I decided to write this before giving it a title, because I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about. First, I have to tell you that I have just spent the better part of three hours helping my mother with her PC and in the end, I’m not sure anything I did helped, which makes me sad. As we speak, I am remotely connected to her PC and running some virus scans and spyware scans. It’s taking a long long time and I’m not sure I’m gonna make it till it’s done, because I’m tired. 

To update those of you who might be interested in how my face feels today - well, it still hurts. I did gently scrub it this morning as well as this evening because there was a ton of dry skin and it looked gross. I’ve given it a bit more thought and I guess, rather than a sunburn, it feels more like what it must feel like after you’ve had a chemical treatment on your face. My skin is dry, tight and flakey. Yeah, I know - disgusting.

There isn’t a whole ton going on around here really. Jerrett didn’t have school today, which was cool. It was veterans day so I noted it by telling John “Happy Veterans Day” to which he replied, “That’s today?”. Jerrett’s birthday is tomorrow and I am still kicking and screaming about having a 14 year old. It just CAN NOT be. I’m to young.

Of course, my big milestone birthday is at the end of the month and I’m not excited about that either. 

Anyway, enough. I am tired, I need to go to bed. It’s already past my bedtime!

I write you tonight from Safari, because Firefox 3 has still not addressed the problem of the spell check on the fly problem with Wordpress. Until yesterday, I was blissfully using FF2 on my desktop machine, but I started getting some random wonkiness from one of my FF Add-Ons and when I went to see if there was a new version, I was instructed that I sucked for using FF2 and that if I wanted to use my really awesome add-on, I had to get FF3. Lame-O me forgot about the Wordpress issue and blindly downloaded FF3 - then came on over to post about my stupid face rash and realized I was not being spellchecked - and those of you who know me (meaning, those of you who talk to me on IM) know exactly how frightening that can be.

So, here we are in Safari - because the on-the-fly spellchecking in Safari actually works. Thank you Safari.

Ok, so a few things first, I have a few new favorite songs to share with you, so open your iTunes now and start downloading them.

• Relentless by Jason Aldean - Side note, this song is not only fantastic, he’s hawt. Married, but still hawt.
• Let It Go by Tim McGraw - This song is pretty deep and hits me right there, with regards to the topic we don’t discuss here.
• Love Story by Taylor Swift - She’s a really talented artist and wow her messages are often pretty deep.

Those are my weekend iTunes purchases - I am in the process of compiling a list of great songs I can listen to while driving to California in a few weeks. Oh, I also got the Blue Oyster Cult song that prompts people far and wide to demand “More Cowbell”.

Alright - now on to the ‘Ouch - My face hurts’ portion of tonight’s program. It seems that I might have gotten ahold of something on Saturday morning that caused a catastrophic allergic reaction - and by that, I mean my face puffed up like a puffer fish and my lips started to split open. Now, as I sit here, it feels like my face is going through that 24-hours-after-a-sunburn phase of healing. It feels dry, gross and it freakin hurts!

I ended up taking Benadryl Saturday night in order to try to curb the pain/swelling - I mean, after all, my anniversary was already shot all the heck. Right?

Anyway, I am doing a bit better today I think. My skin feels real rough around my chin and dry - wow, I am scared to open my mouth for fear it’ll crack something and I’ll have a Joker-like opening in place of my normal Brandy-sized mouth.

By the way, so far so good on the medical front - I have decided to change the tag name of the category that contains most of my medical stuff..:)

(I am listening to Relentless right now…Wow, this song moves me…I’m not sure why, but it does (It might be because he’s hawt tho - I will admit that))

I’ll check in later in the week - surely something will happen between now and then that will be blogworthy…I hope…

(I talked to my dad tonight too - which always makes me a little giddy - I miss my dad a lot)

I was sitting here trying to think of what I wanted to write about and I decided that I didn’t really *want* to write about anything specifically. I’m not feeling 100% which kinda makes me worry a bit, because of the new treatment plan I started this week. I’ve had a headache for three days…not something that’s a ton of fun, ya know?

