The fingertip pain is the reason I gave up on guitar lessons. I realized I didn't actually want it that much!

Jilli, I'm glad the brain fog is gone! May you find the cause of the welts soon. And may it be not gluten!

Good luck with the sale, Laga!

Laga, I highly recommend Freecycle for making everything left over disappear.

Liese, no oops! Only awesome!

Begone to the BIDs!! Leave Pix be!!

If you ever want to talk about it, I'm here.

Aww, thanks. I mean, he was already in bed and doing work reading, and lives about 20 min across town. More like a raincheck than a diss. I'm well aware I may end up getting my heart broken worse than I ever have before, but I'm just kicking that can down the road a bit. I procrastinate everything else, why not heartbreak? So far, he's still worth it.

Play through the pain, Zenkitty!

Sorry, Liese! I'm more of a piano girl, anyway.

Okay, I will accept that.

Jilli, yay on the medical progress, boo hiss on the welts! Hope you target the source soon.

Might the welts be tied to one of the medications you're on? Have you tried Benadryl?

omg, that kind of making out is soooooo awesome. We hardly ever do that anymore but I have the fondest of memories about early on activities of that nature. I agree you need it after this week. Hope you are doing ok.

It was pretty awesome. I hope to do it again soon.

I'm doing better. I still look for him everytime I come home. Nights are hard. I've been avoiding coming home at night. The good thing is that I'm doing 2 shows right now so I stay pretty busy with rehearsals.

Today was rough. I cleaned his litter box and went through his toys to throw away the ones that are really torn up. I put everything I wanted to keep in his carrier and put it away. I know I'll get another kitty eventually so I don't want to throw it all away.

I loved waking up to some guitar tips! That was awesome!! Thanks!! Yes, I was fully aware of the sore fingertips going into it. I tried to teach myself in high school, and failed miserably. It's that "I wanna be able to play that tune NOW!" syndrome, not the sore fingertips thing. So, I just have to work through that, and be happy with baby steps, and know that I will probably never be all that great, as long as I have fun. Plus, I'm hoping it helps give my hands something to do in the evenings aside from stress/boredom eating that I've seem to be doing a LOT these past few months. Last night I did the couple lessons on the iPad. Put it down for awhile, ate dinner. Then later on while watching tv, I just played around on it, not trying to PLAY anything per se, but working on finger strength to push the strings down all the way and NOT lean on other strings, and just general pushing my fingers into the strings to try and get them conditioned.

Pix, glad I was in your dream, wish it was something happier. I think we'd welcome a flood of applicants, given we only have 3 to choose from this year. Until I leave the academic world, then I'd probably hate all the extra competition.

My poor D. He loses his fingertip calluses, and then he'll get on a jag and has to deal with sore finger until they build up again -- and he works on a keyboard all day.

He's got a bass, a resonator and...another guitar shaped instrument. I'm trying to get him to hang out with another of our guitar playing friends to be more social and to do it more often.

Guys are often weird. They seem to think making a date to do something together is like, a DATE. So strange.

do you think this is something external to you? might you have a wool or detergent sensitivity (for example)?

There isn't anything I can think of. Of course, until all of this started up, I would have blithely said I didn't have any allergies at all.