Being Yelled at by the Doc

Jason went to see his doctor today as a follow-up. Jason has high blood pressure at the young age of 27 (he has had it for several years). Jason has family history of major heart problems. Jason's dad left this world at a young age of 53 from a heart attack. He had an uncle who passed in his early 40's. Now granted, both of these men were obese and smokers. Jason does not smoke. Jason's dad was in great shape at Jason's age. Jason has been prescribed with blood pressure medicine (along with other things) that he RARELY takes. His doctor asked him about his medicine, and when he told her that he does not take it consistently, SHE YELLED AT HIM. "They are not doing you any good inside the bottle," she told him. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall.

I often joke with Jason that I will be a widow at 50, but in all honesty, it is something that worries me considering his hereditary and his current habits (ie-NOT taking his medicine). I think he got the wake-up call he deserved. I love him too much for him to make silly choices like this.

Another thing that the doctor set him straight with was his soda intake. Jason thinks one or two sodas a day is not a big deal! Now before he started working for Coke, we rarely kept soda in the house. I still feel that we do not, but he gets free soda when he is at the warehouse. Jason told his doctor that he wanted to put on 10-15 pounds of muscle for football season. She told him he would put on 10-15 pounds of fat if he kept drinking like that.

Now let me just describe our doctor. She is this tiny petite woman from India. I love that fact that 6'3", 240ish pound got yelled at by our petite doctor (who maybe weighs 100 pounds) because she cares. Now I do not have to be the bad guy or bad wife.

Youth Fireside/Dance

This last Saturday, we had an amazing tri-stake activity. It started off with a Fireside (a meeting with an inspiritional speaker) by our Oklahoma City Temple president. He was an amazing speaker. He has done so much in his lifetime. A comment that he said that inspired me the most was that when he was first married, he wanted to get done with school so he took 21 credit hours, worked full-time, had a family, and was a member of the bishopric (or maybe at that time he was Bishop or Stake President-he got called to be Stake President his last year of grad school). He said that while someone else might be able to accomplish something that took only 3 hours, it took him 8 hours. He said he made up with it by not sleeping. He said he was good to go with just a few hours of sleep a few times a week. Other than that, he stayed up all night. He said he showed no signs of sleep deprovation. He said this continued for about the next 30 years! Could you imagine surviving off of so little sleep each week for 30 years?! He is also two handshakes away from Joseph Smith. Since I shook his hand, I am three handshakes away from Joseph Smith. After the fireside, there was a dance. I had a blast.

In this picture are three leaders (myself included) and three of our Young Women.

I love dance song that have specific moves to go along with them that are easy to pick up like The Macarena, Electric Slide, Cotton Eyed Joe, etc. There was this lady there that knew the Thriller dance. It looked this some much fun. I was to learn that one (it looks a little complicated, but practice will bring it all together).

Only in Oklahoma

This post is more for my benefit (I think), but maybe some of you will get a kick out of it like I do. I, in no way, am trying to offend anyone in Oklahoma or anyone that does or says these things. I just grew up in California which a semi-different culture.

Only in Oklahoma...do you get a daily allergy update on the radio. This radio station reports on which weeds, trees, etc. are affecting the area at that time.

Only in Oklahoma...do you hear the phrase, "Do what now?" when someone wants you to repeat what you said instead of saying, "What did you say?"

Only in Oklahoma...do you hear people say fixin'. "I'm fixin' to go to the store," "I'm fixin' to make dinner," etc. Okay, so maybe this phrase is not as prevelent here as it is in Texas, but I just laugh at it.

Only in Oklahoma...do people refer to soda as "pop." Okay, I know I have heard this elsewhere in the country, but I just love how different areas refer to things different. In California, you RARELY heard someone refer to soda as POP. It is more common here. I have even started to catch Jason saying it a time or two.

I am sure there are more, but I cannot think of them all right now. This is a post I have been wanting to do for awhile now. I would love for people to comment about other "Only in Oklahoma"

Go Cowboys

Since I have not posted in over a week, and I do not have much to blog about, I thought I would post a picture of Jason.

A couple of weeks ago, one of my Young Women came over for a game night. She was talking about the Rams, and then Jason said something to the affect of he is all about the Cowboys. She said she does not like the Cowboys. Jason left for a bit and came back looking like this. He has to represent.

*Jason's two favorite teams are the Cowboys-Dallas and OSU