A whole weeks worth of stuff

I hope those of you reading this at work have nothing else going on because this could be a pretty long read. I have been without the internet for a while but not to worry at all I am back and ready to blab on some more. I have had an awesome week last week. It started off Monday when I was done with work I went and visited my old roomie Traci Voth at her condo. I think we had a pretty good time we reminisced about the good old days of being 18 a pretty much out of control in the whole of a wall town called Eau Claire. She showed me around her place and I must say it is really nice and it is super easy to get to and a hop skip and a jump to where I am working up here. For those of you that already know or have been reading along for a while I might possibly move in with her somewhere in the near future. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy living in Dinkytown and in the Hope Lodge which is wonderful, but I need to get a sense of normalcy soon. My other friend Noah is going to be looking for a job up here next month and wants to be roommates and I am not opposed to that at all either. It is just that I really have no clue when I am going to be and what I am doing over the next 6 months. I really need to get a calendar book because dates and times of junk is starting to run together a bit. I must dig out my trusty note book and start writng shit down. That evening I was supposed to hang out with Heather and watch a movie. I had to cancel because of all the other misc. stuff I had going on. The rest of the week for the most part I worked and then went to the gym. Thursday night though I headed back to Eau Claire to visit some of my friends and pick up Andy to go to Milwaukee. Naturally there is nothing to do in EC besides get boozed up and play darts/pool. A few dance moves were busted out but it was limited and very few people were witness. 50 cent taps will do that to a person. I seriously do not like going back to EC. The only reason I do go back is because of my friends that are either too lazy to grow up and get a real job outside of that dump or have a shitload of family there. Either way my group of friends are awesome and like to party so they are worthy of my company at times. hahaha! On Friday Andy and I headed down early and stopped off at the W house and had a beer and chilled then went into Milwaukee and watched the Brewers dominate. They also dominated the Nationals on Saturday too. Sabathia and Sheets threw complete game shut outs first time in 13 years. Who were the others you ask. Cal Eldred and Chris Bosio. Look it up if you have to.....I know I did. Since I am on a roll about sports at the moment. We all know Brett was traded to the Jets this past week and all I have to say is,"Good". The guy became a whiny, indecisive, hijacking bitch. He held the progress of the team hostage for four years. Yeah they went to the NFC Championship game last year and they also lost it of the arm of Brett Favre. Nice interception buddy! As soon as Shermans jack ass draft picks were benched and Thompsons players stepped in Brett became good again. Funny since everyone said he was washed up for 3 years. Once he started playing in McCarthy's offensive system they fourished. Aaron Rodgers is in a bad place right now. He will never be able to be in a good situation here unless he gets them to atleat the NFC Championship game. So me being the instigator that I am I wore my Rodgers jersey to the Brewers game on Saturday and amazingly enough there were more people giving me high fives and shit for wearing it than the dumb asses pissing and whinning about Brett being gone. Then again there was a guy that wanted to fight me over it and I told him to go do a few things then told him I'm not afraid of him at all and he walked away like a little bitch.....I have witnesses it was sweet. What have we learned after this experiment on Saturday? 1.) There are retarded people that think they are tougher than they really are until they are confronted about it. 2.) People pretty much agree with my opinion of franchise first and legends second. 3.) There is an idiot in every crowd. To continue along with my amazingly long winded story. Saturday was just flat out busy besides the game. We had a small pregame at my Grandpa Nuoffers house. I haven't been over there in a while and it really hasn't changed since I was about 3 months old. It was such a nice day out we sat outside grilled up some beer brats and yapped away. It was fun for the most part until bad news hit. I don't know if I really should say anything about it but I am going to anyways. My dads Uncle Tom(on my grandmas side) passed on from basically cancer of the entire body. They gave him 6 months and he went almost 2 years. So he held out for a while and it is still quite sad. I hadn't seen him in a long time and the few things I do remember about him was that he was always really nice to my brother and I. I think the last time I saw him was at my Grandma Nuoffers funeral. Either way it has been a while. I felt really bad for my dad because obviously my situation is a really fucked up one to watch your own kid go through but tack on the timing of his Uncle and that is just messed up. I am pretty sure going to the game and watching me be a smart ass to people probably gave him some sign of relief for the day. My Grandpa also told us the story of a Luger pistol he lost for 25 years and how he found it in my Grandmas purse after she passed on. Apparently, my Grandma kept it hidden for 25 years and never cracked a smile when my Grandpa would be looking for it or talking about it. To prove the story he went and took it out of a drawer and showed us. There was no clip in it, saftey was on, and the barrel was empty and my brother Joel and my friend Andy were ducking out of the way every time he would swing it around......what wimps it was empty! Otherwise after the game Andy and I headed to Madison and met up at the W house with the crew. From there it was straight to State Street for a few beverages. One of my old stomping grounds (Lava Lounge) is where we spent the nice shooting the shit and trying to stay out of trouble. After bar close we wound up sitting on the porch till about 5am. The house is pretty jacked up for the first game day and I must say I am expecting a pretty rowdy crowd there for it. It was good to see some familiar faces though. Hell, that is always a good thing. Tomorrow, I work till 5pm then I am heading straight to the gym and then cleaning up and heading to Chris's house to watch the Packers Monday night game. Ah I miss those good old days where Chris and I would scream at the TV about Brett or Bert as we called him when he screwed up and Mike Sherman for obvious reasons. Today, I wanted to see Kristi and Aubrey and yet again. No return dialoge from Kristi until I am already in the Cities. I am such a dumb as for even holding out a little hope for her to actually get over shit and use a phone for conversation. I am pretty content with everything in our past. I say shit happened lets move on from it and wipe the slate clean. I have an ounce of hope left.