I cooked dinner tonight and it was one of those OMGWHATAMIGOINGTOCOOKWEREALLGONNASTARVE type things…so we had ‘The Kitchen Sink’ for dinner - ground beef, two cans of diced tomatoes, a can of Ranch Style Beans, a box of Mac N Cheese and 2 other quarter filled boxes of random pasta. John said it was great - I’m not so sure. Something was missing and it just might have been the cornbread…but who knows?

So, how about that election? Huh? Talk about edge of your seat suspense the whole night! Jerrett had one of those ‘color the states’ maps for school - and I was telling them as the projections were coming in what color to color each state - we got all the way to the end and realized that some teacher decided to do switch the colors around and the “Blue States” were supposed to be colored red and the “Red States” were to be blue…what kind of craziness is that? I wrote a note and said I was morally opposed to coloring blue states red so we did it the correct way. No one wrote back. 

My dad had a wreck the other morning in Chico (Texas for you non-local folks) - he was sitting in the turn lane getting ready to turn into one of the crushers and a sleeping truck driver rear-ended him going 60 miles an hour. He actually hit him twice - once in the back of the trailer, which made his truck kind of jack-knife-y and then came back and hit him in the back of his tractor. Apparently it did a lot of damage, but I haven’t seen it. Dad is doing ok - they want to keep an eye out for his back pain, but otherwise, he’s ok. We chatted last night and he seemed in good spirits. 

My step-mom had knee replacement surgery last Monday and is doing ok. In fact, she was doing really well there for a while, but seems to have pushed it a bit hard and is now paying the price. I got her a really funny card today that will surely make her laugh! I’m gonna mail it out tomorrow.

John and I are celebrating our anniversary on Saturday - I know what I’m doing - I see to much gray when I look in the mirror, so I have an appointment at 1 to see Rachel. He, on the other hand, will lay around and play video games all weekend I am sure. 

We’ve finalized our plans for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We’re going to go out to Bakersfield to see John’s folks and hang out for a few days. I am looking forward to getting away, it’ll be nice. My birthday is the day after Thanksgiving, so we’ve decided to stay till Saturday - so we aren’t driving back on my birthday. Hopefully while we’re there, we’ll get to hang out with some of John’s close friends, who we always try to connect with any time we’re in close proximity to each other. 

Overall, that’s really it. We’re just hanging out and taking things easy.

It’s been sort of surreal today - thinking about how tomorrow evening, we will be electing our new President and that there is a very good chance that it’ll be the very first African American elected to the highest office in the land. Over the last few weeks I’ve read a lot of different opinions about a lot of different topics…I am thankful every day that we live in a country where we have the freedom to be able to share those opinions…

Today, John said to me, “You know, if Obama wins the election, we’ll be an ‘Obamanation’” - then he couldn’t stop laughing at himself for the funny joke he’d made. I admit, I laughed too. I think I was laughing at him though, rather than at the joke.

Something totally unexpected and kind of Twilight Zone’ish happened today - a friend at work, whom I respect a lot, said to me, “You didn’t accept my friend request on Facebook!” - now, to really know how ironic this is, you’d have to know this friend. He’s about as Anti-Social Networking as they come…to say that I was stunned at his statement would be, well, and understatement. For the record, I did friend him this afternoon - for some reason, I didn’t get the notification from Facebook regarding the request…(In fact, I didn’t get any notifications regarding any of the things that took place last night/today - very strange).

In other news - John made some brownies just now. I can’t wait to eat them

I had to stop writing for a minute (Ok, actually like 10 minutes) while I prepared our Voter Registration Packets so that we don’t have any problems tomorrow when we show up to vote. Our licenses have our old address, even though the States system has our new one…so we’ve gotta take 2 other forms of ID to ensure we’re who we say we are.

I am getting pretty stoked…I can’t wait till tomorrow

Huh?

Scared ya, huh?

I decided to go a bit retro, with earth tones and whatnot. I am keeping the same layout and all, but overall, the look of the place needed some sprucing up, so I sat down this afternoon and knocked this badgirl out, what do you think?

Today was pretty random. We firmed up our Thanksgiving plans and we’re going to be heading out the afternoon of Wednesday, November 26th, to go to California to spend the holiday with John’s folks. This should be fun.

My birthday is the Friday after Thanksgiving, so I’m not sure if we’ll do anything, not that it matters.

Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that this is the same ole place, even with the change of clothes