Today's Bad Stories !

[Kaito Lady]

Now I have strep throat.
So does my brother.
There's just one problem.
I CAN'T SWALLOW PILLS.
Now people are laughing at me. But when I try to swallow it my tongue goes in its way in defiance.
I don't know what to do T_T

what about drinking some good ol' fashioned liquid medicine for a sore throat?

[Jecka]

Now I have strep throat.
So does my brother.
There's just one problem.
I CAN'T SWALLOW PILLS.
Now people are laughing at me. But when I try to swallow it my tongue goes in its way in defiance.
I don't know what to do T_T

Don't feel bad I couldn't swallow pills until about a year and a half ago. (I still have trouble doing so now :x)

Edit (my bad story): I've misplaced my iPod for the thousandth time.
I never really see it as a big deal because just give me a few hours and I'll find it. But I haven't been anywhere today except college, the car, and the lower part of the house ( basement and side door areas). And I looked all over the basement, and I didn't find anything. So now I'm freaking out wondering if I left it in class, but I'm sure I put it in my hoodie pocket because I triple check.
This is why I shouldn't be allowed to own anything. :V

[RoboG55]

Now I have strep throat.
So does my brother.
There's just one problem.
I CAN'T SWALLOW PILLS.
Now people are laughing at me. But when I try to swallow it my tongue goes in its way in defiance.
I don't know what to do T_T

what about drinking some good ol' fashioned liquid medicine for a sore throat?

I'm doing that. But I don't want to drink cupfuls of that bright red ooze for days XD

[mangaluva]

Now I have strep throat.
So does my brother.
There's just one problem.
I CAN'T SWALLOW PILLS.
Now people are laughing at me. But when I try to swallow it my tongue goes in its way in defiance.
I don't know what to do T_T

what about drinking some good ol' fashioned liquid medicine for a sore throat?

I'm doing that. But I don't want to drink cupfuls of that bright red ooze for days XD

Can you get Ricola throat lozenges? I sook on those when I have a sore throat and they're absolutely magic. They're a bit larger than pills but you don't swallow them whole, you just suck on them, and they actually taste kinda sweet.

[miakakiri]

~_~* Archi and I had a big fight this morning. (Well 'morning' for us, which means early-afternoon by the clock...) Mostly the issue is that we have no money.
We were going to take stuff to the recycling center, so he got started with packing up the car. Only he didn't think to ask if I had any specific requests, and thus he ended up taking boxes I'd actually wanted to hold on to for moving. I've been talking about wanting to move for quite a while, specifically due to some of the issues with this apartment--such as the fact that it's absurdly drafty and hard to heat. I'd said last summer that I didn't want to spend another winter here. Well, moving didn't happen and we're here for one more winter. I am quite determined to make this the LAST winter we spend in this place--we can't actually afford to heat it. Archi made the argument that we couldn't move because we didn't have enough for a security deposit (true) and I complained again about the cost of heating the place. This turned into yelling at him that he doesn't care about the heat because he's away all day and handles the cold better anyhow, while I am stuck at home all day dealing with the fact that it's cold. There was more to the argument than that, but that bit is what stuck with me.
We dropped off recycle and went back to the house to grab stuff to dump at the thrift shop--our last major haul of things for the thrift shop, thank goodness. I've been wanting to get this junk out of my apartment for quite a while but it kept not happening. After dropping stuff at the thrift shop, we went to the mall to pick up a game that came out today which we'd had on pre-order and completely paid off. Stopped to pay my phone bill as well, since it's apparently due soon. That was all we had time for, though, so we scrambled back home and he dropped me off before heading to work.
I turned off all the heaters because the electric bill that just came was $233 for the month (and it had been paid off completely). We cannot afford that level of electric bill. So no heat. Wrapped myself up in a sweatshirt and set to work trying to do things. Ended up spending a good hour or so in the kitchen, about half of it on cleaning and the other half just sitting on the floor crying because apparently I'm not good enough to have a reasonably clean kitchen in which minor spills get wiped up right away before they can dry and become a caked-on mess that takes ten times longer to clean up. Lots of just feeling generally worthless, really. Then I finished building the kitchen cart (at least mostly... there are supposed to be screws holding the top onto the legs but I didn't get them put in yet) and set up the bread machine to bake a loaf of bread using the mix I'd ordered off Amazon.
I wandered off to do various things, and when Archi came back home for lunch I was sitting on the kitchen floor with the battery-powered lantern, working on sorting out the cabinets. "Why are all the lights off?" he asked, so I turned the lantern off and put the kitchen light on, then explained about the power bill and turning off the heaters. He was already feeling like crap, too... he took painkiller and we talked a bit and I warmed up some chili for him (except he ended up forgetting about it until he had to rush back to the office, but he brought it along) and I gave him a warm slice of bread, which he decieded was good bread. Definitely not wheat bread (it's gluten-free) but good. We may be investing in larger quantities of that bread mix.... this was definitely yummy bread....

