thinkin about stuff...

when i thought, 'hey! you keep telling these lovely people that you are sick. but this is just insanity! they wont possibly believe that you are STILL sick! you suck. quit lying. loser.'
yea, i'm not being terribly nice to myself at the present moment. however. my self is totally right. at this point you're probably like, 'what a faker, she's totally not still sick, she just wants the attention.'
funfact numero 1: of course i want the attention. i am an actor. i ALWAYS want attention.
funfact numero 2: that doesn't make me less sick.
it's going on day eleven now, and i'm starting to mildly freak my noggin. things in corey land are full of 'get better' type thingies.

that's some mentholatum from like, nineteen seventy-five or something. but whatever, it's all we had in the medicine cabinet. {it works total wonders btw} i've got it under my nosey because i can't really breathe lying down. which is fun {false}. and makes me want to make dirty jokes. because i am a pervert {truth}.

that's some cough syrup. it's got codeine in it, so i can only use it right before bed because codeine and i are kind of in a fight ever since that time i got that bad sinus and respiratory infection. back in SEVENTH GRADE. you'd think we would have gotten over that hurdle and moved on by now, but no. codeine is a bitch. a whiny, grudge holding, beautiful bitch.

i've gone through about three boxes of these. and a whole roll of extra soft toilet paper when i ran out of kleenex. so, there was a whole day a while back, right around the time of my last blog, and i mentioned how i wasn't having to blow my nose anymore. welllllp...that ended real fuckin quick. now i can't go more than twenty minutes...if i'm LUCKY. so, my nose is super raw and i'm pretty sure that my brains have started coming out as well. awesome. and very lady-like.

i'm a LADY, ya greezy bastard!

ten thousand points to who ever can name that movie. {ps i love wanda sykes}
also, a point of  frustration in my life during all this {aside from finances, of course} is that i cannot sleep. and so, i have taken my father's advice and gotten some of THIS magical stuff:

when i couple it with sleepy time tea:

i can FINALLY get to sleep at a decent hour. which is awesome, unless of course you think about the fact that even when i DO get to sleep before 01:00 i still end up sleeping till almost 16:00 because my sleep schedule is TOTALLY effed. so there goes MY day. but it is truly helpful to have the melatonin because it sort of forces my brain to relax and that means that it can't keep me awake thinking about all of the things that i have to worry about that i wont bug you with here because if i write them down they will probably seem kind of shallow and stupid, and that will just make me feel guilty for thinking about them which will lead to a whole different technicolour shame spiral that i don't even wanna THINK about right now {i'm already melatonin'd up and halfway thru my sleepytime tea, you see}.

anyway, back to my arsenal of remedies.
when i was still in college i was in a production of 'the iceman cometh' by eugene oniell. during this production, a butt ton of us got REAL sick, and a cast member showed me a little remedy he liked to call 'the asskicker.' 'why would you call it this?' you might be asking. 'be patient and i'll show you. geeeze!' is what i probably would say because i don't feel good and that makes me snarky{ier than usual}.

anyway, 'the asskicker' is a magic remedy made of EmergenC and an alka seltzer plus cold and flu tablet. now, i've only got a couple packets left of the old alka seltzers, so i'm probably going to have to break them in half or something, but that's not the point. the point is that one of these things will effervesce the freaking PANTS off you. like, 'one of these days, alice, POW, right to the moon!' it's THAT intense. so my hope is that these amazing effervescent dream boats will get me through my next week of work, which are two eleven hour shifts, new years eve, and then a ten hour shift. which is cool because, well, make money money, but less cool because, well, i can't really breathe. but. ya know. whatever.
so along with this awesome sinus fiasco comes a monster size headache. basically i've been chewin' through ibuprofen like i chew through social red tape. which is a pretty unbelievable thing to witness.  trust me. but something that i have found that really helps with the whole headache thing, is this:

it's peppermint oil. and basically it's an essential oil, so it's essential that you be ultra careful {i slay me}, and what you do is you put a tiny drop on each of your temples and you massage it in. it makes the skin on your temples kind of tingly, makes your headache suck less, and BONUS, makes you smell like a delicious peppermint treat, and for those of you who have been around me lately, you know that peppermint is totally my thing right now.
another fun thing i can do to reduce the pain in my head is to take this:

which i am sure you all recognise. you would think that after ten days this stuff would have emptied my head completely of any and all offending mucus {hott}. but noooOOOooo. still a snot factory in there {yes fellas, she's STILL available!}.
now, i've already mentioned that i can't really breathe to well. well, that's partly because this thing seems to have weaseled its way into my respiratory system, and partly because my nose is plugged up. awesome. but both of these problems have led to one very uncomfortable outcome. i can't breathe when i sleep. which means that i sleep with my mouth open. and you know what THAT means? i have five, FIVE, splits in my lips. OW. so basically, i have become a very VERY big fan of this:

i have to put it on my lips at night or else i wake up and yawn and then immediately wish i  was dead. i like to last at LEAST until i turn on the lights and get that headache REALLY crankin before i reach that point.
and, last but not least, the thing that i think has really been getting me through all of this {and no, i don't mean n.c.i.s. although it has played a large role} is this:

my teddy bear. pooky. when he isn't judging me, he is very sweet and supportive. like now. his cuddly little face and unerring positive attitude have really helped me get through this. and yes, i know that i am a grown woman of twenty three years, and yes i know it is a little silly to rely on a teddy bear, but, i mean, come on. look at that little face!
so, i guess this has kind of turned into a 'here's what you can do to feel better' kind of a thing, which is cool, i'm ok with that, but also it's kind of a thing saying if you have gotten sick, and it is taking you a thousand years to get better, i am right there with you and i totally understand.
ALSO, this illness has given me some REALLY weird dreams. this morning after i woke up i almost called one of my BEST friends, FURIOUS with him, before i realized that i wasn't actually mad at him, it was just a dream and he hadn't really done anything wrong. but in my dream, ho boy, he was really in trouble.
anywhooo, i guess that that is all i really have to say. i will be afk for a little while, but while i am away, if you are new to me, you should check out my youtube channel which is here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/auroracorealis?feature=mhum
and is awesome. have a great new years! and with that, i leave you with a little wisdom:

'just remember, there's cute jealous and theres othello.' -the gilmore girls

cheers,
~*~

DFTBA