If your a long time follower of me, you will know that I have an STD called HPV. I was diagnosed with the disease earlier this year, which was sadly the day after my birthday. Since then I have had 4 operations and two weeks worth of Aldra Cream, Aldra Cream is a very expensive cream and can be highly dangerous if used incorrectly. There is good news today however, I went back for my checkup earlier this afternoon, the doctor had a look and checked out the surrounding skin and told me they were all gone and the skin looks fully healed. They can still come back, HPV is an incurable disease, but it is unlikely they will return but if they do in the future I am now equipped with the proper knowledge of how to quickly deal with them.

I can't explain how this feels, knowing that I'm "Back to normal" as it were. Even though they were just butt spots, it doesn't matter, just to know that they are gone fills me right up. The doctor told me that I as the disease is not a life threatening one and more of a nuisance, that I should not feel obligated to tell anybody I choose to sleep with that I have it. But I should always use protection, which is a good thing that came out of this whole thing. I will now always use it, no matter how well I know the person, I'm not just looking out for myself anymore, I'm looking out for others.

With all of this coming to a close, last week I sat down and had a good long think about how my life is doing and what I need to do to advance it. Since then I got myself a bike and started riding on the road, I'm doing this to get used to being on the road, as soon I hope to start driving. I'm never really been interested in driving, but as I get older I want more and want to travel a bit out of my localness. I have also started putting in double the amount of money into my savings account, so now each month I will put £300 into my savings account + what is left at the end of the previous month. I'm still keeping up going to the gym, there have been a few sessions where I think I would so much rather be at home right now, but it does me good and I've started to make some nice friends there. I'e started going to swimming again, especially with my bike its now much quicker to get there.

Video games seem to have taken a back seat, I have found myself not playing too much of them, I had my day off this past Monday and spent zero time playing video games. It felt good to go and do other stuff, but some part of me felt bad. I hope to get this back on track soon and finish up Sleeping Dogs, which by the way is a great game, really enjoying my time with it. I also finished up New Super Mario Bros 2, which is not so great, kind of meh. If you don't know I'm also taking part in Extra Life, so far I've made £30 unofficially, but nobody has donated anything yet. I'm bot going to beg guys for donations, but if you donate anything to me I will send you a personal thank you message. If you want to donate you can find me here.

So thats all, I'll be tuning into The Big Live Live Show Live tomorrow, I hope the rest of you join me in celebrating Giant Bomb.