[kholoudsafir]

I know how it feels with financial troubles, last year was the worse for us, we lived on rice and pasta most of it, canned vegetables, could not buy meet. Situation is better so far this year, but I need to buy trousers badly, my only two pairs have big holes in them. Our groceries and car expenditures or any treats if we have anything left are paid from the government benefits for the children and my over draft
Also, I think if we were living in the US we would have not been able to have health insurance , long live the NHS

[RoboG55]

Sometimes when I do sports with balls and get hit with one, I remember when I was in second grade as the new child and everybody thought I was gross. A boy accidentally dropped their ball and it rolled toward me, so I picked it up and handed it to him. He shouted at me for getting it for him and threatened to hit me in the face with it. And that's how they showed gratitude back then I guess. :\
Just glad I'm not being bullied much anymore. Everyone is actually really good-natured now. XD
But anyway, I still have a sore throat, and I sound terrible when I cough, but I have to go back to school with a debate tests and eight or so other tests to make up, including the most important and hardest unit in history of the year. I suddenly don't want to go back.

[miakakiri]

Did something stupid. Was attempting to slice the edge off an end of bread. Sliced right into the pad of my thumb. Very bad. Lots of blood. Wasn't sure if I should call 911 (ambulance) or just go to urgent care, so I called Mom. "Go get a washcloth to wrap around it and put pressure on the wound. I'll call your Dad and then call you back." (Dad works in the same city I live in.) Dad dropped things at work and came over to bring me to urgent care. (Archi is at work and much harder to reach.) Now I am stitched up.
Supposed to go to a job fair tomorrow... I'll probably still go, because I'd really like to get that job... still, I may look funny....

[KainTheVampire]

Damn insensitive jerk! Bastard! Baka! Ahou! w3085oå96uwp1!
... *went a little nuts on the poor innocent keyboard* :x
Anyhow, jerky former best friend just wrote: Hey, how are you?
.... .... Despite it being almost a year since he said: I think we should be acquaintances, our friendship isn't like it used to be... But if you want we can still try to be friends.. If you want to

I still don't get how the hell thought when he said ANY of that! I don't get why he suddenly got that idea of not being friends anymore after FOURTEEN years! Or how we was supposed to continue being friends when he kept ignoring my messages!!! SERIOUSLY! Damn f***ing jerk!!

....

[Kaito Lady]

Damn insensitive jerk! Bastard! Baka! Ahou! w3085oå96uwp1!
... *went a little nuts on the poor innocent keyboard* :x
Anyhow, jerky former best friend just wrote: Hey, how are you?
.... .... Despite it being almost a year since he said: I think we should be acquaintances, our friendship isn't like it used to be... But if you want we can still try to be friends.. If you want to

I still don't get how the hell thought when he said ANY of that! I don't get why he suddenly got that idea of not being friends anymore after FOURTEEN years! Or how we was supposed to continue being friends when he kept ignoring my messages!!! SERIOUSLY! Damn f***ing jerk!!

....

D:

*hugs*

[miakakiri]

So much for errands. This is the third big winter storm in a week!!
Also my thumb still hurts, quite a lot, actually. Stitches won't be coming out until next week, partly because we're leaving tomorrow for a little getaway. We'll have to bring the first-aid kid with us on our trip so that I can change out the bandaging each day. Actually, we'll also need to go buy more gauze as well. And I just checked dates on some of the medicines in the kit. Most of them expired about 4 years ago. ~_~* So we need to buy Neosporin. Fortunately the nearest drug store--the one we always go to--is 24-hours, so we can afford to wait until the snow stops completely. Archi doesn't want to go out at all.
Of course, the journey is at least an hour and we're supposed to check in somewhere between 3pm and 5pm tomorrow.... and we haven't even started packing at all. ~_~*

[mangaluva]

I tried to swat a fly out of the air and instead knocked it into my fresh cup of tea T_T

[RoboG55]

Science Fair written report was due today and I haven't even gotten the time to start it. My teacher is going to be so pissed if I don't have it ready for the judges by tomorrow. Also corrections for my board and the bringing of materials. Oh boy... :\

[KainTheVampire]

Sprained my ankle today, I was stressed and rushed down the stairs, that was pretty stupid :x But at least I didn't lose my balance and fell down the stairs :x I'm pretty good at regaining my balance, I fall two out of ten times
My back has been hurting the latest few days... I slipped on ice and hurt it awhile before Christmas, it's been fine for almost 2 months now (except some times when I stand up) so I have no idea why it's hurting now T__T

[miakakiri]

So the stitches came out today. ~_~* Holy crumbcake that was PAINFUL!! Also Archi wasn't there for it because he had to go to work. ~_~* Pain pain pain.... ~_~*
In addition, it is cold, and I walked down to the bus station to see about buying a ticket to Boston for tomorrow. Ended up deciding to buy my ticket tomorrow morning (which means I need to be about a half-hour or so early for the bus) because it will be less expensive that way. ($22 if I buy a round-trip ticket tomorrow, versus $25 if I'd bought it today.) So I actually went down there for no reason, in the end, and it's rather cold. I wasn't quite properly dressed for the cold, as I was wearing a skirt and no scarf. Walked all the way back up Elm St to get home (2mi/3km journey). In the cold. And the wind. With no scarf and only one glove. My left glove won't fit over the bandaging protecting my thumb. Cold. And I'm not sure I can manage to make myself a cup of tea. ~_~* Maybe I can spend some time in Triet.... go bust the Fire Seal...