found out that it is February 3rd this year and it is perhaps the reason why South Korea stopped reading the blog, I guess I will be sure once the New year passes. Either way, happy new year South Korea.
Tomorrow I should be able to blog a bit more since the meeting at my daughter's school is until 7:00 PM, got lots of questions to ask about this trip, we'll see how it goes...
Well dream tight North America, happy Tuesday Europe/Asia
MS lunacies
I hope you guys are having a good day!
Yes I know! I only wrote one post today and then was on radio silent throughout the remaining of the day, but there is a reason why.
You see today, and I had told you this already, I went to the CMR so that they could fix my chair of all of its problems. So they fix the knob, then the holder, the head holder and even order a new set of feet rester for me seeing that the current months are broken and needs to be replaced. All in all I was finished by 2:25 PM but then the fun started, I was spasing left and right very violently and noticed that I had a sharp pain in my pubic area. The freaking catheter again! Okay, relax, the bus will pick you back up to 2:45 PM and you should be home by 3:20 PM. So I started to call the CLSC from the CMR so they can get someone here by the time I get home, no luck every nurse that I tried to reach had her voicemail on, even the head nurse wasn't returning any calls. Okay, let's call my occupational therapist, her to was unavailable, find I'll go home and instruct my wife what to do so she can relieve the pain a bit.
Said and done, when I came home my wife came from picking up my youngest daughter and once I was in the house she put me to bed and I told her what to do. Well, she should have become a nurse because urine started to flow, can I say that? And then I started to call the CLSC again, luckily I got my occupational therapists so I told her what the problems had been, yes problems, the doctor is not calling me back and I might have an infection, the catheter wasn't working properly until my wife fixed it and I haven't gotten that magic formula that apparently will solved my catheter problems. She said she was going to look into it, and she did, the doctor called me almost right away with an action plan, he was going to prescribe cranberry pills to eliminate the white deposits that are causing the blockage of my catheter and a nurse was coming over tomorrow to take a urine sample so that they might analyze it and if I have an infection prescribed antibiotics.
So by the time I got back in the chair it was probably 5:30 PM already and then I kicked my daughters up their room so I can write a post explaining the whole situation.
I hope you all understand.
Have a great day!
Cold week
How are we doing people?
Well I seem to have lost South Korea I haven't seen any activity from their part, but they still hold third place with 336 pages viewed. Then my wife mentioned something that drew my attention, apparently in Asia they are preparing to hold their Christmas/new year celebration, maybe this is the reason why I'm not getting any hits from there. We'll see...
So it's another freaking cold day today, we are currently sitting at -26 Celsius and last night I saw it dropped to -29, that's -20 Fahrenheit... Freaking fucking cold... bath time
Okay, where was I? Oh yeah fucking cold! Yesterday it was so cold that my little brother's car wasn't turning on and my wife had to go and provide him with a boost, this is basically part of our winters, you connect cables between the two batteries of the cars and usually the car that doesn't start draws energy from the other car and starts, this is what you call a boost. Even taxi drivers will boost your car for 20 bucks so in weather like this they're making a racket.
Cold week ahead |
Look at the picture down there, these are the temperatures we are expecting throughout the week, they're all in Celsius but anyway you plant them as, it's freaking cold. I'm debating whether to go to my appointment this afternoon or just stayed home and blog something or other.
Okay people, have a nice day today!
Sunday, January 23, 2011
My end of weekend
Well it happened again, I had to call the afterhours services cause my catheter blocked, they send the nurse that changed my thing a couple of weeks ago and he was worried and ask me to speak with my doctor because it wasn't normal that it was blocking so many times. You'd think??
Well my nurse said that she had left him a couple of messages but this was about 1 week and a half ago! I will contact my occupational therapist so she can get involved in this matter. I will probably leave a message to the doctor and ask him what would be the next step. The nurse left me with some worrysome parting words, he said the bigest caliber of a catheter is 24 and after that the irrigations that my wife does, 1 in the morning and 1 at night, would probably have to be replaced by a constant irrigation, but this is only done in hospitals...meaning I would have to move to one?? I didn't ask that question...
Slip sliding away
How are we today?
Well several things happened this Sunday, the water heater is fixed, the Green Hornet was great and our other beloved family member passed away and joined his partner in fish paradise.
So, it was the owner of the building himself that came and fixed the water heather, so we have hot water again! The Green Hornet was an action filled movie that has resurectaded Coolio's song into mainstream, my daughters are Itunening it as I write these words, go see it.
And the last thing that happened todaywas that our other fish decided to join his better half in fish paradise and live us petless for the first time in 5 years. Oh well it was bound to happen, who am I going to talk to now??
Happy Monday people!
Death note and the Aztec queen
Hope you're enjoying life!
So my oldest daughter has been seeing this Japanese manga series animated cartoon, do I know what it is? No, but my daughter is nutzoid about it, what I can understand the story is about a book where if you writes a person's name, that person will die.
Freaky kid no? It gets better, her crazy Colombian friend let informed my delusional 12 year old that in China town they sell this sort of book! Boy o boy, she wants to buy one and she's bugging her mother to bring her to China town to buy this book.
But this is where it gets real good! My wife asked her what this book was about, why God? Why?, my daughter explained to her what it was about. My wife told her that she was crazy if she believed that she would take her to buy the book. But my daughter is begging and begging, but my wife is against it....
So I got two delusional chicks running around the house debating over a book, a death note book! I wonder who's more crazy, them for arguing over a book that kills people or me for trying to understand wtf is goibg on!
They should place me in a home and visit me only in Christmas...
Later sane people!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Here and now
Good weekend to you all!
