Flu Shot Success!

NAVY UPDATE:

And so the end is not here for me yet.

On Friday I spent three full hours at the allergist office and I have successfully taken the flu shot.

Why could I not previously take the flu shot you would like to know???

Because unfortunately I have an allergy to uncooked eggs and I was very unsure I could take this shot which is mandatory for the navy because it contains uncooked eggs.

Luckily I had a doctor who was very nice and a retired air force officer. We are now great friends. I sat in his office for three hours while taking a 7 step diluted flu test and it took forever!

How we did it: He first took small drops of the flu shot diluted to 1/1000, 1/100, & 1/10. He then administered these skin pricks with the needle and we had to wait 15 min. in between each one. When he saw that I wasn’t having any serious reaction he then gave me a few more 1/10 diluted pricks, then he adminstered .1 of the real shot, then .4. Success. The flu shot is .5 so I had the whole vaccine. Then I had to wait 1 full hour to make sure no reaction occured.

Nothing happened! The doctor (my new friend) then wrote me the letter and let me fax it straight from his office to the naval office. I am now waiting for the results to see if they will be letting me back in. I can only hope!

If it doesn’t work out I will never take the flu shot again.

Keep your fingers crossed for me. Results coming soon…

Left 4 Dead Movies + Trailor.

In case you haven’t been able to get in the mood for some zombie obliterating action… let me bring you there. You know you want to get infected. I just had a long conversation with a friend last night at the bar about left 4 dead. He really got me into the “stomp the zombie” mode, so I thought I’d try to infect everyone else. Corny, I know… shut up.

Left 4 Dead Trailer:

First Movie:

In case you weren’t aware that witch is a huge bitch. You have to absolutely stay away from her at all costs and if you are in the same room with her turn off your flashlight and do not shoot your gun. She will kill you in one fluid motion. She is merciless. When you see her you keep quite, keep your head down, and get the F out.

Another helpful tip is when you are playing on versus, play with people you know. It really sucks when you play with people you don’t know because this game is very dependent on team playing. You can’t leave the group because you will die, and if you don’t work together you’re left 4 dead. Truth.

Last Helpful Hint: When the tank comes, RUN! do not let it catch up with you. Get someone to run while everyone else shoots. That will help damage it more then letting it come up on you and beat the crap out of you while you lay there trying to pump it full of lead.

I ran, I ran, and I ran some more.

A little bit about my weekend:

well, I definitely went to see B. Spears on Friday night and was extremely impressed by the performance. Even the Pussycat dolls did an awesome job. I was never planning on going to the concert and I’ve never been to a Britney Spears concert so I guess there is a first for everything. They went with the circus theme for the concert and that was a great choice because it was very entertaining. I almost forgot I was at B. Spears’s concert and I almost thought I was really at a circus.

In between sets when she would change they would have performers come out and put on little shows. Overall very well done. My favorite was when a woman came out with two very built men and they had a board. She would step on the board and then the two men would lift it up to their shoulders. This board was not straight though, it was flimsy and would dip down with the woman’s weight. Then, they would bounce the board for her and she would fly up into the air, do two front flips and then land back onto the board. They would move to where she was, catch her, and then the board would dip down and they would bring it back up. I was mesmorized. Totally freaking out. That was crazy. Awesome job!

After the concert there was obviously a shit ton of traffic and I knew I wouldn’t be leaving any time soon so I ended up tailgating with a whole group of women that were in front of my car. They had a lot of food and it was quite delicious.

When I finally arrived back to M’s house I went straight to sleep and we had to wake up at 6:30 AM for the half marathon! 13.1 miles. WOW. I was extremely nervous. This was my first one. What if I suck and I couldn’t run the full 13 miles?!?

The first mile was awful, it was all up hill and pretty hard to run all the way up although I did pull through, then we did a loop through the starting point and next came a five mile loop, then finally the same five mile loop again for the thirteen miles. I did walk at short intervals during the race because it was hard to keep running and finish. Somehow, I pulled through and we finished at 2:36:47. Yes, I know that is not the best time but it was my first one and I’m damn proud. M could have ran much faster but  I held her back and she was kind enough to stick with me.

