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| Monday, December 7th, 2009 | | 2:13 am |
Been a while...
It's been a while since I used this site. I seem to have pretty much moved over to twitter since I can just post here and there and don't need to worry about a long drawn out post about what's going on in my life, but with my current situation I figured I should throw an entry on here to keep those updated who don't use twitter. I've been having some problems lately and I just need to vent and get them out. The other day I was having really sharp pains in my abdomen. At first I thought maybe it was gas and I just had to wait it out. An hour passed, then two. Nothing. I thought maybe if I forced myself to throw up I could relieve some of the gas and pressure so I forced myself to throw up a number of times getting rid of everything I could. Even after all that there was no relief. I tried Pepto, I tried antacid tablets, I tried Gas X... I tried it all... After almost 5 hours of some of the worst pain I could imagine, I called my mom for advice. She didn't know what to tell me so she had me call my grandmother. I told her that the pain was so bad I was getting ready to call 911, so she insisted that I should. Cue an ambulance ride and a few hours in the ER later with some of the heaviest pain meds they could shove into my IV, I'm told that I have a significantly large gallstone and it was causing my gallbladder to spasm which was the source of all the pain. How big was this thing? 5cm. That's about 2 inches. Considering that from what I've read, most gallstones are about 1cm to 1.5cm which means mine is HUGE. Due to the size of the thing, based on what I've read, it's possible for it to block the duct in the gallbladder which could be potentially fatal. Needless to say I've been pretty worried and scared lately. I have a giant gallstone that could be a possible threat to my life just hanging out in my chest right now... Anyways, later today (Monday) I'm scheduled to be in touch with a surgeon to hopefully get this thing removed and taken care of. After that comes the worst part of all of this. Cost. See, I have no insurance. At all. I work anywhere from 12-24 hours a week stocking shelves for $8.50 an hour. That's not going to be near enough to cover the thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of hospital bills for the ER visit and ambulance ride, let alone how much it's going to cost to get this surgery done. I'm pretty screwed. Even better is that Ashley and I have tried to get medical assistance to help with the bills, but it's damn near impossible to get anything done. One office directs us to another, that office tells us to have paperwork signed by a doctor, the doctor's office tells us they need something else taken care of and this and that... We don't know if we're going to be getting any kind of financial assistance and it's scary. Ashley is only about 6 months from graduating and hopefully getting a better paying job as a nurse somewhere, but until then, we are totally screwed with money. Anyways, thanks for reading. I needed to get it out there and I can convey a lot more information here than I can within the 140 character limit of a tweet. I'm not sure how many people actively still use this site, but if even one person reads this who didn't know about it before, I guess it was a good use of my time to make this post.
Much love to all of my friends. I hope things go well so I can write another LJ post in another 10 months. | | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | | 12:59 am |
Buy my shits!
Not sure if everybody here on LJ saw or not, but I've been trying to make some changes in my life and the first thing to change is my habit of hoarding games that I'll never play and to cut back on gaming in general to focus more on being active in ways other than just my thumbs. Anyways, details on the sale and a MASSIVE list of games for sale can be found here: http://oneupstudios.com/boards/showthrea d.php?t=5768 And yes, I capitalized "massive" because it really is that fucking big. You'll see. | | Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 | | 6:40 pm |
AVOID PNC
Attention world: Avoid any business with PNC Bank. They are filled with liars who will actively screw you out of your own money. They will state you have funds available and then still hit you with overdraft fees and lie to you about the entire situation. Then they have the fucking BALLS to say that they value you as an accountholder when you tell them you are leaving their bank but they will make ZERO effort to fix their own fuck up. Avoid PNC Bank. I will never deal with those liars again. | | Sunday, May 17th, 2009 | | 8:34 am |
Twitter twits
I find it hilarious that on LIVEJOURNAL, well over 50% of my friend's entries are all reposts of their twitter posts. What's the point of putting all your twitter stuff here? The way I see it, if people wanted to read your tweets, they'd find you on Twitter. I, for one, will NOT put my twitter tweets here on LJ. I am taking a stand! | | Monday, April 27th, 2009 | | 6:23 am |
Missed sale opportunity
Massive game sale at Best Buy. Good games for $10. Talked to Ashley Saturday night when I was going to sleep and told her to grab my small list and to stop at Best Buy on her way to Frackville to see if she could score a few of them. She seemed half asleep but insisted she heard me and she'd go and look what they had and pick up two or three if they actually had anything I wanted (I was looking for Soul Cal IV and Pure for 360 mostly, with a few others listed just in case). Woke up and the list was still on the counter. She never went and she apparently never even remembered the chat. I mentioned to her that we could track down a flyer and go to Walmart to price match and I got a stare of death from her. One of those "Are you serious? Dont' even fucking think about it" looks. I've done my best to not even say a word to her since then because I'm sure anything I say or do will have her ready to rip my face off again. Did anybody happen to grab a spare copy of Pure or Soul Cal IV I could buy? Current Mood: bummed | | Thursday, April 16th, 2009 | | 9:43 pm |
Fuck...
