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Things that suck...

Getting woken up at 3:30am by the first floor hallway smoke alarm's periodic LOUD beep.. Beep. Beep. Beep. Just a single beep, every sixty seconds. A very loud beep. A beep that cannot be ignored even with the aid of earplugs, white noise, music, or a pillow over one's head. A beep that apparently only I can hear, because I'm the only one in the hallway vainly trying to do something about it (but alas, I am too short, even with a step-stool to reach it).

It's 4am, I've been up for a half hour, I've written a note to the owner's son (who lives across the hall) asking him to help. I'm contemplating calling the landlord. Why oh why does this sort of thing have to happen in the early am hours of a Sunday? Damnit. I don't want to wake anyone up, but on the same note, I don't want to stay up gritting my teeth and listening to that damned beep.

I'm all fucked up on pain meds, I can't drive anywhere and I'm loathe to call a friend looking for a couch and a ride (why wake them up?), but I don't want to rouse the landlord. I just want to go to sleep......

Gah! It keeps beeping!

Bliss

I just took my first real shower (not one of those ever so "cleansing" sitz bathes) since the surgery and it feels SO good to be clean.

*sighs with contentment*

I even put some perfume on.

It feels good to be human again.

The third most painful moment of my life.

I finally pooped.

And OMG it fucking hurt.

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I've been eating a lot of canned soup and frozen Lean Cuisine meals over the weekend. Today I had both soup and a frozen dinner that involved "meatballs." Somehow I'm now convinced that I'm going to get gout from eating too much processed meat.

I don't claim to know why I'm convinced of this, only that I am.