Remember When Tootsie Rolls Were 1cent?

I'm not your typical 22 year old. Instead of partying and having obscene amounts of fun, I'm lavishly boring. Often times the highlight of my day is watching my 20 lb cat, Trebek, romp around the house; shooting from room to room with short bursts of fierce energy. I tend to be an old soul at heart. I find myself more content with life when it's simple and natural.

I've felt like I was "old" ever since I was 10. I'm not sure if that is difficult to understand because, honestly, it sounds natural to me. When I was 16, I felt like I was in my 20's. Now that I'm actually in my 20's I feel like I'm 30. Regularly I find myself thinking "it's not like it used to be" and "whatever happened to..."

The crabby old lady inside me is mildly frustrated with technology lately. Sometimes I just feel like as humans we're evolving too much for our own good. Here's my unoriginal thought for the day: We are so reliant on internet, computers, iphones, tivo, ipods, etc Everything is so easy, and in the process it's making us lazy.

This is a comic I drew to sum up my thoughts. Enjoy.

QUICK, Pass The Kleenex!

I'm happy to report that I'm alive!!!

This has been the worst cold I've had in nearly 10 years. About 9 days ago it started with the typical runny nose, a day later came the sore throat, closely followed by mucus build up in my airways, and an incessant cough. Unfortunately, I also have asthma. So my breathing was gettng dangerously irregular; especially at night with the cold air.

As of today I felt well enough to go back to work since the cold is gone, but I'm still having airway troubles. It's getting better, so I've kept putting off a visit to the doctors. Personally, it annoys me when people go to the doctors for every little thing. A cold? Come on, dude. It's not cancer. It's really nothing to worry about; drink water, sleep, take fever reducer, pain reliever, etc. Easy Peasy. If some of these hypochondriacs would stop over analyzing every symptom they have, it might actually free up some appointments for people with REAL problems to get seen at our clinics.

It takes an act of congress for me to set myself up an appointment. I just don't like people giving me information I could have figured out from WebMD and a drug I could have gotten OTC from Walmart. BUT.... having said that, if I'm not better in another 3 or 4 days, I'll go to the doctors. I think.

Despite the sickness, I've been feeling happier lately. It's been a month that I've been taking my meds for Borderline Personality Disorder and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It might be "power of suggestion", but I think things are getting better. I love myself enough to realize: I deserve happiness! And if it takes medication to get there, so be it. I'm okay with that. :)