Tangboy's Blog

Hello everyone,

Can you believe that February is winding down already?! It’s amazing how fast this school year is flying by! I am excited about lots of things coming up here in the future such as Spring break trip, graduation of my 3rd class of 8th graders, Tommy’s wedding, final summer of Masters etc. Just too many exciting things going on.

This blog finds me in bed already about 7:30 on a Friday evening just tired. The last couple Friday’s I’ve been in bed usually around now and would sleep til about 8:30ish Saturday morning. So about 13 hours of sleep is awesome. Tomorrow I am not sure what I will do, I will either swing in to church and then grab a couple caches while Amy works or I might get up early and take a quick shot down to Chattanooga to do some bouldering with my friends at SAU. I would then head back to get back in Knoxville around 4:00 to get ready for the Winterjam concert Saturday night.

Winterjam is a huge Christian concert that Amy and I would like to go to with some friends and students from the church here. There will be lots of good groups and it’ll just be a good revival kinda thing which I hear is awesome.

My health is good, been on an exercise routine that has me working out 6 nights a week that keeps me in shape. I am trying to build my muscles back up for lots of climbing and biking this spring and summer as well as running around in Chatt working on my Masters. Once done with my Masters I will make my students call me “Master White”… hey if you have your doctorate you can make people call you Dr. so and so! Anyway everyone have a Happy Sabbath!

Yes, I too have succumed to the common “cold” and am sniffling to my hearts content. Things have been kind of busy lately so let me catch you up.

As you know from last blog I had my PET scan and it was a wonderful ordeal. The results are back and the doc said that things look good. He still wants to scan every 6 months but we can do the less expensive scan! Unfortunately this scan requires me to chug some rather interesting liquids which act as a contrast and show ya on a scan what things look like in my tummy. The flavor of the day is Mountain Berry Berium (stop licking your lips, I know it sounds yummy but you cannot have any… really you can’t!) which I get to chug 16 ounces of the night before and 16 ounces 2 hours before to make sure my system is thoroughly saturated. This is also the scan that they give you an IV for and when they inject the other contrast it makes you feel like you poohed yourself! I can’t wait!

In about a week (the 12th) I will be turning 1/2 of 54, which for you unmathimatical peoples is 27. Amy has some big thing planned which I am not supposed to know about or find out about. She said that I could never guess what it is in a million years so I shouldn’t even try. Of course that get’s my mind going and I want to google all kinds of things, but she said the internet is off limits and I cannot research the subject! The nerve of her to dangle the worm in my face and I cannot even sniff it!

In about a month Amy and I will be adventuring down to the wonderful land of St. Thomas again. We have been invited back down to visit with Sharon and John while they travel nurse in the islands again. This trip promises some better times because this time I will not have chemo drugs running through my veins making me sick over the smallest little bump in the road, turbulance in the plane, or wave in da boat. Also there are 12 or so geocaches on the island that I am looking forward to finding! This will be my first “out-of-country-geocaching-experience”. Which I am totally excited for of course! It will be a fun trip and we will report our adventures once they occur.

Right now Amy and I are about to sit down with a warm cup of hot cider, plop ourselves in front of the laptop and watch the finale of “Top chef” and see who will be this years “Top chef”. So with that, we hope that you had yourself a WARM Sabbath and that this finds you happy. Have an excellent evening!