It’s official!

April 15th finally  got here! I’m officially a Siemens employee :) 

Finally Some Good News

It seems lately that if something could go wrong, went wrong. If something couldn’t get worse, it got worse. 

So after a series of bad luck moments and not so good news, I finally had something positive happen. 

It’s been hard finding permanent employment in construction field since the economy took a big flying purple shit.  But be that as it may, I got a job offer from Siemens on Friday!

I can now officially say that I work for a Fortune 500 company. And man does that feel good to say! 

I’m a quitter!

That’s right. 1 year ago I quit. I quit smoking cigarettes! 

I never would have thought I could have done such a thing. But quite honestly I just had enough. I had enough of coughing. I had enough of smelling like shit. I had had enough of going to bed every night feeling like my chest was caving in on me. And most of all, wondering when is it going to be my time to have my doctor say,

you have cancer and it’s probably from smoking cigarettes. 

It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. But it wasn’t easy quitting either. I chewed a bunch of Big Red gum the first week. While I puffed a couple of times and then put out my cig. I made 1 cigarette last a day. By the 3rd day of doing that silly shit, I stopped cold turkey.

It hasn’t been all roses though. 3 months after I quit, I had a heart/panic/anxiety attack. I was in an emergency room with lines of stuff all in my veins thinking,

this is what happens when you try to do the healthy thing with your life! 

The doctors never could pinpoint what was wrong with me. If you do have a full blown heart attack, your body releases an enzyme that they can detect that will give the indication you had a heart attack. Luckily, they didn’t find that enzyme in me. But my cardiologist said I probably made it in time to avoid a full blown heart attack. She also said that

quitting smoking more than likely lead to me sitting in the emergency room.

At the time, I wasn’t working, bills were piling up, and I suppose I was feeling stressed. Although I still insist to this day I didn’t feel stressed. But she said,

now that you have quit smoking, your body is craving that stress relief you gave yourself by smoking a cigarette. Since you don’t smoke anymore, your body doesn’t have that stress relief, and this is more than likely why you are sitting in a hospital bed right now. For much,much older people, quitting cigarettes is dangerous, as their bodies can’t handle the drastic lifestyle change and heart attacks are much,much more likely to happen.

Scary shit to think about huh?

On the brighter side of things, quitting smoking has saved me a bundle of money! I lost 18 pounds and I’m finally below 200lbs for the first time in years. I’m working out at Planet Fitness ($10 a month you just can’t beat!) and riding a bike again. I feel great and in just a years time, I can’t believe how awful I felt everyday of my life while smoking looking back on my life now. 

You just don’t realize how badly you feel because you just live with that feeling everyday. After a while I guess you just deal with the fact you feel like shit.

I’m glad that part of my life is over :)