Terrifying

An owl swooped low as if to grab Bug on our walk last night.  I used to make jokes about eating him all the time. Those jokes are not that funny anymore.

Destination Failure

Yesterday I got my first 20,000 steps.  (For those of you that don't know what this means - most of my family is walking around with pedometers these days.  If we get a certain amount of steps we get points.  After so many points we get cash from our insurance company.  It's neat. Getting 20,000 steps equals about 8 miles.)  I thought this epic moment would at least put a dent in the family challenge but I'm still in the bottom.  Which causes me to wonder... how many steps a day do the rest of you average?   I'm at about 9,000... which I thought was decent... but I've also gained a substantial amount of weight since my salmonella days.
On that note - Anybody want to challenge me to a weight loss competition?  See who can loose the highest percentage of their weight by Thanksgiving?  eh?  Lemme know if you're interested.

Last weekend Potato and I went to Chicago to relive the days spent with J. Temperature.  It was a grand ol' time.  I have trouble planning my weekends in Chicago because I difficulty sharing my time with friends and family.  For the first time in a while I felt like I did a good job dividing up my days and evenings.  I'm still dying to back to The Rail for their bloody mary special.  I suppose there's always next time.
There have been a few people mentioning upcoming visits.  I think the fall is a great time to come.  The drive is exceptionally pretty and there's a lot to do here.  If you are looking to party and meet some of our friends I recommend the weekend of the 23rd.  Otherwise just about any other weekend would do besides the 1st of October.

My work schedule is currently pretty horrible.  I've been applying to jobs on occasion but I think I'm going to start doing it a lot more often.  Baby has been pretty cute lately.  She's very close to walking and is constantly blabbering.  Her first birthday is coming up next week.  One of her professional athlete uncles bought her a baby grand piano (for babies).  She loves banging the hell out of that thing.  It's pretty funny watching her try and beat up what I'm sure was a pretty expensive gift.

All right.  I'm off to do some laundry.  It's funny - the weekends I have no plans going into always end up being the busiest.

Oh, and here's a picture of Buggy.

Phone blogging

It has been a while since I had a real post. This is for a few reasons. First - I moved. I now live with Potato, Bug, and two girls in Potato's program. I haven't lived with girls before but, so far, I think I like it better.
The second reason I haven't posted anything interesting is because I was recently robbed. Somebody (we assume with a key) came in and took my computer, cash, Potato's phone, and a bottle of raspberry vodka. If you remember from conversation or earlier posts - my computer was pretty broken. I had stepped on it a long time ago and the screen got all messed up. The vodka is the thing that really stands out as being weird to me. This is because I have a couple of nice bottles of wine and raspberry vodka is gross. I've had that bottle for about a year now so it's not much of a loss.
The computer situation is no longer a situation because my family is awesome and bought me a new one. I'll be picking it up later today and I can't wait.
I'm hoping this week goes fast. Kstillz is coming to visit (for the second time) on Thursday. It's going to be amazing.
Overall I'd say things are picking up.
I'll be posting more when I don't have to type things out on my phone. Stay tuned and ignore the typos for now.

I can't wait till I'm done moving

Anybody want to come visit/bring me my dresser, push mower and fire pit?  eh? eh?

I am a loser

Potato was excited to see that Mad Men is on available on instant view. I was far more excited to see that the X-Men cartoons are on instant view. I think there might be something wrong with me.

Beware the BBQ

It's 2AM and I'm up scratching the hell outta chigger bites.  I would post a picture but I hate it when I'm searching for something (generally medically related) and the most nasty pictures come up.  So I wont do that to my readers. However, I will mention that a common remedy is applying nail polish on the bite.  I don't have clear polish so I used hot pink.  Now my bites look far more amusing and harmless than they actually are.  I'm actually amazed to see how many can fit on my child-sized feet (around 34).
For the record - I didn't even know what a chigger was before I moved to EL.
Hope the Benadryl kicks in soon.

*edit-
Because I'm still in pain, I refuse to write two posts about chiggers, and Potato is getting tired of my complaints I felt I needed to add on to this entry.
Chigger bites are the worse. It's like when you have a mosquito bite that has reached its peak of itchy but that maximum strength itch never goes away. Or at least, it doesn't go away until you go into a Benadryl induced coma... Which is where I'm headed. Night night.

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I'm finally getting a pedometer. Watch out Kevin.
Ps- thanks for ignoring my happy bday phone call butthead. Many f'ing happy returns. See you on the 15th to celebrate.