Crazy shower toxins

I had an extremely bizarre experience in the shower this morning. It kinda freaked me out real fast, bad enough that I blocked it from my memory and am currently wondering if it was real. My roommate dyed her hair the night before, or at least that's what I gathered from the eavesdropping I did from bed (where I often imagine what it would be like to live with me right now, when I have a job where I have to be there at 8:30am and sometimes 7am until 5:30 or 6... after which I eat dinner with the fiance and hang out until he goes to work at 9. When I go to bed-ish. I see my roommates on average once a week at church. Meh). Anywhoozle, so I got up at the rearcrack of undawn this morning because it was my day to open and got into the shower. My thoughts went a bit like this:

"Ehhh. There's hair dye all up in this joint."
*Turns on shower, waiting for it to go through the routine of hot-cold-lukewarm.*
"It smells like hair dye."
*Showers in surpisingly consistent warm water. Ducks head to wash hair under spigot built for midgets.*
"It tastes like hair dye."
*Feels like hair dye is coming up from the depths of her being. Dry heaves. Almost passes out.*

It honestly felt like I had ingested an entire bottle of hair dye and I was starting to throw it up. So weird, especially because I don't ever vomit unless I have the stomach flu or food poisoning. So I thought maybe it was another of the awesome side effects of the medication I take for acne, which include such delights that I have experienced as ringing in the ears & nausea as well as those I have yet to experience and would argue are not really side effects like kidney failure and lupus. Yikers.

I brought it up to the "early nurse" I was working with opening this morning and she suggested that the heat of the shower may have mixed with the chemicals in the hair dye and the plastic shower curtain I have to make some crazy strong toxins.

Weird. One thing's sure... next time it happens, I'm calling in the authority from my childhood:

Of long absences

Since I know there's such a large fan base that regularly checks my blog, I feel the need to apologize for my long silence in the blogosphere. It has been an eventful past while for me. Here are the highlights:

I. I started dating a guy.


II. We got hit by a car.


III. We got engaged.


Feel free to follow this simple formula in your own life. Patent pending. Anticipate an ampersand soon.

Hahaha!

And Even There They Just Do It for Laughs
Girl going through security: Do I have to take off my shoes?
Security guard with Eastern European accent: No, no, is no need. We are not crazy. We are not at the airport.

--Top of the Rock Observation Deck

Overheard by: Those were NOT my roommates!
via Overheard in New York, Jan 26, 2009

FrankenCharla

So, my doctor thought that I might have skin cancer (melanoma) which can kill you in 4-6 months. Turns out one of my moles had abnormal cells and the other was fine (it having abnormal cells is ok since we caught it early. here's to a public health degree saving my life). The one with abnormal cells is still healing, but the other one healed right up:

Don't worry, I took those stitches out myself.

I'd prefer it went to scholarship funds...

Why is this necessary? And was the cheesy Y uniform extra? Maybe it's part of the 2 million dollars BYUSA spends yearly...