Well, I reserved my bus for tomorrow afternoon so that we can go an see The Green Hornet...Oh yeah! The only down size is that they are announcing très cold temperatures, -22, -19, so waiting for the bus is going to be a bbrrr of an experience!
Today we were looking over recipees with my wife to increase her knoledge of food, which is already very vast, since she works and comes home to cook and clean, I think she wants to cook and freeze the food so she just needs to take it out, thaw and cook, time saver!
Plus her sister gave her a great idea of seeing recipees on TV, buy the ingrediants and presto...in case I get sick you know who to point the finger at...poor Jacinto, I don't know how he does it...
Take care folks, enjoy your weekend!
Friday, January 21, 2011
Purolator nap
Boy what an embarrassment, I was sitting beside the patio door so that I could see the courier guy come in with my parcels and I fell asleep! That means that everybody and their mother saw me sleeping away, but the embarrassing part was that the courier woke me up by knocking on the window pane, it was the same guy that brought my parcels last week so he knew where to come in. He told me that I should sleep for all those who are currently working and can't take a nap.
So it's the weekend, any plans? Well, I will be going to the movies to see the movie the Green hornet, I didn't really want to go until I saw a commercial where they were playing the movie's song, or at least one of its songs, I don't know if you remember the song from Coolio "Gangsta Paradise" that appeared on the Michelle Pfeiffer's movie 16 years ago, I remember it pretty well because my little brother was in love with the song because of the part about being 23 and not knowing if he would make it 24 (...I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-four, The way things is going I don't know.). Well that's song got me hooked to the movie and now I will go and see it with my family.
Well people, this is my last post of the week and I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend.
Take care people!
Hockeytown
Hope you're having a great day!
So this morning I was seeing the news and one of the headlines, believe it or not, was the Toronto Maple Leafs had finally won in hockey. I laughed my head off, so much pain and suffering around the world and this is a headline?!! Then I started thinking, I shouldn't laugh at this since in Montréal and in any other Canadian city the situation would be the same, Canadians love their hockey and it's as sacred as baseball for Americans. Apparently it had gotten so bad that there were all sorts of videos popping up, I got to see one and it was hilarious. The music of Eminem and Rhiana, "Love the way you cry", with spoof up lyrics, it was worth me searching for it. Yeah hockey is pretty big here, I mean we really get depressed when another country beats us at our national sport. Not so long ago we lost the Junior championship to the Russians and God Almighty people were depressed, I'm pretty sure that some of us must have cried. I think there was even talk of a Royal commission to find out what happened, we love doing commissions around here, we can get enough of them, plus we have so much money to spend that we would be surprised if taxpayers didn't pay for it.
But you know I'm gonna let the video do justice to our sport.
Happy trails! Go Habs go!
Déjà vu
How are you doing?
Well... My chair is broken again, not exactly my chair but the part where my feet rest has come undone thank God I'm going to go there on Monday to fix other things, they will look at the feet rest as well.
Have you ever had a day where you think you have to do something but you have already done it and you don't remember? I'm having one of those days! I was going through my morning routine prior to me starting my post and I said to myself: "you better call your mother before she starts panicking because you don't answer the phone" and so I did. When my mother answered the phone she was surprised and she asked me if I needed something and if everything was okay, I replied that yes, I was just calling her to say good morning and see how her night had gone. She informed me that we had done this already earlier on, I told her that no this was the first time I was talking to her this morning. She then started to tell me what our conversation was about and that I had told her about my broken water heater tank. I asked her what had this happened, she replied that it was around eight o'clock before her Spanish soaps, really I said, I asked her again if this was correct. She replied that yes and that I should ask my wife if I didn't believe her, so I did, guess what? She was right! Boy did I feel dufus, I must have smoked something really good last night because I didn't remember, just like I didn't remember that I had to send an e-mail last night but I was arguing my ass off that I had. I'll blamed this on MS can go on with my life.
I think I will take a nap now, it was probably that.
Have a great day people!
Thursday, January 20, 2011
No hot showers
Well I'm in bed posting tonight because I have to wait for my wife to make sure she doesn't come home to take a shower...the water heater is kapoot and they will replace it next week, so there's only cold water right now, they will probably have to go to my mother-in-law to take hot showers while they changed the water tank.
It's going to be a cold couple of days!
Hasta mañana people!
Buñuelos and the Queen of Spain
It's strange, by South Korean fan base hasn't hit my blog one single time today, I hope everything is okay over there, or perhaps they just realized how moronic my blog is.
I've been eating these little dumplings that in my country we call buñuelos, it's usually eaten with a very simple drink (tasteless) called chilate, my mother sent me some and I've been eating them like there's no tomorrow, boy is my sugar going to be high. Oh yeah, I have never mentioned it but besides having high blood pressure and MS, I am also diabetic, no worries, it is usually controlled but she sent me temptation over here and I cannot say no. It's like she would have sent me a naked girl over here, there's no way I can resist it, okay maybe there is. But the old Chuck would have never resisted, keep this in mind when I decide to post about my tumultuous youth and the girls that were part of it.
Buñuelos and chilate |
Almost forgot, yesterday besides the sudden death of Kyle the goldfish, we had another measuring contest because my oldest daughter claimed that she had grown a couple of inches. We told her no but that her sister seem to have sprout a bit more and it seemed she was much taller than her again. So we put them up against the wall of eternal shame, at least this is what my oldest daughter knows it as, and measure them up. We were right, my oldest daughter hasn't grown an inch but my youngest one seem to have grown one inch since last August, boy am I gonna have problems trying to marry that one, she'll have to go to Sweden to marry a tall European guy. But we'll see what the future holds, she might end up being the Queen of Spain for all I know.
