Made a New Memory

I found a Groupon for snowtubing at Blue Mountain Resort in the Poconos. $22 for two people to tube for 3 hours on a Friday morning. Last Friday was the only Friday we could have made it, and wouldn't you know the forecast was 50s and raining. But Jack thought I had paid the full price of $70 so he said let's do it anyway. So we did.

We had the best time! Tubing is awesome! We went down spinning, we went down on our bellies, we went down hooked together, we went down together in a giant tube ... It was awesome!

It's the first thing we've done together that's new. Lots of fun!

I really want to talk to someone though. I feel that way more and more.

It might be the pain of a triple root canal. I got that on Thursday, and it's still hurting today, Sunday.

And I miss worship and good prayer too. I'm not finding it on tv. I want to go to church, but not with Jack--not yet. And definitely not at Audubon UMC.

I'm a bit of a mess.

Valentine's Day

Big Deal. So What?

Super Bowl Win

Had a ball with my brother Gregg and his girlfriend watching the SuperBowl at a local bar. I had planned to have a party here, but he insisted he wanted to be at a local bar. I'm glad I listened to him. We had a wonderful time for almost 8 straight hours in front of a wall of tvs. The Eagles beat the Patriots, which is long a-coming. It was a wonderful tit-for-tat game with amazing surprises, like QB Foles running in a TD pass, and Tom Brady being strip-sacked at the last 30 seconds so they couldn't get any closer. It was just the best football game I've ever seen, and even better that the Eagles won the SB.

The only down moment was just at half-time, Eagles had just scored and were way ahead, and suddenly I realized I couldn't breathe. It wasn't just excitement; I couldn't catch a breath.

I headed home to get the inhaler and I thought I'd watch the game end at home. But the inhaler didn't do a whole heck of a lot, and at the start of the 3rd quarter, the Patriots caught up. I figured out I'd better get back to the bar so the Eagles could win. And they did!

But the fact that the lack of air came on so suddenly made me change my plans for the rest of the month. I'm not going anywhere by myself until this is figured out.

I'm not dead yet

Saw a pulmonologist yesterday for my shortness of breath / pneumonia follow-up. He's pursuing the idea that allergies are inflaming my nasal passages, causing post-nasal drip, causing some kind of bronchial flare-up or asthma. I have wheezing in my exhale extremes. The inhale-exhale tests were really poor -- I made it to a 3, out of 10, but I couldn't sustain the exhale long enough to register. It took me four tries.

Just another minor thing wrong.