Category: Brain

“Book…. Book…. HERE, Book Book….”

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Phew! (blowing over my Kindle)

Okay, okay, okay….. This was not my “favorite” book, but it’s finished. I had been thinking…

“Brain, we have to tell the eyes to read the res….. wait… Eyes ain’t reading this book. This is one of those AUDIO things that the EARS are listening to. OK! EARS! We are going to have the body sit outside and you will LISTEN!”

So, that’s what I did last night. Close to the finish. Then got up this morning and sat outside again to finish the book while drinking my daily cappuccino that I make (this isn’t the best idea for breakfast. My right arm already shakes after the damage on the left-frontal-lobe of the brain. Caffeine makes it SHAKE MORE!). I finished the book. Eh… It was okay. I started the damn story before the movie came out, and now that I’m finished the movie will be a DVD in a month.

Uh, okay. Obviously wasn’t at the theatre very long. Maybe just a summer movie?

The BOOK was….OK. We all know, I don’t read too many books. And this was not one of my favorites.

I’m curious about the movie….

Oh, yeah. Wrote all about that book I finished and movie I need to get… I forgot to SHARE with my loving readers/understanders the title of this story. Ah…. it is… let me look it up…

There’s my Kindle. It says the title is:

Paper Towns


Mmmmmm…… What day is it now…???

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I’m confused. Every week, the cab comes to pick me up for a specific reason on Mondays. But, now chose to pick me up for that same reason on a Tuesday? What is wrong?

Oh, wait. I had that TEST-thing yesterday. That just has really messes with my week. Confusion! What am I going to do??

This is cool. TUESDAY with the Psych-lady. A Different Day = A Different Outcome? Hmm. That’s a deep thought. Just have to wait…

Okay! Now we are at the Office Building and climbing into the vehicle.

“Your turn. Where are we eating,” she asks as if she really wanted me to choose the place because it was my turn.

Where are we eating? Where at? AH!

“Eh, that Smashburger place,” I said in a hungry voice. I actually didn’t know if she’d be happy.

“Smashburger! Let us go!” she quickly replied.

Uh, okay. She was a tiny bit more awake than me. This is blamed upon my yesterday.

Nevertheless. We got there, ordered the burgers, sat at the tables, ate the burgers, drank the drinks, talked the talk…. and each were happy.

Now, the ride there and the ride home was just saddening. Was my singing partner there? Nope. She was “someplace else at the time”.

Eh…. ok…

NEXT WEEK! Back to normal….

I hope.

Yes, let us evaluate MY BRAIN

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Ugh.

That’s right, today is the day that I had to have that thing done to my brain again.

You know, that one test…

No, the other one…

Well, that thing I typed about doing? Ya know? Doing one of those… Neuropsychological Evaluations.

Ugh. Been there, done that…. this is number three. 

THAT is not the MOST ENJOYABLE thing in the world, but doing the 2nd or 3rd… is better than the 1st time! A couple of hours is better than all day.

“OK OK OK….. Self, stop the complaining and start the explaining to the readers as to what happened.”

The whole thing started when I arrive into the “small testing room” and sit across from the testing lady with the testing table between us. (This seems sooo very familiar to me. As if I actually remember doing this before.) The tough testing lady starts to thoroughly test the item between the ears in my head. Test, after test, after test, after… It goes on and on. The BRAIN between my ears is asking…

“WHY ME? WHY AM I BEING QUESTIONED SO MUCH???”

But then…. that Brain starts to recognize something. This is the EXACT SAME test as was given to me last year at this time. Also the SAME one as was given when I FIRST STARTED all this testing of my brain before surgery. I can remember THAT! It’s that LONG TERM MEMORY that my brain hasn’t many problems with. I can remember the correct answers from then! Ah-ha! (Funny, but true.)

Ah… This wasn’t the truth with everything. I don’t need to type about those… But, there was one that I did remember the “trick” I came up with to remember the answers. Am I sharing anymore about this with anyone? Uh, no…. Well…. Still able to count with unmovable fingers. Fingers I have to put atop the table into a fist, just to show that I am not using them…. physically. You just figure out the rest I did with my eyes closed….. 😉

ENTIRE SCORE? Uh…. I’ll have that later on when I get it. But, as they informed me, it’s better than last year.

That’s all that matters.

Two Hundredth Blog Entry??? (English)

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Really? Two Hundred (200) entries have been done within this blog? Really? Really? Really?

Wow… That’s a few. Yes, I would like to thank that between-my-ears thing that has taken hours to put this together. To tell those items what to do. A Brain. That’s correct, I’m typing about MY BRAIN and that is what this blog was started for, if you didn’t know.

You “newer follower people” out there (I actually know there is), I run this for my brain surgery. Check the very beginning of last year. You’ll see me… before the surgery and then… well… after the surgery….

Just go read the dang thing!

Today it is just this thankful life that I live. Have a house. Volunteer at a hospital. Have money from the government.

Life is good.

Qo’noS friday malja’Daq! (Klingon)

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Ah, it’s Friday again boys and girls and whatever else is reading/complaining about what is being referred to as words on a screen. OK! Lets move forward!

This Friday was a good one. WHY? Are we really this confused as to what day this is and to what happens on this day? I am OFFICIALLY at my new placement within the hospital. Removed from the doorway to wave, and in an office to file papers. LOVE IT! Doesn’t get much better. Well…. hasn’t been this good for a long time.

People may come into to the office and ask the lady up front for some help, and then there are chairs in the “tiny waiting area”. Behind the check-in area, that’s where I’m at. Surrounded by my many (not MINI) giant metal file cabinets. That’s what I do…. keeps me more entertained rather than sitting at home doing nothing!

File stuff. Sit in a chair to take a break. File more stuff…. Very Complicated.

Ah, today I saw my actual lady that is IN CHARGE of all the volunteer people. Hadn’t seen or spoken with her in quite awhile. She had brought in two people to get their pictures taken. They are volunteers themselves! Ah! That’s cool!

So, what is this one volunteer going to be doing? He is taking my spot at the location I used to be at! What? What? I asked her what was going to happen if I changed my mind and decided that I wanted my old spot back?

She told me, basically…. “Too bad, so sad. You have been moved, and now you are stuck. Period. The End.”

Oh. I guess if that’s it, then that’s it.

OK, different subject…  Today at lunch I sat at the usual table for volunteers. What did I eat today? Anyone want to guess on that one? Just my usual Large Salad plus a piece of pie. So, I ate my salad and while I did this I had this girl sitting next to me with “fruit pie that comes in a bag”. I kept trying to snatch it from her since she had commented that I got the WRONG dessert. Hmmm… She ate her’s and said she didn’t like that flavor.

What did I DO? I just walked back into the area to get one of those at a different flavor and made sure I went through the “other side” of the line. Different check-out lady.

Thus I got mine and went back to the table. Girl sitting next to me was like…

“Uh…. You can’t get TWO desserts! You’re not supposed to be able to do that!”
“Yea, you can’t if you visit the SAME check-out lady TWICE. Duh!”

hahaha…. But it was just funny. I assured her that my fruit pie was MUCH BETTER. (eh, it was okay)  😉