today i could have really used an extra hand - not because i'm busy, but because i could've used the extra middle finger.
i got 3 hours of sleep last night because i was up all night with pressure building up in my right inner ear; so much pressure, in fact, that it burst my ear drum. it is about as comfortable as it sounds. since it burst at about 3 am, i have been walking around all day with a liquid comprised of wax, pus, and blood oozing out of my ear. it is about as yummy as it sounds. 3 hours of sleep and ear juice meant that when i took roz to school this morning i was in no mood to chit-chat with the cool mom group who are all unemployed yet able to afford to leave their SUV's running for an hour while they talk about toms, mustaches, chevron print, and any and every other annoying ass trend in the world today. the one girl with vocal chords located in her nasal cavity cheerfully greeted me with a "ISN'T IT GORGEOUS OUTSIDE THIS MORNING?!?!?!" deciding between answering her or shoving a #2 pencil inside of my oozing ear drum i managed to mutter a "uh-huh" before whisking by her.
once inside roz's classroom, some little brat with a pacifier came up and pointed to london and said "what's her naaaaaaaaaaaame?" i acted like i didn't hear her and took roz to her cubby where she hangs her jacket and backpack. i noticed that she was having a hard time hanging her backpack up because her "cubby buddy" used her hook in addition to using his own. so i removed his jacket from her hook and accidentally dropped it on the floor.
i had to come home and check work emails. a co-worker of mine has sent me the same message multiple times from a guy with an "urgent" matter to discuss with me. i finally call the guy back only to discover that he is wanting to give me a large, undisclosed amount of money if i help him track down somebody that i am friends with on facebook. all i needed to do was give him my facebook username and password. after politely telling him to f*#$ off, i decided to fix something to eat. i really needed something to coat my stomach because the doctor had prescribed me antibiotics, which i had been popping with vicodin - a very disruptive cocktail to the digestive system if on an empty stomach. the only thing worse than having an earache is having an earache with explosive diarrhea.
the antibiotic the doctor prescribed me was a super dose of amoxicillin. having had it before, i distinctly remember there being a warning of not taking it while under the influence of alcohol. knowing that i plan on being under the influence of alcohol this weekend, i asked the doctor what would really happen to me if i washed down my prescription with miller lite. he was a bit taken aback... probably because when he asked me why i hadn't taken a decongestant i told him because i was breastfeeding. sudafed? no. vicodin, amoxicillin and miller light... mmm... ok.
on top of the pain of my ear making everything in this world mind-numblingly annoying to me, tj is out of town for work. this means i have sole responsibility of two kids, two dogs, my full-time job, grocery shopping, meal preparation, and bed time routines. tomorrow he will nonchalantly walk in the house and casually ask how my days were without him. i'll tell him not to worry about me and to go rest his pretty little head on his pillow.
(the same pillow my ear leaked all over the night before.)
