yesterday at lunch (was it just yesterday? i\u2019m starting to lose track of the days of the week now, surely it\u2019s a sign of greater difficulties in my life), i was sitting at panera with P. (Phred) eating some delicious portabella garlic bisque, which i heartily recommend, and my phone rang, and i wasn\u2019t going to answer it, because i don\u2019t like it when others have cell phone conversations while they\u2019re with me, but i looked at my phone and it said WIENERDOG! so of course i had to answer it, because that\u2019s the very first call i\u2019ve ever gotten from the wienerdoggians themselves! so, it was a very fine day indeed! even beyond the excellent company and soup.<\/p>\n
the wienerdogs\u2019 phone number is programmed into my phone because i drive by the wienerdog every day and usually i see mark and\/or rob in there, even though it\u2019s way too early for the lunch hour, but they have to be very very busy i know, unwrapping all the buns, and re-filling the ketchup, cleaning the griddle, making the delicious brownies with frosting (ok, i know they don\u2019t make delicious brownies with frosting, but wouldn\u2019t that be the perfect ending to a delicious wienerdog lunch?), stocking the…stuff, unpacking more…stuff,and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.<\/p>\n
so i drive by there every day and see them, and i programmed their number into my phone because i thought i\u2019d like to drive by and call them as i\u2019m driving by. i don\u2019t think i\u2019ve actually done that yet, but i know i will. someday.<\/p>\n
imagine my surprise, then, getting a CALL from the wienerdoggers themselves. it was mark, who had been READING THIS ACTUAL WEBSITE, and read that i wrote i was slightly annoyed with them, which is why i hadn\u2019t been there in a while, and he wanted to find out what was up, and he said they\u2019d be more than happy to apologize (if it was warranted, of course), and he asked if it was a bad time, and i explained that i was having lunch with somebody, and i said i\u2019d call him back.<\/p>\n
i haven\u2019t called back yet. but i\u2019m going to. but right now, whenever i call anybody, i can only get out about every third word, and it sounds more like croaking than actual human words, and then i have to suddenly hang up very fast because i\u2019m about to launch into yet another epic coughing fit. so i figured we wouldn\u2019t be able to have a very meaningful phone conversation just yet. actually, i\u2019m going to actually go there for LUNCH very soon, except not right now, because i\u2019m basically living on soup.<\/p>\n
tomorrow morning i\u2019m going to go to the school doctor and try to get some really good drugs. i decided tonight that i probably have bronchitis again, because i have no energy and the coughing is slightly horrific and all this must stop. it must stop by TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT THREE FORTY, to be exact, because that\u2019s when i\u2019m seeing HARRY POTTER.<\/p>\n
today i bought six hundred dollars worth of cold medications. last night dad told me about some kind of cold medication, but all the info. he could remember was that it started with a “z.” but then today judith mentioned ZICAM, which i realized must have been the same thing. they both knew about the kind that you inhale, but i found a kind that you spray into your mouth, instead. so far it\u2019s not working. i also got some FISHERMAN\u2019S FRIEND cough drops, but i\u2019m keeping them as a measure only for LAST RESORT (while viewing harry potter) because i know they\u2019re going to taste so vile that they\u2019ll make me want to gag. i also got some sugar-free hall\u2019s cough drops, which are slightly stronger than sugar-free ricolas, but not much. maybe it\u2019s the sugar in regular cough drops that makes them so effective.<\/p>\n
this makes no sense AT ALL.<\/p>\n
going to the doctor. tomorrow morning, bright and early. and it\u2019s not even TEN O\u2019CLOCK YET, and i\u2019m already in bed, and will soon (only in theory of course, it\u2019s highly unlikely that i\u2019ll actually fall asleep quickly even though i\u2019ve been exhausted all day) be asleep, so i\u2019ll get like 10 hours of sleep at least.<\/p>\n
sometimes i feel i\u2019ve spent my life resting up for something. there\u2019s going to be this huge huge thing that i\u2019m going to be faced with, and it\u2019s going to take all these years of sleeping a lot and generally resting more than everybody else i know (except for christine, but she has a legitimate need for lots of sleep, and actually doesn\u2019t even get as much as she needs even though she lays around\/naps whenever possible) to accomplish whatever needs to be done.<\/p>\n
i hope it\u2019s something fun and challenging, not something horrific, like being in charge of everything when everybody else dies from the avian flu pandemic, for example. that would be too much responsibility, no matter how well-rested I may be.<\/p>\n
ok, here\u2019s an even bigger reason why i need to be all better RIGHT NOW – i didn\u2019t want to make you green with envy, but on saturday afternoon, i get to see WICKED. yep, that\u2019s right. again. two times. i\u2019m a very very lucky person. and then, saturday night, i get to see the illinois symphony.<\/p>\n
i didn\u2019t want to make you jealous, but i also didn\u2019t want to mention it in case things fell through. because things have a way of falling through sometimes. and then i didn\u2019t want you to have to feel all SORRY for me because i didn\u2019t get to do all this great stuff this weekend. you can be jealous, but not sorry for me. and i guess you will be jealous, unless you\u2019ve been lucky enough to see wicked, but actually, if you\u2019ve seen it, you\u2019d probably be even more jealous, because when you see it once, you IMMEDIATELY WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN. which is how i felt when i saw it in chicago last may.<\/p>\n
randy told me tonight that i\u2019m much much too sick to go anywhere this weekend, and he\u2019ll have to go see wicked instead. i told him to GO TO HELL. we were at tai pan, and i had a bowl of hot and sour soup. good for when you\u2019re sick. if for some crazy reason you live here in spfld or the surrounding area and you HAVEN\u2019T been to tai pan, you need to go there right away. it\u2019s quite delicious. my parents take people from out of town to tai pan, so if you\u2019re lucky to come here to visit, and if you HAVEN\u2019T been to spfld, well, let me just say ABRAHAM LINCOLN PRESIDENTIAL MUSEUM, you should plan a trip. they\u2019re going to have a holiday exhibit starting right now i think, and i\u2019m looking forward to seeing that.<\/p>\n
ok ok ok, it\u2019s now past ten, and even though i feel it will be pointless, i\u2019m going to turn off the light now.<\/p>\n
all right already,<\/p>\n
november grace.<\/p>\n
p.s. last night i put a vaporizer right next to my bed and turned it on, and i woke up a couple of hours later and the entire top of my covers was TOTALLY WET. not good. i don\u2019t know how to solve this issue. hmm, i wonder if the water could soak all the way through to the electric blanket; would this cause some kind of electrical fire or something? because it would be a big drag to wake up because my electric blanket had exploded and caught fire.<\/p>\n
hopefully this won\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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