Elin Vs. Allergy Pills

[doronjosama]

Apparently, these things will sometimes make me brick stupid, even though I need to take them in order to survive the pollen here in Texas.

That laundry I mentioned last night? Normally, I check all my pockets before I put clothes in to wash. Not so last night, I guess due to the total imbecile factor induced by my allergy pills. In going through the stuff I got out of the dryer this morning (I had to dry one load this morning because they lock the laundry room here at the ridiculously early hour of 10 pm...), I found a completely empty tube of Disney Princesses Chapstick. I mean, the entire tube was totally wiped clean, inside and out.

However, there is no Chapstick anywhere on any of the clothes. It's a laundry miracle!

But.... where did all the Chapstick go? I admit, I am completely boggled. And feeling kinda dumb that I missed an entire tube of Chapstick in one of my pockets. Durrrrrrrr....

Today is a day filled with paperwork! You can almost feel the excitement, can't you?

Comments

[denshousha.livejournal.com]

You sure it was full before you put it in your pockets? Check to see if any of the cats have unusually glossy unchapped lips..

[dhstein.livejournal.com]

OMG! hahahahahahahahah

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Haaaaaa! This made me laugh. Especially since Indy sometimes has a very pink mouth.

[dork-grrl.livejournal.com]

Just recently, I found a fun selection of detrious from Andrew's batchelor party that managed to hide out in dan's pockets...

Several of those plastic party-poppers that apparently went off in the dryer.. I'm still finding little peices of confetti etc from those all over. heh. Not to mentioned coke-flavored condoms (the soda, not the drug, although that might be something to market) which gave me pause until I realised that even if Dan were to cheat on me, he'd probably have enough class to not use coke-flavored jimmies. (Pepsi's okay, though.)

But I've done the chapstick thing before too, and nothing was left but for a faint cherry smell to a certain favorite t-shirt.

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Dude, confetti, in the dryer? That's crazy! It's like when you miss a kleenex in your pocket and then have to pick kleenex lint off everything.

[dork-grrl.livejournal.com]

Yes. it was EXACTLY like that.

[kyryn.livejournal.com]

Water-soluble + no intensive color dyes + reasonably hot water (assuming a warm setting) = bye-bye chapstick and no remaining mess.

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Science explains all! ^_^

[ichbinkeinenazi.livejournal.com]

What allergy meds are you taking?

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Normally, I take the generic Claritin, but when stuff gets too intense, I take the extra-strength sinus headache Benadryl. Unfortunately, that is the one that makes me stupid and/or sleepy.

[zorichan.livejournal.com]

Oh I've done the forgotten chapstick thing too. But like the guy said above it's probably all disolved. Now a marker in the laundery on the other hand 0.o;; is not so easy.

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I know. Pat once forgot a pen in his pocket, and everything in the wash got black ink splotches. That was the last time I washed our laundry together, too. ^_^;

[kvogel.livejournal.com]

Got my wallet washed once. A very bad thing, and needed to replace some important ID and related papers. What a mess.

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

That's terrible! I've accidentally washed money in my pockets before, but it just comes out very clean and crisp or very shiny if it's coins.

In this same batch of laundry, I apparently also washed a 1943 non-copper penny. I can only imagine this came from Matt somehow...

[smudge-dragon.livejournal.com]

That wans't as bad as me washing the busniess check book once. THAT was a disaster (since it also contained the deposit logs and such). @.@

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Thank god our business check book is too big to fit in my pockets. @_@

[brokenlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Being basically retarded and having learned this fact long ago, I now stick to certain procedures to avoid things like "washing the phone".

The relevant one is: if I'm in the apartment, my pockets are empty. That's a rule, and I have a spot set up specifically for everything to go when I start emptying them.

I figure that when actual Alzheimer's starts to kick in, I'll have a head start on it and nobody will notice for a while, including me.

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Good lord, I am terrified of having Alzheimer's. My short-term memory already kinda sucks. Yikes!

That system for the pockets is good though. I should totally steal that.

[the-mouthpiece.livejournal.com]

I too have to use a "Empty pocket spot" to keep from stupid acts of laundry. However, because I'm so used to emptying my pockets whenever entering MY apartment I sometimes slip and empty them in OTHER people's apartments.

I've gotten the whole "Empty pocket" thing down, I'm having problems with the whole "HERE" and "NOT HERE" thing.

[hauptmann.livejournal.com]

When I leave a Chapstick in the wash, I get the usual results; clothes with waxey spots, but I wash just about everything in cold so hot should take care of that before it hits the dryer.

I've almost completely stoppped taking any allergy meds, even as bad as I get hit. Of the stuff that's available I'm either left stupid, unconcious, or so stoned that once I thought the computer monitor at work was breathing and the keyboard felt like it was from sponge.

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I miss the days of Drixoral Non-Drowsy, which worked AWESOME, but it's apparently been pushed off the market by Claritin. Feh!

[hecatemahadevi.livejournal.com]

What? They don't have W&D-equipped apartments in San Antonio?

[doronjosama.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they do somewhere, but they are not in my price range. ^_^;

Our place has connections for a washer and dryer, but I can't afford my own set of those either. Alas.

[hecatemahadevi.livejournal.com]

Shit. Suddenly I appreciate even more having a mother in town who helps with paying rent.

Although, with the third job I'm going to be getting, I might not need as much (or any help)...so she'll be free to...I don't know, maybe spend her money on stuff she wants. She'll insist, of course, that I save all my income for necessities (such as rent, groceries, and taxes) instead of wiring it to you so you can buy a washer and dryer. How much do those go for nowadays, anyway? And what's your rent? The place I'm in now is about $1000 a month, including all the utility payments, and I'm only paying $200 of that (@_@, I know...lucky me...but it really does help my roommate, especially since he works at the U of I, which doesn't pay ANY of its faculty members—or desperate grad students—during August...)

I shouldn't even say *I'm* paying $200 of that. Mom writes me a "subsidy check" every month. Not this one, though, since I just got a big-ass paycheck, out of which I was able to pull my entire contribution. And with a third job, like I said, I won't need as much help from her, either...maybe I can actually start paying off my debts! That'll be awesome! (My "debts" consist of the couple thousand dollars I've racked up in tuition over the last five years, almost all of which has been paid for by Mom and Pop—but I do have a student loan that they revoked because I like learning too much…but I won't go into that now.) Thank God none of my jobs require that much dealing with people. If I had to work in any kind of retail/service business, much less the "It's an Open Secret That We're Free Babysitters" video game industry, I would already have gone on a killing spree. Most likely by stabbing people in the eyes with Gamecube controllers and pre-owned memory cards.

[obimom.livejournal.com]

WHAT third job?