Overall an awesome day. I got my medal, and now I’m sitting here on Sunday morning… in bed. This is where I plan to be for the rest of the day. I have a research paper to work on anyway. Hopefully my body will stop hurting soon.

Its hard to believe that I am running a marathon in just one month. Wowsers.

An end of the week Comic… Its the Weekend!

I heart Halo of coure.

Fallout 3: The Pitt.

In case you weren’t aware Fallout 3 released the second new download able side game called the Pitt and it is fashioned after downtown Pittsburgh… Represent! It looks quite intriguing and very fun so if anyone has already had the pleasure of playing, do tell. I hope to play it coming up soon, but will be much too busy for this week for sure.

Here’s the trailer: Check it out!

Also, if you want much more information on this subject check out the PITT updates at 1up.com: Where gamer’s call home.

Motivation at its Finest

If you ever need any motivation, just watch.

Julie Moss is inspirational.

Just in case you didn’t know…

an Iron man is

2.4 mile swim

112 mile bike

26.2 mile run

Total: 140.6

Intervening.

Yes, I previously stated that I would be giving a play by play of my spring break adventure but this is BIG BIG BIG news. This means that the spring break account continues tomorrow, and today I just re-tell a series of events like a chicken with my head chopped off.

First of all: I did send a letter of petition to the navy for my allergy of uncooked eggs and I did receive another disapproval and an official letter of disqualification because of the possibility of anaphilaxic shock to said uncooked eggs. Disheartening I know, but I scraped my dream off of the cement like anyone else who’s been in my same situation. Life does go on, just a different way you know.

Present:

It all began at exactly 11:47 am. I was at work and I recieved a call from a number I don’t have stored in my phone. I am not one of those people who won’t answer their phone because I don’t know the number but we were busy, and so I was unable to take the call and a minute later I recieved a voicemail.

As soon as I got a quick break I ran back and called my voicemail. As it turns out it was a special investigator calling to set a time to meet up with me so that he could start my security investigation and I needed to fill out some extra papers before everything proceeded.

Woa. Hold the phone. I’ve been disqualified, why are they proceeding on with my security investigation? I called the man back and told him just this. Apparently no one had informed him that I am unable to continue on with my application and so he was proceeding like everything was fine. I explained the situation and he said that he would freeze my investigation and talk to someone at the naval office until he found out how to move forward. I thanked him and told him I would let him know as soon as I myself found out.

Upon ending the conversation, I called my naval contact and told him what had happened. He said that since everything happened only two days agom, not everyone had found out yet and they still needed to contact some people. I asked him, that if I went to see an allergist and got some skin tests done what kind of a chance would I still have to get back in. He said a very good one and he also said that someone had professionally recommended me and so I also had a 99% chance of getting commissioned if this worked out.

This excited me very very much. I got off the phone with him and called a friend to look up allergists phone numbers in the area so that I could make an appointment. They let me leave work early since there we weren’t very busy and there was extra help so I left and immediately started calling the allergists from the list M gave me.

There were only four so it didn’t take long. The first 3 said they couldn’t help me, but the fourth one, she was immensly helpful. She explained everything to me, told me about my insurance, set up an appointment and really lifted my spirits. I was quite flustered and she asked me if I was just having one of those days. I said yes, I was extrememely stressed and just wanted everything to work out. She then stated that she could make my day 10 times better and told me that she was getting a divorce and filing for bankruptcy. YIKES! She was surprisingly cheerful about all of it and in a much better state then I can say for myself if I were ever to be in that position. Men.

In the end I worked everything out over the span of an hour, I have an appointment for this Friday, and I’ll be finding out the direction of my future. Freak Out. I’m so excited I can’t wait.

On a Much Lighter Note: I’ve been bamboozled into going to the Brittany Spears concert on Friday. Some of my friends just ended up with an extra ticket and they begged me to go till I conceeded. I won’t even deny it, I’m quite excited.

