Wooo, hey blog. I missed you. I’m sorry I’ve abandoned you for my NINTENDO WII.

Mmmhmm, you read right, I bought one sometime in the past week along with a 32″ LG flatscreen TV (that Shawn ever so graciously mounted on the wall) so we’ve been watching a whole lot of TV and playing even more video games.

I swear the result of having both has turned me and Shawn into a bunch of LAZY ASSES, hadn’t grocery shopped in a week… or CLEANED. I swear we’ve eaten out more in the past five days than we have since we’ve been together.

Today ended the madness, though, and we decided it was time to clean the house for reals and even go buy some groceries. We rearranged furniture and all sorts of stuff, the house is much happier… although the laundry situation is still a situation, but I’m doing a load big enough to get me through a few days of work. Me and my laziness have such a love/hate relationship.

I’m sure you’ll all be happy to hear that my chin rash/”herpes” (according to Jen)/hickey is long gone, and in it’s place is a nice painful knot on my eyebrow. I think I might be a hypochondriac but I don’t do it on purpose, it’s just that something is always wrong with me… ahhah. Shawn referrs to it as being “broke down.”

Tuesday I will celebrate 3 weeks of no smoking and I’m having a hard time believing it’s already been that long. I won’t lie and say that I don’t miss it because there are certainly times when I really feel like having a cigarette but at the same time, I feel better physically…. which makes it feel worth it.

Okay, no more rambles. I have chicken pot pie to make; I wanted to update cause it’s been a while. love love.

Sometime in late February or early March, some rash showed up on my belly. It was quite strange, I remember the day I filed my taxes was the day that it became unbearable and I finally had to tell Shawn. This shit was not going away and it was scary. It was a Thursday and I’m surprised I can’t remember when exactly it was, but I cried. And cried. And told Shawn I didn’t know what was wrong with me, really you guys, it was SO BAD. Probably the worst thing I’ve ever come down with…

So that Thursday I filed my taxes and came home and the rash slowly became more and more painfully itchy and I thought I was coming down with a flesh-eating disease. The next morning it had spread to my back, my poor body was like the meat on a rash bread sandwich.

Are you grossed out yet?

I high tailed it to the doctor that morning and he informed me that I was either experiencing an allergic reaction or a Staph infection. I got a shot and some antibiotics and I was sure it was Staph because I’ve never been allergic to anything. I spent that weekend laid up on the couch and miserable… MISERABLE. I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced such a thing but it was horrific. Two weeks later I was done with my antibiotics and the itch was gone. My skin was still pretty rough and scaly but by April everything was back to normal.

Well well well, guess what! I was getting in the shower today and when I pulled down my hair I noticed this weird spot on my chin. It looks just like a hickey but it’s not, because the first thing I did was run to ask Shawn if he gave me a hickey… under my chin??

At first I thought it didn’t burn or itch and wondered if I was imagining things to think it did, but a few hours after discovering it I believe it does indeed burn a bit and I’m just wondering what the fuck is it now?! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY BE WRONG WITH MY CHIN?

It’s like my new thing to wake up at 4 in the morning and not be able to fall back asleep. I’m hoping it will pass, there are only so many entertaining things to do at 4am.

Last night we went to buy an LCD TV for the den, and of course they didn’t have the one I picked out. So I ditched my shopping cart that had a few other items in it and walked out, pissed. So mature. It didn’t help that it took FOREVER for someone to help us… it’s like we’re in there trying to spend $800, you’d think they would’ve tried a little harder.

We ended up at Carrabba’s. I’d never eaten there but grandpa mentioned it to me today and we were too hungry to wait anywhere else. IT WAS SO GOOD. Grandpa said to “go hungry” cause their serving sizes were huge, but I didn’t listen. We ate tons of bread, then I ordered an appetizer AND our meals came with salads. By the time we got our actual food we were about to bust.

We’re gonna try again today for the TV. Hopefully we’ll find the one that I want, or else I’m going to break stuff.

“You’ve got some will power quitting smoking the way you did. I’m impressed, babe”

*pats Shawn on the leg*

“PSH! I better watch out for you!!”

I’m all about the contests lately and I’ve really been wanting to read more… Katy is holding a contest at her personal blog - Faster the Chase - to win a book, The House at Riverton by Kate Morton. To have a chance at winning, all you have to do is head over to this entry at her website and copy the text at the bottom on to a blog at your website. Easy, right? This will be the first of many contests so make sure you check out her blog regularly. She will ship anywhere in the world so everyone is free to enter.

I FEEL LIKE ASS and I want to go HOME.