ooh, a warm compress sounds lovely. Since I’ve had pain and a low grade fever for more than a week, and ‘stuffiness’ for a better part of a month, in additions to whatever horrors one saw when he looked in my ear, my doctor has me on antibiotics. Hopefully they give it a good running and kick it.

yeeeepppp.

I have an ear infection as an adult which is profoundly...odd. I mostly feel like my ear is full of cotton, then wrapped in cotton and somehow not attached to my head. But yet painful. I haven’t had an ear infection since I was a kiddo, so I don’t remember if this is what they’ve always felt like?

Oh no. I’m trying to kick an ear infection and it’s just rubbish. Stay hydrated!

I guess this is what a royal does as pearl clutching? Since pearls are so...basic, you have to pull out the racist jewels when you are bothered by possible ‘spoiling’ purity and blood lines and waxing nostalgic about colonialism.

It’s so bad. There’s a handful of people at work who only will get dunkin, despite the 45 amazing coffee options in a three block area.

I still every so often remember the abject sadness of one of my former coworkers that she didn’t get raptured. She was just so...disappointed. Overtly.

I’m convinced there is some sort of conspiracy happening amongst the Dunkin Donuts in Southeast Pennsylvania as every one I have every been to here has TERRIBLE coffee, like they are using half of the grounds they are supposed to. It looks like lightly brewed tea and tastes like...not coffee.

Hah! It is quite...unique, apparently, but my father is similar. So anything that comes with any of those ‘may cause drowsiness!’ ‘don’t drive a tractor trailer!’ warnings I have to take half first and see from there. I suppose the opposite of red heads and the need for extra anesthesia?

Darn it. I accepted Aldi as acceptable ‘discount’ grocery store because I figured as German company they probably sucked less in the ‘screwing over employees’ part of corporate land. The Aldis in Germany always seemed up and up, unlike many American discount groceries which are like ‘ehhhhh, what am I buying?’

And then some. Nancy Reagan would disapprove of me, and thus I feel it was a successful year.

I was living in Berlin pretty much cut off from regular internet, drinking WAAAAYYY more Becks than is good for any person and ALSO had side swept bangs and questionably blonde hair.

I’m in love with Hazel’s simultaneously very sincere, but very ‘I’ve got this, I’m coool, yeahhhhhhhh’ expression while distinctly embracing/cuddling a Torah (capitalized?). I don’t know why it amuses me so, but it does.

And why is the person with white legs have such uneven leg lengths?

I have to be VERY careful with medications/supplements like that. I tend to be on the ‘gets messed up’ end of the spectrum. I take a half a children’s benedryl and I’m out for six hours. My blood/brain barrier is seemingly extra porous.

Oh my god, Illuminations had the BEST wisteria candle. THE. BEST. How I conned my mother into spending so much money in that store is beyond me.

I hoard their balsam and cedar candles every year. I want my house to smell like Christmas tree all year round and no other fir or christmas tree candle I’ve ever had has managed it as well as the Yankee Candle one.

My doctor suggested starting at the lower mg and increasing until you find a balance. It’s not addictive, you can stop whenever you want, but it does take a couple weeks to kind of get your system regulated, so the first few days you may not notice a difference.

I mean, I’m not a functional alcoholic, I’m not running around having taken my lexapro and having drunk three gin and tonics. Because I’d feel....bad. To put it lightly.

Only if I took too much. I take 3mg about an hour before bed, and that seems to be the proper amount for me. When I felt 3 mg wasn’t working, and then took 6mg. That made me feel groggy during the day. The smaller amount gets me to sleep, and doesn’t have weird morning ‘oh my god why’ feelings of having been not awake…