Damn Your Minty Goodness, Tylenol Cold Medicine!!! And Some Other Funny Stuff!

Once again, Faithful Readers, I find myself put on my ass by a nasty cold. About once a year I get knock down sick and it's never fun. I hate being sick. I mean c'mon, yeah nobody likes to get a cold but I get truly messed up when I catch a cold. I can't function in any human way and everything hurts terribly to the point that I just want to sit and cry but that would stuff me up more and the fact that I can't breathe makes me claustrophobic. Yep, this sick thing isn't for me. I wrote a blog maybe 3 years ago when I got sick the last time and as I was taking my shot of Blue Minty Death, Oops I mean Tylenol Cold Medicine, I remembered that blog. Here's a link if you don't remember it. http://bexchaosandcandy.blogspot.com/2010/10/cold-medicine-untapped-fun-or-devil.html

I wasn't lying, being congested and/or stuffed up makes me horribly claustrophobic. I get super anxious when I can't breathe through my nose which makes it really hard to sleep. So I end up snorting nasal spray like a junkie and chasing it with that old familiar demon juice, Tylenol Cold Multi-Symptom. Seriously, even after 3 years I can't figure out if that stuff is completely awesome or the darkest shade of pure evil. It kills the symptoms of your cold but it also makes you not care if the house burns down around you either!! I'm serious, once that pretty blue liquid hits your system just hang up what ever you were planning to do because it's not getting done.

So after 2 days of near comatose cold medicine state of mind, I decided today was the day to quit cold turkey and just suck it up! I finally unpacked my work space and organized it :) So that I can better entertain you, Faithful Readers!!

So at least that's finished, finally!!! However, I did not think the whole thing through as of course is my nature. I went balls to the wall, cold med free into this task and never stopped to think of the disaster that would occur after. Yeah, 2 hours of unpacking, sorting, organizing, moving around boxes, I feel like death on a stale cracker! Now, once again, not saying anyone actually likes being sick but for one reason or another when I get sick I get tremendously sick. This doesn't work for someone that is use to being on the hyperactive end of life 24/7, sitting still for two days feeling like this has killed me. I am quite literally sick of being sick! Which leads me to some funny observations......

Did you know that there is actual juice in Orange Juice? Yeah, you can taste it when there's no Vodka in it and let me tell you, it tastes mighty funny without vodka!! I thought it went bad or something! For that matter so does, Sunny Delight, Fruit Punch and Berry Punch.........so I added Vodka and now they taste just fine :)

My mom's best friend brought a small claims lawsuit against a local Dunkin' Donuts because their flavorings didn't list an almond extract and she is highly allergic to almonds thus resulting in one hell of an allergic reaction! She lost the lawsuit because on the bottles of flavoring it says "And Natural Flavorings".

And in other small claims court news, my ex Maverick won his case against me but will receive no compensation as I receive my dead husbands pension. But of course I will receive threatening letters about payment due every few months constituting a wagging of a political finger in my general direction! 

So as you can see the small claims division of our court system works for no one, but is amusing!! 

In other legal news, my 1 year conditional is officially expired and I am now free to smash someone's face in as is my constitutional right! Coincidence, oh I think not!!

New relationship is going well although, it does throw me off a bit. Not entirely use to a relationship, ya know? So there are adjustments as would be expected, nothing bad but actually kind of funny! Think you'll get a kick out of this!

2 days ago he showed up on his lunch break to check up on me because I was beginning my cold. Or that's the reason he gave me and I just figured he forgot something cuz come on, never had that happen before. While he was home on break I mentioned a tea that I like when I am sick. 2 hours later he's calling me to ask exactly what kind of tea it was, uuummmm ? Okay, I think to myself, he's just being super sweet because we are relatively new. Then the next day I was feeling worse than the first day, he once again shows up on his lunch break. This time packing multiple hot soups! 

I panicked. 

Straight, panicked. 

I sent a frantic phone call to my best brother Dave as soon as my love left to head back to work, freaking the hell out, screeching in my sick, congested, Muppet voice!! Panicked, I tell you! "What is the Standard Operational Procedure in this?? Thank you note, gift basket, flowers, a card?? Help me figure this the FUCK out NOW!!!!" 

Dave laughed at me for a solid 5 minutes. Laughed. 

First of all, the fact that I was considering this a situation to completely lose my shit while I'm sick as hell was apparently almost as amusing as Second of all, my complete and utter lack of knowledge on caring adult relationships. So Dave's reply was "Well, usually reciprocating the feeling works fine however, a gift basket would be HILARIOUS!" 

I need to find more girls to hang out with. 

Come to find out there are WWII ruins behind and under my new apartment complex. Yep, there use to be a munitions factory and depot here! I'm still exploring it physically and the history behind it all but here's some cool pix:

That's my roomie in the background getting dragged through the woods with me :)

Also went apple picking with my man and his children and had a blast as usual at his Mom's place!

All in all, life is good despite the massive doses of Tylenol Cold! However my belief in it's ability to cure me has wavered and I think it's just that I'm sick because there is a serious lack of alcohol in my body soooooo.............

