Yaaaaaawwwwwn!

I'm sleepy today. I think I stayed up too late all weekend. I made the mistake of going to see X3 yesterday. It was OK but not worth the $6 I paid. Oh well.

I tried to donate platelets on Saturday. It's an interesting process. You get to sit in a big reclining chair (more like an exam chair and less like a Lazy-Boy) and watch a movie from an attached video screen. You have one tube in each arm which are attached to a big machine. The machine processes the blood coming out, separates it and sends the red stuff back into with a protein mixture I believe. Well when I was about 40% done, I started to get very icky. We had our employee appreciation day on Thursday which was spent out on the beach. Needless to say I got some color that day. Well once I started to not feel so hot, the nurses noticed. I think the pink drained right out of my face. My nurse/tech was named Connie. She was very nice but had nicotine stained fingers, really bad teeth and an over bleached blonde mullet. Sweet! Connie stopped the process and got me a Diet Coke. She reassured me that they had enough 'product' so I wasn't to worry about it. I really did have a moment of trying to figure out if the woozyness would pass. So I'm not going to be donating platelets or plasma ever again. I'll just stick to the blood even though you don't get to watch a movie.