It's not a holiday until there's an epidemic about it

[featherynscale]

Went out yesterday to do the dreaded holiday shopping. I got about 60% of it done, but the rest will have to wait until next check, as I'm drifting close to broke now. Yesterday was apparently a good choice though, since it's apparently going to snow tonight.

Also, in the name of seasonal joy, I will share this with you. Last night when I was in Borders, I suffered from a lengthy fit of sneezing. I don't know what's up with that, but I've been sneexing constantly for the last several days. Antihistamines, decongestants, antiseptic nasal sprays all fail before the power of my sneezing. So anyway, I'm in Borders, I have an unpurchased gift under my arm, and I start sneezing. Not just like once or twice, but like twenty or twenty-five times. Eventually, I manage to break the cycle, and look up to see a ring of horrified shoppers around me, looking at me like, "Oh god, she's got ebola or something." So that's fun. :)

Comments

[adammaker.livejournal.com]

You ate the bats?

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

"Oh god, she's got ebola or something."
To prevent Ebola, try to not eat fruit bats from the Congo. I know what you're thinking, how am I supposed to refuse perfectly good fruitbat pie, fruitbat tart, and the ever-popular, Fruitbatcake, particularly at this time of the year wen it's so often a staple at holiday functions. Be strong. When Uncle Earl's fruitbatbasket arrives, you should resist temptation.

That being said, a humidifier is an invention of unparalleled value. The air gets so damned dry.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

We were out eating and someone was wearing a really strong something, aftershave, soap, cologne? Anyway, it totally sent Josh off. Josh is one of those sneezers that are incredibly loud and sometimes juicy, his entire body takes part...snnnnnneeeeze. deafening. He actually had to walk outside to stop. The offending members of the table left and then he was fine.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of giving up the eating of fruit bats for Lent.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Ozzy Osborne made me do it!

The air gets so damned dry.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

People who are from here laugh at you when you say that, you know? They think it's humid.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing, particularly since it's so high in calories. One wonders if a lighter version is available, perhaps made with Splenda?

Re: The air gets so damned dry.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

That's okay, let them laugh like a pack of hyenas sharing a tank of nitrous oxide, I lived in Florida for many years, and I know humid.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you said Ebola (even though it's more bloody then sneezy) and not "avian flu." I almost hit triadruid for saying *those words* a few days ago. That is all we hear about at work and it is such the joke... :-) Hope you feel better soon!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Heh. I forgot that people were worried about avian flu. That's how not worried about it I am. :)

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I can almost guarantee *that* was on their minds... or at least a few of them.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure I have fruit bat souffle in a cookbook, splenda would make a splendid subsitute, for the sugar, not the fruit bat.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I think you can substitute gerbil for fruitbat...

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

but the wings are the best part!

Re: let them laugh like a pack of hyenas sharing a tank of nitrous oxide

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Fine, we will, then.

Re: let them laugh like a pack of hyenas sharing a tank of nitrous oxide

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I'd pay good money to see you laugh like a hyena on nitrous, actually...

Re: let them laugh like a pack of hyenas sharing a tank of nitrous oxide

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain you'll have to get a tank of nitrous, and possibly a hyena mask, first...

Re: let them laugh like a pack of hyenas sharing a tank of nitrous oxide

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I support it. If there's anything our household needs, it's nitrous!

Nosebleed Season

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I will not argue about the dryness here (but then again, I'm not *from* here). Heck, it was dry enough to evaporate an entire ocean!

substiitutions

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

What, you don't get the winged gerbils where you live? You just haven't LIVED until you've seen a flock of gerbils come in for a landing!

Re: substiitutions

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Stupid TN. No flying gerbils, another reason to want to go home.
I don't remember any in New orleans either, but we have rats the size of cocker spaniels. They can call them nutrias if they want, but they aren't anything but big old rats. Really big rats.

Re: The air gets so damned dry.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I miss the humidity! I forget what it was like to have lizard skin and get shocked every time I touch something. It was a nice kind of forgetfullness.

Re: let them laugh like a pack of hyenas sharing a tank of nitrous oxide

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

If there's anything our household needs, it's nitrous!...

...and more dressing up!

Re: substiitutions

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Over here, we've got Flying Hamsters. Fighting flying hamsters, of Calontir, even.

Re: substiitutions

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Hah! Now I have that tune stuck in my head.

Re: Nosebleed Season

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

Seriously. We upped the humidifier on the furnace majorly a couple of days ago. I'm starting to feel downright brittle, and it itches under my boobs.

Oops. That was TMI.

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Gesundheit to the 25th power, honey.