I went to lunch with my dad today. After we ate, he got an extra large Chocolate Mousse Royale shake from Baskin Robbins and offered to buy me one. I exercised my willpower and said no.
I officially consider today a good day.
That’s all it takes, really. The powers of the Earth had to align just right for me to pass on a Baskin Robbins shake, so I figure good things must be coming today. I hope anyway.
These good things will NOT coming from my nose, however. I’ve been snotting all over my self all week. It’s not only disgusting, but quite honestly embarrassing. I thought I was going to have to excuse myself while we were on The Date this weekend because I could see major snot bubbles in my future. Thankfully for me (and everyone within snot flinging range) everything remained under control.
I went to the pharmacy this weekend to try and shake these snots. Oh- that brings me to a side post!-
Did you know you can get just about ANYTHING you freaking EVER wanted at a pharmacy in Kuwait without a prescription!?! I’M NOT FREAKING LYING.
Sleeping pills? Check.
Birth Control? Check.
Antibiotics? Check.
Allergy Medication only sold with a prescription Stateside? Check.
I left the pharmacy with a nice little candy bag of allergy cure-alls. Only they haven’t worked all that well. I’m shoving odd objects up my nose and squirting strange liquid up there- that is, when I actually make it in my nasal cavity. The first day I shot myself right in the freaking eye. Those pumpers are sensitive!
I’m choking on snot all night, guys (yeah, I did just go there). It’s pretty sick.
I just don’t handle snot well. Want to know a secret? I couldn’t even blow my nose very well until high school. High School guys!! That’s pathetic. Anyway, I still hate blowing my nose in public. I think it’s the most embarassing thing ever, mainly because I don’t think I’ve ever in my life had a good, clean nose blow. There’s something always hanging, or I feel the need to shove a tissue up my nostril… it’s really a sad sight. You would totally disown me. I decided that this snot crap has to stop.
I figured I’d clean my office area a little. We’ve had some bad sand storms the last few days and our entire office has been coated in sand (hmm… and I wonder why I can’t breathe well!!...). I pulled the filter out of our AC unit and was astounded. It was covered in dirt- just waiting to filter through the air vent and cling to my ski slope nose, causing all sorts of havoc. I wish I had my camera, you wouldn’t believe it. Apparently the filters get like this on a weekly basis out here (yeah, I’m a genius. I live in the desert and didn’t stop to think maybe, just maybe, I should clean our air filter). Let’s cross our fingers that a clean filter cleans my nose woes, because if not- I’m about to become a hazard.
You might want to buy an umbrella. My next sneeze is headed westward.
More to come…
(^ non-snot related, I promise)
Hope it clears up soon and that the clean filter (again, ew) makes everything breatheable again.
Too funny. THe pharmacy thing reminds me of the snowbirds that come from Mexico to stay in the seasonal campground. The ones who stay in either Mexico or TX are just plain mad when they have to ge a prescription up here because down there they can get like case quantities of medication (in Mexico) for what they pay for one freaking bottle up here.
If it makes you feel any better I’ve been cleaning our a/c filter almost on a weekly basis due to the dog and cats shedding. . .But I haven’t become a pile of snot (Yet). Hope you feel better soon!