Liverpool!

I've been back home in Liverpool, NY now for almost a week. I haven't been home for over a year and a half. And I haven't spent more than a week and a half at home since the summer of 2005 -- so this is a special treat for the summer... I love the town I grew up in, there is no place like it anywhere! This past week I've been checking out the Duke's garden, hanging out with the Torres clan at Onondaga Lake Park, shopping at Wegmans (it is seriously the best grocery store known to man-kind), eating Avicolli's (best pizza ever) and Dinosaur BBQ (a Syracuse specialty), and hanging out with one of my best friends from highschool Tiffany Jane! Tiff is moving with her hub and kids to New Mexico in a couple weeks. I'm glad we get to spend some time together before she heads out West.

While I was in St. Louis, at the City Museum, I spotted the "World's Largest Pair of Underwear" and had to buy it for my friend Jane (its a long story about our adventures growing up)... It was a hit! We cracked up at this lovely pair of humongous undies... Oh, Stuetz and Jane together again!

I've got the itch...

2 days left in my internship, yeah! I can't wait to be done... but that's not the itch I'm talking about.

So, I haven't been feeling well for about a week and a half. Its been kind of miserable -- stuffed up head and nose, headaches as a result. Then I was prescribed some medicine (from my dentist -- so it had nothing to do with original illness). After taking Amoxicillin for about 24 hours my original illness was feeling much better, I was able to breath better, the headaches were going away, the pressure was going away.... and then... I started itching uncontrollably. I didn't think anything of it, I mean, sometimes you just have to itch your wrists. Then my entire body started itching and burning. It is seriously one of the most uncomfortable feelings I Have ever experienced. I couldn't sleep for 2 nights straight because my feet were burning and itchy. I seriously couldn't figure out why I was so itchy-- I didn't have a rash or anything. Then I remembered the duke mentioning that he was allergic to penicillin once, and it hit me: I have inherited alot of unpleasant things from the Duke (squatty legs, stubbornness, etc.), it seems as though I have also inherited his penicillin allergy. You would think that as a 25 year old you would know if you were allergic to something. But I don't get sick often and haven't ever had to have any penicillin-based medication before. Needless-to-say I stopped taking the Amoxicillin and my itchiness went down alot. But it is still here -- my skin is still sensitive to heat and touch and is still kind of itchy. It better go away fast, because its driving me crazy!