I signed up for twitter. :( joecamnet on there. | | Friday, March 20th, 2009 | | 12:21 pm |
Another year....
Turned 28 on Wednesday (the 18th) Was kind of a meh day. I've had better birthdays. I've also had worse, but it seems the older I get, the less people care it's my birthday (myself included) Just been spending time playing Resident Evil 5 lately. Not much else to do. Been stuck with gout and I've missed quite a bit of work due to not being able to walk. I go back on Tuesday. That gives me the rest of the weekend to finish Resident Evil. haha. Bought myself a present for my birthday. Ordered the new KMFDM CD online. It's like $35 after shipping and it's a bundle with a shirt and other stuff, but I don't buy many CDs, so I think it's worth it. Tried to play the Endless Setlist in Rock Band 2 the other day. 34 straight songs and over 3 hours and I've 5 starred every song. I asked Ashley to play a song so I could pee. 4 Stars. I gave up. All that work gone. I know I could've kept going, but it was on medium and there's no reason at all I shouldn't have a 420/420 star count on that... I mean shit, it's MEDIUM... I'd play it on hard, but I still can't beat fuckign Visions. I really need somebody to come play with me who can beat Visions. Fucking Visions.... Played the Guitar Hero: Metallica demo today. First Guitar Hero game I've really wanted since 2 for the 360. Some of the vocals on the demo sounded kinda crappy. The Stone Cold Crazy vocals sounded off as did Seek & Destroy. Oh well, it's still awesome, but pretty much only because it's Metallica. Also, nice to see Guitar Hero rip off Rock Band a little more. What now? They added a little progress bar to show how many stars you've earned. I mean, it's a good thing to rip off, but it's getting so shameless anymore. | | Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 | | 9:23 pm |
When it rains it pours...
