Fresh Ink

Okay, so I've been away from blogland for awhile but, my gosh, do you know how much good television is on these days?! Every night of the week my lovely vintage sofa gets to enjoy my butt for a solid 3 hours. From Heroes and How I Met Your Mother to the always alluring Pushing Daises and Eli Stone I simply cannot turn my eyes away from the soft glow of HD greatness. Looks like the combination of viewer ratings canceling shows and the inevitable "winter break" will break this habit for me. Is that lazy?

So many new things have arisen lately and probably too discombobulated to even write about but here are a few big thoughts that have been consuming me when I'm not sucked into the 42 inches of glory (the tv, that is). This past week I've had the worst case of strep throat that I ever remember having. This is the second time I've had it this year but I truly thought that this time was my last, meaning I swear to you that I thought I was going to die. My tonsils were so huge that they were touching even we I wasn't swallowing making breathing, speaking, and oh yeah eating almost impossible. This has let to the heavy encouragement/cattle prodding from my doctor and mother to get my tonsils taken out. This weighs on my mind for two major reasons: One, even though I'm in my mid-twenties I am still a tittybabybunghole when it comes to pain. Two, I'm not sure that it's entirely necessary. In my travels to various foreign countries I've found myself questioning the legitimacy of some American medical practices. More to come on this development.

While in Albania, we were introduced to this website. The whole idea of giving presence over presents is something that I've been wanting for some time now but didn't quite know how to express it until I saw this site. Watch the video clip for a better experience of the whole conspiracy. Wopsle and I have developed our own ideas of how we are going to do this starting by giving our friends and families more of our presence through experiences.  Especially in difficult economic times, the experiences are so much better than the stuff. Concerts, shows, plays, restaurants, games - these are all things we want to return to - living simply.

On another exciting but perhaps contradicting note, we've decided that it would be wonderful for us to spend next Christmas in New York City. This has been a long-time-coming dream for us to go there and we could not be more thrilled to begin planning this trip. 

Honestly, I don't know how often I'll be posting. I want to do more, but I'm not going to get my hopes up by promising myself something that I know may be overtaken by time to watch Lost. So, so sorry.