So, let me tell you about my first day back at work for the new year:
I woke up kinda early, and figured since I didn't hear my alarm, I'd snooze a bit more....
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Well.....if you learn anything from this post, it's not to snooze without looking at the clock first- because when I awoke again, I noticed that the daylight in my window was a little more brighter than usual. I scramble over Jason (the clock is on his side) and look at the time. It's 7:55 AM. I work at 8 AM. I stared in disbelief, before shaking Jason awake and telling him twice that the alarm didn't go off and he is late (he gets to work at 7:30).
So either,
A. The alarm didn't go off because it wants to be a fucking douchebag, or
B. Jason thought he hit the snooze button but instead just turned the alarm off.
So, I strip my clothes off in a hurry, jump in the shower for literally 20 seconds (the water didn't warm up yet, so it was a cold shower, and I managed not to get my hair wet), got out, dried off, threw some clothes on and prayed that they matched, squirted toothpaste in my mouth, and ran out the door. I brushed my teeth while driving to work. I'm sure I spit toothpaste down the side of my car as I sped through the neighborhood.
I get to work at 8:12. That was the start of my day.
I had the sniffles for a few days, and I was tired of wiping my nose every 26.2 seconds in the lab, so I decided that on my lunch break, I'd find some suitable medicine to knock it out quickly. I decided to get...
NYQUIL SINEX PILLS!!!
First off- it had Nyquil on the box, so that should've been the first warning sign- but oh no, common sense eluded this fine gentlelady on this day!!!
Second off- I didn't read the warning label until after I popped two big-ass pills in my mouth...and then I thought to myself, "I took Unisom and it had the reverse effect and made me stay up all night, so what are these pills gonna do? Ha!"
It took care of my liquid snot all right- it dehydrated me but it cleared the snot-nose symptom and the sneezing right up! I felt better! Yaaayy! But then the side effect kicked in....drowsiness. Oh dear fucking Gods, the drowsiness! There has got to be a better word than "drowsiness" to describe what this crap did to me- it was more like, "Heeere's meth!"
I was so groggy and drowsy that I felt like I was Super Mario swimming in that underwater stage- and even had the music to go along with it. If you need a refresher of what that song is, here:
IT WAS TERRIBLE.
You know how you have those strange half-asleep thoughts? You know, the ones where you're half-awake, and someone is talking to you, or you hear something and your imagination kicks in and just runs with whatever is happening? Yeah, that's what I was doing. I was trying my best to practice waxing a full-cast crown, when I decided that they looked like biscuits. I turn around to take my opaqued crowns out of the oven, and it just reminded me of taking biscuits out of the oven. I was amused. I was making tooth biscuits- wee tooth biscuits.
It took 2 hot chocolates and 2 Italian coffees to finally get me back into gear- sadly, that gear kicked in about 4:15 that afternoon, and I get off at 5. Then....I was wide awake and jittery. I felt like I could run a mile- and damn near tried to when I got home. Jason found me zipping around the living room, doing Karate kicks while playing Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and shouting vulgarities when he came home.
I will never do that again.
I woke up kinda early, and figured since I didn't hear my alarm, I'd snooze a bit more....
................
-______-;;
Well.....if you learn anything from this post, it's not to snooze without looking at the clock first- because when I awoke again, I noticed that the daylight in my window was a little more brighter than usual. I scramble over Jason (the clock is on his side) and look at the time. It's 7:55 AM. I work at 8 AM. I stared in disbelief, before shaking Jason awake and telling him twice that the alarm didn't go off and he is late (he gets to work at 7:30).
So either,
A. The alarm didn't go off because it wants to be a fucking douchebag, or
B. Jason thought he hit the snooze button but instead just turned the alarm off.
So, I strip my clothes off in a hurry, jump in the shower for literally 20 seconds (the water didn't warm up yet, so it was a cold shower, and I managed not to get my hair wet), got out, dried off, threw some clothes on and prayed that they matched, squirted toothpaste in my mouth, and ran out the door. I brushed my teeth while driving to work. I'm sure I spit toothpaste down the side of my car as I sped through the neighborhood.
I get to work at 8:12. That was the start of my day.
I had the sniffles for a few days, and I was tired of wiping my nose every 26.2 seconds in the lab, so I decided that on my lunch break, I'd find some suitable medicine to knock it out quickly. I decided to get...
NYQUIL SINEX PILLS!!!
First off- it had Nyquil on the box, so that should've been the first warning sign- but oh no, common sense eluded this fine gentlelady on this day!!!
Second off- I didn't read the warning label until after I popped two big-ass pills in my mouth...and then I thought to myself, "I took Unisom and it had the reverse effect and made me stay up all night, so what are these pills gonna do? Ha!"
It took care of my liquid snot all right- it dehydrated me but it cleared the snot-nose symptom and the sneezing right up! I felt better! Yaaayy! But then the side effect kicked in....drowsiness. Oh dear fucking Gods, the drowsiness! There has got to be a better word than "drowsiness" to describe what this crap did to me- it was more like, "Heeere's meth!"
I was so groggy and drowsy that I felt like I was Super Mario swimming in that underwater stage- and even had the music to go along with it. If you need a refresher of what that song is, here:
IT WAS TERRIBLE.
You know how you have those strange half-asleep thoughts? You know, the ones where you're half-awake, and someone is talking to you, or you hear something and your imagination kicks in and just runs with whatever is happening? Yeah, that's what I was doing. I was trying my best to practice waxing a full-cast crown, when I decided that they looked like biscuits. I turn around to take my opaqued crowns out of the oven, and it just reminded me of taking biscuits out of the oven. I was amused. I was making tooth biscuits- wee tooth biscuits.
It took 2 hot chocolates and 2 Italian coffees to finally get me back into gear- sadly, that gear kicked in about 4:15 that afternoon, and I get off at 5. Then....I was wide awake and jittery. I felt like I could run a mile- and damn near tried to when I got home. Jason found me zipping around the living room, doing Karate kicks while playing Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and shouting vulgarities when he came home.
I will never do that again.
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