As Stupid Does...

 

 The concrete lady wearing a bikini at the JSM gas station near Filadelpha.

Lot has happened. We traveled. There was family dramaz. We traveled back to the no drama zone where it's always Tuesday afternoon, and the worst drama one can have is running out of Corona, or that bougie bubble water I drink since I cannot drink. I like drinking, it does not like me so I avoid it.

A couple of funny moments. Jim discovering he forgot to pack underwear just as he went to take a shower and demanding to know why I let him not pack undies. I had to point out anew he's a grown ass man.... He finally bought new ones and we managed to shift him out of the old man tighty whitys, the Walter White of underwear, to knit boxers, which immediately made him sigh happily that now he had more room for his junk. 

Today I pulled my own doozy stupidity that more than rivals forgetting to pack drawers.I drank bug spray. Didn't mean to. Cleaned the kitchen. Washed the dishes, just like people are wont to, followed by copious spraying of the kitchen for those tiny sugar ants. During our week away they moved in, and I'm going about gassing the crap out of them.

Where I screwed up with this is that I neglected to wipe down the countertops. I diddly bopped away like some idiot having a very bad balance day. Went to grab some ice from the freezer and confronted a giant lump I proceeded to pound right on my marble kitchen countertop. That self same countertop I'd blasted with bad chemicals an hour earlier. Apparently the ice picked some up.

An hour later I started to feel most weird, racing stomach muscles tightening and releasing, nausea and a strange ache where my kidneys are. It took me awhile to work out what had happened, and that Mast Cellie stand by - If in doubt, Benadryl it out - yeah I took some Benadryl. It passed quickly and I realized - D'oh! - I had to work the Google and find out what to do. Drink water? Thing I was already doing, which is why it was so short lived. Dodged a stupid bullet.

Don't be me. Wash after using bug spray. I know I will now.

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