Well this is my third post today and I hope to get my South Korean friends over for a look at my blog, otherwise I would be really worried thinking that something happened there and I'll have to see the news this evening to make sure nothing wrong happened.
Have a good evening/morning people!
R.I.P
How are you people doing?
I've just finished eating a nice delicious dish of pasta, pene, with Italian sausages and Louisiana hot sauce, boy was it ever good.
So yesterday night we had a death in the Guzman Chavez family, we were all saddened by this event since it came out of nowhere, he looked so healthy, so young and vibrant, it's true what they say about only the good die young. He...sniff..sniff...he did everything above everyone's expectations, he will be remembered always. Kyle you silly goldfish, I miss you already and so does your wife Brenda... I think that's what my daughter called them, not sure, but what I'm sure of is that we had a solemn ceremony at the eternal ceramic bowl where he wanted to be flushed in accordance to tradition!
As he often seemed to signal, on with the show!
Well I think my day is done, on my side there's nothing else to do, I will probably see some TV and hopefully catch a wink or two. I have my bath, I ate my food, there's really nothing else for me today except watch the ceiling or the TV. My next parcel from the CLSC comes tomorrow and apparently this weekend is going to be very cold out there. Oh yeah, I got my birthday gift from my mother, $200 Simoleons! Gonna buy myself the moon, okay maybe not the moon but I will get something good when I get the rest of my presents, in hard cold cash! I will keep you posted on what I buy with it.
Here's looking at you!
Music Man
Hope you're all having a wonderful day!
So yesterday night I posted a text about one of the many hats I have wore through my life, the funnyman. This was the result of conversations with my daughters regarding my life, there's also other the other sides of what makes Chuck Guzman, the music Man, the ladies lover, the traveler and many other more. Yesterday it was the turn of the funnyman and the music man to come out, now that you know about my unsuccessful career change move, I will also explain briefly the music side of me which I had since I was a little kid.
During my teenage years, my brother, a friend and I decided to start a garage band, we had the instruments: two guitars, one base, one synthesizer and a drum set. What we were missing was the music Man, hence the appearance of Chuck Guzman, the music Man. Most of our first songs were rather silly and the lyrics hadn't been incorporated into the music, but that didn't stop us. Most of the music was done by yours truly and some of it was done by my brother. Once we finished "touring" the living rooms of our relatives we decided to bring it up a notch by replaying music from our favorite band, Genesis.
We decided to start work on a Genesis album called "Duke" and once again old Chuck here was leading the charge. Everything was going smooth until we tackle the song of the album "Man of our Times", yours truly wanted it one way and his brother wanted it another. Needless to say that the dispute ceased all musical activities for the music Man. But he kept on writing songs and yesterday night his daughter asked for his help in writing a song for today, I was ready. I dug up from my memory just the song for the occasion, modified the lyrics a bit and presto, a new generation was going to be hearing my songs again!
Hope you have a wonderful day people!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Funny man
Here's wishing you are all enjoying your day/night!
So this evening I was talking with my kids about my life experiences when one thing lead to another and the topic about my very short stand up comedy carreer came up. Yup, what I call my one night stand, I went to a comedy place after people at work encouraged me to try it out, it was my calling they told me.
The place I went had an open mike night and Chuck was prepare to make it big, I even had a couple of people from work come on over to encourage me and witness the birth of a star; my wife brought the video camera to record the big event. I was ready!
Ladies and gentlemen, to this day I haven't mustard the guts to see the video. I started well, got a couple of laughs but after realizing that my voice sounded like a girl, I panicked and started talking gibberish. I BOMBED big time, pipi pupu caca, it was the longest 5 minutes in my life!
And that's the story of funny man Chuck!
Pull my finge!
All's well that ends well
And then there was the afternoon, my little brother came and fed me, I answered e-mails from different people including my cousin from Costa Rica, saw a bit of TV and then it hit me.
My birthday is going to be soon and I'm officially going to be 10 years older than my wife. Yeah, old Chuck here is hitting 43, can you believe that? I don't know how old am going to be before I'm wise and can officially depart my wisdom on to somebody and not joke around all of my life, but then again this is me. Take it or leave it, thank God my wife and kids like me the way I am, funny, hilarious, disable; somebody that they can put in bed, ignored by going to the second floor of the housing unit! Once again, I'm kidding, I'm a kidder.
As I was writing this post the CLSC nurse called me to confirm all the material that is coming my way, yet again, I received the first parcels but they still gonna send me more. It will include latex gloves, catheter bags, wet towels and a bunch of other stuff that without the CLSC help I would still be paying. Then we started to talk about the catheter problem, she has left the message to my doctor informing him that she would like an analysis of my urine to make sure there is no infection, she also told me that she was looking for that formula -- we talk about-- that will probably help me.
Well that's a wrap for me, I will try to transfer myself from my chair to the bed like I used to, I'll let you know how it goes.
Have yourself a great evening!
The dream
My life on a Wednesday
How's my people doing?
You know the reason, bath time, this is why I'm late. Second of all the person that gave me my bath came in early and interrupted my breakfast which I had to finish afterwards, third of all I had guests over for breakfast and believe it or not while I was having my bath the people were having breakfast in front of me, awkward!
Today I have a dream to tell you about, right now I have patches of memory that I can put on this post but it wouldn't do the dream justice, so what I did this morning when I woke up, forcefully I might add, send myself an e-mail with the details. But my lovely daughter when connecting my device to charge left it unreachable to me and therefore I cannot access it until my brother comes and gives me food. On the meantime let me tell you that it involved Angelina Jolie, or what appear to be Angelina, and me being famous. That's all I can tell you for now, you'll have to wait until this afternoon post.
