Turns out, that was quite a fortuitous turn of events, given my recent bout with this rhino-thing. I drank some last night before I went to bed, to see if it would help me sleep. Yeah, it's got Benadryl in it. I can't take Benadryl as a sleep aid because it makes me twitch like a frog on a hot griddle. (This isn't an uncommon reaction, so I'm not worried about it.) But it's also got a nasal decongestant in it, so that helped my clogged up head a bit.
The downside is, it tastes terrible.
After my initial twitchiness wore off, I slept pretty well, but woke up feeling feverish. I'd thought that if I felt better today, I'd go ahead and take the car in for an oil change. That didn't happen.
I spent most of the day huddled under my blanket knitting. I finished the hat I was working on, but even that seemed to take an awful lot of effort.
I think the next had I start will have some sort of pattern to it. I'm getting kind of tired of plain beanies. I might even make a few feminine ones. Granted, most homeless people are men, but there are several homeless women in my friend's area, and they'd probably like something nice, too.
So, there I was in my chair, knitting away and watching Loch Ness on Acorn TV, when I suddenly got a hankering for chocolate milk. Just one problem. I was out of milk. I kept on knitting and watching TV and hankering for chocolate milk. And I kept on not having any milk.
Along about 2:00, I decided I felt well enough to get dressed and go into town. I went all the way to Wal-mart, thinking I could go ahead get all my weekly shopping done while I was there. About halfway through, wandering through the store, I discovered I wasn't feeling as well as I thought I was. It was one of those, "What was I thinking?" moments.
I was thinking I wanted chocolate milk. That's what I was thinking.
I cut my shopping trip short and came on home, where I found this waiting in my mail box.
That's where I went to boot camp, but it isn't even there any more. They closed it down several years ago, and tore everything down. There is a housing addition where it used to stand, near as I can tell. I need to see if I can find a patch for Great Lakes and U.S. Army Signal Center, Ft. Gordon, Georgia, and I'll have all my commands, including schools.
There was something else, but I can't remember....oh yeah! The guy on Ebay accepted my offer! He messaged me and said he'd be happy to sell me just the two records I needed, so now I'll have all but three of my dad's original collection. Those three are my least favorite ones, and the debate is, do I get them to complete the collection or not? I probably will, just for the sake of having them all.
One last thing, if I'm going to keep up this letter writing thing, I decided I needed to stock up on Forever stamps before the post office hikes the price again. I splurged and bought two rolls of 100 stamps.
That ought to last me a while, don't you think?
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