New Pokemon Black/White stuff and more

Well with the upcoming release of the new Pokemon White/Black games there’s going to be tons of events happening where you can take your DS and Pokemon game (usually Platinum, Diamond, Pearl, SoulSiver HeartGold) to a participating store to download a rare event Pokemon.

Currently Game Stop and TRU are/will be having events. So here is a list of all events beginning with 2011 and there’s quite a few going on and coming up soon. Click Here for that list.

I’ve not been participating much with it lately, Harold is on the ball though wanting to get them the day they are released.

So far I have:

• GS Raikou – Jan. 3, 2011 – (GAMESTP)

I need:

• GS Entei – Jan. 17, 2011 – (GAMESTP)
• GS Suicune – Jan. 31, 2011 - (GAMESTP)
• Ash’s Pikachu – Jan. 30, 2011 - (ASH)

There’s plenty more I need, most of the event Pokemans, I also collect the plushies (mainly by JAKKS) and really enjoy those items.

I am looking for several of the plushies that I’d be willing to buy at a reasonable price if you have one for sale.

• Wobbuffet
• Starly
• Celebi
• Arceus
• Larger Talking Wobbuffet plush, I believe there’s a Starly talking one as well.
• More..

So if you have any of these, please use the contact me link at the top of any page and let me know what you have and what you’d like for them.

I’ve been getting most of what I need at the retail price ($4-5.99/ea) though sometimes lower or a dollar more. So just get into contact with me and let me know what you have, I look for other items besides the plushies but haven’t yet listed them.

I’m interested very much in the Staraptor/Staravia/Starly character and plushies of them.

I’d prefer any item I might buy meet certain conditions such as coming from a smoke free environment, toys that have not been played with or light play, tag still intact would be great (2 tags, one on the plushies bottom sewn in an one hanging off of a plastic hanger) would like both of those to be attached or included if possible.

Again, if you have these items, or might be able to help me find them please let me know using my contact form above.

Thanks!!

Brad

Lots of fun.. or something..

Not much has been going on. I don’t remember if I posted since the Census let me go but oh well.

I’ve been trying to find a new job, applied at Target several times, but apparently they don’t want me. Also applied at G2K Games, and several other places.

I’m going to be doing a ride along with the police department again here. I did one several years ago and had a great time. Hopefully I’ll get an officer like the one I had last time. I’m anxiously awaiting their call back.

I am giving some serious thought to reapplying with the city police department here. Really hope that if I pursue it, it will work out.

Been playing some World of Warcraft with one of my friends lately, though I haven’t had a chance this past week unfortunately. I got my blood elf paladin to level 33 with some awesome gears and stuff.

I’m kinda anxious about getting the collectors edition of Final Fantasy XIV.. FFXI/XIV both just seem bleh to me anymore.

Cory lost his internet the other month so haven’t been able to talk to him any which sucks

I guess that’s all, not sure what I got on to write about anyway.

 

What up?!

Hope everyone had a Happy Independence Day!

Ended up eating 1 1/4 burger and some corn chips and a tasty liter of cola.. actually a 24oz bottled Coke.

Hung out with Adam some, he likes to use my Pokemon figures and other stuff to battle (which means they get smashed into each other quite a bit). We watched some cat/kitten videos on YouTube. Speaking of videos, you all (readers, if I even have any ; ; should check out “Greg Rutter’s Second Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already Experienced On The Internet Unless You’re A Loser or Old or Something“. It’s pretty awesome as is what he links to.

He played his DS some with my GBA games, seemed to have fun to that while I subjected him to the likes of Avantasia, Iced Earth, Nightwish, and Within Temptation. He seemed to have had fun for which that I am glad.

Thomas hung out tonight. It was alright. He mainly played on his PSP with the new Metal Gear game and we also watched a movie (name escapes me though now), I charged and cleaned up my DS and my PSP with his charger cable he got (since mine has been lost by someone I let borrow my PSP sometime back. I can’t even seem to locate the “Car charger” for it, since I have a device that lets me use those type plus inside rather than being in my car. (Though I do have several chargers in the car and one of them may be the one I need for my PSP).

Talked to Cory some the other night, mostly about cars and a lot about FFXIV. I think I may get the Collectors Edition pre-ordred here soon off Amazon.

I’ve also been looking at upgrading my Sprint PCS phone since I’m now eligible for the $150 discount. The Blackberry I wanted is no longer available it seems, but the new Blackberry Curve 8530, which comes down to $49 after discount and the $100 mail in rebate I have to have post marked by the 24th of this month. I’ve read that its a good entry Crackberry, but also seems to disappoint those who have had them in the past with this new model. I’ll also have to change to a $69.99/mo plan to use said phone (I need more minutes anyway. Free texting would be nice too now since I’ve been receiving them a lot and occasionally sending them.), plus it seems I’ve been going over on minutes to my final bill each month is $80-100s.. so going up to that plan might work out okay.