Hey, American Idol is on tonight, I don't know if I'm going to watch it since is the same thing over and over again, just like survivor, just like Hells kitchen, just like the amazing race, just like every other program that is famous out there. But I guess I'll have to submit myself to the majority vote and criticize everybody and their mother on how bad they sing.
Happy Wednesday people!
I'm alive!
Good day people, hope you're doing okay!
Well, it's early in the morning here and guess whar? I had a full night of sleep last night without any problem what so ever!!! Yeah universe, you might not be so bad after all. Infact all the family went to bed by 10:30PM leaving me to wonder if the powers that be dispersed some sleeping gas in the area because they wanted people to go to bed early...strange stuff.
I do hope you know I'm kidding, I don't believe in all that mumbo jumbo about conspiracies...once again, it's my blog and I'll cry if I want to write if I want to...Sorry didn't mean to be so rude, so early..
Wishing you well
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Thanks
Good festivus to you all!
Wow, people you rock! Today was the day where the blog recieved more pageviews then any other time since its creation, 126 pageviews!! Thank you e-world, much appreciated!
Tomorrow is hump day and another week achieves its cycle, I got nothing major to report for tomorrow, I think I better start working on that book I promised myself to start, tomorrow would be a great day for this. This Friday they're announcing snow, about 15 cm, if it materialized I will go out on saturday and take pictures for the blog.
Happy reading!!
Despicable me
My God, what a day! Stats have been flying all over the world today, Netherlands, Guatemala, Hungary, Spain and others. Well there must be a connection between my stats and the incessant telephone calls from long-distance companies calling me from different area codes, 305, 804, 613, 416... Geez people, all my family resides in Canada within a radius of 40 km, I don't make long-distance calls! The funny thing is that I know all of the area codes I got call from today, Miami, Utah, Ottawa, Toronto, I used to work in the telephony world remember? To me it's exciting to listen to their sales pitch and then let them down, I have nothing better to do than to listen to them.
What happens next is also exciting to me, with my telephone system if there's a number that one a block I can do this! I have blocked so many numbers is not even funny! Another thing I like to do is to speak in a language which I know that they don't understand, such as French for English speaking persons, English for French speaking persons and one of them both for Spanish speaking persons. Like today for example, I got a 305 number where the person who call was talking in Spanish so what did I do? I started to talk to him in French, he apologized and hanged up the phone. And the worst part is that I'm passing this trick onto my girls, last Saturday the bell rang and I had my daughter see who it was, it was a Jehovah witness speaking fluently in Spanish and asking for Mr. Guzman. I told my daughter to speak in French, lo and behold the guy didn't speak a word of French, so he excused himself and left.
What can I do? I made this way!
Well that's my last post of the day, I hope you all have a wonderful day or night!
My mother, the nurse and the thermostat
Netherlands 20? WTF? I bet that those people are never coming back again thinking that they wasted 20 minutes of their life reading my blog instead of doing something else, but thanks anyways.
So I'll tell you about my mother, she has always been a very protective mother, her motto is "her sons above everything!". So now that one of her sons is ill and requires attention, sometimes 24/7 according to her mind, her world has crumbled down. I on the other hand, yes even at 43, am still fighting for my independence, but with a mother like her I will probably never get it, so I have to learn and understand her. So if she calls and I don't answer, she will immediately look for somebody that can rush over to my house and see if everything is okay, bless her heart. I have told her that if she doesn't hear from me it's because I am doing okay, but this will not work with her, she needs to hear my voice as to confirm that I'm still alive and kicking. Even my wife will probably never be good enough to take care of me, but it's not her fault, she's just not my mother. God bless the hearts of the mothers throughout the world.
Let's move on to the second topic of the post, my intervention last night. So this morning my wife asks me the usual questions to make sure it wasn't a stripper I paid yesterday to come and pose as a nurse, you know the questions we guys often asks our wives or girlfriends also.
"How old was she? That took long don't you think? Was she pretty?"
All valid questions if I was looking for something but it's not my case so I reply with honest truth:
"She was old but not that old, it took an hour baby, pretty?"
These were also all valid answers but if my wife would have answered the same way about a customer sirens and whistles would have gone off in my head! Worst, if she would throw in "my customer is gay", I would take this as proof of her infidelity. But for the record, the nurse was not that old, she was on the pretty side and could probably be a model on a magazine such as Maxim Geriatrics. Trust me woman, the girls I'm into, besides you, are hotter than the sun and wouldn't give me the time of day.
And one for the road... Last night I was a bit cold so I told my daughter if she could crank the thermostat up a bit so that I could become warm, just bring it from 20°C to 22° please. When my wife came I was basically naked and she herself told me that the room was hot. I told her that I had asked my oldest to crank up the thermostat by one degree or two, my wife looked at the thermostat and it was set to 25°! So she brought it down, later on that night I was shivering my ass off. This morning I looked at the freaking thermostat and it was set to 15!!! Who in heaven's name pays the electric bill around here? 20, 21 or 22 are fine 25 or 15 are not!
Have a great day people!
Mexican mind
How are you people?
Yes I know I'm late, but if you would have read my post last night my catheter blocked yet again! So by the time I went to sleep it was 2:30 in the morning and then I had my bath this morning. So my post is late today, my first post.
So what am I going to blog about today? Well, it seems I've been speaking in tongues lately and therefore I must clarify the situation. It's a bad habit of mine thinking that because you're a walking talking thing that you then know stuff as much as I do but I know this is not the case. Point in case, last week I told my wife "OMG WTF DYST!" and she was lost, I can tell because she had the dumb puppy look, it was the Chihuahua dumb puppy look. So I explained to her what it meant telling her that it was just a bad habit I had to shorten words so that I could speak faster. My daughters understand me pretty well so I think everybody does, but it's not the case.
