I know you've all been on the edge of your seat, but know that I now have a vapourizer. He has treated me very kindly, and in return I declare him Vlad the Inhaler. Maybe a little too kindly.
I commemorated 1000 days sober with a trip white water rafting, a banana split and some sex. This is my second day of a three day weekend. Also, this draft looks like a lottery ran by monkeys.
Now a WTF moment: Celebrity Couples of the 90s?? This picture all day: I can't tell if the Cosby sweater is that powerful, or Woody Harrelson was once a lesbian. Also, Michael Bolton is a whore. Do a lot of you folks smoke? I can't stand it anymore. Everyone I know smokes. Not an exaggeration either, there's one dude that doesn't. It's driving me nuts. I'm up after 3 hours because my eyes, nose, and throat are completely dried out and burning. There's a couple girls that started smoking just so all the smoke getting blown around didn't irritate them as badly (which is fucking stupid).
Hell no. And in 2012, with all the readily available information on adverse health effects, it's amazing that anyone still does.
I still smoke, tho honestly getting tired of it myself. The tobacco variety, that is. The other kind I won't quit. At all. Ever. Bunnies:
I started smoking at 24. I'll let that sink in for a second. (I was living on dexxies and sleeping 5 nights out of 7. Cigarettes go great with dexxies and an early grave.) Smoked for 2 years, and then decided to be less moronic and quit. A good decision.
Not to be a drunk thread buzzkill, but after this semester I don't see how anyone young can start smoking, ever. One of my rotations was in an LTAC filled with COPD patients getting ready for lung transplants or managing an acute exacerbation. I guess some young smokers think cigs are cool or ironic, but shit gets ugly quickly. Being on a vent or lugging an O2 tank around is not fun.
Yet a large percentage of the folks that I have worked with in the health care world smoked. Go figure. When I worked in the hospital I chalked it up to being the only way to get a break in your 13+ hour shifts. Now that I work at a doctor's office, I think that may actually be why since at the doctors office nobody feels the need to have any sort of work ethic, and I don't think any of them smoke, they just take breaks (or days or hours off) whenever they please.
Yesterday may have been the greatest night of my life. First, on my way home from work I heard that the Tiger's released Brandon Inge unconditionally. FINALLY, HIM AND HIS STUPID CHECK SWING AND STRIKEOUT FACE ARE FINALLY FUCKING GONE, GOOD RIDDANCE! Second, I stop at my favorite watering hole on the way home to have a celebratory drink, and all the girls working (normally they just wear bikinis or something boring) were wearing g-strings and fishnet tops. It was a glorious site. Third, my wonderful girlfriend came over and even though she hates football she sat through the entire draft, and even gave me a fucking blowjob halfway through it. God I love that girl. Finally, the Lions picked a solid left tackle with their first pick. Glorious day.
You know what I want for my office? This: Actually, scratch that. I want this for my house -- for the nights when I am hungry, but too drunk to cook.
On my way into work this morning, I passed a store that I didn't know could exist. It's called The Lampshade Store and, sure enough, they only sell lamp shades. How are they still in business? Is there really such a large market for lamp shades that this store can sustain itself? And even if we're in the midst of a lamp shade boom right now, couldn't people simply go to any number of different stores that sell lamp shades as well as many other items (Target, Home Goods, etc.)? The store only makes sense if someone took Louis C.K.'s joke* about the Shit Fuck Piss store, that sells pencils for a million dollars, seriously. *For reference (starts @ 1:40): Spoiler Edit: Fucking finally.
I really don't like going to work on a Friday morning with a hangover. Damnit, why didn't I drink water before I went to bed last night? Stupid, stupid, stupid, me. Now the old, bitchy, people are going to annoy me ten times worse than they normally do.
Six or seven years ago I walked out of the hospital after visiting my Dad who had just had a valve replaced to find his heart surgeon standing in front of the ER with a bunch of paramdeics. All smoking. This is my new favorite picture.
We have a contingent of smokers at my clinic as well, although it seems obesity is more popular among the staff. Related and what personally annoys me though is that I'm pretty much the only person aside from the CEO who takes the stairs instead of the elevator. Not only is our building only four stories, but the elevator is slow and always full of slow people. It takes a special breed of laziness to put up with riding that thing.
Going smoke free in 2013 has been bounced around in our office, but seeing as 1/3 of the employees here smoke the management will want to be careful not to smash their balls as they jump that hurdle.
Here's your chemistry lesson for the day, kiddies. Monoethanolamine is basic. A strong organic base. Not an acid. Not even close to being an acid. I just had to explain this to the fat bitch in our office who "has a background in chemistry". Jesus lapdancing Christ on a cracker. When you're calling amines acidic, it's time to go back to the crappy school where you got your degree and ask for a refund.
Excuse me sir, we already know what the WDT's favorite cute animal is and you otter know that. Spoiler