but whoa, totally feeling like death would be preferable.
At least my doctor established that the weird skewbalding was due to a reaction to ibuprofen, so that’s it, no more exotic pharmaceuticals for me. I’ll stick with the Dong Quai and the aspirin, thank you very much. And the Ginger Tea. It’s true what James Barber said: it does get you high. So I guess you’re still sick, but you feel awful perky about it.
raincoaster 
While I’m no expert, after looking at the pictures I think I may have deduced part of the cause and your resulting need for analgesics. Try removing the bit and getting new shoes.
Thanks! We did the de-worming yesterday so I’m all prepped!
Good. when you’re recovered there’s a carrot and a handful of sugar cubes waiting for you . . .
You’ll note my choice of words in the very first sentence in this post…I’d better rein in this punning while I’m still sick. I feel like I’ve been rode hard and put away wet.
Lemon and ginger tea with honey rocks my sick little world (when I’m sick) ideally with a locket or similar honey and lemon menthol throat sweet just to sate the appetite for artifical sweetener and medication. Mmm…artificial
Al, she’s just trying to stirrup some sympathy
Ouch!
Lemons! Dayum, I knew there was something I forgot to buy. Oh well, have to go out and drop off some paperwork anyway. Might as well pop by the grocery store.
Bah…I offered no sympathy…just good sound advice (incidentally, melt the locket into the tea…thats the trick…I forgot that bit).
Anyway, If I was offering sympathy I assure you I would have used the word ‘diddums’ at least once. Otherwise you might have thought I was faking it.
And yes,,,Lemons are easy to forget. Though remain wonderful things.
I have a gold locket, but it’s not melting. Should I turn the heat up, or just have another aspirin?
Bah, I assume the lovely medicinal throat sweets ‘Lockets’ Never made it to your part of the world. I’ll find a link and post it once I’m not trying to leave work early before any more damn customers come in and ruin my day.
Don’t you hate that? I’m going to take two more Tylenol and have a nap. Wish me luck: i’m coughing so much I’ve given myself a headache.
Hangover killing me. Bill Withers making it better, but not better enough.
That is all.
I hope the night before was worth the morning after. I’m sticking to one beer or one hot whiskey with lemon and honey.
Great night, well worth it. Except for the fact that I’ve got my first proper DJ gig tonight, straight after work…so I’ve got four hours to practise and I can barely moving anything apart from my fingers.
Uh-oh Spaghetti Os
Starbucks fruit and green tea frappucchinos. If they have orange, get that. If they only have berry, get that. I worked there seven years and the combination of soothing cold, caffeine, sugar and electrolytes is unbeatable!
Woah there Nelly. Thanks for the tip but I am lucky enough (or rare enough) for my nearest Starbucks to actually be a thirty minute walk away…that is not a hangover friendly distance. (Plus I boycott Starfucks because I’m a smelly hippy).
Green tea with lemon (though its lemon in the teabag not actual lemon..as I don’t have lemon cf statement above), a bit of sugar, a long bath and about an hour of practice before work will hopefully be the solution to all of my woes…I doubt it but right now foolish optimism is all I’ve got
Yes, tis foolish optimism. Dare I ask why you boycott Starbucks? Nah, it’s too late and I’m going to go to bed, besides, I fear you’ll give me the usual load of ill-informed “deforesting the dolphins in the Amazon” crap, and I expect more from you. They do fair trade, they have organic coffee (but their own dumb policies won’t let them call most of it that), they’re a good company to work for. I just don’t see why all the rage.
I’ll try and be quick (thanks for expecting more..I must remind you that they actually deforest dolphins in the arctic…for factual accuracy alone dear). And you can read when you wake up. (I’m out of the bath now and feeling marginally but not entirely better..not that you needed to know that).
Basically I attempt (and don’t entirely succeed..its difficult) to boycott most of the multinationals, on a ‘think global, act local’ (soundbite) basis. I don’t like the ‘clustering’ business model of Starbucks (setting up enough shops in a local area to swamp out local businesses…each individual store, including rivals, loses business and because there’s more than one starbucks they can survive while local retailers fail…i like to think of it as the clusterfucking business model). A list of criticisms is made on the wikipedia page that summarises a lot of the otehr issues.
I’m gonna blog soon about Ethical shopping (again) referencing a lot of stuff in the New Internationalist this month. This will probably clear up a lot of my beliefs on some stuff. Especially some interesting stuff on ‘Fair trade’ and organic labelling that you may find interesting. However the piece will require a lot of thought and I’m not gonna rush it, so there may be a delay.
If Starbucks was a good employer to you then I think that’s good. Everybody needs a job…and as you probably know…if you think Starbucks is cool and you shop at Starbucks then I think you’re cool. That’s part of what I believe in.
Any Questions?
(Oh..and as per your advice(kinda) i’ve waited for my tea to go cold and am gonna put some ice in it now…oh yeah baby)
Why can I never succeed in being quick?
Tell me about it. I haven’t succeeded in getting to sleep either.
Only one point to make re; your comment. They don’t deliberately cluster to drive out other businesses. They cluster because, while the business of the original Starbucks goes down by 20%, the income from the second more than makes up for it. There are two stores across the street from one another in Vancouver and they each make more than three million dollars annually.
True competition with Starbucks will come from being different from them, and by now all those ma and pa espresso shops that had been driven out ten years ago are the rarity and of more value. My friends and I go well out of our way to go there if we intend to hang out. We’re seeing a resurgence of truly artisanal coffee shops now; what is dead is the crappy coffee shops that smell like compost and Inka.
Hmm..I agree and disagree. I think that Starbucks has windowdressed itself well to appear better than it seems. (Like most modern companies its felt the push towards ‘ethical consumerism’ and needs to work to address these issues because it makes more sense that way, its similar to (though not as extreme as) the whole MacDonald’s salad business). The cluster model does have benefits for Starbucks as you describe…but it’ also basically just buttfucking small businesses, its very difficult to compete. Yes, this means that now the ‘quality’ and ‘different’ shops have improved from the competition…but in my experience in England, it just means there’s a lot of franchise chains that dominate everywhere. The ethic of your last paragraph is far too right wing for my sensibilities. Sorry, but that’s what I believe.
However, I do agree with a part of the principle…I just dopn’t think that market forces and economics are the ways to improve quality of life. (Don’t take any of this personally by the way…I hope we’re still in the banter/well intentioned debate end of the argument spectrum).
Anyway, two things actually make most of this irrelevant…first up, I only drink tea and won’t pay more than fifty pence for it under most circumstances (its a social habit..tea is for sitting around other peoples houses with…that’s my opinion). therefore my personal boycott is entirely irrelevant and not even vaguely threatening to Starbuck’s. Secondly, there shall be no Starbucks, or coffee of any kind once the Great Lord Cthulhu rises up and swallows the Earth. So we’re really just killing time.
(Seriously…I feel a worryingly strong challenge to my ethics from the belief that the apocalypse will sort everything out…set everything back a few millions of years and life will go on.)
Am I still making sense? No…but my practice mix went well (which is a surprise…so my confidence about tonights gig is currently growing ever so slightly faster than the dread I feel deep inside)…though my hangover is currently bearable, it still feels like my brain currently to small for my head and is pulling on the interior of my skull….ie it hurts.