Just yesterday while blogging and writing what I thought was a pretty philosophical post, I discovered that I had done it again. MLK, what the beep is that you say? See!? It's not that easy understanding me, I know that most Americans know what this means but the world is not populated by Americans only, there are for example Mexicans which would understand PV but not MLK. MLK stands for Martin Luther King a very noble man with a very noble cause, at least this is my opinion and you don't have to share it, but it's my blog and I can say pretty much WTF I want!
As for America, once again our friends south of the border decided to take that name for themselves even though America is a continent and not a country and not necessarily a person either, the one that got away.
HYHAGD!
Yes, I am a complex person...
PS... Now I have to tackle the post on my mothers emergency calling, let's hope I don't forget
Now I can sleep
Nurse just left, an hour exactly after she came, she was very nice and like the other ones, very efficient!
So I just wanted to blog once the intervention was finished so that you could get an idea on how long it takes and at what time the nurses and I must deal with this issues.
Have a great day/night!
" I hate this part right here..."
Good freaking day people!
Yes I am freaking pissed off! What do you think I am doing right now?? What??!! I am waiting for the service nurse to come over!! Yes the stupid catheter is blocked yet again!! I hope it's my nurse that's on call so she can see it's not fun to be called at this time and she can then do something about it!
She will then double passed that research for the water solution she told me about...fuck maybe I should google it it will be easier, or perhaps I should go and live in a special housing facility where the old and the sick leave, they got a nurse on the premises 24/7 but then I would be bored out of my skull acording to the persons who provide me with my bath.
The nurse just called and it's not my nurse,fuck, she will be here in 30 minutes, so I have to wait with the pain until then!!
Have a nice day people!!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Philosophical afternoon
Before anything, Happy MLK day America...completly forgot, sorry!
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I had a philosophical afternoon today, it all had to do with the first post I did this morning about the miracle oil my daughter would like to spread all over my legs so I can walk again. I got a comment from my cousin regarding this leading me to analyze myself and my posts in general, yes I have lost faith in many things and this might be causing my posts to give off a "fuck it" allure. As I said I have lost faith in many things but I have not lost faith in my daughters, if my daughter believes that she can make me walk by rubbing oil from St. Joseph oratory then I believe in my daughter and should her dream falter I will find an excuse so she doesn't loses her faith.
Remember I am the one who was going to be a priest, my faith was rock solid back then but as I have grown and travel through life seeing the good and bad, the right and the wrong, my faith has taken a tumble and I don't know if it's good or if it's bad. I know what faith can do, my cousin is right it can move mountains, but at this moment I have lost it because it can't even make me move my legs. My mother also tells me the same thing on how I have lost my faith and now I'm passing this along to my daughters, that's not true just this weekend I was letting my daughter know on my religion and all of its ins and outs. I want them to know that if you have faith you can accomplish many things and as I said, I may have lost my faith but I don't want my daughters to lose theirs.
Maybe one day I will look back at this and state how foolish I was by not believing and how all I needed was a push that my daughter gave me. Life is not luck, we are here for a reason and everything that happens to us, happens to us for a reason. I just have to find the reason for me of being where I am and how I am.
Have a great day people!
Give me liberty or something good
So my bath it's finished I feel clean as a whistle and ready to start a revolution! Viva Canada libre! Why am I so rebellious after my bath you may ask? Well, it seems the person that provides me with a bath is a tad, just a tad, non conformist. He was talking about how the politicians here in Québec get away with many things and the public accepts it blindedly. Worst-case scenario the government will form a commission that will cost millions of dollars find the origin of the problem but will not find the person or persons that should be blamed for it. God forbid is not a Royal commission, because then it's really bad! So it's just a matter of time before I let my beard grow like Che Guevara and start singing songs of the revolution.
Don't get me wrong I'm all for fair play and equality, but I also believe that you shouldn't rock the boat because at the end you will sink with it. I don't know, maybe it's because I come from a country that went through a rough period and I also have relatives that are both "communists" and right wing lunatics, or perhaps it's the fact that my life is pretty comfortable and I wouldn't like to be branded as a subversive prick. In the end we are all going to die whether you are a communist, right wing lunatic, a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Mexican, a Canadian... You get my drift! It doesn't matter who you are, you are born to die and you have to make the most of it with whatever you have. Oh yeah I forgot, you also get taxed!
Long live the revolution my brothers, whatever that revolution is to you!
Watch homeland security come knocking at my door!
Take care people!
Miracle oil
How is the bluest day of the year treating you so far?
Well I wanted to write something before my bath this morning which is about to start in about half an hour, we got a very sunny day today out there but usually when it's summer and sunny it could be hot out there but in winter every freaking time in sunny it's freaking cold outside! Today when the girls were going to school we were hovering at a temperature of -19°C, I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit but it's freaking cold!
Yesterday I was discussing religion with my oldest daughter when I touch the point of the saints, here in Montréal the latest news regarding saints is that brother Andre became a saint about a month ago. When you visit St. Joseph's oratory you can ask for the miracle oil that the brother used to prepare, so my daughter that is not a retard came up with the brilliant idea that she was going to go to the St. Joseph oratory and ask for oil. Once she has the oil she was going to rub it will lower my legs and my brain so that I could get better and start walking. I would then have to be forced to go back to work and join the family life again. Her question to me was:
- "What was I going to do when I was able to walk again?"
I looked at her and told her that if God gave me that chance again I would go out and walk, just walk, keep on walking and I would send her and her sister a postcard from Florida when I got there. Needless to say that the miracle oil idea went to the trash!