After I made everyone read through that entire thing let me tell you about my current health happenings. I am feeling pretty good. I was feeling fabulous and it was like nothing was wrong then then pain started to work its way back to aching again. I haven't had a pain pill since last Saturday and I am glad but there are moments when I thought I probably should then it would go away. The aching is in my chest still but now it is starting to ache a little in my shoulder/neck area and I am terrified about that. I don't know if that is muscle or the chemo fighting with it. Either way I am still in a little bit of pain. I also think the lump shrunk a little bit over the last week as well. I am hoping so. I haven't had any Mangosteen juice in a week because I have been out and broke. The pain in my knees is back in a major way and so I get a shipment tomorrow and hopefully it will kick in right away. I swear that stuff is fabulous for getting rid of arthritic pain. When I was on it my back and knee pain was nonexistant. If any of you know me well enough know that those have been two problems I have had for probably 10 years and it went away after drinking that juice. Since my tumor shrunk a very tiny bit in the scan I am holding out on that case yet but I am willing to keep trying it. The side effects I have had from the new stuff was virtually nothing. My hands still get dry but not enough that they crack I just need to put moisturizer on them and it is like new. I have gotten a mouth sore though and those things are annoying. If that is the worse I am going to have then I am in a good spot in that department. Tuesday I have to go in early and get my port tested because there is a hole in it and that is boring. They inject a dye and I get a scan of some sort to show if and where it is leaking from. Then I go from there to the other part of the hospital to see my surgeon. That is probably the one appointment I am actually looking forward to. Dr.Maddaus is a major go getter and is not a NO person at all. I need his opinion of what has to happen in order for me to possibly have some sort of surgery to attempt to cure myself of this personal demon of mine. I don't care how long and what has to happen I want it to be dealt with no matter what the costs which is life or death reguardless. I am in great spirits and hope at the moment almost a hint of over confidence in myself. I just feel great and positive at the moment. What can I say the only thing that can make things worse is my death so it is all up hill from here and I know things will turn out for the better. I am going to make it happen with a little help others of course.

On a side note my old manager Jay at CB&K set up a pretty sweet benefit in downtown Janesville. It is called Kareoke for the cure. I forgot the name of the bar where it is being held so if you are reading this Jay let me know the details. Otherwise I do know it is in two Saturdays from now and all of the $ is to be donated to cancer research. The DJ is hosting it for free so buy the guy a shot or something atleast. If you are in the Madison or Janesville area go have a few drinks and sing you asses off. It should be a good time.