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When good days go bad....

So, yesterday started like a pretty good day, even though I wasn't really feeling well. I went to school, had a study hall and lunch to finish all my homework, went home.... My sister, her friend, my sister's friend's friend, and I played capture the flag. -That was fun, we kept making up rules, "if you're tagged, you have to stand still for 10- no 20- seconds!", "oh- and you are allowed to hide the flag off this block!" It was later when the real trouble started happening. I don't feel like going into much detail, so I'll make a list. *Sob.*

1) At dinner, we had spaghetti. I failed to realize that there were two bowls of sauce on the table and I accidently took the one with the meat in it. I'm a vegetarian. As soon as I found out, I immediately spit out the parts of it that were still in my mouth and then rinsed my mouth with water.

2) We went to Target to get some things to help me sleep better, because since I moved into my new room, I've been having trouble sleeping. What with the bright streetlight outside the windows and the ticking of the alarm clock, I was popping pain killers into my mouth like candy. I had to get some new sleep things. So, at target, we bought a "shapeable" pillow, a sleep mask, and an alarm clock (pictured above left). I also bought a really pretty lamp, but nothing was wrong with that.

After I got home and unwrapped and ripped apart the packaging of the products we bought, making them basically unable to return, I found some seriously horrible things about them. The alarm clock, though it looked cool, had no light, no lighted numbers, and was transparent so it was basically impossible to see. The sleep mask was translucent. The pillow was so firm and inflated, it felt like sleeping on a beach ball. Therapeutic my butt. So I went from popping pain killers into my mouth like candy to drinking pain killers like water-- I'm exaggerating a little....

I fixed the alarm clock a little bit by placing a piece of paper over the glass to make it less transparent (left). Now at least you can see the numbers on it, but it doesn't really help at night. I tried to find the manual to the alarm clock, but I couldn't find it! I e-mailed the company about the light issue, but I don't know when they'll get back to me. I felt really guilty about spending all that money on stuff that just makes the situation worse.

April 28, 2004 at 02:17 PM

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