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have you ever taken the time to read the chloraseptic directions or label? well, me neither until yesterday. and i must say, i was shocked by two things:

1. Apply to affected area, allow to sit for 15 seconds, THEN SPIT OUT!

what? you’re supposed to spit it out? who knew that? i had no idea! (and admittedly, even after reading the directions, have still not been doing this)

2. Do not use more than two days.

What? And can i take a day off and then use it for two more days? i find this confusing.

who knew that throat numbing spray was so complicated? certainly not me!

So, as my not sleeping well reaches it’s 3rd day, my mental sharpness is fading fast. While not feeling sorry for myself today over my sickness, just irritated, I nearly created a need to visit the emergency room this morning.

I was up at dawn (okay, 9 am, but to us night shift workers, that’s dawn) and decided to soothe the sore throat with a nice strawberry/banana smoothie. Okay, good so far. Then I make said smoothie uneventfully and it’s not until I start to wipe out the base of the Magic Bullet (great invention) with a paper towel while it’s still plugged in that I create a problem. Yes, this genius almost magic bulleted her own fingers. The blades started spinning and luckily didn’t hit my fingers. This is sheer luck as my reflexes are basically non-existent in this sleep deprived/benadryl haze that i’m currently living in.

So, i’m currently feeling quite lucky to be in possession of all my fingers. And hey, isn’t that a good thing? Can’t you just picture me hacking my fingers to bits in the magic bullet and then having to make my sad and lonely and bloody way to the nearest emergency room? I can picture it quite clearly. And then I’d have to call poor meghan to come and get her crippled friend. Yep, I nearly had a really great day! One can only hope this was not a sign of things to come.

After reading over yesterdays sad little blog post, I am at least able to recognize how pathetic i sounded. And while upset over the breaking of my china town cheap sunglasses, I’ve had them for 9 months. That’s like eternity in china town cheap terms. It’s really quite impressive. Luckily, mom and dad and i are headed to china town later this week and i can get some new cheap sunglasses.  

Nurses: let’s take a minute to talk about the pointlessness of a dry cough. I’d feel fine about my cough if it was accomplishing anything for me, however, a cough just for the sake of a cough is silly. I don’t get it and I don’t like it. It’s not getting anything out of my lungs or moving anything from my nose, it’s just bothering me. Is that the point? Stupid dry, non-productive cough!

Photo explanation: when maren was getting her hair done for her wedding last summer, there was a picture in a bridal book of a lady wearing her veil as we did above. so, i had maren put her veil like that and we took a picture. then, when marens dress came to our house from the cleaners, meghan and i decided to put on her veil in the same way and take pictures. thanks maren for not being pissed that we took out your clean veil and played with it!

so, i was taking out the trash saturday afternoon and noticed a shadow outside the front door of the building. odd because when i left the apartment just a few seconds earlier, it was nice outside. sudden rainstorm? large person casting a shadow? nope. they put scaffolding up over our apartment. ugh! scaffolding is one of those things that you love and hate. love it when it’s raining and you are protected from the wet. hate it all other times when it casts a shadow over your home and covers your nice brownstone with its ugliness. and i’m also mad that my parents are coming in just a few short days and they will see ugly green scaffoling covering our apartment. stupid manhattan day school construction project that will never end and is quickly becoming the bane of our existence!!!!