I Am Me

Getting the same symptoms I had when I got sick for two weeks straight. Once again, trying taking cough drops like candy, taking NyQuil/DayQuil, and heated up 80 proof Rum with honey, heated towel against the throat. So far, just drunk and no other improvements. At least my head feels nice even though it feels like I swallowed a ràzor bl*de that got stuck, I guess lol

Today has felt like a punishment for existing, istg. >_>
          
          1. Get woken up at 4AM when I have to wake up at 6AM (because I work at 8AM and have to leave the house by 7AM) to bring the dogs in my room because my parents had to go to work (I'm poor from a poor family, no judging), but my dog starts a fight with one of my mom's and it takes twenty minutes to get things settled (he's grounded today, and I was so p*ssed it took me about an hour to fall back asleep before I woke to my alarm)
          
          2. I go downstairs to get my laundry, it's pitch-black and I turn on the light that only lights up the stairs and laundry room. Start getting my clothes out of the dryer until I hear a weird noise in the storage room right next to the laundry room (you need to go through the narrow archway and go in the middle of the blackened room and pull a short string -- which my 4'11" aß cannot reach -- to turn the light on) and see it's dark over there. I'm white, but not horror movie white, so I go back to my laundry like nothing happened. Hear the noise again, look over and the light in that room is on. Nope, I get my crap and leave. (I've had nightmares of being haunted in that basement when first moving there, I've seen ghosts down there as clear as day, I've heard voices when I shouldn't have heard voices when I was down there, I've seen my family Death Demon and hit it with a broom down there, I've had things thrown at me at the speed of a racing car down there, and I've been demonically growled at twice down there, so not unheard of for me)

Sweet!! Just learned that I'm allowed to ask the barista (for some reason, my phone is trying to gaslight me in to thinking that's not a real word??) to make my favorite drink (gingerbread oatmilk latte) without chai and replace it with a different tea!! No more having my throat and mouth burning strangely/risking a worse reaction after every sip!! Just gotta think of which tea (ginger, black, green, or herbal) because I don't want the flavor to be changed drastically and not taste as good or have a bad taste, but I hate tea by itself and think they all taste bad so idk. I think the ginger tea might be the more fitting one, not because of the name, but because I've had that by itself before and I think it's flavor would go well with that drink despite it tasting like garbage by itself. . . I'll find out when I order it, I guess!

Since Saturday or Sunday (my days blur together, but it was one of those days) I've been having a severely sore throat that leaves it difficult swallowing anything other than soup, a headache that makes my head feel like it's gonna explode, constant sneezing, some coughing, constant runny nose and a bit of nasal congestion that I can't hardly breathe through my nose and I have to keep blowing my nose, random shivers even though I'm not cold, chest congestion that it feels tight and makes it hard to breathe, dry eyes, fatigue, and it feels like I'm being simultaneously manually strangled while having barbed wire around my throat while I'm choking on sandpaper.
          
          I've tried everything I could to get better: Cough drops, Medicine Balls from Starbucks, steaming hot baths, Robittusin, my mom's inhaler, resting, staying hydrated, keeping a humidifier in my room, and Hot Tati's as Jack Daniel's Whiskey with honey and heated up and 80 proof Rum with honey and heated up; but absolutely none of it has helped and I'd feel worse or exactly the same, and it was starting to piß me off.
          
          So, I finally wore down and went to the clinic yesterday after work. She took my temp as 99.3°F (I was 99°F that morning and I'm usually 96°F-97°F), saw and felt some swelling in my throat, and prescribed me with Azithromycin 500mg (one tablet a day for the next 3 days) and see if that does anything.
          
          So, we shall see. . .

I've decided I don't like subwoofers. Like, I love my music being loud; but with subwoofers, you can't understand a word of anything being sang, and it gets to a point where every single song sounds/feels like it's one whole thing altogether and it gets super annoying very quickly. I like LISTENING to my music. Ya know, like, actually HEARING the different words and melodies and blah blah blah. Otherwise, what's the point of it?

Hazard lights are for when you're pulled over in an area with oncoming traffic and you're having an emergency/problem, they're NOT for when you park you're f*cking car for five seconds to get out and do something menial then get back in and leave, or pulled in to an area with no oncoming ANYTHING to look at your phone for two seconds before leaving!!

And, I don't know who needs to hear this (but it's a lot of people), but when you come to a department, YOUR emergency is NOT ours. Sorry about your luck *shrugs*

I don't know what people expect they're gonna accomplish by recording a sign that states we've closed early and the machines covered up to farther help indicate you need to f*ck off because no one is available because 99.99% of people don't know how to freaking read a sign right in front of your face, but when that sign is up it's literally because we. do. not. have. anybody. We are INCREDIBLY short staffed. And, just because we have that sign up and you see ONE person there, does not mean that person is available to help you. That associate has a million other things that need to get done and they do not have room to also take care of your crap on top of it, which the people leading that department understand, which is why the rest of the place is closed to allow that associate to get done what they need to get done.
          
          It's not on the employee, and it's not on the department leader for the zero staff availability, it's on the other people that do the hiring for the store. Some dipsh*t is promising people they don't have to work weekends and can work 3 days of the week for only 4hrs at a specific time (which helps us exactly not at all), lying and saying that only certain parts of the store are available to get more people in the department they want filled when it's literally the entire freaking store that is low staffed and can barely get ends to meet because there's just no availability.
          
          You want a certain department to be open at the time you decide to come in, then grab an application and suck it up for whatever days and hours they give you.

Yesterday was fun.
          
          Went to Walgreens to get my photo taken for my passport and it was around noon, but they were relatively empty. I walked passed this employee lounging at his station at the register and go up to the photo area, ring the bell for assistance because no one was over there and the guy slams his little door open while groaning loudly and aggrevatedly going "Come on, really?" Thankfully, I didn't have to deal with him because another lady came over and was like, "Are you picking up a photo?" very nice, and I go, "No, I need one taken for a passport." And Jackaß loudly groans and says, "Oh, a passport. Go to the freaking post office." (If you're intelligent, you'd know post offices do not take your photo, they send you somewhere else to do it because they are a post office not a BMV.) In that moment, I'm glad my dad had decided to stay in the car instead of coming in with me because my dad has a non-exsistent fuse and grew up in the bad areas of New York, so he would've punched the guy in the face (which he's done before on multiple occasions when dealing with dìck-ish personalities). And, I look at his co-worker and state, "Well, since he's not being very quiet, I'm not going to be either. Your co-worker is a dìck." She agrees with me and tells me that that's his second customer complaint today, and the manager already knows about him being rude. Then, he starts piling stuff on the counter in front of me while I'm waiting to get my photos from the lady before she comes over and scans my photos and asks if the items were mine, to which I clearly said, "No, your dìckhead co-worker put them there."
          
          I gave no fùcks that day *shrugs* lol

I hate how quickly cooked eggs get cold