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TV stations around central Illinois have repeatedly aired meth addiction commercials. Meth is a serious situation around here. I used to work for non for profit substance abuse agency, so it’s no laughing matter. However, I came across the anti-drug dog video from collegehumor.com. This video showed the comedic view of the anti-drug commercials.

It sparked the idea for this video. A lot of people are using twitter now and some can get out of control. Don’t let your friends become a tweet head. It’s hard to use twitter.com once. Just once, then you become a tweet head & you can’t stop it.

Credits involved in this video: Nick Schmidt aka Schmult & Kristen Nicole (Lead writer for mashable.com). My twitter account & Kristen’s twitter account.

Other Twitters featured in this video: Chris Brogan (twitter), Jen Simmons (twitter), Miss Bhavens (twitter).

Also featured in this video are a few F.S.R. weekly presents from my friends. Sarah & Rich both provided me with the t shirt and mouse pad for this video. Thanks guys!!!

As you may already know. That I’m having surgery tomorrow. I’m required to take 2 laxatives the day before and drink nothing, but clear liquids. Fun times!! So I thought I could try out Flickr Video for the 1st time to show me taking the laxatives. If you have a flick account go ahead and add me. My Flickr

Next is the video of the day. Actually I found this yesterday. So the video of the day from yesterday. This video is really funny and shows how you can make people laugh without words. There are a lot of celebrities in this video as well: Will Ferrell, Tim Meadows, Ryan Seacrest,B lake Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, Barats and Berretta, Almost Twins, Jamie King, Milo Ventimiglia

HIII! 5!!! (in Borat Voice) 3, 2, 1, ready go, do it now (From office)

High Five (hi5) Montage

For one of my F.S.R. presents I received this awesome indoor helicopter (helio). My friend Elaine wanted me to open it before I went into the hospital. I was soooo excited about this present!! So I ran to Walgreens grabbed some new batteries and laxatives. The perfect combo.

I wanted to make a video of me playing with it and show it to you. However, I had to practice to make sure I can operate the helio within the viewing screen of the video camera. Well throughout the practice, the helio ran into walls, dressers, ceilings, and more. Then it came across the vacuum cleaner. It hit the vacuum and broke. NOOOOOOOO!!!! It lasted about an hour.

I tried to fix it with some scotch tape, as you can see didn’t work. Thank god with Elaine’s IVY league education, she was smart enough to buy a year warranty so I can return it to Brookstone and get a new one.

So this all reminded me of one of my favorite tv shows, Rob and Big. The episode is below and it shows them trying to find Rob a hot non dirty girl on myspace and they took up the new hobby of Helios too. You can see how fast it takes to break these, in the video.

However, I haven’t found my hot good girl on myspace or anywhere else, yet. But, I have found a relation of how easy it is to break helios. Maybe some of my friends can help me with this, just like in the TV show?

Enjoy the episode. If you can’t view the video: Click here
http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1582964&vid=215283

As you remember I have a online shop of T shirts now. I requested if you bought a t shirt that you should send me a picture of you wearing the t shirt. Do something creative and have fun with it. Take a picture of you at LAX, on top of a roof, in Italy, New Zealand, anything you can think of!!

Well here are some pictures of my friends showing some love. I can’t wait to get more !! Soooo COOOL!!

Don’t forget to buy some of the shirts, use the coupon, and take pictures and send them to me!

YOU CAN BUY THESE SHIRT HERE

Finally surgery time is here. It’s scheduled for Friday May 16 at 7:30am (EST). I have to be there at 5:30am, plus they are an hour ahead of us, so it will feel like 4:30am for me.grrr Plus I have another fun filled day of liquids an laxatives on Thursday.

So the Urologist is going to be in the surgery this time. If you don’t know the details go back to this old post for more details.

Only thing new is that it looks like I’m going to lose a kidney. However, you only need one and the other one works fine. So no big deal. Hopefully they won’t have to reconstruction my bladder and my large intestine/colon. Plus I hope I don’t have a poop bag. That would suck and include more surgery.

I’m going to be in the hospital for 7 days, I don’t know how the internet situation will be, but I will twitter with my phone. You can ‘follow’ me on http://twitter.com/Schmult. or just watch the orange box on the right hand side of my website.

