As we begin the fourth year of this blog, I look like this:

Hot, huh? This is the result of some overzealous yard work on Sunday. I was soooo happy to finally be working in the yard again! Somehow, I picked up a strain of poison ivy so virulent that I’m thinking of calling the CDC. I must be seriously allergic to this stuff. My arms look like something out of a zombie movie (actually very similar to what happens to infected people in Tarantino’s Planet Terror). How it got to my face, I’ll never know. But even BETTER, it helped bring about my favorite ailment of the past two years – hives. The hives are a rash; little bumps and welts that quickly cover anywhere on your body (anywhere!). For me – it comes from stress, so I used to get this every time I went back to Kuwait. If you don’t think your mind can totally screw with your body, just go watch David Cronenberg’s The Brood again. The mind can do freaky shit to you.

So, yeah… Fifty, unemployed, swollen and itchy.

good times… good times

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