This past week was spent battling a horrifying bout of poison ivy. It finally spread all over my body...to my tummy and legs and everywhere. I know I didn't touch all that stuff! Anyway, it got sooo bad and the blisters so huge that I decided, it's time for some doctor's intervention.
Friday, I went to the doctor's office and she gave me a steroid shot of something powerful....something that would make Barry Bonds uncomfortable! That day, in the evening, all the blisters had vanished! The spots were still there though and now they are healing. They itch like crazy, and I'm now on some tablet regimen, but it worked!
So if you ever get posion ivy....get your butt to a doctor. I thought I might be able to just wait it out, but there's no reason to. Thank goodness!
Monday, July 30, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Itchy and Scratchy
Oh the joys of poison ivy!I spent Friday doing a lot of yardwork and was pretty much protected...or so I thought.
Saturday, I got to hang out with Jen after the Harry Potter frenzy at work and we enjoyed some ice cream and then a movie....specifically Knocked Up. This was kind of a funny movie, with too much frat boy humor :P. Anyway, it was really fun to get to see Jen. She's recovering from sprained ankles from her motocross fun, but otherwise doing well.
And then Sunday.....the ivy came! First, I woke up early int he morning in cold sweats. When I really woke up finally later that morning I had rashed all over my left arm. Now, today, they are also over my right arm! OH GOD! I hope they don't spread. I swear I am never doing any yardwork ever again! This is the final straw.
Monday, July 16, 2007
Heaven in Steel City
Everytime I go out to Pittsburgh it is an even better time than the last time! Perhaps, because all my fondest memories lately have been from trips to see Monicutie and company.
On Thursday, we hung out and enjoyed a crazy Chinese Buffet. It was so awesome, and strangely enough, they had Sushi there. Sushi + Monica = Freakin' awesome! They also had fried squid, which is always the correct choice when it comes to tentacley goodness. That evening, we watched Dead Alive, which has to be the funniest and grossest movie ever made. Honestly, you owe it to yourself to see this if you are a zombie fan or a Peter Jackson fan. Jeff also built a freakin' sweet game cabinet to play all kinds of sweet video games! It looked so good, and I had no idea he had built it himself.
The next day was followed by some shopping and going out to Butler to see Monica's family. Needless to say it was such a great time and to walk around in the nice cozy breeze was great. The biggest surprise though came in the evening. We had been decorating for Laura's birthday party when it was revealed that the party was actually for me. It was a belated birthday party. I cried and I'm still in shock even today that some friends would care enough to do that for me. I feel humbled, honored and even in awe of such a great group of people that I now have in my life that I couldn't have imagined just years ago.
We went out to the Cheesecake Factory that night and met Miranda, who is quite the hoot! Then we went back and gorged on a delicious blueberry cake that Laura handmade. Holy cow! Talk about cake-tastic.
As if days couldn't get better, the next day was followed by a melange of dropping by the O' in Pittsburgh for hot dogs, and then a nice walk through town to burn off the horrible calories, and then we went to see Transformers and go bopping about a mall. Transformers was an awesome movie. Totally! I didn't think they could do a good job with it, but they didn't even look like CGI robots....they looked real and kicked ass.
That evening we settled down to watch Isolation, which was about a mutant death cow. We topped the night off with a rousing game of Kashi that Monica made and it rocked! She so needs to get her game published, because it was crazy fun and I want to play it a million more times!
And then Sunday...the sadness. I cried on the way home like I generally do when I get to be myself and be with people I care so much for. This trip finally sunk in how lucky I am to have such good friends, and it drove home how awesome Monica is. When I grew up, I never knew that friends could be like this. It's all so new to me to have friends who are so loving and supportive the past few years that I am realizing for the first times in my life what friendship really means. I feel dumbfounded at times trying to adjust to this and hope that I can show my friends how much they mean to me. I love you all!
On Thursday, we hung out and enjoyed a crazy Chinese Buffet. It was so awesome, and strangely enough, they had Sushi there. Sushi + Monica = Freakin' awesome! They also had fried squid, which is always the correct choice when it comes to tentacley goodness. That evening, we watched Dead Alive, which has to be the funniest and grossest movie ever made. Honestly, you owe it to yourself to see this if you are a zombie fan or a Peter Jackson fan. Jeff also built a freakin' sweet game cabinet to play all kinds of sweet video games! It looked so good, and I had no idea he had built it himself.
The next day was followed by some shopping and going out to Butler to see Monica's family. Needless to say it was such a great time and to walk around in the nice cozy breeze was great. The biggest surprise though came in the evening. We had been decorating for Laura's birthday party when it was revealed that the party was actually for me. It was a belated birthday party. I cried and I'm still in shock even today that some friends would care enough to do that for me. I feel humbled, honored and even in awe of such a great group of people that I now have in my life that I couldn't have imagined just years ago.