I love my daughters...
Happy worst day of the year to you guys!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Same time next year?
Well another Christmas decoration season comes to an end. My wife and my girls spent most of the day taking off stuff, putting back things that were part of the decor pre-Christmas and cleaning the house in general. So tomorrow I should be able to sit down in front of my patio door with out having to maneouver the wheelchair that much, what a relief and yet what sadness...
It's going to be the last year my youngest daughter is going to believe that a fat guy in a red suit brought the presents, the magic will be there next year but it won't be the same. God those silly girls are growing so fast that they haven't even took flight and I missed them already...sigh
It's going to be cold tonight -30 celsius/-22 fahrenheit!!!
Happy mondays people!!
Electromagnetic man and his blog
Greetings from my chair!
So today has been a very boring Sunday so far, like every other Sunday and Saturday, WTF the whole week. Don't get me wrong I've been doing stuff, but the stuff? You know stuff! Well I've been on the net working on that project I talked to you about and then we order food from a restaurant that specializes in ribs and chicken, I had chicken and my wife had the ribs. We saw some TV and then my wife let out a small yell saying that electromagnetic man had a blog. Good for him, I would love to read some of the stuff he writes, you know about his experience in life on how he fed up of his wife but doesn't have the cojones to tell her, whoops I didn't mean to let the secret out!
No seriously, this is good he can give me ideas on what not to write, I'm kidding electromagnetic man I think that being a garbage engineer is a real cool job and here in Canada it pays very well... I'm pretty sure my sister-in-law is going to scream. If you ever need pointers let me know and I will gladly give them to you, I mean I'm actually making my blog pay for my coffee every month, a $1.69 will buy me a small coffee at Tim Hortons, I'm making the cash dude!
So another week starts, tomorrow I'll get a package with all the supplies I need until April, my bath guy called me and told me he was going to be here early tomorrow, Tuesday nothing major, Wednesday I think the CMR is coming over with a joystick for me to try as for the rest of the week I don't know what going to happen.
Happy days people happy days!
Catheter Sunday
Greetings from my chair!
Well it was another catheter Sunday today, when did I blog about this? Friday? Yes well it happened again! I was about to start the morning procedures which is basically my wife cleaning my catheter and then putting me on the chair, but then we both noticed something weird and we tried to pass some water through the catheter but it was blocked. So what's my next step? Called the 1 800 support line, basically they will ask you some silly questions and then dispatch and nurse your house to change the stupid thing. This week my nurse was on call, so she got to see everything upfront so she could report back to my doctor about the catheters walking all the freaking time. First things first, I went from a size 20 caliber to a size 22, second thing she told me she was going to look into a cleaning formula that a lady with the same promise I developed and finally she's going to tell the doctor to do a urine culture to make sure I have no infection.
All of this happened before I was able to start blogging, in other words I'm going to blog about what happened instead of blogging about my adventures of last night.
See you later people!
The project
Well it's Sunday morning, real early, like 1:00AM, yeah I can't sleep and I recorded a cool show about the universe on the PVR. How did I ever lived without one?? It has changed my life completly!
So as I had predicted my sister-in-law told my wife about a project I am working on for the house, now she wants to know what it is at all cost. Well she'll just have to wait until I finish the work, but she will like it!
Okay, see you later!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Pictures Saturday
Well I started to work on a project and to decorate my home, it is time-consuming a bit at least for me that has to be working on the computer for "long periods" of time. I don't want to give it away since it's going to be a surprise for my wife and my kids, I do know that my big mouth sister-in-law will be commenting this to my wife, but what can you do? I love both her and her husband and especially I love little "J", this kid is going to be a hell raiser.
But back to my project, I found this place on the web where they specialize on doing things like this and my wife will be thrilled when seeing what I have done. Let's hope she likes it!
I went over the pictures again on my computer and found one when I was a baby, basically about X months old. I will post his picture below on my post so you can see the difference between months and years, the later one being of me when I started to work at the place where supposedly I'm still employed but I'm on long-term disability insurance. I blame the second picture on MS affecting my brain.
Later on today I will catch the NFL games and tomorrow also.
Wishing you and yours a fantastic weekend!
Months old |
In my wife altered wedding dress |
I'm depressed now
Good day weekender people!
Having a slow day so far, nothing major to report from the front, wife is out working, oldest daughter is enjoying TV (she's respecting her punishment) and I'm about to start blogging.
You know, I'm about to start blogging and I knew I had a story to tell you but now I forgot! Great, now I have to have myself check for Alzheimers, that's all I'm missing an MS patient with Alzheimers, with my luck I will forget that I have MS and probably start walking.
But while I tried to remember what the story was about let me inform you that Monday will be the most depressing day that you and I will face this year. Yeah, I read an article in the newspaper that some guy in Wales was paid money to come up with a formula to determine the most depressing day of the year. Well at this point I have news for that person, take any day of the week during a year, except Christmas of course, and I'll bet you that's the most depressing day for most of us. The guy even made a mathematical formula to determine the worst day of the year:
[W+ (D-d)} x T to the power of Q, divided by (M x NA)
I'll bet this is going to win him a Nobel prize, is almost as good as the famous E=Mc2! I mean, I'm pretty sure that even president Obama has days where he wishes he was rather surfing then administering 300 million people, obviously that formula was a plot to help a British travel company but I can assure you that the formula has come pretty close!
Happy days people, happy days...
Blocked dreams
Hope all is well with you people!
Well it was too good to be true, I had gone several weeks without the catheter blocking but today, it happened again! It doesn't matter that I have been drinking 2+ litres of water every day as suggested by my doctor or that my wife flushes the stupid thing every morning with still water. No, the stupid thing blocked again, but at least it wasn't at a odd hour, it happened at around 9:00PM.
