June 2, 2011 - Life continues!

June 2, 2011 - The day started off as a trying time. I did three S's as I always do (Shit, Shower and Shave) Since monday was a holiday trash goes out a day later. I gathered all of the trash bags and tossed them down the stairs. I grabbed Buster (my dog) and headed downstairs. I tossed the trash off the front porch and brought Buster to my father.
My Dad has a visiting nurse that comes once a week. She brought a home monitoring device that consists of a scale, blood pressure cuff and a heart beat monitor. After your done the machine transmits it to the VNA. But if you don't do it, the VNA haunts you looking for the results. It is always a production for my father. He doesn't want to be bothered with it. But if I don't do it, Mom calls me on my cell phone every time they call her looking for the results.
Of course Mom can't do it because you have to push a couple of electronic buttons. You have to be pretty quick. It's scale, put on the blood pressure cuff, and heart beat monitor. Then after all that is done it will ask you a number of questions. "Do you have trouble breathing?" - no is always answered. "Are you tired?" Of course Dad is always tired he is 87 years old. "Do you want a clinician to call?" I "I don't want those ugly women here today!" is the usual answer. After answering the questions the machine sends the info to the VNA over the phone lines. With my luck ...... it was an epic fail! Had to do it all over again.
Now if that wasn't enough to start the day, I needed to go to the ATM. There should be an aptitiude test for ATMs. If you don't pass the test your not issued a debit card. I mean it's only one button to get 40 dollars at Bank of America. Well I got into the line for the drive thru line for the ATM. This older man pulled up and proceeded to push buttons. Bang, Bang, Bang! His finger pushing harder and harder, like it would make a difference. Or as if by some miracle if he hit them hard enough they would understand what he wanted. More buttons were pushed and nothing happened. As time was wasted, I began to get frustrated. Finally I shouted out, "Hey pal, you can't initiate a hostile corporate take over from an ATM terminal. No matter how hard you pound the buttons!"
He replied, "Go fuck your self you fat fuck!" Like I haven't heard that before! I've heard it every day of my life for the past 40 years!

Work and Tornadoes don't mix!

Well, I said I was going to try to blog every day but yesterday was my long day. Tuesday is scout day in the Trujillo household. I caught on break, Emma was being punished for not cleaning her room, so she wasn’t allowed to go to Girl Scouts. Instead of cleaning she was reading for 6 hours, I have never seen someone read more than I do. It’s Amazing! I told her that if she ever wanted a book all she had to do was ask. I bought her a Kindle for her birthday but there is nothing better than holding a book in your hand.

Work was an adventure yesterday, one of the guys who work the counter with me and another had taken a vacation day off. The day seemed to fly by, there were customers continually at the counter and we were quite busy. But as 1:00 pm approached , my lunch half hour, the bowels of hell opened wide and a bunch of customers appeared . Never the less I didn’t get to go to lunch until 1:50 pm. It seems the world is totally against me. The only shining star at work is our receptionist …… she “gets me”. She always has a kind word and even called me on my birthday. That actually brought a tear to my eye.

Speaking of my Birthday, I can always count on my friends to rescue me from the loneliness of special days. Peter and Bones invited me to dinner along with my kids. Last time we were invited Luke went into his comedy routine about his mother and was quite funny at her expense. Of course Emma was a rat and sold him out to their Mom. He ended up having to write a letter of apology to them.

I left work at 4:30 pm and was on my way to Saugus. No one was home and I had to park out front and waited for Luke. He arrived about a half hour later. We went to Taco Bell for a Chalupa and off to scouts. The end of the day for me came around 9:30 pm when I laid down to dream of Amazon women in chain mail.

Today started at 3:00am when my alarm went off and I place my space boots on my legs for my daily morning ritual! If I don’t do this my legs have a tendency to swell a lot. This morning I had to take my Father vital signs and transmit them to his visiting nurse. This is always an adventure but Dad was still a bit asleep and he did it quickly. I arrived at work my day started early. Us counter guys had a nice surprise by one of the Chinese plumbers by the name of Yong. He brought us our favorite drinks from Dunkin’ Donuts, large regular ice coffee for me.The day was long and hard which is good if your a porn star but for me it was tiring. I finally left at my usual time 2:30 pm (Monday - Wednesday - and alternate Fridays) Bizarre schedule but its what I got.

It's getting dark outside and there is a Tornado warning out for Massachusetts. I was promised big thunder storms but so far we had a quick one this morning. I spoke to Gail and they are having storms and such out in Orange. Its heading our way. Just gonna relax tonight and try to figure out what I'm gonna do this weekend. Well Massachusetts had a bunch of Tornado warnings and a couple touched down out in Springfield. I always miss out. I have thought my whole life that weather would kill me. Heart attack shoveling snow comes to my mind. Its time to call it a night and end the day.

Forty Nine years down....how many more do I have to face?

I know the title sounds cryptic. I've come to the conclusion that I am alone in this world. My legs and back continue to get worse on a daily basis. There are some days that I wake up and I am upset that I have lived another day. But I have to continue on because of my parents and my children.
I have always surrounded myself with friends cause I was always afraid to be alone. That stems from all the time I spent by myself as an only child. I guess that is why I married the woman I did, I was scared to be alone and I stayed in that loveless marriage because of that fear. I was no longer alone but I was in a strange relationship. But two wonderful things happened in that relationship, my two kids.
Their mother and I are no longer together, she told me she needed a break and that was 8 years ago next month. Sometimes I miss her but she confirms that we had to go our separate ways, on a daily basis. What I really miss in life is holding hands and the gentle kiss of a woman lips. The really strange thing in this adventure is that I have found my way back to an old friend who I had always carried a torch for. who knows what lies in the future.
Work is another strange world. The different personalities that exist there are too numerous to mention. Their are a number of persons who come in like Jeckle and Hyde, you never know who is coming in to work. But we survive, you will learn more about this workplace in the coming weeks because I am going to try to blog about my life each day and let all those who are interested into the mind of Rocking Roger.
Today was interesting, I got up at 8:30 pm figuring I shit, shower and shave. Then off to get my kids for the day. I called my son and he told me to pick him up in and hour. He would be finished with his studying with his mom. Well, I waited two hours and drove then 10 miles to their house, only to find that they would not be ready for a couple of hours. If I had known that, I wouldn't have wasted my time. I came home without my kids and cleaned my desk and dining room table. I did my fathers vital signs and transmitted them to the VNA.
I set up a few Ebay auctions of a few of my Comic Books to see if this is something that I might do on a regular basis. Lord knows I could use the money to help out my parents. I think I need a small vacation and I might go on an adventure to NH real soon. I want to test the waters with an old friend.

Why are people such dicks?

Wil Wheaton has a catch phrase, which simply is "Don't Be A Dick!" It is a simple phrase but really put life in a nutshell. If your not a dick, how can you not be happy. In my life, I have met a number of dicks. But the biggest one I have ever known used to be someone I considered a friend. As of this writing we are no longer friends but I do have to see them every day. Unfortunately for me.