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Just thought I would take a moment and mention that Jenna’s aunt passed away Thanksgiving morning.  She had been fighting cancer in various forms for a long time.  This last round left her very sick and undernurished for a while and while in the hospital she was receiving IV nutrients.  They also decided to install a feeding tube which cause her to reflux and aspirate into her lungs.  Unfortunately she was not strong enough to undergo sugery to clean out her lungs and passed the following morning.  She will be missed.

I finally got around to getting my Single Decision Maker certification at work.  It doesn’t get me a raise but it does make things a little easier for me.  Basically I can now sign off on most cases without a doctor reviewing it.  The exceptions are children’s cases (which I rarely get anyway), cancer cases and mental cases that are a denial.  I can sign off on pretty much any physical case (except cancer) and mental allowances.  By not having to get things reviewed it will save me a little time on each case so hopefully I will be able to lighten the load a little.

Jenna is sick.  Pretty sure it’s the flu.  It may even be the swine flu according to flu.gov since she does have some vomiting after trying to eat something.  Of course when she went to the doctor today at the hospital during work they just gave her a Z-pack antibiotic and told her to go home.  Isn’t it great when doctors just automatically throw an antibiotic at a sick person instead of trying to actually diagnose something?

I’ve decided that when I win the lottery I’m going to hire a personal stretcher.  The most helpful thing PT has had me doing is stretching muscles that I didn’t realize were tight and it has helped a lot.  Maybe I can find a personal masseuse/stretcher/trainer combo person.  That would be cool.

Nothing like some PT to make you realize how out of shape you are.  Apparently my back issues are because of my back.  They said my left hip was out of alignment and was causing the muscles to pull incorrectly.  Supposedly the adjustment they did combined with some stretching should fix the problem.  We’ll see how well it actually works.  All I know is that to be a physical therapist you must also be a sadist. 

One of my college suitemates is on Jeopardy this week.  I haven’t had a chance to watch but I hear he is doing very well.  I found because I actually work with his uncle.  I worked in the same unit as his uncle for two years before switching departments and never knew they were related.  Small World Syndrome in effect.  Everyone be sure to root for Andy the Alphabet Man!

Easily one of the most interesting games I’ve played in a long time.  I know I’m way behind the curve on this one but it’s not easy to shell out $60 for a game.  I just can’t do it.  Call me cheap if you want to but paying for things like movies and music and games has always been difficult for me.  But as I was saying, Bioshock is an awesome game.  It does get a little repetitive with the hacking of machines and the killing of enemies but it is fun.  I will admit though I was a little disappointed in the end battle though.  As difficult as some of the other parts of the game were, the end battle just seemed to easy.  Aside from that the game play can be pretty intense.  Choosing weapons and powers on the fly was very easy except for the fact that the powers would sometimes change positions on the selector menu when new ones were added.  This made it difficult at times because I got used to just selecting the position of the power instead of the power itself.  The graphics were a little lacking in detail compared to something like Halo but overall it was good.  The darkness of the game and the music definitely added to the spookiness and there were times where it made me hesitate before moving forward into a room or down a corridor.

When all is said and done is was a good game that definitely didn’t suffer from the “short game syndome”.  Granted I’m not an intense gamer who has to play every day.  I played a few times a week and it lasted several weeks.  Hopefully someone I know will be getting Bioshock 2 when it comes out so I can borrow it so I don’t have to wait until the price drops.

Everyone seems to be caught up in the Facebook craze.  I thought I was safe at work (once they blocked it) and at home.  But now even Jenna has been sucked into the vortex that is Facebook, more specifically the little Mafia game on Facebook.  I have to be honest though, I just don’t get it.  (I don’t get twitter either for that matter.)  Now I know a lot of people think that if you blog you should get Facebook because it’s basically blogging.  I disagree.  I don’t blog for other people though because I have no pretense that people actually care what I think.  Facebook and Twitter are basically the same thing, espcially since Facebook updated their site several months ago. 

I loved the idea of Facebook when it was a more mature Myspace.  It was a place to reconnect with friends from childhood that had disappeared when they moved away or when we graduated college.  Now it’s nothing more than a glorified Twitter where you can share exactly what you are doing at that moment, plus you can throw snowballs at people and post pictures.  And of course let’s not forget about the all important “Friends” on Facebook.  People actually care about how many friends they can have on there and I’ve even heard of people competing to see who can have more friends.  Really?!  I have people from high school asking to be my friend and my only thought is “We didn’t like each other in high school.  What makes you think we are friends now?”  I’ve even heard people say, “It’s not official until it’s Facebook official.”  What does that even mean?  That nothing is life is real until you post on Facebook about it?  How pathetic are we a society that we think this way?

Maybe it’s just because I don’t think people care what I’m doing every second of the day and to be honest, I really don’t care what they are doing either.  Nor do I need a website to list who my friends are so I don’t accidentally forget.

We tried putting a sheet of plywood under the mattress to help prevent sagging.  It definitely worked and mattress was nice and firm.  Unfortunately it didn’t help with my back and actually cause pain in Jenna’s.  I’m starting to think I must have done something at work or at the house without realizing it.  If it’s not better after this weekend I may have to go to the doctor. 

Our mattress is dying.  It’s starting to sag and causing pain instead of comfort.  It had a good life though, about 8 years, but now it’s close to time to be replaced.  Soon we will begin the even bigger pain of mattress shopping.  Personally, I’m leaning towards a Sleep Number so that both of us will be confortable and not have to compromise a good night’s sleep. 

(Yay!  Posting 3 days in a row. )