Okay, that’s it...((((swapping BBW vanilla body spray for Crisp Linen Lysol))))
GROUP HUG!!!!!!!
Deb, you and Tank were the second best part of our trip - love you guys❤️!
I’m down for a shot of that Patròn - silver with an orange slice is one of my favorite indulgences!
Feeling worlds better today, Delta - thanks! About time, too...I’ve spent waaayyyyyy too much time alone with my own brain this week. I mean, it wasn’t COMPLETELY unproductive; had a lovely pity party, put together a sign up sheet of people to say nice things at my wake & got the whole business planned out: cremation via bonfire with a marshmallow roast, piñata, taco bar, burned a music playlist for the affair (Frank Sinatra, Fleetwood Mac, Jimmy Buffet, Two Cellos, ABBA, Songs of the Humpback Whale...okay, it was just a copy of my road trip playlist. Don’t judge me) etc. I thought a barbecue might be nice, but I was worried that combining it with the smell of my burning flesh would either throw people’s appetites off or INCREASE their appetite...both of which are kind of concerning (the latter somewhat more than the former,) and both of which can cast a pall on what I hope will be a decently festive event. So I’m opting for a taco bar. Anyway, tacos go with the piñata I’m requesting, and if there’s trouble lighting the cremation pyre, any decent hot sauce can be used as an accelerant. Plus, every time people smell cilantro, they’ll remember me...which is oddly appropriate, given that cilantro is such a polarizing condiment.
I also had time to do a little linguistic musing. Have you ever really considered the word “phlegm”? When you say it, it doesn’t sound like the right word. But, when you WRITE it or see it in print, suddenly it sounds EXACTLY like the substance it represents. It has six letters, only one of which is a vowel - I’d suspect it of being Welsh, if I didn’t know it was Latin borrowed from the Greek. (I was previously unaware that the human body could produce such a ridiculously large volume of the stuff, or that it came in so many interesting colors.)
And THIS is what you get when I 1)run out of crossword puzzles and 2) am under the influence of an inadvisably large dose of sudafed (not the OTC - the kind that you have to provide picture ID, DNA cheek swab, six personal references only two of which can be related to you, and a handwriting sample in your own blood in order to obtain) and a bourbon cough toddy.