Well, dear readers, we are at the tons of snot phase, oh, yes, we are at the tons of snot phase, which is only appropriate as tons is snot spelled backwards. These will be very short notes because there is so little to say about yesterday. You’ll understand why in but a moment. But first let me bemoan the sorry state of the commercial. I see a lot of commercials on YouTube – and I could not tell you what any of them have to do with anything, let alone the product. And I see commercials on Amazon Prime things and it’s the same. Is this a thing? Does this thing work? Because I remember a time when commercials actually tried to sell the product and commercials that were actually funny and fun. I happened to have done quite a few commercials in my day, and there were almost no clunkers. In fact, I don’t know if I did any clunkers. Several airline commercials that were funny, several food commercials that were funny, the famous Charmin commercial (my first), a very funny soda pop commercial, at least four or five car commercials, two commercials having something to do with me in a swimming pool, a couple of bank commercials, and on and on. Several won awards, several had very well-known directors. But today? Today we get five-second commercials, ten-seconds, fifteen, occasionally a thirty and I’m not sure I’ve seen a minute-long in the last few years, although I’m sure on YouTube they’re there. I don’t know how it is on network TV anymore because I don’t watch it – are they any better? Anyway, just thought I’d bemoan the sorry state of the commercial. As to yesterday, I got nine and a half hours of sleep, although up quite a bit to eep in the ool and blow ye olde nose. If that keeps up, I may as well put on a beard and be Santa. Once up, I answered e-mails and then ordered for the third day in a row a turkey sandwich on rye, this time with onion rings. That arrived pretty quickly and the sandwich was excellent, although now it’s time for a little break. The onion rings were a bit soggy, and my tummy ultimately would rather I hadn’t eaten them. I was, of course, thinking about watching the rest of the movie that I’d started, but I was just too too out of it so at two I just plopped down on the bed and fell asleep instantly. I woke up at six, did some coughing and a lot of blowing, caught up on e-mails, had a snack and took pill two, and at seven I plopped back in bed and slept another two hours. That’s like seventeen hours of sleep overall, which is why I have so little to say, which you’d never know due to this endless paragraph.
I’m writing these here notes early so I can shave and shower and snack for the third pill and Sambucol and Melatonin and Flonase and NyQuil up so I can be in bed right after I post these here notes. That sounds like it could be My Favorite Things.
Flonase and NyQuil for coughing and blowing,
That’s the routine when the snot keeps on flowing.
When Melatonin and Sambucol rings,
These aren’t a few of my favorite things.
Today, I’ll be up by ten at the latest, I’ll do whatever needs doing and I’ll be on my way to the session at eleven-fifteen or thereabouts – should only take fifteen or twenty minutes to get there and I have the directions written out clearly, as the streets are really weird dead ends and cul-de-sacs and there’s only one way to get there, only one street that goes through to the others. Weird, but it’s the Valley. Then we’ll have our three-hour session, which, if everyone is on top of things, could go more quickly, which would be fine by me. After that, I’ll probably stop somewhere and get some food and bring it home. Then I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow is all resting up, Monday she of the Evil Eye comes so much as I won’t want to I’ll have to leave the premises at eight-thirty, breakfast, and then come back at eleven-thirty and rest more. Then I’ll find the cheapest prices for the Do – frequently Amazon Fresh has them, but Walmart does very well, too, with certain items. We shall see. I already have the pasta for the tuna pasta salad, but nothing else. Then Tuesday I can rest and hopefully be pretty much back to rights for the Do on Wednesday, and then I believe the Darling Daughter will be here on Christmas Day.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten at the latest, do whatever needs doing and be on my way to the session by eleven-fifteen, do the session, get some food to bring home, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your sides of choice when you have a burger or sandwich? Potato salad? Coleslaw? Fries (skinny or steak fries), sweet potato fries? Fruit? Macaroni salad. Name your pleasures along with stuff you don’t care for. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping against hope that the damn tons of snot will abate soon.