Have a Pint On Me!

Ahh what an interesting day I had, I went and had a pint for lunch. No, no, no actually I gave a pint for lunch. Actually I had a garlic chicken bento that I bought to support the foodbank. So anyways what I was really going to write about was my very first experience of giving blood. So this really hot chick, which from talking to the guys in my office this is a common occurrence, says hey wanna go give blood with me tomorrow. And of course I am like what I get to hang out with the hot chick for like an hour, shoots I am totally there. Of course i am nervous as heck, cause I don’t like needles or pain. Which always begs the questions then why do you fight? and my answer is fighting shouldn’t hurt for me. I should be fast enough to dodge my opponents punches and kicks, smart enough to sprawl their takedown attempts, and be bad a word enough to use my gma jiu-jitsu skills to tap em out or throw the orange roughy combo supersized to knock em out, and therefore not experience any pain. Anyways, I digress. So I roll into the joint at lunch time, following close behind the hot girl. I am totally trying to like be cool and all macho, but apparently it is not working cause she is like are you nervous, haha and I am like maybe. Anyways so i fill out the forms and of course I have to laugh at the questions they ask and make my silly comments. Like one of the questions is have you ever had sex for money or drugs and I turn to her and say now thats a silly question, I only have sex for money and drugs not either or, duh. Anyways so after you fill out their little form, they take you into the closet and asks you all kinds of other personal questions and I thought, hoped is more like it, that I would be disqualified, but no such luck. So then they are like we need to test your iron, and of course this means I get pricked with a needle. I was so full of iron cause of my humongous muscles that I broke the iron reading machine, haha now we know who the real iron man is, not that creepy guy whats his face robert something or what not. Again I am getting off track. So back to the lecture at hand – so they are getting ready to hook me up to the vampire machine and then the hot girl finishes, and they are like wow that was like five minutes, so of course being the competitive guy that i am, I had to beat her like I did at monopoly. So then they tell me i have outside veins and they like to roll, and I was thinking man do I really want these people poking me with a big needle and taking my oh so precious blood cause I am pretty sure my veins are inside my body and if they can’t see that then well haha maybe I don’t want them jabbing me with their life stealing spikes. Anyways she figured it all out and before long I was screaming in pain, actually I was looking away in case I cried, I didn’t want the hot girl to see me tear up, just in case, but I didn’t cause I am a manly kinda guy. So they gave me a world to rule while they stole my blood, which was ok. The sucky part was my blood was slow, like molasses. It must be all the butter and bacon I eat with syrup. I was trying to encourage my blood to go faster but it wasn’t listening to me. So I ended up losing the time trial. Then to make matters even worse, they have those arm bandaids, that hurt like heck cause they put it on so tight, in every color but the good one. So i end up going with purple at the hot girl’s suggestion. Anyways so that was my first donation experience. Haha and you think it should end there, but it doesn’t. They have all these rules like don’t smoke for like half an hour after and don’t do any strenuous activities for like 24 hours, and leave on the irritating bandaid for like 4-7 hours. So of course I have to break all the rules being the rebel that I am. So of course as soon as I get out of there I have to smoke like a whole pack of cigarettes, take the bandage off, and of course I have to go toGMA and train hardcore tonight. Ok so I don’t smoke so I didn’t really do that, and i actually waited until I got back to the office to take off the bandaid so that people at work would believe me, I guess I could have just showed them my receipt, but the bandaid looked much cooler, and I will probably go work out, that is yet to happen so haha we will see. Anyways haha that really is the end of my adventure. So what have i learned? Well I learned that people that say that giving blood doesn’t hurt is lying. It hurt like the dickens, especially the little prick in the closet. I guess the actual giving blood didn’t hurt although it did throb a lot, which was irritating, it was more the bandaid thing at the end that hurt. And lets see I also learned that it is good to do and even if it hurts you should do it, so do the right thing buddy? By the way hopefully ya’all get the do the right thing buddy reference its from a great movie. If you have any questions you should at least check out the Blood Bank’s Website and if you get the chance go donate. Hey one day i may need your blood cause I am really not that good of a fighter so the life you might save is mine!!

Aids Walk

I have been super blessed with like super awesome friends. So awesome that they recruit their friends to pray and light candles for me and stuff. So when those friends of a friend, who is also super awesome and lit a candle for me, decides to do something like an Aids walk I totally want to help them out. So I reposted a bulletin of hers and if ya’all feel like helping her out and supporting her just read the rest, click on the links, and do the right thing buddy! So Kara this one is for you, good luck with your walk (which I am glad you are doing, I hate walking myself)!

“I got this invitation from my friend Auriela to participate in the Aids Walk this year, and I realized that I had never participated in a cause before. I’m looking forward to being able to make a difference in something so important.

Dear Friends and Family,

I recently accepted the challenge to become a fundraising walker to support AIDS Walk Houston in their effort to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS in our community, while helping those living with HIV and AIDS live healthier and longer lives!

Please help support me in this important project by contributing generously to AIDS Walk Houston. Your tax-deductible contribution will fund programs for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. It is faster and easier than ever to support AIDS service organizations in Houston – you can make your donation online by simply clicking on the link at the bottom of this message.

Please visit my personal page to make a donation to me.

If you would prefer, you can also send your tax-deductible contribution to the address the following address:
3202 Weslayan
Houston, Texas 77027

Whatever you can give will help, it all adds up! I greatly appreciate your support and will keep you posted on my progress.

Thank you for your support!

Click here to visit my personal page.
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Click here to view the team page for Spring Young Moms and Kids Group
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