There is another phone though… The Blackberry Bold 9650, seen some good reviews on it, has some more features I think than the Curve I like, the only bad thing is, $199 after discount AND rebate.

If anyone has any experience with Sprint PCS and Blackberries please leave me a comment and let me know, or if you can recommend any particular model please do so, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Oh! I’ve also changed the site’s theme to something new. So let me know what you all think. I usually tend to use the dark backgrounds, etc but this one caught my eye and I’m really liking it. Feedback welcome!

I believe that’s all for now, pretty late and I need some sleep.

Lots of things

Well I’ve been away from blogging a bit lately. I got a job with the US Census Bureau awhile back. The job was pretty fun, got to meet various people (and various types of people). The whole Census stuff might be in a later post maybe. But I did lose my job today from there. I wasn’t performing as well as I should I guess (turning in the questionnaires as quickly as they wanted them after they told us to slow down on the turn ins) and trying to get people to answer their stupid door so we could run through 10 questions which take about 5-10min at MOST.

Never fails.

I picked up Pokemon Soul Silver for my DS on my previous paycheck and have been having a lot of fun with it. I purchased Pokemon Platinum today, it looks like it’ll be fun as well! Really love my Pokemon stuff a lot.

Well my ambien is kicking in so I guess time for bed.

Good night.

Another year gone

Well I just “celebrated” my 26th birthday on Monday (March 29th). It was alright, Cory had wished me a happy birthday around 1am or so my time (12am his).

The day wasn’t that great, it was rainy out and stuff. Mom and Adam came up to see me and brought me my cheesecake sampler birthday cheesecake and my present from them. Tarascon Primary Care Pocketbook It’s a pretty nice pocket guide for primary care, there’s an emergency medicine one I’d like also.

Ate some cake, watched the rain let off a little and went and fixed my busted in lock on my car door. In the process of removing a bolt I sliced my finger apart and bashed it into the sharp edges of the door frame. Apparently both bolts that hold the lock to the door handle area had come out so I found one and finally got it reattached and all. Works pretty well now.

My next gift from them will be reactivating FFXI. Mainly just so I can talk/play with Cory, but there’s some new missions I want to finish up too and maybe work on my WHM to get it ready for level 99.

Thomas got me this awesome Bludgeon from Transformers  Voyager, which he had gotten for himself but the sword was bent some so he knew how much I wanted one and let me have his non-perfect one (which is fine with me).

My mom is going to reactivate FFXI for me either Friday or Saturday probably whenever it’s safe to reactivate to avoid a fee for other months, so hopefully Cory and I can play together soon.

I had to take an employment test with the Census Bureau today. Had my application and I-9 form filled out and ready, the test giver guy was pretty awesome. I made a 98% got 27/28 questions correct. I hope to hear back from them in a week or so. So here’s hoping.
My email has been acting up and I didn’t get like a weeks worth of mail recently so if you sent something and no reply send again. Some emails are trickling back through too from that time frame but still send another.

Oh I did my clinic orientation at the free clinic. Looks like I’ll be doing front office stuff which should be fun, plus I get to help needy people out in some way. Hope it all works out very well.
Goodnight!

Brad

February bleed

Well I had a pretty severe upper GI bleed last week. I went to the ER Sunday morning after vomiting up bright red blood (actually it was coffee ground type the first time then BRB) and having some bad epigastric pain.

Got taken back pretty quickly, NG tube went in which immediately started sucking out bloods. (mind you you are not sedated when they put that tube in, its very uncomfortable and seems to get caught on anything and yanks portions of it out of your nostril.

The ER doc was giving me Morphine 5mg for pain, but it wasn’t really helping. Eventually around 18:00 that evening the doctor for my group who does admissions came and talked to me, we got my pain meds changed over to Dilaudid which helped my pain a great deal.

“Slept” in the ER over night, my GI doc showed up Monday morning for a consult, he wanted to do an endoscopy since he saw the bright red blood. Around 16:30 we started the endoscopy, they thankfully removed my NG tube while I was under a little bit of sedation, I remember all that though so it wasn’t that bad. He didn’t find a source of the bleeding unfortunately. I see him Thursday morning to followup and see what else we can do. He mentioned the pill cam endoscopy but that’s expensive but would help to show if theres bleeding down in my small bowel.  My hospitalist wants me to talk to him about colonoscopy since I am at high risk for colon cancer, have a previous history of polyps, etc. I am past due on my colonoscopy though anyway, I’ll bring it up to him but will have to tell him I have no way to pay for the procedure up from, which isn’t usually a problem with that group as he and my primary doc are in the same group so I pay that bill monthly. The hospital on the other hand wants $500 upfront to be able to have your procedure there. Its actually cheaper than doing that at the outpatient center.

