I was desperate, OK?!

I've been sick for over a week now. My sinuses have been so pressured at times that I really thought a few times that my head was going to explode. At night, the draining makes my throat sore. EXTREMELY sore. And on Saturday I was looking for any remedy that would make me able to get some sleep. I scoured the Internet for home remedies. I found one that suggested hot water with lemon juice, honey, apple cider vinegar and ... wait for it ... a pinch of Cayenne Pepper.

Did I mention I was desperate?

Since I'd already tried the salt water gargle with limited success -- and since I don't keep extracts like licorice on hand -- I mixed some up and took a few drinks. Seriously, it tasted worse than my vomit tasted earlier in the day (did I mention that I threw up earlier that morning when I tried to take some advil, tylonol, and then eat something in the midst of a sinus headache?). But I took a second and third and fourth drink anyway. It seemed to help a little, but finally I couldn't take the taste any more. And since I didn't want to find out what that crap tasted like coming up, I threw the rest out.

The next morning, what do you suppose my pee smelled like? I know that sentence makes some of you imagine me peeing, and for that I am truly sorry. I don't even want to imagine me peeing. But there it is. Anyway, I was tired and sick and wandered into the bathroom on Sunday morning. And as I began to relieve myself, I smelled something familiar from the night before. Cayenne Pepper!!!

Great, I thought, now I'm sick and my pee smells like ethnic cuisine. And the smell must have really lingered, too, because while I was in the shower, Bereket, my spicy-food-loving-child, came in for his morning pee and asked, "what smells so good?"

My child, you don't want to know.

In other news, I am hereby publishing my very last audio sermon. I've been recording sermons for over 3 years now. It started out as recording the whole service to put on CD for our homebound, but they didn't really find CDs very useful, so we quit doing that a while back. And I've found that not many have been listening to the sermons online. So, I'm quitting. Maybe it will improve my blogs. But I doubt it.

So, here's the sermon. Enjoy it. Or don't. Whatever.



And that's the news from Browerville.

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