Have you ever had so much mucus in the back of your throat that your gag reflex was sounding the alarms all day long? Because that has been my existence on this fine Sunday!
I don’t really feel sick per se, except for the five or six minutes I spent heaving globs of phlegm into the sink after I woke up this afternoon. It’s more annoying than anything. I hope it clears up before I go to work tonight.
“Hey Brick, why is there a bottle of mana potion on your webpage?” Good question, hypothetical inquiry. That’s one of the first images that pops up on a Google image search for “curacao liquer”, an unnaturally blue and unnervingly syrupy alcoholic beverage I had about three shots of on Friday night. I only bring this up because early Saturday morning before I left the game I had a very sudden and very inexplicable fit of intense nausea that is peripherally related to my current state of mild illness.
Was it the drink? I don’t know. It might have also been the pepperjack cheese or the proximity to my friend’s pet squirrels. Correlation doesn’t necessarily equal causation. Nonetheless, next time someone hands me a glass of pineapple juice and Windex I will be sure to politely decline.
Ever helpful in the quest to get my throat cleared, Peanut suggested I gargle salt water. I maintain she was playing a mean practical joke on me. Putting salt water directly into my mouth is one of the most uncomfortable experiences I have ever had in my life. Would it have worked? I don’t know, but I can safely say the cure is worse than the disease. After I made it clear that I was not willing to torture myself so she went and got me a Halls cough drop. That worked like a charm.
I’ll try not to think to hard about why she might have started with the salt water. I know she likes to see me suffer… I don’t want to know why.
Anyway, vlog tomorrow. Unless I’m a big fat liar again. (Which is totally possible.)
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Salt water breaks up mucus like nobody’s business, I’ve found, though I’m more surprised by the revelation that a bit of salt water is the most uncomfortable experience you’ve ever had, and you used to handle pee for a living. Have you seriously never been to the beach, Rick? You live in Florida.
@Merus: Well it’s not like I used to DRINK the pee. I mean, if that were the case then this whole salt water nonsense would have been the SECOND most uncomfortable experience ever.
I went to the beach once. Didn’t see much point in ever going back. It’s there if I want it, I guess.
Blue curacao is like 15% alcohol by volume, so those three shots were equivalent to about one shot of, say, whiskey.
What I’m saying is, I blame the squirrels.