I was transferred to the ICS (Intensive Care Stepdown) unit for a day, where I ended up receiving 2 units of O+ blood as my hemoglobin dropped down to 8-8.3. After awhile I was transported to a normal floor for HMG patients and finally got out on Thursday. The Hospitalist doc discharged me home with a few Dilaudid pills as they were helping my abdominal pain quite well when my Percocets wouldn’t. I found Dilaudid to be a much cleaner drugs in regards to the side effects. I had little sedation, no itching, nausea, etc unlike with Oxycodone or others. I think it might be something to look into having a few of those each month too  for those migraines that would take me to the ER I could take one of those and be done without a costly $500 fee.

My right arm is hurt. One of the sites that an IV was in and where they did numerous sticks for bloodwork has gotten VERY swollen. At first it was just a half dollar sized lump inside the elbow area, but now it has grown down and up, its up into my bicep now. So bending my arm out or picking things up, etc causes a great amount of pain.

I’m also sick now. I started feeling under the weather yesterday afternoon. Laid down for awhile after my brother went downstairs and noticed the body aches and my head felt like it wain a vise. Then I started to feel hot to touch and sure enough a low grade fever. Now I’m hanging around 102.5F. Though it likes to hang around 100.x, I’ll test it and it’ll be 100.4F, then seems to go away then retest when I notice fever again and its like 100.9. Just keeps growing every time it comes back.

My PCP is going to try to make time to work me into his schedule to see me about my arm and illness. Hes just a great doctor, very friendly, genuine concern, will do what it takes to help his patients.

Cory’s been sick as well, hes bee congested and nauseous I think. Hopefully he’ll feel better soon. Greg hurt his shoulder so hopefully that’ll heal up soon also.

Okay that’s enough, my arm is killing me, making me cry especially if I accidentally straighten it out. Gotta be up early anyway.

Good night!

Choices

Well its 05:00, always a nice time to try to end the day.

A lot has happened the past few weeks. Ended up in the ER a bunch several days last week due to 1 migraine and then a GI bleed that wouldn’t stop.

Migraine went as they usually do. Go in, wait in my darkened room, talk to the doctor or PA. They check me out. Call my mom to come get me. Get my shot of dilaudid and phenergan. Wait 20 minutes (more like 40 in some cases, though I have been able to leave before 20 minutes a few times). Leave. Then home to bed.

Well that night I had been feeling pretty nauseous and had some abdominal pain over the stomach (more so than I had been with the migraine, which I hadn’t had any vomiting with, just nausea). It intensified a bit and I ran off to the bathroom and produced quite a bit of blood. I went to throw on some clothes and get to the ER across the street. Managed to find a cup which came in handy to vomit in (proof even). Got in there fairly quick and taken back. I saw a PA I had seen back in March of last year when something like this had happened (with much less blood). He got me checked out some, gave me some pain and nausea meds and had me do some orthostatic vitals. (Thats where they take your bp/pulse/o2 sat laying down, sitting up, standing up). My pressure was low and pulse was low laying down, on sitting up, pressure dropped a little and HR increased, standing up made me pretty dizzy and BP dropped a lot and HR went up to about 138.
Laid back down and waited some more, he came back in and did a rectal exam to check for blood there, and pressed on my abdomen some to check for tenderness, etc. Pain had increased quite a bit so got me some more pain meds and a big helping of zofran for the nausea. Anyway the doctor over that PA came in and talked to me (I had seen him back in September for my last bleed which got me admitted) said he was gonna let me go home (As my nurse is coming in with the fluids the PA had ordered) but told me to return if I vomited any more blood, felt weaker, anything like that. Came home and slept since I hadn’t slept any and when I got up was still bleeding so went back in. This time they put me in the Fast Track area (for cases such as headaches, colds, back pain, things that aren’t too serious at present). The PA that examined me just didn’t seem like he knew what to do. He said he would get me some protonix for the pain, and some zofran for my nausea. Okay, well the protonix never came and I finally got my Zofran when I was leaving. They did another H&H on me, my hemoglobin and such had dropped some since that morning. He did a rectal exam as well, he seemed nervous about it, more so than I was. He was nice about it all though just seemed like he was afraid of those things (can’t blame him in some cases haha). But got discharged and said to make an appointment with my doctor. Well I see him on Tuesday but the bleeding finally stopped, I can tell I lost a bit of blood due to the weakness and I’m sure my HGB is low low low.

I got to watch Cory play some music today! Was pretty cool, he used his webcam and some site to stream it to live. Hes pretty awesome!

