What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[BoneSnapDeez]

^ I like her haircut!

[fastbilly1]

Smile - Its my wifes hometown even this weekend. Which means garage sales and a big fleamarket (oh and the actual event itself, but Id rather rummage through other peoples things). Also taking down my audio recording stuff to get a wala track for a friends project.

Ticked - Due to how the area is designed, if we dont go down tonight, we will have to get up super early tomorrow to get there before the car line gets insane (gate opens at 0800). Which means I will be down there all weekend, aka I cant finish Saints Row 3.

[Luke]

^ I like her haircut!

She is adorable and thanks, but I strongly prefer long hair on her.

I love, love seeing her dry her hair when it's long. It's a very Wendy Peffercorn situation as she doesn't know what she's doing, but she knows exactly what she is doing.

[Erik_Twice]

^ I like her haircut!

She is adorable and thanks, but I strongly prefer long hair on her.

I'm with BoneSnapDeez here.

Short hair > Long Hair

[Ack]

Short hair > Long Hair

I think it depends on the person, but Luke's wife wears short hair very well. Hope you guys have a good time tonight!

[Xeogred]

Not sure how or why, I used to always prefer long hair but I've been digging neck length hair on chicks a lot lately.

Anyways...

- I've bitched about it off and on for awhile here I'm sure, about all my weird physical/mental battles, but I can finally shut up and say I have answers. After a second MRI it turns out I have mild bulging discs in my neck, C4, C5, and C6. Probably some pinched nerves too. Because of the location I can only imagine that these physical issues have exaggerated anxiety/depressive and stress crap I've dealt with for years now. I was in a double impact car wreck probably ~6 years ago and I guess since then, me not being too physically active and years of chiropractic treatment probably made things worse and worse over time. You will never see me near another chiropractic for the rest of my life, maybe I'll write a book to avoid them when I retire.

Straight up told my doctor I'm ready to do everything, so I'm getting some kind of injections in the neck, gonna stick with some meds this year to help the pain and sleep, physical therapy, and probably acupuncture down the road to top it off.

- Perfect timing for my employers insurance to go to crap. Either I stick with coverage and they take out ~3x as much this year as they have in the past, or I jump onboard with the Health Savings Plan that we're being forced into next year anyways, not doing this this year would only hurt in the long run I'm sure. But this HSA thing sounds like garbage for someone like myself who has prescriptions and see's a doctor once a month or so. People at work are basically saying with this kind of plan if you suffer an injury, or have a baby, etc, you're completely screwed and have to pay yourself. It's some kind of 401k like plan but for "medical needs only", and the company only puts its money in the pool quarterly, I think it'd be $250 or something. You think that'll cover all that stuff I need done above? Holy fuck, yeah right.

This is happening now in April, I have to make a decision soon. I think they're bringing in people at work we'll get to sit down with in regards to all this, but yeah. Both plans pull out more either way. I either go with something that is practically no coverage and end up having to pay for all this stuff I need done myself basically, or go with coverage while taking a hit on my income and then suffer for this choice with having nothing built up when the switch is mandatory next year.

At this point living and feeling like a robot throughout my entire 20's so far, I could give a shit about what it takes to feel better now and nothing will stop me, money is the least of my concerns. But either way this is definitely a very unneeded headache, the timing is terrible, and it is certainly a good reminder that the US's economic future looks grim as hell.

[Ack]

But on the bright side, Xeogred, at least you now know the problem and can get help for it.

[Xeogred]

Heck yeah. I'm still processing it all, but it's incredible not having anymore questions. Can't remember the last time I felt like this.

Definitely the smile to my post there. Hopefully there's some light at the end of the tunnel here, it's been too long.

[o.pwuaioc]

We're all cheering you on, Xeogred.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Xeogred, that's pretty rough man. I hope it all goes well.

: Some weird dreams going on last night. Something about staying at a hotel makes my dreams get trippy and weird. Especially when I'm only sleeping for about 15 minutes at a time.