Matt Meade » Health/Wellness

I just quit smoking

Matt Meade — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:55:20 +0000

Quit smoking today. Early in the morning I finished the last 2 left in my pack from the road-trip and I called it quits.

My sister didn’t really believe me, lol.

Usually I quit when things are great and start back when things get crappy. I think I have a real good chance this time because I started when things are kinda crappy so it’s probably only going to get easier.

Glad to have done it though, I have been meaning to do this and a lot of other things since March but I was using the “buddy-system” with a procrastinator. Next stop – P90X.

Lung Cancer Update

Matt Meade — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:03:55 +0000

I have had a cough since I went to Florida with Jane, so I recently got a chest x-ray to see if I had pneumonia from all the water.

Not only is it NOT pneumonia, but I actually do NOT have lung cancer despite my smoking for the better part of the last 17 years (jeez am I that old?)

Planning on quitting again soon, while I’m ahead.

Delayed sleep phase syndrome

Matt Meade — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:25:22 +0000

Boy does this sound familiar!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

P90X – SORE!

Matt Meade — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:26:05 +0000

Yeah I finally got some weights and started doing more than the cardio and stretching portions of p90x.

Wow, am I ever sore. Kind of a whole-body sore. It’s good though, it lets me know it’s working!

I recommend the weights below. They are adjustable, but not anywhere near as expensive as some other adjustable sets. These work fine if you don’t need anything heavier than 25 lbs, and if you are new to p90x I can just about guarantee you that you won’t use all 25lbs for quite some time.

I recommend these!

Thirty-three

Matt Meade — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:49:45 +0000

I’m 33 today and it’s the best birthday ever.

In fact, my whole life is better now than it has ever been in the past.

Thanks to God and everyone who helped along the way.

Zzzzz

Matt Meade — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:36:03 +0000

Got like 11 hrs sleep last night, I was catching up from only getting 2 or 3 the past few nights (which was making me cranky). Feeling pretty good and wondering why I don’t get sleep more often…

This must be why I smoke(d)

Matt Meade — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:18:22 +0000

Old HS friend via Facebook:

Kelley: lol i do remember the time i made you take a drag off my cigarette for what was left of my happy meal…

Matt: lol, damn that’s 2 things in 2 days people have told me about my past that I have no recolection of AT ALL

Matt: does that make you feel like a big man pushing little Matt Meade around and forcing him to smoke? lol

Kelley : we were downtown… lol i thought it was funny… all for some cold fries and a chicken nugget lol

Kelley: i did feel bad about it a few years later when i saw you at the mall and you were smoking, you threw the cigarette in the trash and caught it on fire

Matt: wow, I was fucking badass

Bonus Material:

Kelley: i wish my grass was emo lol

Kelley: so it would cut itself… hahaha

Memory Lane merges with Highway 404

Matt Meade — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:33 +0000

Normally I have a very good memory, but today I bumped into someone (on myspace) I haven’t seen since probably high school, and they told me a hilarious story about something mean they did to me, which I don’t remember at all.

Either I somehow completely forgot an event (super-rare), they are confusing me with someone else, or they are BSing me.

Kind of weird, as I’m normally not forgetful about that kinda thing. They seem positive it was me. Did I block it out? lol Am I losing my good memory in my old age?

(…highway 404, as in “404 error – file not found”. Gosh I’m a geek…)

LASIK: Eye Bruising

Matt Meade — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:56:58 +0000

Here are a couple neat pics of my eye-bruises from LASIK surgery.

This is perfectly normal, harmless, painless, and goes away in a couple of weeks.

It is simply blood that has rushed to the surface when they held my eyeball still by exposing it to a slight vacuum.

Jeepers, creepers, where'd ya get them peepers? At peepers-r-us of course!

LASIK: The Day After

Matt Meade — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:52:21 +0000

I had my next-day check-up and wow, I see better now than I did with my glasses. 20/15 in fact, which is better than normal 20-20 vision.

Sweet…

This prompted me to dig into how vision is tested since I always assumed 20/20 was perfect and anything else (20/15 for example) would be bad. I also assumed that was left-eye (20)/right-eye(20) which also turned out to be wrong.

20/20 means that you see as well from 20 feet as what doctors consider “a normal person” sees from 20 feet.

20/15 means I see as well from 20 feet as a “normal person” sees from 15.

While 20/20 is average there is variation, and some rare people naturally have eyes as good as 20/8.

They estimate the vision of eagles at 20/2.