Day 293 - Chillen and Smoothie

Well Tonight after I made supper I decided I needs a smoothie - Now here is the kicker - These are 100% healthy and good tasting! We use our Kefir   Which is this amazing healthy stuff that my wife discovered that keeps you colon healthy and makes pepto for upset stomach look like water in fast acting effect - ANYWAY My mom in-law gave us a Bullet mixer add some strawberry, honey and Kefir blend for 50 seconds and ENJOY this makes the smoothie places look like sugar vendors LOL - well if you wantt o know more follwo the link or email me here and we will gladly add to out converted Kefir users (we have many now) - I am a believer but after colon cancer I know what it is to need a healthy colon!!!

Day 238 - Chillen and Sports Illustrated

Well today was just a wonderful nondescript day! One of my mottos in life is everyday that is a nice NORMAL day with nothing falling on the extreme sides is a WONDERFUL day - Now I know that many people say You should want GOOD things or Fantastic things that makes a Good day - I counter with this thought - When you have had just short of the worst days (death news) with news that you have cancer you find that when you have NO NEWS it is GOOD NEWS --- or just a wonderful nondescript day... Tonight I was reading the SI SuperBowl preview and it is fun but just people babbling about their thoughts on the game  - kind of what I do here I suppose - Game is a week away and I will be having a good time watching it as long as this week provides me with 6  wonderful nondescript days!

Day 235 - Chiilen FINALLY

Ok this is a picture of me chillen with my work latptop -- thing about my work there is 1 hour of paper work for every 30 minutes of therapy session ---  then add on top of that all the reprots and that time cards and the.... well you get the idea the digitial paper trail is a good thing for the TREES - if  this was all written I would kill at least 6 trees a week  -- so now I am just chillen after a full day of clients and hour of friends then a nice 2 hours typing work -- CHILLEN IS A GOOOOOD thing keeps all this stuff in perspective - I am here to work and I don't have cancer -- I cahill after work OH YEAH!!!

Day 200 - Chillen and Caring

Well on day 200 of this chillen journey my son passed his flu to my wife and I have been caring and helping her all evening as she moves from bed to bathroom :( - it is rainy and 48 degrees in Mi on Dec. 21  - THIS is wrong as well -- sooo over all day 200 for me has been chillen in or around bed all day in the AM because I have not felt 100% and this evening caring for my wife -- so not a top ten day but as I have said before this is just another GOOD day to be here and cancer free!!  -- take care until 201 ---

Day 192 - Chillen with Jerk

you know this morning I am on the way to the GYM and window is cracked and that cost $45 to fix - Tomorrow another $50 for front end alignment - last week $70 for two used tires and insurance company lowered our benefits because they forgot to tell us something so all my follow up testing has to be held off until April- and the month prior $400 for other repairs - people close to us are having hard time with work issues and and and - SIGH --- wife says WHY do all these thing pile up around Christmas it just seems like.. STOP I SAY to  HER -- simple reminder that --

If one is alive and well enough to keep trying then all these things are just minor inconveniences - yes stressful at times in comparison to things we had to fight through 3 Christmases ago (being told I had cancer and treatments) these things are not ALL that bad :)

SO here today after another long day -- I eat supper and chilled with some home made Venison Jerky - no I did not get the deer - but it was a good way to chill after supper none the less...

STAY CHILLED ---

Day 189 - Chillen in Fankenmuth

Well we made a HUGE goof up today -- NEVER NEVER EVER go to Fankenmuth Mi on a Saturday in the month of December - there are something like 100,000 people in this little tourist trap town... Plus to top that off we went to Bronners Christmas Store - This is a fun and very cool place!!! We started two years ago with a new family tradition of going there and each buying a new ornament for out tree - after I went through cancer surgery and had started treatment - This is the third Christmas since life changed -- still cancer free and still VERY thankful to God for that - I hope I can add 40 more ornaments to our family tree :) ---

Anyway - I have never been in a store or anyplace like this one today - you had to move around in the store like cars on the highway you had to merge and put hands out to get in the flow of people - and let others take turns walking into line - I had to get across the store to get the var and I thought I was in a human moving maze -- NUTS ---

Well here is my chillen pic (though I did get a tad stressed in this chillen day lol)  near the locally famous fried chicken place Zehnders - I have never had the chicken there cost to much for us right now but I hear it is yummy - Glad to be home really chillen now!! -

Day 183 - chillen and Vernors -

So today we went to church in the morning then we came home to get a few things done then run out to do some stuff - HOWEVER today the battery in my car decided it wanted to die -- well thanks to a friend i took it down to a battery store and $100 later I had our car on the road again -- that little repair bring the total to around $500 in the last three months (sigh) well it is a good car so it is much better than 1500 that shops would charge -- after the fix we ran the errands and and did some grocery shopping where I splurged and bought a Vernors soft drink - I don't drink much of this since cancer -  this is a MI original soft drink creation if you have not had it you just don't know what your missing --

Day 181 - Chillen with Kefir

Today I got to do a presentation to a bunch of teachers that I enjoyed then I met with a client - Then I got home took my son to a band party then off to dinner with my wife and daughter - :) it was a good day - HOWEVER - I had KFC for lunch which was a TAD greasy then tonight I chose to eat deep fried smelt - unfortunately these too were greasy sooo stomach was not real happy about my day - I got home and got a big glass of Kefir  - ahh much better - Kefir is 100% better than pepto - This stuff is the BEST stuff ever if you have any kind of stomach problems - HOWEVER - I will let you read about it with the link instead of preach the good qualities of it -- I will say it WORKS --- so I had to give it a place on my chillen list today because it really made chillen feel much better :)

PS Kefir has a ton of cancer fighting probiotics :)))

Day 41/365 Chillen @ Mancino's

Ok -- today was another day of listening to talking heads -- They are good information but it all blended into one sound today - SO -- I called my wife and said you know what I think getting a pizza tonight just sounded good. So we loaded up and ran down to this restaurant called Mancino's and for those that may not have one of these in there area I feel sorry for you. This place make amazing pizzas and my personal favorite SUB - the Italian - toasted and just so yummmy!

This Mancino's is owned by some really cool people Mark and Sally - Mark is a cancer Winner too - ( I refuse to say fighting) - think of him in a thought or prayer as well -- :)

One more thing - I have taken chillen to the next level of not being ashamedI amwilling to get my chillen pic any way any how even if I look odd to the world around me LOL - YES I will express my chillen even at the expense of my dignity! Well it is a blog about chillen that main star is feet soooo I guess that is obvious LOL --- Well until tomorrow Stay chilled :)

Day 17/365 Basic Chillen

Today my feet and I have one of those days that make chillen hard to accomplish - Stress is the worse Chillen killers in the world - Between trying to deal with very broken families and trying to work on finances to make ends meet - today has not lead up to a chillen type of day -- but since I had cancer I refuse to let time slide by that is owned by stress!! So tonight I followed my advice that I give broken families - find a good laughing movie!! so here are my feet and I watching a Marx Brothers 1930's comedy!! Laughter is the best medicine even when you don't feel like Chillen :)