We went out to the Cheesecake Factory that night and met Miranda, who is quite the hoot! Then we went back and gorged on a delicious blueberry cake that Laura handmade. Holy cow! Talk about cake-tastic.
As if days couldn't get better, the next day was followed by a melange of dropping by the O' in Pittsburgh for hot dogs, and then a nice walk through town to burn off the horrible calories, and then we went to see Transformers and go bopping about a mall. Transformers was an awesome movie. Totally! I didn't think they could do a good job with it, but they didn't even look like CGI robots....they looked real and kicked ass.
That evening we settled down to watch Isolation, which was about a mutant death cow. We topped the night off with a rousing game of Kashi that Monica made and it rocked! She so needs to get her game published, because it was crazy fun and I want to play it a million more times!
And then Sunday...the sadness. I cried on the way home like I generally do when I get to be myself and be with people I care so much for. This trip finally sunk in how lucky I am to have such good friends, and it drove home how awesome Monica is. When I grew up, I never knew that friends could be like this. It's all so new to me to have friends who are so loving and supportive the past few years that I am realizing for the first times in my life what friendship really means. I feel dumbfounded at times trying to adjust to this and hope that I can show my friends how much they mean to me. I love you all!
Monday, July 9, 2007
Live Earth
What an amazing day this was! 7/7/07. It was a day full of music and craziness and all day on Bravo. While I was working most of the day on remodelling the house, we also spent it watching and listening to the great messages and the great music.
My favorites were Duran Duran, Rihanna, Enrique Iglesias, Alicia Keys, The Foo Fighters, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Nunatak. Nunatak was a band of scientists playing in Antarctica and they did a great job considering the cold. There was also a really cool girl band from China that played a bunch of strange string instruments and that was awesome too. The best though was Melissa Etheridge. Damn she ROCKS liv, and she has such a wonderful message too. How beautiful that the world could come together for even just one day with the language that is almost universal....music!
It was also nice to see Karen Duffy helping host the program. She was my favoritist MTV VJ of all time! I still have a crush on her from all those years ago
Now what will we all do to help make the future a place we can all live? Despite what the conservatives and Bush think, global warming is real and we are the cause. It's time to help do what we can to pressure corporations by boycotting driving lame cars that guzzle gas, and supporting companies which are environmentally friendly and working to keep carbon neutral profiles. I'm excited!
Friday, July 6, 2007
Ennui
I've had a little bit of ennui going on lately.
Several weeks back my parents bitched me out about not being able to make their 'family reunion' out in San Diego. I got told all sorts of things like how disappointed they were in me and all that sort of stuff so I laid it on them and let them know that some of the reasons I didn't go, aside from the fact that it is hard for me to get time off from work being a temp manager now, was that I was pretty depressed and I wasn't about to spend 4-5 days with 4 children and out on a beach and not being able to be myself.
Also, I let them know that I would've been happy to come if I was able to dress the way I wanted to and then that's when they said "Oh we thought you were over that stuff." Yeah. Over that stuff.
My family refuses to seem to understand me. Now that want me on medication to fix the depression I have. Yeah, just take medication without really treating the underlying problem.
Several weeks back my parents bitched me out about not being able to make their 'family reunion' out in San Diego. I got told all sorts of things like how disappointed they were in me and all that sort of stuff so I laid it on them and let them know that some of the reasons I didn't go, aside from the fact that it is hard for me to get time off from work being a temp manager now, was that I was pretty depressed and I wasn't about to spend 4-5 days with 4 children and out on a beach and not being able to be myself.
Also, I let them know that I would've been happy to come if I was able to dress the way I wanted to and then that's when they said "Oh we thought you were over that stuff." Yeah. Over that stuff.
My family refuses to seem to understand me. Now that want me on medication to fix the depression I have. Yeah, just take medication without really treating the underlying problem.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Remodelling
Our home is undergoing some changes lately, and it has been fun to work on them. We are remodelling a living room area to turn it into a computer/entertainment/gaming area. It hsould look really nice once it's done. We bought two glass desks and they will look very smooth when they are set up along with the other furniture in the room. This weekend's project will include getting an area rug for the doggies to lay on, and new curtains.
Things have been going well...I've been working out the past week and it feels great. I've also been eating better so hopefully I can lose some more weight before I go out to Pittsburgh. ^_^
Otherwise, life has just been going on. Work has been very crazy lately with lots of management duties. I guess the good part is that this will look wonderful on a resume' someday and I've been hearing I'm doing a decent job, so you can't beat that.
Things have been going well...I've been working out the past week and it feels great. I've also been eating better so hopefully I can lose some more weight before I go out to Pittsburgh. ^_^
Otherwise, life has just been going on. Work has been very crazy lately with lots of management duties. I guess the good part is that this will look wonderful on a resume' someday and I've been hearing I'm doing a decent job, so you can't beat that.
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