Hippo St. Patrick's Day.

Hippo St. Patrick's Day!

I've been awake since 4 am with my cough and this cold has sooooooo much snot and hork, so much more than usual I choke on it and it gets stuck in my throat and it's just sooooo beyond gross. From all the violent coughing I also get a headache, a sore chest and I almost puke. I get coughing "fits" so bad sometimes I can't even catch my breath and my face goes all red and my lips even turn blue and Buddy starts whining and whimpering, worried about me. Isn't he just the sweetest boy? This morning I also had a menthol and eucalyptus steam soak in my bath and I also rubbed a menthol and eucalyptus salve on my throat, chest, and under my nose to clear my congestion and sinus I'm still all sweaty too and we were all delusional with the high fever as well but with me it's hard to tell if it was due to that or just my usual( ha, ha) but it might explain the black Shadow Man I saw lurking in my bedroom the other night. We also ruled out Covid as my hubby passed the "Smell Test"; he could still smell a really bad fart ( probably Buddy's) and I could smell the food cooking as with Covid you lose sense of smell, plus with this we also have  bad coughs and sinus congestion so it's just a really nasty cold.Yesterday and the day before my left shoulder also hurts at the joint/socket at the top as well, likely more arthritis again.

Getting old really sucks.

The 29 YR old was also told by his voice coach that he speaks in "Head Voice" which apparantly is quite rare but is a "gift" for singing and is also blessed with a rare wide vocal range and he can sing high, medium and low, which is unusual; normally you are high or low, and he also said they have "tricks" singing as well; like "fake" consonants", not using full words, faking words, dropping "r" and "g" at the end of words,etc. and it's disillusioning, just like when I went to Universal Studios in Hollywood as a teen and saw all the inside secrets how they make movies and all the special FX and tricks and then all the "magic" was lost and just like everything in life, it's just an illusion and nothing is what it appears to be. It's just so disappointing and sometimes it's better NOT to know the "inside info" and just keep the "magic" alive, just like how I was disappointed to learn TV weathermen really just stand in front of a blank green screen; there's not really any graphics there at all.

I also saw this TV commercial yesterday and I thought it was the most elitist thing ever: it was for an insurance company and they said you can get a discounted rate if you're a university graduate even though I don't know what that has to do with insurance, and even though my mother's been living at the LTC home for 6 months now(I can't believe it's been that long and it's gone by so fast and everyone's much happier now with her no longer living here with us) sometimes I can still almost feel her presence in the house and even imagine I can hear her voice and I just realized as well I can never remember my grandparents(from my father's side) ever show any affection; they never hugged, kissed, or held hands, and they even had separate bedrooms but they obviously must have done IT at least once because they created my father. I never knew my mother's parents as they died when I was really young but she said her family was the opposite; always hugging and kissing eachother even though she never hugged or kissed me.

Kiss me, I'm dead inside.-Green Day