The shitstorm called my life keeps piling up lately. Not even two weeks ago my mom was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery because of gall stones. She's back in there now due to (from what I was told) pancreaitis possibly brought on by a gall stone escaping and going into her pancreas. She's probably going to have to get more surgery. You know, all of this in the middle of the divorce she's been going through and the absolute lack of finances she's been saddled wtih because her soon to be ex-ASSHOLE is a greedy fuck who took her for granted for 17 years. On top of all that garbage, my Xbox 360 is out of commission. It's no surprise my system is modded and with the new wave of games coming out, there's new layers of data since they're adding the NXE dashboard to all games from now on. I needed to have my dvd drive firmware re-flashed so it was up to date. I drop my system off at my guy's place so he could do what he does. Should've been an hour tops. An hour and a half later and I still didn't hear so I asked what was up. Seems he got whatever info he needed from the drive and then went to reflash it but the drive wouldn't come out of recovery mode. My drive was dead. Gone. Useless. He told me he had a friend who would bring him a new drive the next day. Ok. I can live without my Xbox for a day. The next day the guy never shows. He resorts to buying a drive on eBay because the seller promised 3 day delivery. He was sent the delivery info today that said the drive was shipped MEDIA MAIL. If you've ever shipped stuff before, you know that Media Mail is the slowest piece of shit shipping service that the USPS offers. I'll be lucky to see my system by April. So much for playing Resident Evil 5 on Friday. Not to be outdone by family problems and material possessions, I'm suffering another attack of gout. I can barely walk right now and my entire foot is throbbing and in pain. Standing makes me wince and trying to handle stairs is tear inducing which SUCKS when you live in a second floor apartment. But what the hell, one more thing. I entered a contest on gonintendo.com for a House of the Dead swag package. Emailed my entry in the day it was due and waited patiently for the results only to see that myself (and Randall) did not win. I express my disapproval and post the picture on the message boards for everybody else to judge. Then the guy running the contest said it was really good and asks why I never submitted it despite the fact I emailed it to his goddamned email address that he provided. Chances are that our entry is sitting in his junk mail folder. I got SCREWED out of a victory there and I'm pretty pissed about that. No, wait, one more thing. Whoever the stupid bitch cunt is in our back apartment needs to learn how to fucking park. We can fit 6 cars in our back parking lot, you know, unless ONE STUPID BITCH WHORE TAKES UP TWO FUCK ING SPOTS EVERY TIME SHE FUCKING PARKS. I want to stab her in the goddamned throat. I'm just so sick of shit going wrong right now. I want my mom to get better, I want my foot to stop hurting, I want my goddamned parking spot that I've had for over a year until this bitch moved in and I want to play Star Ocean on my Xbox. Somebody buy me a new 360, please. | | Saturday, February 28th, 2009 | | 4:54 pm |
Worried about my mom...
Got a text message at 6:30 this morning from my sister. "Mom is in the hospital" She's been having a lot of pain lately and it was bad enough that she was up all night. My little sister called our Baba (grandmother) at like 4 this morning about it and she was rushed to the hospital. After a few hours the doctors determined that it's a number of gallstones both in her gallbladder and in the duct leading out (or whatever... I dont' remember too well) and she needed rush surgery today. I last saw her about 5 hours ago and I've yet to get a phone call or an update and I've just been worried sick all day. I called off work tonight because I'm so tired and stressed and worried. I work 20 hours this week and I called off for 6 of them because I'm so worried. I wish I would hear back so I know what the hell is going on. | | Thursday, February 19th, 2009 | | 5:13 am |
First Keystone National Bank can burn in hell
I buy drinks at work. a buck or 69 cents a pop. Thanks to how my bank processed payments, isntead of putting through 6 cheap drinks that I could cover and then a $16 payment that I COULDN'T and therefore overdrawing my account, they did it the other way. A $16 payment to overdraw my account and then SIX MORE cheap drinks that overdrew me six more times. $210 in overdraft fees. That was my entire partial unemployment payment. That was bill money and gas money and food money. That money is gone. I have been in the process of switching banks but still wanted to keep my unemployment through them since it's a bitch to change the account but fuck it. I'm done. I don't know how I'm going to cover what I need to cover now. | | Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | | 10:51 am |
| | Sunday, February 8th, 2009 | | 9:11 pm |
How do you tell somebody something without them hating you?
I'm worried about somebody. Their weight has been getting more and more "noticable" over the past few years and I'm starting to worry about them. I mean, I'm a big guy myself, but my weight hasn't really fluctuated in how many years, but this person has had a steady increase for a while and I'm starting to worry about their health. The problem is I brought it up to them and I immediately felt like the biggest asshole on the planet. I feel hated, despised and unwelcome in their life and I don't know what to do. I guess I'm not allowed to worry about somebody I care about, right? | | Saturday, January 17th, 2009 | | 2:55 pm |
Do people read my shit?
