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So I was sitting here poking at the internet, with my right leg curled up underneath me as usual. I decided I was hungry and ready to cook dinner, so I got up, and oh! My leg! It was asleeeeeeep.

No problem! This happens alllll the dang time. At least daily. It's the hazard of sitting on my legs like I always do.

So I step towards the kitchen. Only, I can't feel my right leg below my knee. Huh, I hate when that happens. Oh well, sally forth!

Oh, what's this? My foot didn't actually move? It just flopped when I lifted my leg to step forward? Well, that certainly is a problem.

And that's when I tripped over my toes, twisted my ankle awkwardly, and landed hard on my knee. Let out a high-pitched yelp, too, like I always do when I surprise myself with injury.

Then I laid there on the floor for a minute, sort of wallowing in the "owwwwwwwwwww"ness of it all. Tesla came over and licked my forehead, and gave me a sort of "why are you on my floor?" look. Thanks, Tesla. So helpful.

I ended up not cooking. I sort of limped around my kitchen and heated up some frozen manicotti. My ankle still hurts. I'm gonna have a nice bruise on my scraped-up knee, too. Stupid toes. Always getting in the way. They are soooo not getting a Christmas card this year.


(I'm feeling a lot better today, except for the ankle and knee)


edit: To add to the gracefulness that is ME, I just squirted apple juice up my nose. Smooth, indeed.

The doc gave me meds. Yay meds!

Nothing is infected yet or anything, just all icky from drainage (YAY ALLERGIES) so I got some nose spray and Magic Mouthwash. It's equal parts Lidocaine, Maalox, and Benadryl. The lidocaine I understand... it numbs my mouth and throat. The benadryl helps with allergies if I swallow it, that makes sense, too. But Maalox? I do not have the heartburn. But whateva, it makes my throat all numb and happy. I also got some OTC generic claritin.

(I do not swallow the stuff, though. Benadryl knocks me the heck out. As in, I took some early one afternoon and was still feeling woozy the next day. I do not like Benadryl.)

I ended up leaving work early and crashing till about 7. Apparently just gargling liquid benadryl is enough to make me woozy. It was fun. I'm about to gargle some more and maybe go to bed again. I'm tired enough, from the all not-sleeping I did last night.

I do not like that this is making my ear hurt, too. That makes me nervous. I do not want more ear infection fun! NO THANK YOU.

For dinner I had plain noodles with a little butter and salt and pepper, and my throat was happy. Then I baked some chicken from my freezer, and my throat was really happy. Mmm. Warm food on a sore throat is awesome.

Mmmmm. Bed sounds amazing. I think I will go there.

edit: For the record, while the Magic Mouthwash smells exactly like cherry Twizzlers, it does not taste like twizzlers at all. It instead tastes like gross.

My head hurts. I've had this headache all day. It's the kind of headache that is not a migraine because it's not technically incapacitating you, but it's both stabby and dull throbby so it may as well be because I'm useless. Neither Excedrin or Ibuprofen did anything. Boo hiss.

I think it's an exhaustion headache. I've come in early every day this week, and stayed late twice. I'm pretty pooped. I'm going to steal Firefly from Megan tonight (dad still has mine, and hasn't watched it yet. Jerk. Claims he's "busy", "opening a multi-million dollar facility". Whatever.) and just veg, I think. I'm tired.

Also, gmail is not working here at work. This is lame.

Just an hour and 45 minutes left! I can make it, I think I can, I think I can.

I went to the dentist today.

POSITIVE: One of the cavities was only pretending to be a cavity. When she started drilling, it "fell off". I do not know how this is possible, but it didn't need a filling so it's a-okay by me.
EXTRA POSITIVE: I only had to pay for one filling today, not two!
POSITIVE: I don't look like I'm got food permanently stuck between my teeth!
EXTRA POSITIVE: The four smaller ones don't have to be done all at once. In fact, I could do them one at a time if I wanted to, as I get the money. This is very handy.
NEGATIVE: The novocaine is wearing off, and OW. The cavity they DID fill was on the side of a tooth, so they had to use a wedge to force the two teeth apart so they could get at it. Now both teeth are really sore from being shoved around like that.

Overall: Positive!

But really, after the orthodontist I had, dentistry is nothing. Once, he told me he was taking a bracket off a baby tooth so it could get loose and fall out, and instead pulled the whole tooth out. It hadn't even started to get loose yet. And of course, since he was an orthodontist, not a dentist, there was no novocaine or funny gas or anything. It HURT, and I was really mad at him for lying to me abut the bracket. Jerk.

On a completely different note, lookit what I did. I still don't know where the idea came from.

I fell asleep flat on my back last night, and today my back is stiff and the muscles are all like "whaaaaaaaoooooaaaa" and oh geez my neck. My neck muscles don't hurt, exactly, but they are threatening. I can feel it if I move my head certain ways, the muscles say "Hey, watch it lady, another millimeter and we'll make you SUFFER the rest of the day" in a loud, menacing chorus.

I want a giant heating pad for my whole back. Oh, that sounds so lovely. I wonder if anyone has one. HR lady is over here, I'll have to ask her.

Be proud! I called the dentist and left a message so I could make an appointment to get some of my cavities filled. I figure I'll do the two biggies first, and start paying those off, and then think about the four small guys.

Ok, off to find a heating pad.

edit: Victory! I found TWO heating pads, plus Icy-Hot patches. I've got Icy-Hot on my neck, and the big heating pad on my back, and oh it is wonderful.