I mentioned putting this list on here awhile back, and decided I would make myself a little vulnerable by sharing my fragile self with you. On one condition. If you read this, you have to create your own list on your blog and let me know so I can check it out. I think if we can all learn from others' mistakes, my list wouldn't be growing as exponentially as it has the past few weeks... ;)
Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way
1. Dr. Pepper does not feel good on a sore throat. Actually, it burns like the dickens.
2. Don’t sweep rat poop out of a shed. First, I guess you are supposed to spray it down with some bleach solution to kill all the rat disease germs, and THEN sweep it out carefully. Hmm… I better google rat diseases.
3. Sun Breeze Concentrated oil does not belong on your cheek bones. No matter how bad your sinuses hurt. But you COULD put it there if you were doing a crying scene for a movie and wanted real tears for about an hour from pain.
4. Heed the warnings on the heating pad. It’s true that you can get burned from a heating pad. Especially if you leave it on “high” and then lay your neck and shoulders on it and then fall asleep on the couch for 4 hours, with it on bare skin. Also, the 2nd degree burn you receive from that heating pad is in the perfect spot for your shirt collar to rub it raw day and night. Delightful.
5. Since we are on warnings, the skull and crossbones warning on the bags of charcoal are pretty useful if heeded. Do not bring a Hibachi grill indoors to cook dinner while you are playing Sega on a bean bag with your college roommates, unless you have a boyfriend stop over unexpectedly to save your life by dragging you into the cold and making you stay outdoors for 30 minutes or so. Again, do NOT do this, even if it seemed like a good idea at the time… (what’s better than saving on your heat bill AND cooking AND playing video games…I would say BEING ALIVE is better…don’t be a statistic on the 5 o’clock news.)
6. This isn’t really PERSONAL experience (ahem..Josh), but I did get to experience the consequences firsthand. If you find rat poop in your shed, do NOT bring all your shed storage into your garage. That shed storage most likely contains the rat house. It’s like taking the country mouse and treating him to a taste of city life, or at least a taste of just about every water pipe in your attic. So a new ceiling and countless hours of heat lamps and fans on wet carpet later….lesson learned. Keep the playing ground even. Rats belong outside.
4 comments:
Thanks for sharing, you are fun to read. I have to say, however, I'm a country girl, and you couldn't treat me to the city, so how about taking a city girl and giving it a taste of the country?! Lol. Those are some serious adventures!
You are the best at presenting things in a hilarious way. You crack me up! Sounds like you need to beware the rat!!
OK, I will have to think of the hard lessons I've learned, but in the meantime, I do have to tell you that while Dr. P isn't good on sore throats, it's amazing on major headaches! Sometimes I'm a little bit glad to have one, just to justify partaking, as I don't drink caffeine otherwise. But a few times a year...I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, wouldn'tcha like to be a Pepper, too?!
I think orange popsicles are better for sore throats than soda pop.
As for hard lessons, I think the stupidest thing I do is to absent-mindedly pull up an errant strap and accidentally pop myself in the jaw. I feel like an idiot every time it happens :(
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