Friday, January 25, 2008

I’m Alive!

...and I can breathe, and I’m no longer going through Puffs w/ Lotion at an alarming rate.  It was truly the world’s most disgusting cold.  I learned how to use a Neti Pot (not nearly as gross as you’d think, and it worked really well to clear out my sinuses, and it was only $10 at Walgreens) and how to blow my nose.  Okay, not really learned, but I have a huge aversion to nose blowing.  I don’t like the sound.  I don’t like the feeling.  I just don’t like blowing my nose.  And frankly, I don’t like you blowing your nose either.  You know, if we’re going to be honest and stuff here.  However, this cold required copious nose blowing.  I zipped through a small box of Puffs w/ Lotion, but then decided I didn’t want to keep going through the wussy little boxes, so I upgraded to the big box.  Finished that one off today.  But today...it only required one nose blow, which made me so very very happy.

I appreciate that you guys, my loyal pals, were concerned about me.  I just felt so crappy and tired that I mostly laid in bed reading or sleeping...or sat at my computer in a daze, reading The Huffington Post’s entertainment section.  Plus, I kept up a bit on the election news.  I’m sad that running a successful campaign for POTUS requires millions and millions of dollars.  That is not how we’ll get the best people to lead us.  It’s too bad that Dennis Kucinich and Bill Richardson had to drop out.  I don’t particularly like what’s left.  Of the three front-runners, there’s no one who thrills me.  I would gladly vote for Elizabeth Edwards, but unfortunately she’s not the Edwards running.  I think she would be a terrific president.  I will vote for the Democratic candidate, but I hope that Hillary (I think she might win) or Barack will pick Bill Richardson as a running mate.  He’s the only one with real experience.  If Michael Bloomberg enters the race and has a good chance of being elected, instead of being a spoiler, I might consider voting for an Independent.  If Mike Huckabee is elected, I promise you that I will do everything that I can to move to Canada.  He’s a very charming and witty wingnut, and I think that if he’s elected (hey, people voted for Bush...TWICE, ugh - they should all send out apologies to the rest of us with their yearly holiday letters), the country will keep pushing their religious “values” on the rest of us, and being gay, that’s a frightening prospect.  Anyway, I was sick and didn’t do much of anything.  I didn’t even watch any tv, except for hockey and the football playoffs last weekend.

I’m still in the final throes of the cold, as it’s one of those colds that doesn’t want to let its claws out of you, so you get better in baby steps.  I’ll write more later today or tomorrow about something hopefully more interesting than my phlegm.  Although, it’s now coming out in neon colors, so it’s hard to beat that for fascinating, but I’ll try.

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1. Welcome back!  I missed you.  I think I’ll get a neti pot the next time i go to the drug store.  I thought it sounded gross, but you say it isn’t, and then I found a youtube video that actually shows how to do it.

   Nancy  on  01/26  at  07:08 AM

2. Glad that you are alive! Be sure to sign the petition to draft Bloomberg at:

   http://draftbloomberg.com

   There’s quite a bit of info about him there, as well.

   Cheers,
   BobR

   Bob Roth  on  01/26  at  09:41 AM

3. Hey Flippy!
   We’re fightin’ the cold, too...the kids more than me. I’m too busy to be sick right now.
   SO funny about nose-blowing. I HATE it...but it is a necessary evil sometimes. My mom would ALWAYS yell at me when I was young about not blowing my nose. One of my biggest pet peeves: people who blow their noses in class...especially a QUIET class. YUCK.

   Retro Bakery  on  01/27  at  07:12 PM

4. Thanks, Nancy.  Yeah, it’s strange how not gross the Neti Pot is, although you do have to blow when you’re done to get all the water...and, uh, extra snot out.

   BobR, since it was a fairly innocuous spam, I’m going to leave it up.  I don’t think Mike Bloomberg is going to be swayed by any online petitions, but I appreciate the effort that’s going into the petitions and the websites to recruit him.

   Kari, but that’s kind of good that you have the colds now, so you can get them out of the way before you open.  No one wants a snotty cupcaker creator.  I remember when I was little and my mom would hold a Kleenex up to my nose and demand, “Blow.” I guess now that I think about it, my parents aren’t big nose blowers either.  It makes sense that their kids aren’t either.  I have one brother who blows more than the rest of us, but he has allergies, so it looks like we all reserve blowing until it’s absolutely necessary.

   And that concludes my delightful nose blowing comment.  Whoo hoo.

    on  01/28  at  12:54 AM

5. And, I appreciate your support of the movement.

   Sincerely,
   BobR

   Bob Roth  on  01/29  at  07:06 AM

6. Very, very glad to see that you have bounced back. And I’m with you on Elizabeth Edwards.

   laurie  on  01/30  at  09:56 AM

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