Duran Duran - Rio

On the 20th, I’m going back to Pennsylvania to stay with my mom for a couple of months. I haven’t seen her or my brother since March, and it should be a nice break from things. Justin and I have been at eachother’s throats for a while now, it just hasn’t been pleasant. Although that’s not the reason I’m visiting my family, I had this planned for a while but it definitely sped things up. In November we’re going to visit my Nana in Jersey, so that should be nice. I haven’t seen my mom’s family in years.

I can’t wait to see the computer my brother built me (the specs are too rad) and I reeeeally can’t wait to have some normal New York-style pizza – w00t! Oh, if I only had a dollar for every time I mention pizza in a post…

Justin’s been very interested in hockey and Arthur Rimbaud lately – an odd combination for anyone else, but pretty normal for him. He’s been equal parts macho-man and literary maven since we moved here. Although I still can’t forgive him for that time I mentioned David Copperfield and he thought I was talking about that magician guy. I nearly fainted. But I guess not everyone grew up going to the Dickens of a Christmas festivals…

I wish I had more of an interest in blogging and reading others’ blogs, but I’ve stayed away from the internet for the most part these last couple months except for the occasional message board. I’m sure it’ll come back to me. This site needs an upgrade and a new layout, I’m really dreading it.

The Velvet Underground - Heroin

I made this one yesterday, but waited to put it up until I blogged next…. which is right about now. Hopefully everything is in it’s place in all the browsers If you can’t see the new layout, click here. So I’m a big Mariah Carey fan, always have been. My mom would play her debut album back in 1990 (of course it was on cassette, lol) and I’d just sing and sing. I have been obsessed ever since. I once had a Mariah layout on pink-pistol.net also, maybe some of you remember it.

My jeans are getting looser and looser, and I love it! I thought when I started losing weight I would lose some boobage, but maybe they’re here to stay. Apparently my mom gained weight recently so I said we’d walk the dogs together everyday when I go home to visit.

My brother is 28 and he is dating a 42 year old woman. From what I hear, she’s nuts. She says she wants to get married in 6 months, and she asked Joey to move in with her even though they’ve only been together for 2 weeks. It’s unbelievable… but this is the kind of drama I miss when I’m away from my mom’s house. And then, my mom’s boyfriend and my brother got in a fist fight over some stupid shit. This is especially hilarious, because it seems like one of those skits on Jerry Springer… but we don’t live in trailers nor are we morbidly obese, so I guess that’s what sets us apart? So maybe we’d be on Maury, since he’s slighter higher up as far as social classes go

I’ve been watching this show called Little People, Big World on TLC. I watched it maybe a year ago, but not steadily. Now I’m totally addicted to it, it’s just so interesting to me how these people with Dwarfism live (basically like the rest of us). I am such a loser!

Oh man, I just had a scary experience with an antibiotic. I felt like I was getting a UTI (ouch, I know) so I took these pills my doctor prescribed a long time ago. They were expired, but I’d read that medicine is often good way past the expiration date. Well, less than an hour after taking one pill, I suddenly couldn’t breathe. I felt like my lungs “tickled” and my throat closed up and I kept coughing and coughing. I was on the phone at the time with my mom and I was just really surprised that I felt sick all of a sudden for what seemed like no reason. Well then like 2 minutes later, I’m still coughing, and my face starts to burn and gets really hot. I looked in the mirror and my face was bright red with patches all the way down my neck, and was super warm to the touch. Then I just felt an overall “sickness” feeling, like my stomach was upset and I was going to throw up.

I hung up with my mom and called Justin and we figured it must be because I haven’t really eaten anything substantial today, and I had taken the pill on an empty stomach. So I made a grilled cheese sandwich really fast and drank a glass of water. I started feeling a little better, and could breathe again.

Well I just did a search for the drug I took, it’s called Cefaclor, and apparently 10% of people allergic to Penicillin are also allergic to this type of antibiotic. Well, lucky me – I am allergic to Penicillin, and I must be one of the 10% also allergic to this stupid pill. This would explain the hives, the trouble breathing, the itching and the queasy feeling. Yikes!

I actually took these pills just a few weeks ago when I had an ear infection (yeah, I self-diagnose since I’ve had chronic ear infections my entire life). Maybe I didn’t notice a reaction because I was already coughing and feverish?

I am still really scared because the rash is still on my face and now my eyeballs are feeling “weird”… I hope everything is better by morning, because I have to travel for 8 hours on a stupid bus tomorrow

The Strokes - Barely Legal

I’ve been enjoying living at home with my mom for now. It’s been a while since I was in PA and I missed it. On the bus ride here, from Syracuse and down to eastern Pennsylvania I kept thinking how beautiful everything was. Just mountains and hills filled with multicolor trees. If anyone has ever been to the Poconos (if you’re from the New Jersey or the New York metro area, you’ve probably vacationed there lol) then you know what I mean when I say it’s like living in a painting.

I’ve been pretty laid back lately. I carved a few pumpkins and put them on our porch, although we have to take them in before we sleep because little asshole kids steal or smash them. Vandalism and Halloween go hand in hand, haha. I think I’m going trick-or-treating this year, I know I’m 20 but I haven’t gone for like 6 years and I just have the urge. I’ll wear a mask so people won’t know I’m too old. Maybe I can persuade my 28-year-old brother to go with me

I’m actually more excited about the Christmas holiday this year. I love decorating the tree and putting up the lights. As an agnostic, maybe it’d be odd to get so excited over Christmas in another country, but here it’s pretty much a festival for consumerism, not Jesus. Whatever. i told my mother that right after Thanksgiving dinner I’m going to bring up the tree and put it together. I’m that excited lol.

My mom and I just baked chocolate chip cookies and I must have eaten 5 already. I guess my diet resumes tomorrow