milk the nose

got a cold.  just in time for the weekend.  this is the way of my life.  so i've lounged around in bed watching tv programs, playing solitaire, building towers of used puffs-plus-with-lotion, napping, sniffling and feeling sorry for myself.  now i'm wide awake, unmotivated and bored.  it's a bad combo.

i'm not going to think about it.  i'm going to text with fatima about it instead. so far there's no mention of vicks vapo rub but that doesn't mean it won't happen.

so my lips.  i haven't been out in the wind, so that's not it.  in their dehydrated state they are also super sensitive to salty foods.  so i'm trying to avoid the salty foods but it's hard.  cheese is salty. tuna is salty.  what else do i eat?  haha just kidding, that's steve speaking.  but on the legit, it's hard to avoid salt.  salt is everywhere. also you're not supposed to lick your lips.  do you know how hard it is not to lick dry lips?  if it was a pictionary category, it would be difficille.  so i looked up some home remedies.  i made an olive oil essential oil 'balm' of sorts.  i've been applying it a lot but so far i don't notice any result.  it doesn't help that my nose is a drippy faucet of hot liquid disease.  that's a lot of liquid loss that i have to replenish.

i don't mean to complain.  i'm sure there's a positive spin. if only pollyanna were here to let me know.  ach.  i just licked my lips!  tanya told me to brush them with my toothbrush to exfoiliate.  i tried that this morning.  it kind of tickled.