Doctors and loss

Me and Tara had doctor’s appoint­ments yes­ter­day. Just rou­tine physical/PCP stuff so that if we need to go to a spe­cial­ist for what­ever, we’ll have gone to our “reg­u­lar” doc­tor first already. I had blood taken (as did Tara), and we found out today that I’ve got a slightly high cho­les­terol num­ber (noth­ing too dra­matic), while Tara got some not-so-great news on her end. Noth­ing life threat­en­ing or any­thing like that, but I’m not going to get into it here, and if you know her, you prob­a­bly know what I’m talk­ing about anyway.

So, the cho­les­terol thing is an issue, see­ing as how there is a his­tory of heart dis­ease in my fam­ily. Again, it’s noth­ing too bad, it’s just some­thing that’s telling me to get off my ass and make an effort to move, or some­thing sim­i­lar. Walk­ing is what most doctor-types will tell you to do to start an exer­cise pro­gram, but since I’m not overly a fan of any kind of exer­cise that I can’t keep score of or mark my accom­plish­ments, I’m just going to have to try to find some other incen­tive to move my ass. Oh well.

So, Tara’s unhappy about her news, as am I, but with all the shit that’s going on around me, I still think that my life could be a whole hell of a lot worse. In a period of two days, two of my friends lost their fathers; one trag­icly, one more pre­dictibly. Hav­ing already lost my father some time ago, I know that it can be a real rough thing to go through, espe­cially if it hap­pened sud­denly and trag­icly. It’s some­thing I don’t have to go through right now, and fam­ily is one thing I do have, and that I’m blessed with.

On other notes, Buffy was inter­est­ing tonight. There’s finally a real “evil” around again, and a face can be put on it. The reli­gious right should LOVE the fact that the most evil char­ac­ter that the guys have to bat­tle right now goes around dressed in reli­gious garb. As if they didn’t hate the show enough already. Xan­der los­ing his eye (I’m assum­ing) was a pretty last­ing image, although it might be because I’ve always iden­ti­fied with Xan­der a lit­tle bit since I started watch­ing the show. It’s odd how cer­tain char­ac­ters draw you in.

Eh, that’s enough for now.