So rarely do I review anything… I am to random to do things like that, and that takes a little more structure than what I am capable of. But a friend of mine sent me an email and asked if I had google voice on my Blackberry, and so I started researching it. I was a little bummed to find out I had to wait to be invited, that sucks… so I searched more about it, and who new you can buy invites on ebay for less than $2. So… when I want something I am the type of person to find a way to get it, right away!

I hit buy it now and within 15 minutes I recieved my invite. So I set it all up. Now I haven’t really used it too much from my phone. I haven’t yet called anyone… but I LOVE the voicemail feature. I have set it up to over ride my voicemail from Tmobile. Anytime someone leaves a message I get an email, and it tells me what they said in text, and I still have the option to play it and listen to it. Now, let me tell you why this is so very awesome. I hate voicemail and I rarely check it. So when I do there is generally 14+ messages. So whats the point right… they are then old and really pointless. By the time I listen to them I have probably spoke with that person or texted them several times. With this I don’t have to check them, they come through like a text message and my life is easier, and I don’t have to fuss with something I didn’t like doing in the first place. THANK YOU GOOGLE!

I also get a cool little widget that I can put here on the blog and you can call me… as if you wanted to hear my sexy voice, nope you are not ready for that, trust me, lol! I get a google phone number in case I don’t want to give out my real number, keep the stalkers at bay… great idea! I can screen all calls, and have the ability to block numbers… awesome feature from a cell… LOVE IT!

I am quite impressed with google and all there little gadgets and apps that they have. I have been using goog-411 for awhile, and have it saved into my phone, love it. It is super simple and always gives me what I need super quick, I used to use 1-800-Free-411, and omg that sucked!

I am still playing around with google voice, I have set some special voicemail messages to specific people, which I think is great, and I may abuse this feature when someone pisses me off… they probably won’t want to call me… but I recommend this to anyone that has a capable phone… and if you don’t it’s probably time for you to upgrade anyways… if you are excited about this ( I do have the ability to excite people.. in many ways, haha!) go ahead and check out ebay for an invite, spend the 1.80 and get yours, I am glad I did… otherwise make sure you request your invite, if you are one of those patient people.

Ok… so we once spoke of an addiction to Twitter… long ago, and it has literally been months since I tweeted, yet I have been going through a lot and trying to get many aspects of my life situated. Yet… I have seemed to wondered into a new addiction. Now I have always been on Facebook, which is great, I have linked up with so many friends that I thought I would never talk to again, and that is great! This is not the problem. The problem is these damn games on Facebook. I started playing one or two. Now there is at least 7 that I play daily. Shit, 3 are fishtank games…. WHY?!?!

It is fine when a game is played to pass time, when you have down time… but when you play a game at work, like Cafe World, my personal favorite… and you realize when you get home that you have something “cooking” in your cafe … and you log on to make sure you get it off the oven before it goes bad. THIS IS A FREAKIN PROBLEM!

If I play a game at work to pass time, I should not be that worried if some virtual food goes bad… what is really going on….

So… I am going to knock down the amount of games to maybe 3 at the most… and I am going to see how that works…. I want to know… so you know someone with Facebook game addictions? This really is crazy… like I barely have time to do anything, and this blog has been neglected for far to long…. I have such an urge to go out during the weekend and evenings and start back with the photography… I must reclaim my life.

So… as of next week…. I start back to the gym, and I start prioritizing my life, there needs to be some balance to my life… this is something I have no doubt about!

I vowed to not leave you and disappear, yet I did it anyways, maybe I am turning into a man… oops did I say that outloud? (Bitter Much, LMAO!) I recently just got settled into my new apartment, and this past Sunday I had everything completely unpacked. I should have gotten it done a little sooner since I moved into the place October 30th.

Recently, life hasn’t just handed me a lemon, life gave me the whole damn lemon tree! On October 23rd I went to the ER with horrible ear pain, and I was sure it was an ear infection. Let me tell you, I would have rather gone through natural child birth all over than experience the pain I was feeling! After sitting in the waiting area for about 3 hours I finally went back, and they looked in my ear and said that it didn’t appear to be infected, but I did have fluid behind it from my sinus’s draining! Then came the Morphine…. and an hour later when I was still in pain… the percocet. They ended up sending me home with pain drops and cough medicine.

Two days later…. on my daughter’s 3rd Birthday, after the party, I went back to the ER, the pain was worse and I had lost hearing in my left ear. The brightside was that I didn’t wait as long to go back. Guess what, my ear was infected, surprise surprise! They said my ear drum was intact, gave me a prescription for antibiotics and percocets and informed me it may be a little while before I can hear again.

So, I suffered… 7 days of antibiotics and I will not even go into the drainage coming from my ear. I started having horrible migraines and I was in constant pain… so on 11/3 I went back to the ER. A four hour wait to be called back and when I got back there, wow they took me seriously this time. So bring on the Morphine, yet again… IV antibiotics… and the amazement of the doctors, and looks on their faces when I told them this was my 3rd trip to the ER in 12 days about the same thing, yet it has worsened. So it was time for a CT Scan. That came back not so great. What happens when they don’t treat an er infection properly is Mastoiditis. The infection moves into the bone behind the ear, the Mastoid bone. This can ultimately lead to brain absesses, and then death. So I have now been released into the care of The Ear Nose and Throat Doctors and Surgeons. I am taking antibiotics both orally and in my ear, plus the pain meds. I go back this Friday and pray the infection is gone, because the only other option is them cutting my head open and cutting the infected part of the bone out.

I guess one main thing I want you to be aware of is, remember this … even though the cost of medical care is increasing, it doesn’t mean that doctor’s IQ’s are!!! All it would have taken was the right antibiotic from the first visit and I would have never had to go through this.

When life gives you lemons, they say you should make lemonade… well I am not thirsty…
When life hands me lemons…. I squeeze them in someone’s eye and run…. the excitement is worth it!