Nice Zombie Nails, Tep.

Congrats to the Texas Rangers who're going to the World Series for the first time ever.

Teppy, I love the shot with the knife.

I've got 300 jello shots setting up in my fridge.

The codeine-related drugs don't make me feel floaty; they make me feel fine. The niggling worries and pain go away, and I realize how infrequently I feel fine. I hoard my leftovers for the truly horrible days and for days I hurt myself.

This is Valium, for me.

I was just asking the pharmacist about differences between Naxo and Ibu (this was for my back pain). She said a couple of things that were interesting. That Naxo doesn't really work for everyone, but if it does work for you it's preferred. However, it is far more important to respect dosage and time delays on Naxo than it is for Ibu.

Interesting. Naxo does work for me, though it makes me feel kinda weird - can't describe it, just "something ain't quite right" weird. I've gotten the best results with 1-2 tylenol with 1-2 advil (thanks to Steph for telling me I could do that!). More than 600 mgs of tylenol makes me loopy, so it's self-limiting in that way, at least during the daytime.

If I can just hold out five or so more days, they will be long enough to paint, finally, all ten at the same time. But they're so soft, no matter how much calcium and biotin I take, and they tear so easily, and I overcorrect all the time.

BioSil. Not easy to find; they sell it at Vitamin Shoppe and drugstore.com. Take it every day. In a couple months your nails will be hard and tough. Also good for skin and hair. My sister and my niece both tried it for their nails, and when they ran out, asked for it for Christmas.

dang, sarameg, that's a lot of stripping.

Nice nails, Tep.

Go you, sarameg.

and I've learnt from Dean Winchester to always have incendiary materials on me (note to self: clean out purse before air travel)

Good to remember. I've lost lighters before. Scarily, I don't lose them more often than not. It's disconcerting when I open my purse after landing and realize I had contraband. See also: corkscrews.

It's not that I try to sneak them through but I don't smoke so I usually forget I carry a lighter. For rogue candles. The corkscrews tend to be in my toiletry bag. For rogue wine bottles.

They don't take your lighter anymore. At least they didn't bother me about mine the last few times I flew.

I also have a box cutter attached to my key ring, which I have to make a point to remove.

Hmm. I seem to have fallen for flash and bought that crystal skull vodka. I hope it's decent.

I've got 300 jello shots setting up in my fridge.

Nice.

Yesterday I watched part of the game from a bar, had one drink and felt it. Today I watched the whole game at a different bar, had three drinks and felt better than the day before. They didn't taste watered down... Odd. Completely odd.

I went through a period in college where I always had to have fire-making materials (I don't smoke) and a knife in my purse. I still think it's a good idea but TSA paranoia makes it such that I wouldn't start again. Though I do have my Swiss Army knife on me most of the time.

Went to sleep at 6:30pm. Knew it was going to be too early. However, when I get up as late as 10:30am, my "afternoon blues" come in the evening. Dammit. Hope I don't stay up too late again tonight.

when I get up as late as 10:30am

Ha ha ha, that's late? I'm not planning to get out of bed until just before noon tomorrow, and I'm only getting up that early because I'm expecting a delivery.

I sometimes get up later. But that's late when I have SADS and the sun sets around 6pm these days. I want every minutes of daylight I can get. If I spend my usual time dicking around in the morning catching up on email and webpages, I don't get out of my room 'til nearly 1pm.