I’ve been considering a career lately. Its actually something I’ve wanted to do for most of my life. Joining the military. I’ve wanted to be a Marine as far back as I can remember, but I don’t think I could make it through their training at this point. I’ve been looking into the Army Reserve. This would allow me to be able to work and to also serve if called upon. Maybe even go fulltime if I like it well enough. I’m not going to jump right into it just yet though. I have a lot of thinking to do on it. I have some stuff I want to see how it turns out first, and depending on the result, then I can proceed forward or stick with the other stuff.

Ok time for sleep..

Bleh head pain

Well not a whole lot has happened the past few days. It’s been snowing though, which, is super awesome! Its not as much snow as we had the weekend before Christmas but its still out there and more is on the way I heard.

I had to visit the ED Thursday afternoon for a migraine. It had started Wednesday and none of my meds were helping it so I went over there and got checked out and given 1mg of Dilaudid and 12.5mg of Phenergan. That stuff usually helps my headache, it doesn’t make it go away but it makes it much much more tolerable, enough to where I can actually sleep. They gave me half the normal doses I get (2mg Dilaudid, 25mg Phenergan) so the pain and nausea was still hanging around after the shot but not as bad but not a huge improvement that I probably would’ve had with the higher dosing.

I slept for awhile after coming home from there and got back up around 21:00. Cory had sent me a message so I tried to talk to him some. I was really hungover groggy and stuff so couldn’t really concentrate that well to talk as much as I usually do.

I managed to get up at a decent time today, got woke up around 07:30 then off to sleep again, then up around 8something then 10 and finally got up around 11. Pretty tired now too, since I didn’t nap or anything at all today.

I played some Spirit Tracks today, I beat the Fire Temple, the boss there Cragma (I think that’s his name) is a neat boss, hes pretty easy compared to some of the others. I’m getting close to the end, but I will be doing all the side quests too since I enjoy those.

I guess that’s all for tonight, got more to talk about but am just too tired to go on.

Cactuar!

Cactuar!

Originally uploaded by Vaprotan

Well my Sabotender hat arrived Tuesday! I went by my moms to pick it up and it fit just right on my head, even covers my ears really well. It’s got these pompom things hanging down from each side, while they are nice, they do get in the way sometimes.

It’s difficult to see the face and the points at the top due to the angle and the color, but let me assure you, it’s awesome.

I’ll be working on my About page on my blog to try to add some of the info I had on my old blog and some new stuff, so check it out sometime.

Not got to talk to Cory lately, I think I’m catching him right as he’s logging or such as he logs not long after I send a message, so hopefully its just that and he’s not mad or such. Gonna try to talk to him some tomorrow and see how it goes.

I’m still not feeling too great. My body is still achy, nose is stopped up some, nausea, etc. Now I’ve got a migraine brewing to add to it all. If migraine is still going  tomorrow I might end up at the ER D: Since they can usually help me when my home meds have failed me. ; ;

Been playing Spirit Tracks more, was up pretty late last night so used that time to play some. Finished playing the game around 04:30 then I think I fell asleep around 05:40 or something, then kept waking up. Finally got out of bed around 11:45 or so. I did lay back down around 14:20 and got back up around 16:50, though between those times the phone rang a few times and woke me.

Well time for sleep I hope, took Ambien a while ago, so it should still be working.

Cold Weather is Cold!

Well its 14F outside right now, so it’s pretty dang cold. It had been flurrying some last night and I saw a tad this morning but not much. I was really hoping for snow again. No one else seems to want the snow for some reason or another. Most of them don’t give a reason, so bleh!

The Cactuar hat was ordered from YesAnimation.com, they have some pretty nice items on there, although some prices are a bit higher than at other places I shop at. I do see a few things they have I want to pick up (Silent Hill Save Point Necklace for one.)

Not really a lot been going on here. I’m not feeling too good lately as mentioned before. Today I had some body aches, some chills, headache, and such going on. Feeling a bit better now but am really tired since it is 4am now. I napped around 13:00-15:00, then woke up covered in sweat as usual. Thomas came over around 8ish and we made it to this new game store in the mall, they sell and trade used games, consoles, accessories, etc. VHS/DVDs also, and resurface discs. Pretty nice place. Seems they have a few different places like that around in Knoxville and in-between there and here. I’m considering asking them for a job, I HATE the mall, I hated working there when I did, I hate all the stupid annoying kids in there. But it’d be a job and the geeks would be in there mostly so I can get along with them okay I think.

Played Spirit Tracks more, beat the Ocean Temple. Did some side quests. Think I’m almost all caught up on bunnies now. Gotta transport some townfolk around and a few other things then I can continue on to the next dungeon and all that.

Well time for bed.