Wokka, wokka, wokka!

We finally spent our first weekend in the new home! Wow, it feels great to be under the roof of a place I am on my way to owning! What a feeling!

So, of course with every purchase of a home, there comes the dreaded repairs! Or in my case, get 'er dones! The first 3 tasks included a new shower head, check, hooking up our stove, check and finally fixing the shotty job on the hot water tank, uncheck! Being that it was Fathers Day (happy, happy to all the Fathers out there!) I didn't want my dad to spend the whole day working around my house when my mom had bigger plans for him, like getting the yard ready for their new pool. So, not a bad weekend for me!

I got a few new toys this week as well. First was an air hockey table from my neighbor! Funny story to this. My nephew was over with my brother and we were out in the front yard when out of the kids mouth comes 'Dad, can we buy that air hockey table before Uncle Aaron does??' Haha, it caught me off guard and I had to check it out. Of course my brother put the kibosh on the purchase, I couldn't resist! Done! The second purchase was a new TV. Now, I don't necessarily have a need for this, but being that all of my stuff is still in Florida, I was in need of some things while the wait continues for me to travel and get my belongings. This thing is monsterous! A lush 65" of viewing pleasure for gaming and HD-DVD viewing at its finest! It's a Mitsubishi DLP 1080p so it has all the goodies a electronic geek could need.

Our first movie on it was 'Flags of our Fathers' and it was a great film to see on this TV. The real test came Saturday when my brother and his son and step-son stopped over. Greg had never seen Forza 2 yet and he wanted to check it out firsthand. So, in it went! And as he and my dad said, it was like looking thru the windshield of a real car. Just stunning to look at. There was some split-screen action that took place but ended a few hours later with me kicking everyone out so that I could eat dinner and watch another movie with Tiffany. Later that night as Tiff decided to take a relaxing bath, I hit the power to the 360 again and hit the XBox Live Arcade where I spent the next 3 hours jamming on, get this, Pacman Championship Edition. Can you imagine? I have all these trick games and I go back to my roots and play this game? Trust me, I couldnt't believe it either. But, I had a blast nonetheless! I did get a chance to play some Crackdown as well, where I spent about an 1 1/2 hunting elusive orbs for my taking! Great game to check out if you have a 360!

Not much happening this week, just getting ready to get some repair work done to the house after the haunting hail storm we had here about 10 days ago. Luckily I wasn't home for the event, but according to Tiffany, it sounded like a full on war outside. We had hail pound around there the size of softballs, busting out a window and torturing my siding. The management company that I bought the house from has insurance on it, so their gonna tackle that next week for me!

Hope everyone has a great week! We'll post more soon!

Whatdaya say we give this a try, AGAIN!

Hi friends!

Yes, its me, Scary Aaron, back on the scene............CANCER FREE SUCKAS!

Look's like my last report was quite some time ago, so let me catch most of you up, if anyone still stops by here!

Yes, I was officially diagonsed with non-godonal seminoma (testicular cancer, minus any testicular damage). The treatment at Mayo was just spectacular. Seems they biopsied the same tumor, thru the same spot, as the doc's in Erie did, but this time it was confirmed as cancer. I began my chemotherapy immediately, as it was at a critical stage. I was just fortunate enough to get up there when I did. The tumors were crushing my trachea and my heart and it was just a matter of time before one or both gave up. I ended up in Cuyahoga Falls General in October as I had made my way home. I stopped in the Falls to pick up my kids to head back home but my body pretty much just shut down. I was in a pretty bad way, borderline death. I had to be put in an ICU unit which was locked down from anyone coming in to visit me. I had staph infections along with septic shock. Not the funnest adventure!

So after a 2 week stay there I was released and headed back to Florida where I began an horrendeous regiment of chemo. I was taking cysplaten, etopicide and bleomycin on 8 cycles. The cycles consisted of 5 days, 6 hours followed by 3 weeks of 1 day, 1 hour sessions. It was just brutal to my body. I lost over 52 total pounds during that time, lost all of my hair and every bit of muscle mass I had.

During all of this I still tried to keep up with work, but it just wasn't happening. The ass I worked for pretty much cut me off and wouldn't give me anymore work, and on top of that the stress from not knowing how things were gonna work out for me and my family pretty much was pushing me over the edge. He couldn't even give me the time of day to talk about things. F' em I say, his loss!

I decided that my best option was to return to Ohio and start fresh. So we picked up and came back home in March. I started a great job that was less stressful to work at and began the recovery process. In the meantime it was time to improve our personal lives as well, so Tiffany and I purchased our first home in Akron. (See above!) I also needed reliable wheels so I picked up a 2007 Dodge Caliber! This car rocks!!

Things are looking up though! We just needed to stop and redirect our focus and energies. It's paying off now.

I'm hoping to start keeping this more up to date and I hope you'll all stop back to be amused and entertained.

I've got tons more to blog about, including the life suck of gaming which is titled Forza. This game is just hardcore. Stop back and I'll throw ya a few opinions soon.

Later clowns!