As if it wasn’t enough having to go back to work today (well, yesterday afternoon actually), my body also thought it should give me a proper cold to struggle with on Tuesday night. Come on, I have been good. I have tried to catch up on as much sleep as possible. I didn’t drink a single drop during the carnaval. I haven’t been wearing my wet togs for too long after getting out of the water. I haven’t overdone the air condition thing and kept 15 degrees in my flat. I have been taking my vitamin C’s and most of all, I haven’t been licking on the elevator buttons (tack Stefan Holm). Must have been sitting on something cold thus or perhaps it’s because I’m not wearing a beanie?
Thanks to this I had my drug struggle number two. And since I hadn’t checked up on the active substance in nasal spray beforehand I was up to a bigger challenge this time than the last time with the Paracetamol. Ok, body language for having a cold and needing nasal spray isn’t that complicated (only looks weird) but once I saw the shelf for different nasal drops and sprays I almost gave up right away. Not only one or two or five different ones, but about 35… Should I start from the left or right? Most of them turned out to be just pure saline spray. Hm…couldn’t be that easy could it? Better buy one of those just in case, and a couple of other ones with some strange substances in…none that I could recognize unfortunately. At the end of the day I didn’t dare use any of them, except for the pure saline one, you never know how your nose might turn out. Did some googling at work and ordered some familiar stuff from the nearby pharmacy instead. For future reference, Oxymetazoline or Xylometazoline, that’s the stuff you want.
Quite hard to focus on Portuguese homework with the Olympics going on, especially with Anja crashing and the cross-country skiing sprinters in full action. Better get ahead of schedule with the studying since the weekend won’t be much easier.
How about some motion pictures from the carnaval to escape reality for a few more minutes? I won’t get any Academy Awards for it, but at least you’ll get some feeling about what it was like…including a proper samba dancing sequin bikini girl. Enjoy Unidos da Tijuca!
Thanks to this I had my drug struggle number two. And since I hadn’t checked up on the active substance in nasal spray beforehand I was up to a bigger challenge this time than the last time with the Paracetamol. Ok, body language for having a cold and needing nasal spray isn’t that complicated (only looks weird) but once I saw the shelf for different nasal drops and sprays I almost gave up right away. Not only one or two or five different ones, but about 35… Should I start from the left or right? Most of them turned out to be just pure saline spray. Hm…couldn’t be that easy could it? Better buy one of those just in case, and a couple of other ones with some strange substances in…none that I could recognize unfortunately. At the end of the day I didn’t dare use any of them, except for the pure saline one, you never know how your nose might turn out. Did some googling at work and ordered some familiar stuff from the nearby pharmacy instead. For future reference, Oxymetazoline or Xylometazoline, that’s the stuff you want.
Quite hard to focus on Portuguese homework with the Olympics going on, especially with Anja crashing and the cross-country skiing sprinters in full action. Better get ahead of schedule with the studying since the weekend won’t be much easier.
How about some motion pictures from the carnaval to escape reality for a few more minutes? I won’t get any Academy Awards for it, but at least you’ll get some feeling about what it was like…including a proper samba dancing sequin bikini girl. Enjoy Unidos da Tijuca!
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