If they do, is anybody interested in coming over to my place Feb 1st to watch the Super Bowl? Get some drinks, grab some Shelly's Pizza, plop down and watch the game on 46 inches of high def goodness. I know it'd be a haul just for a football game, but you'd be getting Shelly's Pizza too, so it's totally worth it. I'm in Luzerne PA, google maps it and come party with me! If nobody pays attention to my shit on here, maybe I should just stop using it. | | Friday, January 16th, 2009 | | 9:32 am |
I was set on writing a very depressing entry about my current mental state, my depression and how absolutely crushed I am mentally that my best friend is moving to Mississippi, but I can't. See, I clicked on here to write a new entry and in a new window I opened up my friend's entries. A few entries down I read this: http://ashlee154.livejournal.com/21452.html?view=21452Nothing else really seems to matter now. I have a wife who loves me so fucking much she spent a whole lot more money that I ever would have on an item just to make me smile. Just to cheer me up. Just to make me feel better. Any bad stuff in my life officially doesn't matter anymore. | | Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 | | 8:22 am |
| | Friday, January 9th, 2009 | | 3:09 am |
L:FKAJDSPOI
I've been awake for 39 straight hours. I was up at noon yesterday. Been tryign to get back on an overnight schedule after MAG and failing miserably. This mornign, left the house at 5am to go to Beaver Meadows to take my grandparents to a hospital 2 hours away so my grandfather could have surgery to have a tumor removed. Was scheduled to be a 90 minute procedure. Figure we drop him off and my grandmother and I are out of there and on our way homes for like noon. we get there at 8:35am. We left the parking lot at 8:20pm. His appointment was at 9am, he didn't get out of surgery until after 6 and we didn't see him until after 7. I eventually get home and now I can't sleep. Just so much random shit going through my head since during and even before MAG, but I don't know what it is... I can't pinpoint whats going on in my head. I should try sleeping... Gotta return to work tomorrow night since I called off tonight. Figures when you're scheduled to work at 10 and you don't even get home until midnight, work isn't gonna happen. Not to mention that whole "awake for 39 hours presently" thing going on. | | Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | | 8:54 pm |
| | Monday, December 15th, 2008 | | 12:30 am |
Twilight
What the fuck is the point of this fad? I get the idea of why Harry Potter is entertaining. The books (from what I had time to read) were interesting and the movies I've seen were great. They make me want to find the drive to actually read the whole series. But what the hell is good about that shitty goth rip off Twilight? Do I not get it because I'm not a 14 year old girl? My little sister is APESHIT for that crap and I just don't get it... The guy in the movie kind of looks like Diggi Dis when he doesn't have that shitty goth makeup on though. | | Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | | 1:38 am |
MAGFest
UPDATE: I put the room on my bank card and we verified we can pay cash when we're there. If anybody wants a floor to crash on, you can crash on mine granted you chip in for the room because I can't afford this at all.
Ok, problem time.
I was in a group to get a room for MAGFest. The problem? The room was never reserved. So now the MAG rate expires on Monday and I'm still roomless as is the group of people I was with.
Now, we have a group of people who have the cash to afford a room, but our problem is that we don't have anybody with a credit card (or a credit card with enough money available on it) that we can reserve the room for us.
Is there ANYBODY out there who is either looking for a room and can reserve for a group or even soembody who can just help us with the reservation and we'd give you the actual cash at the event? If not, I know at least my attendance will be in doubt as I need a room to get a parking pass (which is bullshit in and of itself).
I really don't wanna miss MAGFest, but without a room secured asap, it won't be an option. | | Thursday, November 6th, 2008 | | 6:37 am |
life and stuff
Been a crazy little bit. Enjoying the new job. Not too bad, but wish there was more money/hours in it. Halloween party was fun, if too short. I hate when gatherings end. Best of all, last friday I had to have a tooth yanked because it was infected. yay. That was $250 that Ashley and I couldn't afford. If anybody has a few bucks lying around their paypal account and they wanna help out, feel free to send it over to holyballsmymouthhurts@gmail.com It'd be helpful, to say the least. |
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