Yesterday I was still feeling gross so in the car after work I gave myself a stern talking to. I decided it was a mind over body thing and told myself I would feel better. My body must have chuckled and said, 'oh yeah? you think it's that easy? You just wait.'. I went to the gym and did a light work out and I did feel better. That lasted until 1:30am when my body decided to show me who was boss. I woke up coughing, as I have for the past week, but this time I couldn't stop. I did everything I could think of. I drank a whole glass of water. Did the gross clearing of my throat thing. Spit. Used multiple kleenexes. You get the picture. I still could not stop coughing. You know what finally worked? gum. Nothing like sitting on my couch at 2am chewing gum and watching cold case files. I finally went back to bed but didn't want another coughing conniption so I did something I haven't done since the Hubba Bubba incident of 1981*, I went to sleep with gum in my mouth. It did the trick I as able to go back to sleep without coughing too much and I didn't wake up with gum in my hair.
*Once when I was about 4 or 5 I decided I wanted to save my grape Hubba Bubba (or was it bubbalicious?) for the next day so I went to sleep with it in my mouth. I woke up in the middle of the night and it was no longer where it was supposed to be. I'm sure it wasn't this extreme, but I remember not being able to move because the gum had gotten all over and I was trapped in a bubble gum spider-web like thing. I had to yell for my mom to come & get me out. The next day after trying multiple washings and even peanut butter she had to cut some of it out of my hair. Luckily my dorothy hamil cut didn't suffer too much. That taught me a lesson about sleeping with gum that stuck until last night.
Well, I guess we know who's boss around here. Glad the gum thing didn't end in disaster. When I was little I always had short boy-cut hair and I HATED IT. Especially since my cousin (who to this day is prettier than me, but that's a whole psychiatrist session in itself) had long beautiful hair. But I distinctly remember being allowed to chew gum when she wasn't, cause I had no hair to get it stuck in. HAHA, score one for ugly chicks :)
Posted by: Vicki | April 15, 2005 at 10:07 PM
I bet you never tried to JUMP-ROPE with bubble gum....
Posted by: Meredith | April 18, 2005 at 12:25 PM