CHEERS MATES!!!!

Till Next Time, Faithful Readers.....

BEX THE ALL POWERFUL!!!

New Life, Same Procrastination!

It's been a seriously crazy month and a half, Faithful Readers. I apologize for being absent for so long but as you well know by now, if I'm absent for an extended period of time it's because the Universe went to a whole new level of Chaotic even for Bex. When last I posted, I was in full Summer mode and had made the realization that I could in fact, be happy again. It was an exciting time in my little Bex Bubble. The problem with this way of thinking is that I put on my blinders and headed down that path not realizing I was about to be blindsided by "Murphy". There's too much that happened in such a short period of time for me to detail it all. Suffice to say it was all snowballed into a 2 week period of residing on the 7th Level Of Hell.

Then, I moved. New apartment, no more mold issues, no more kitchen wall falling down, no more running into the Ex from Hell, no more upstairs asshole neighbors. It's all over.

In the process of Bex World collapsing it actually began to renew simultaneously. I made a new friend through my buddy Tony that would become pivotal in my new life and my survival in the destruction of the old life. I reconnected with someone from my past that made me see that.......well we'll get to that. And most of all, if it weren't for the emotional support of my best buddies I wouldn't have made it through. Tony, most of all. He's a good friend and when I'm stressed and freaking out he becomes my rock and reminds me that I can and will get past anything that comes my way. I couldn't have done it without him by my side and have a new appreciation for his friendship.

Now even though I have a whole new life, I still have the same tendency to procrastination in the morning lol. Yep I'm sitting here in my Transformers Jammies, sipping coffee, listening to the news and writing to you my Faithful Readers. Nothing has changed in that aspect.

Unfortunately, I am living without cable and just got internet a few days ago so my current events/world news knowledge is limited to talk radio. LOL, as of course nothing can happen smoothly even in the new life, I have a TV but it's older so I required a converter box. Finally got that and an antenna, it's Sunday. Bex has football!!! Oh wait no, no Bex doesn't because I finally got the damn converter box hooked up and working but the antenna is broken, wtf!!! Of course I could get cable and completely bypass this whole issue however, someone I trusted evidently used my information to have a cable account and now it will cost me over $500 just to get this set up, not an option at the moment. Well we have internet so I'm thinking that I will be finding a site to live stream my football because I will be damned if I miss football!!!

My new place is kinda far out into the suburbs. Beautiful area, lots of amenities in the community. One of these being miles and miles of walking trails! This excited me, I like walking and hiking and especially in a wooded natural environment. Me and the roomie decided to finally go check this out the other day because it's right outside my door!! Talk about some incredible luck!

Everyone knows that I am a huge history buff and especially local history. There isn't much about Central NY that I don't know. Except this, right outside my door, along these walking paths are these crazy abandoned structures and  paved roads! Where the hell did these come from and why do neither myself or my room mate know about this?? We had literally only gotten 30 yards from my door and came across a wonderful older gentleman that we approached, asking if he knew what these foundations were from. What luck, he did know! He explained that this whole area was once a munitions works in WWII! All of these old structures are part of a military installation that built and stored armor piercing munitions! How perfect is that? I literally live in my perfect place, local history I wasn't aware of, abandoned structures that I can explore at my leisure and photograph! This makes me blissfully happy in a way that is inexplicable. How does life get better in Bex World you ask? Let me tell you how this wonderful new life got tied up with the perfect bow.

Earlier I mentioned that I reconnected with someone from my past and that we'd get to that explanation. Often in life the old saying that you'll find something when your not looking for it happens to be very true. In the midst of chaos and the destruction of my World, in the middle of me personally breaking down in the worst ways possible emotionally, I managed to find someone that I had often thought about through the years. Sometimes I would ask old friends if they knew how he was doing or if they knew what had happened to him. Always to no avail. One time I did hear some news on him and it seemed to be happy news so I left it alone but it didn't stop that fleeting thought from occurring from time to time. He was my first love, my first High School sweetheart, you always wonder what's happened to that first love. That love that seems to teach you the ups and downs of love and so often ends in teen angst the likes of a Shakespeare play. He found me and we began to talk every now and again. We hung out one evening and when it came to needing help moving, he offered to help out. From that day on it's very much so been like living in one of those fairytale stories that I love so much to get lost in. Neither of our lives is perfect and we are both jaded and a bit broken but it would seem that our broken pieces fit together to make us both whole. He makes me happy in all ways humanly possible and what's more, he makes me want to look forward with hope instead of just existing in the now, to believe that having a partner in life to share life with, just may in fact be possible. I look into his blue eyes and see all the beauty of the world inside one man's heart and soul. It amazes me that no one has seen it there, I get lost in the wonder of sharing time with him. I wasn't looking for this, I definitely wasn't expecting anything like this to happen. Especially after not too distant debacles of the heart and so many years of resigning myself to an individual, single lifestyle. Sometimes you do find exactly what you want when your least expecting it.

Till Next Time Faithful Readers,

NEW AND IMPROVED BEX

P.S. I promise we'll go back to normal Chaos and Candy content when next we meet :)