It was a male nurse that came and changed the thing, he said that there was probably a full moon because I was the 3rd case today with a blocked catheter and after me he was going to attend another person with a blocked catheter.
So much for a perfect weekend!
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Friday, January 14, 2011
From my mind to yours
So the weekend is here for North America, Asia should be recovering from Friday night.
What are my plans for the weekend? Well, I think it's about time that we take down the Christmas tree and the Christmas decoration. Sadly I cannot help my wife with it and I understand why those things are still up, she works all day and sometimes night, she doesn't have the energy to bring those things down. Thank God St. Valentine doesn't have all the bells and whistles as Christmas does but I will be getting the weekly reminder from my little daughter, she ain't that little she's taller than her sister, about Valentine's presents and what I'm going to get mommy. Usually I always get them, all 3 of them, Laura Secord's chocolates with a gift that I buy for my wife but my daughters give it to her. Then we move on to Easter and its egg chocolates!
I was seeing TV and I discovered the show that will now be part of my programs list, the show is called "Auction Kings". I started seeing it in the middle of the show but as far as I can get it, it's about a family that owns a shop of antiquities/odd stuff and at the end of the week they have an auction where they sell their stuff. It's fascinating, I have never been to an auction but would love to have the chance to go to one of them, perhaps even sell some of my stuff: my hockey cards collection, my comic books collection, my Fender electric guitar circa 1972, my pre-Columbian pieces... My wife thinks it's junk but then again who is she to criticize my stuff?!? So maybe one day I will sell the stuff, but at this point I don't think they belong to me anymore, my youngest likes the hockey cards collection and my oldest likes my electric guitar, which I have to send to be cleaned since she wants to start playing it. It is a 1972 Fender Mustang Competition mustang stripe and red finish. The Mustang was discontinued in 1982.Check the pic below. In
My little brother came here today to feed me and we discussed his problem with the computer, apparently he reinstalled everything and now everything is working fine. Thank God that Dell sends you a recovery CD with every computer you buy from them, so it didn't take him that long and now all is working and no more WiFi for his kids.
Have an awesome weekend people!
I rocked! |
Genealogy and taxes
Spasms city today, I don't know what I ate yesterday or today but I've been having a lot of spasms, kinda like the exorcist I swear I can turn my head around in one of those spasms.
So I was going over some blogs today, you know when you have that bar on top and one of the options is next blog, and I happened to fall on the genealogy blogs. They were fun to read each family has their own thing, in my case I know it's hard because I'm a Latin person living in Canada and trying to get information about a family from El Salvador that apparently has its roots in Europe. So far I've gotten as far as 1847, I know it would be easier if I had somebody that would be mildly interested on the same subject and would be willing to travel to different City Halls where I can get more information. I also found that there are several places where you can get e-information about European citizens, even South American ones but Central America it's a completely different story, I think that we believe that technology is evil.
Hey! Tax season is coming upon us, Canada, you should know by now that I get excited about it since I usually get a refund. But according to my brother this year I haven't made enough to get anything back, boy that sucks! I guess my winning streak had to end sometime, or did it? Well, I just e-mailed my company regarding my medical insurance, I've been paying that for the last couple of years and according to my accountant if I get a receipt for that I should be able to deduct it. There's other things going about and hopefully this will generate some sort of return.
Keep on blogging!
Guilty of social networkin
How are you doing people?
An e-post a day, keeps the doctor away! Well at least for me, it helps me delay the eventual meeting with a psychiatrist... Maybe it's too late for that!
So we finally hit teenage years, I didn't even see them coming. Yesterday evening I was put to bed and my daughters went on with their business, but at 10 PM it was bedtime since they had school today. So the parade of goodnight kisses and hugs came to my room and I was happy that another day was ending and that my wife would soon be home from work. So midnight came and so did my wife, we started to talk when suddenly we heard running in the upstairs rooms. So my wife went to check what was going on and lo and behold, it was my oldest daughter using the computer at midnight!
My wife started to ask questions, inquiring why she was up so late. The brilliant response from my daughter was that my youngest kid was choking away and she got up to help her, seriously? This is the best you can come up with? What am I, chopped liver? If my youngest one would have been coughing or choking I would have been able to hear her all the way down here, it's a freaking 5 1/2! When you flush the toilet up there I can hear it here! Come on kid, tell her you were sleepwalking, tell her you got up for a drink of water, tell her anything don't use "my sister was choking" because I would have been able to hear her. End result? No computer or iPod touch for a week, you're lucky because it could have been worse. You know what the worst is? I'm a computer tech and I will go over the computer of my wife to find out what exactly happened last night, it's like trying to hide a serious illness from your father the doctor, you just don't do it.
So I take it that she will be doing more "illegal" stuff from now on and will have to keep our ears and eyes opened at all times. Stupid kids!
Have a great day or night!
Thursday, January 13, 2011
From my bed
So my next week is filling up slowly but surely CMR coming over, CLSC medical package arriving with my occupational therapist coming over to check merchandise, visit to my daughter's school regarding her China trip and all of these things will be happening while having my regular schedule services, my baths.
I'm gonna need to make space for the merchandise that I'm getting on Monday, it's a 4 months worth of supplies coming my way and I have no where to put it. I will have to buy a closet or something, my wife is already thinking about moving my room around...I don't like change!!
Have a good day people!
It was only a joke
Well we're finally doing something right up here! One of my wishes has finally been answered, I'm talking about a new chain of discount stores from the US coming up to Canada and it will rival Wal-Mart, I hope it rivals Wal-Mart. Now if I can only get that Swedish masseuse to come to my house then all my dreams would have been answered, oh yeah walking would be good to.
