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are y'all hollerin'?

Are you questioning my patriotism?

oh heavens no. seeking advice. i was going to go on to ask WHAT are y'all hollerin'? cuz i am unfamiliar with the ritual, you see, and i want to do it right.

I generally holler the names of things I see.

MARS BAR

TIRES PLUS

like that

FAT DUDE

COMPUTER SCREEN

got it. thanks for the help, you guys. i really appreciate it.

i'm going to practice inside before i go out into the street.

CLIF BAR

how was that? did i do okay?

GOOD JOB

I'm never any good at this holiday. All I want ever want to holler is swear words.

Wait that makes you aweseome at this holiday, wtf

It is the KIDS thing again. They are always like, "Mommy, you shouldnt' say that..."

A. is not going to correct me, but last week I was swearing about something and he said, "well, I'm never going to lose you in a dark cave, dear."

Otherwise I do rather enjoy the swearing, but I'm sure you knew that.

oh, if hollering swear words is okay, then i don't need to practice at all. i'm going outside now to begin the celebration!

It's too cold out here to go OUT and do it, and yet the weather is the perfect motivation for swearing.

It's a conundrum.

maybe you can holler loud enough indoors for it to be heard outdoors?

Actually, I don't doubt that I can!

3 hour later bump

i am home from new zealand, and very ill, help me itr.

VITAMIN C. LOTS OF IT.

Infinitely better advice than I was going to offer. Do that.

WATER/hydrate.

Avoid diuretics (i.e. alcohol, caffeine)

If you're vomiting a lot, try to get something with electrolytes down (Pedialyte, or maybe Gatorade I suppose)

Get John's advice for cheering lolz, but don't follow it

also estela, I hope you feel better...

thanks all. it's more of an awful cold/headache thing that gastric, though i am a bit nauseous. i always 'avoid alcohol' due to being a giant lush but i have to drink some coffee or the headache will get worse. two days before xmas i discovered i have a painless tooth abscess from a failed root canal and have been taking antibiotics for that so it wouldn't blow up while i was away and they have probably screwed up my immune system. also i burned my arm on the stove on new year's day and it's still very red and sore. all i need to be utterly tragic is a big bandage wrapped around my head and a deep scratch on my face.

omg how awful! I hope that all gets better. I am deathly afraid of dental problems, so that sounds REALLY bad to me.

So if you're having caffeinated coffee, double up on those other non-diuretic liquids. (Nothing like having to make 10,000 trips to the bathroom when you're sick.)

Also: get lots of rest if you can. A solid 12 hours of sleep maybe...

thanks sara

You're welcome; I hope you are sleeping peacefully RIGHT NOW!

HOLY FUCK I'm pretty happy because 2 of my olds's thoroughbreds won this weekend -- a BIG rarity. Also i bet on one of them. Couple of hundys up :):)

Also::Hoping Estela is doing better.

Congrats, W4lter!

About 5 minutes ago, at my house:

Me: Hey, Julia, what are you drinking?

Julia: Water. (pause) Just like old times.

(This probably only seems funny if you know that Julia is FIVE)

commiseration bump

Sunday night and once again I have accomplished ZERO bump

thank you for commiserations sara, walter and stet.

i am feeling quite a lot better today, and my arm seems to be healing though i think there will be some scarring, and on wednesday my tooth will get another root canal so i should be just fine after that. my teeth look nice but they are tricksters.

This is true of all teeth. ;_;

See, now I have fallen ill. ITR HAS THE PLAGUE!

I have a mild cold, but calling it the plague would be pretty extreme.

The tooth thing gets me; I fear and despise dentists. So afraid of having a root canal! Hell, I hate to even get my teeth cleaned. The SCRAPING! I have to go at the end of the month. ;_;

Of course everyone tells me that "root canals aren't really that bad," so maybe I'm just freaked about nothing. estela, I am counting on you to tell the truth here.

omg working at a university during intersession is sooooooo boring bump.

plz join me on my wolfquest

I just got back from picking up a few things at St. Kate's and of course I walk in and check messages: my uniform tops are in. Back to St. Paul! (But not today, because I should probably get the kids from school and stuff. Still AAAAARGH.)

I hope everyone feels better by tomorrow!

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I love it when you have weird work schedules and monday is really your friday because you have the next three days off bump.

Oh that is great. Enjoy, jessie!

I'm going to go sleep a bunch in the hopes that tomorrow I will feel super healthy and insanely motivated.