Let’s DO THIS!!
I will talk to all of you soon

Much love!!

The surgeon just called me. The surgery is canceled for tomorrow.

Urologist isn’t going to be available tomorrow (I didn’t even know I would have a Urologist).  Plus, my blood counts are low. We will give it another week to recover from the last chemotherapy.

So another week of waiting. I assume the surgery will be next week. We will see..

And another time of drinking more laxatives. Maybe I should do a video on that… ?? Hmmmm.

I saw my oncologist last week. The tumors have shrunk and have separated from my abdominal area. One tumor was actually clamping down on my vena cava and it has released its self from the vein. However, the other tumors are still big, but they all have shrunk down into a size so that they are operable.

So my oncologist scheduled a meeting with the sarcoma surgeon. He went through all the options of the surgery and told me all the risks. They won’t know which option to use until after they open me up. The cut will probably be twice the size of a C-section. So basically just below my breastbone down to my pubic area, straight down the middle.

When they cut tumors out, they have to cut around the tumor, which is usually attached to organ, muscle, and/or anything. So I could lose an organ and glands. Plus, maybe have some reconstruction. You never know. Just like they don’t know if the cancer will come back or not. Also, I don’t even know if I done with the chemotherapy. Maybe I will have radiation too? I’m not sure. I will find out more after the surgery, I’m sure.

The surgery will be May 8 at Indiana University in Indianapolis. The surgery will start around 9:30am (EST) and will last for about 6 hours. I will be in the hospital for about 7 days. I hope to recover fast so I can get out of the hospital ASAP, so I don’t have to eat their food. Worse food ever!!!!

Thanks for all the love, support, and prayers. I may or may not be on the internet for a week or more. Plus I don’t know if I will have internet connection in my room or not. So check my twitter account for quick and fast updates (orange box on the right hand side of the website). http://twitter.com/Schmult. I maybe updating it with my phone.

Let’s do this!!
Much love.

A while ago, Liz Straus contacted me to inform me about SOBCon08, but I wouldn’t be able to go because I was scheduled to go into the hospital for a 5 day chemo treatment. However, they did have a contest to win a Nokia N95, that was being hosted by Utterz.com. The contest was to do a small 1 min ad of why people should read/subscribe to your blog/vlog.

Of course I did this competition because I would love a new gadget, unfortunetly, I didn’t win. In addition, the ad did get picked up in a article for HowtoSplitAnAtom.com. The article is entitled “What we Gain from Video”. It’s a very interesting post and you should check it out. Steve always have interesting views and well thought out posts on his website. Hence, why I subscribe to it too.

Here are some quotes from the article;

“I really liked what he did with the medium and after watching it, it got me thinking about Social Media’s growing obsession with video.”

“Taking another look at the Nick’s video, I think there is something to be said about video in the context of personal branding. One block of text can be extremely difficult to differentiate from another block of text, and worse than that text provides very few clues as to the emotional context of the person writing. In advertising of any kind, emotion is critical to conveying message. In these situations, we see that the point of video is not to deliver information but to convey personality.”

Check out the video and see what you think. Does it make you want to subscribe to my blog? I guess I will see if my subscriptions will increase.

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A while ago when I just found out I had to do chemotherapy one of my good friends April took the time and wrote me a funny email. The email was of the top 10 reasons chemo is cool. She came up with all these funny ideas out of no where. I laughed my butt off when I read this, so I had to put it into a video.. (Of course).

I’m getting more and more requests. This is getting fun!!

I uploaded some new Geek t shirts and basic Schmult.com shirts to my online shop.

http://200480.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/

All the shirts can be modified for you to change the color of the shirts and color of the text (most of them).

Plus if some of them are not in the right gender for you, I can make adjustments so you can get what you want. Just let me know. Leave a comment or email me at schmult (at) gmail (dot) com.

Plus don’t forget about the online coupon for free shipping or $5 off. I would recommend using it. Click here to get the coupon.

P.S. I have had some friends buy a shirt and they were not the right size for them. So they called up spreadshirt.com and they were kind enough to let them exchange the shirt. So if you have the same problem, give them a call.

P.P.S Don’t forget to send me your pictures with the shirts on!! My aunt did!!