Haha - good point. I should specify that it is aberrant weirdness and not everyday weirdness, but then again what in the heck does that mean?

Oh, my gosh, I just read the above. YIKES!! Sending you the best of healing and well being. Take care of you. I know of a few younger folk who have actually gotten this recently. Healthy healthy healthy! *casts spell*

My partner has chrnoic migraines, and gets headaches that last for months. It is really awful.

When I had my appendix out at 16 my hospital room mate had shingles. She cried from the pain of it. I had no idea what the hell it was. I just kep imagining roof shingles building up in her system. Ack! Feel better.

We have only one...ONE...but it is one smart little mutha fucka. I'll have to revisit your advice. Because we have every possible trap there is and it continues to evade capture. I was feeling super "don't hurt the mouse" humane and what not until we moved into week 2 living with this little rodent. Now I just want it gone.

Oh, I WISH I could even consider building an indoor pool! I don't even have a house. I was just hoping to join one. I imagine the cost would be bracing at the very least. I wonder if those endless pools are all they are cracked up to be.

What is your tattoo idea?

I got rid of shingles by pounding vitamin C, drinking juice and water (no caffeine or alcohol) and taking insane amounts of herbs recommended by an herbologist. 5 days cleared it up. Get thee to an herbal supplement expert.

So, can you get this if you have had chicken pox before then I assume?

That sucks ass man, I feel for ya.

Yeah, this is the wrong month for losing facial hair, but after I get my job then I can go back to a more Viking style.

I had it when I was really young, maybe 4 or 5? Back then parents purposely got their kids infected with it since when you are young you can beat it easily and if you get it when you are elderly it'll kill you.

So my Mom basically exposed it to me, as did all the other parents in my school classes. I didn't even know they had a vaccine for it now.

My Grandma had shingles, but she had it in her 70s? Is it hereditary at all? or random?

As for the Viking...

My beard hair goes wicked fast. I'll shave it to shape the beard and then suddenly a new 5'o clock shadow appears.

I'm like Tim Allen in the Santa Clause, except I'm Yukon Cornelius (aka the greatest prospector in the west) from the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer movie.

Silver and gold decorations on every Christmas tree.

Yukon out.

I was going to say, I've never heard of someone as young as you being diagnosed with it.

Yeah, I figured it was quite common. My family is very medically sound, as my grandfather (Mom's dad) was one of the better doctors of this century (In Who's Who) especially with the work he did at Harvard Med school pediatrics and his invention of part of the mechanical heart. So, my Mom worked for him a bit doing lab work, blah blah blah it runs in the family so she knew what she was doing.

It's so far back to remember I can't remember if they were annoying or not. I remember one instance when I had them and was running around some new building at school but that's it. The rest is blocked. haha

Once you let your hair grow, the hair strands stretch the pores so the skin doesn't itch anymore, my beard never itches (unless you don't comb it of course and your skin gets dry) and actually shaving constantly can cause the exact same skin irritation.

I originally started out with "the goat", and then at college said fuck it and went for the full beard. What I have now is probably not what I'll go with for the rest of my life, or even at my job, but its interesting to say the least to have another look.

Beards are great, they are masculine and awesome. I truly feel bad for all my friends that can't grow one. It's funny for as much as society puts them down in the corporate world everyone loves mine, girls, guys, etc.

Beardism needs to stop as does tattoism.

I just got my interview with Enterprise on Friday btw, sent my "phone conversation email" (yeah I know, makes no sense) in and she called me back 2 hours later to set up a meeting.

So we'll see if I'll be doing this or not on Friday at 1030am. Part of me wants to say fuck all this shit and work at UPS and the other half says this Enterprise bit is better for my resume, looks better for when I eventually leave and do something else.

What to do...what to do..

All I know is I'm going to two hockey games this weekend.

Yeah it is a bit of a drag, especially this close to the end of it all, but it seems to be going into a bright and shinier spot so I will take it.