China update
So the school call me yesterday and they told me that my daughter needed a visa to go to China, it will be getting this visa but I don't know if she's going to use it since we're playing a waiting game with the Government of Canada, her papers have been submitted and is just a matter of time before her and her mother become Canadian citizens.
Other things
Here's my word of advice for you today, never play a joke on people that work with the disable, they have no sense of humor. Today the lady that's taking care of adapting my computer for my usage called and wanted to talk to me about her plan she has for a meeting next week, I interrupted her abruptly and jokingly said to her that I didn't know if it was worth it since I started to get stronger and I could even walk a bit. The telephone line went silent, I had to ask if she was still there. When she started to talk again I told her it was a joke and and that I was willing to see her next week, she started to tell me off telling me never to play a joke like that on her again. Man some people have no sense of humor!
Have a nice day people!
Radio dad
- "So Chuck, how are you doing?"
I told you the nap was going to do wonders! But it wasn't only me, the guy who gave me a bath this morning came in and he was also feeling in the dumps, so what did I do? I showed him the video! It didn't have the same results as it did with me but I think he got the point and was at least a bit more talkative. This is one of my conspiracy theories that I have where I think that the government disperses gases in the morning to adjust the mood of the people but that's just crazy old me.
So my wife got a compliment yesterday from one of my daughter's friend:
- "Your mother is cool! She listens to a hip radio station unlike my parents."
This is what my daughter told me, I then told her that the radio station she was talking about was originally me that had shown her mom to listen to it. I told the story that when I used to drive that was the radio station that we had on the car all the time, how back then, and now, I preferred radio over video. The little shit started laughing at me telling me that it was impossible for me to like something so hip! I then went on telling her that the radio station used to be called something else when we used to listen to it back in the days, I told her a famous phrase my older brother usually tells my younger brother:
- "Your mom is a pale shadow of myself."
Well he doesn't say it exactly like that, but the words pale shadow and myself are there, I guess if he reads this blog he is going laugh, God I feel old! But at this point I guess I am, my daughter thinks I'm a mummy that radio wasn't invented in my days and that I was never cool. I did told my wife the story about this and I even told her how I had corrected her but that she didn't listen, my wife just laughed because she knew that what I was saying was true.
Have a great rest of the day or night!
Nasa
How are you doing today?
Well today I woke up in one of those moods, the ones that you are lacking hope for yourself, your family and friends and humanity itself. No, I'm not depressed don't get me wrong, maybe it's because I didn't get a good nights sleep, maybe because the weather out there sucks -it's cloudy, I don't like that-, there's lots of reasons why I was feeling down this morning I guess, including the incident in Arizona made me wonder if humans were ever going to get it right.
Then I started to check my e-social places, looking for updates, reading my mail, wondering who the hell in this electronic world was thinking like me, of me. Then out of the blue I went to twitter to check what mumbo-jumbo were my "friends" writing in I stumble upon a link, apparently a video created by NASA that basically tells us that the future generation of humans will be ready to splitville the planet unlike us that seem not to be ready. It is a very uplifting video that I would like to share with you, so click on video if you're feeling down about the whole human race like I was.
Here's hoping of being more e-friendly later on!
Maybe a nap will do the trick!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Ruco
Good Thursday to you all!
I've been meaning to post this since yesterday but I kept on forgetting...so here it goes!
I was talking to my mother last night and the conversation was coming to an end when we both realized that my father's birthday was on that day. I know I don't talk about him, he's been physically in our life until about 20 years ago, but he has never been part of our life. Last time I saw him was about 2 years ago when he got a hold of the news that I was getting worst with my MS thing. He gave me $200 dollars and informed me that he was probably going to be moving with his family to Ottawa, his other family.
I think that he distanced himself from us the day he hit my little brother and my mother took a pair of scissor and told him that if ever he touched one of her kids again she was going to...let's just say he never touched one of us again.
Happy late birthday Ruco where ever you are...long may you run.
Peace people!
Details
I'm sorry, I slept all afternoon long until my wife and kids showed up, I take it that I won't sleep well tonight. So as you may have figured it out, nothing reaaly happened, oh wait, the CLSC called me to say that since I had been accepted into one of the numerous programs for disable people, next monday I was going to get 4 month supplies of medical stuff....cool!
Have a great one..
My awkward life
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Before I go on let me clarify the situation with my little daughter and her presents, the laptop was her birthday
present so it doesn't count. The IPad and the earphones were her Christmas presents and this is what I was
bitching about, well not really bitching but summarizing the casualties of the Christmas war. Needless to say that my wife will Mcgiver it, yeah you know she will Crazy Glue that thing and hopefully it will never ever move again.
That being said we can now move on with our lives!.... Happy with the correction baby?
Bath guy came and did his thing, when he left I was maneuvering in the kitchen with the chair when suddenly the stick that helps me move the chair fell off. So I had to maneuver the wheelchair with basically a little stub that is real difficult to control, put it this way, you might as well try to psychically move the chair. So Until somebody comes and gives you back the stick, you're stuck! Now I will have to call the CMR to schedule a visit so that they can fix this as well as other things that have been bugging me with the wheelchair.
I think this afternoon I will be getting an answer regarding my daughter's trip to China, they will probably tell me I have to pay extra for a visa but I would love her to go to China and meet Jackie Chan so that he could autograph the Chinese hat I want her to bring back. And I heard it through the grapevine that other people want to travel to Disneyland, didn't they read my post about the pine forests tree in Africa? I will basically reestablish the pine tree forest in Sudan before dishing out any type of money!
Anyways, time for me to see some TV and wonder about the universe.
Take care people!