Madame Seamstress And The OCD Itch
Days Walking - 105
Location - 65°26’06N by 148°14’43W
Eric - Thanks for sharing your story! Let the new round of ribbing begin! I have to wonder what the Turks do to their foxhole partners who have erotic dreams...
Rest Day, Yay! It’s high time that we got our scrub on, and we used a freshly melted little rivulet of water, about as forceful as your average garden hose on high, running down the hillside to scrub our stinky duds. Whee!
At first, we toyed with the idea of a quick splash in the water to rinse ourselves as well, but anyone who’s ever washed their clothes in freshly melted glacier water will tell you, it’s freaking cold.
And any thought of immersing your naked body in this liquid nitrogen vanishes in the first two seconds of washing, as your hands go immediately numb. So we gathered water, let it warm up, and got our sponge-bath on.
We even gave the tents a rinse, and they needed it. I don’t think they’d really been cleaned since we started using them a few weeks ago. I’m trying to recall and I can’t - when we went from sheltering to tenting. Good thing I have a blog for all that, and I can look it up. But I don’t feel like turning on the laptop right now.
So we have clean - if stiff - clothes to wear once again. Someday I will walk into a Wal-Mart and buy a brand new sweatshirt, soft and comfy, and it will have no stains or holes or poorly-sewn patches. I have to say this, The Pilgrimage has really given me a lot of time to practice my sewing.
I look at the repairs I made early on, and the new Madam Seamstress within me wants to tear out those old stitches and redo them. I get this nearly OCD itch about it, and there are some garments that I avoid wearing, or avoid looking at, because the repair is so jagged and bass ackwards.
Speaking of OCD Gaze Avertion, (Hey did I just coin a new phrase? Doubtful) whenever Anneli takes pills, I have to look away. She’ll take a swig of water, then pick up the pills while holding her head at this weird angle - so she can open her mouth and not lose any water, then carefully drop the pills into her mouth, and then take a bunch of big gulps of water to wash it all down. This makes no sense to me, and though I have tried to teach her the proper way to take pills, she will not listen.
I look away because if I don’t, I’ll want to throttle her or lecture her, and either approach would not endear me to my companion.
Why won’t she listen, Lord? Why?
If you’re wondering which is the proper method for taking pills, here it is: Step 1, pop the pills in your mouth. Step 2, drink some water to wash them down. Actually, for years when I was a kid I took pills sans water. I’d just work up a little spit and send the pill on its way. I’d like to see Anneli do that sometime, or even see her take a pill with less than a liter of water, Hah that’ll be the day.
What pills was I taking as a kid? Actually, I had ADD (probably still have, cause I doubt the biochemistry of my brain has changed much) and took Ritalin for years. I don’t know that it was a good thing in the end, (there’s a lot of studies that argue back and forth) but I was able to keep my butt in the seat and listen to the teacher.
Do you guys have any weird pill-taking mannerisms?
Litany Webb, signing off
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posted by Litany @ 8:35 AM
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I put the water in my mouth first, then the pills; this saves having the pills chill on your tongue for any portion of a second and thus eliminates any tasting of the pill's medicinal ickiness that is meant only for dissolution in the stomach. I didn't realize there was a "right way" to take pills, haha.
Speaking of pet peeves, I absolutely can't listen to my Dad drink. He sucks whatever he's drinking down as though he has just spent weeks walking in the desert, with audible "gulp, gulp"-ing, and then he puts his cup down and says "ahhhh". I think he must be practicing for some Gatorade commercial audition, or something.
I'm with Robin, I put the water (or whatever) in my mouth, then pop in the pill(s), then swallow it all, usually accompanied by at least one courtesy drink. I've been burned a couple of times by trying to take something without water and having a mouth too try to do it and ending up with an absolutely foul taste in my mouth. I was surprised to find that multivitamins can be one of the worst offenders, especially since they are the size of horse pills. I forgot what I was doing one day and began chewing one up instead of just swallowing and it tasted like I had just bit in to a bag of topsoil seasoned with sulfur topped off with a spoonful of Generic Ass Flavor. Buhhh.
I know at least one person that slurps their soup, which is just unconscionable.
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