Also, on Saturday, I’m running a half Marathon. Double Freak Out. I guess I’ll see how I do and if I’ll have the stamina to keep going for the full marathon next month. M and I have matching outfits and I do believe it should be a very good time. Woo for 13.1 miles. Bring it on.

I’m Back…

Can I just tell you that I spent 6 days completely shut away from any media, phones, computers, electronic devices [besides my ipod], and I couldn’t have been happier. The only bad thing was that I was itching to check my blog and it was one of the first things I did when I re-entered civilization. I know, total nerd.

Surprisingly I’ve had more hits in this past week then in my blog history. weird. So I took a crap load of photos and spent a very peaceful week in the wilderness doing some of my favorite things. I didn’t even know the time for five days in a row. yess. Although I didn’t take a shower for 7 [which is extremely disgusting] I still would do it again in a heartbeat.

On recap, you can hear all about my trip as I give a day by day account… day by day. go figure.

So, Recap Day 1:

We drove, and we drove, and we drove some more. For 10 hours. It was painful but I had my ipod, my relaxation book (a diary of a japanese doctor who lived through the atomic bomb on Hiroshima), and I got to know 10 people I would be enjoying my spring break trip with. Who were all extremely cool by the way.

When we finally arrived at the savage gulf, we got everything out of the UHAUL and went to set up camp for the night. The real journey would begin in the morning.

Some Amusement along the way:

My friend and I both used back packs from our dads instead of signing one out through the university. We found out this night that our packs both came from the 70’s, Kelty brand, with wire frames. Hilarious. M had an instruction pamphlet and the guy in the pictures was a total hippie. Everyone was laughing and was shocked by our blast from the past style. If that’s not enough, they found it extremely hillarious that our tent was one of those triangle tents from the 70’s as well that M insisted that we bring. Immediately we became known as Team Retro and the jokes just kept on coming.

Examples: “Hey guys, what time does the disco party start?”

“Is that a seat belt that you are using to fasten around your waist?”

Everyone had good humor I must admit very funny stuff.

We set up camp, made dinner, and then we sat around the fire telling stories until everyone one by one slowly went to bed. Overall a good day.

After dinner four of us [there were 12 people in our group] went down to the stream to wash our bowls and dishes. One person noted that the stars looked extremely bright in the night without lights around. We star gazed for a good while pointing out different constellations and such, and then, right in front of our eyes there was a shooting star with was very bright and one of the best ones I’ve ever seen.

When we went to bed, it started raining and the pitter patter of the drops hitting and running down our tent put me right to sleep.

Spring Breaking.

Be Back in a week

A Night of Fullfillment.

I just absolutely positively love when I can get together with friends, relax, and play a full night of vigorous video games for many many hours, so that I may one more time realize why not having xbox live saves my life. I can’t believe how absolutely obsessed I am with video games. It has to be this recent insurgence and the new group of video game friends that I now enjoy games with, that has sparked my otherwise hidden passion.

Playing halo for 4 hours on back to back, paired for the kill teams with crazy kill action, has me psyced for the game. Last night we were playing team scenerios 3 guys, 1 girl <—ME. These guys are awesome and they are VERY good, which frustrates me a little but not much, because everyone is a good sport. We always play 1st and last, 2nd and 3rd. This means I always get to play with 1st place. woo. Actually I was holding my own, it was just at a lower level than everyone else. haha.

After our loonng halo kick ended, we played a vigorous round of left 4 dead in which everyone kept trying to hump me as the boomber when we were zombies. gosh. get off. ha. Now, one thing you know is that in halo there is a very high possibility when you die that you might be tea bagged. During left 4 dead I donot expect for this sort of thing to happen since its humans and zombies, not the same thing at all. I am unhappy to announce that I totally got tea bagged by my oponent Francis last night and I was totally appalled by it. gosh. I was the boomer. ewwwww. But I’m a free spirit, I can take it.

So in the end, my night was blissful, it was completely involved, and I loved every second of it. Remind me again why I don’t have nights like this every night. O yeah… reality. Can’t let that get the best of you.