headache

i think the excedrin company should pay for the liver surgery i am going to need eventually. for starters, nobody told me acetaminophen would damage my liver until after i was practically on life-support to the stuff, and it isn't fair to tell an addict that the addictive substance has now been proven to be just as bad to your liver as booze... plus, this country is so lawsuit-friendly, i could probably get a couple of million to boot. apparantly someone is once again suing mcdonalds for hot coffee, this time because a customer spilled the hot coffee on someone's child. now i might be crazy, but i don't really think the restaurant is to blame for clumsy people who patronize their location. perhaps the man who spilled the coffee is to blame? or perhaps the parent who let their kid go running around a restaurant bumping into people carrying hot coffee? it's probably really goeorge bush's fault, seeing as how he's to blame for everything else that goes wrong in the world. but anyway, back to the excedrin topic - i am a big fan of supplementing my drug habit with wellpatch's migraine cooling gel patches. FABULOUS things!!! if they didn't look so stupid, i'd wear them in public. one of those plus a handful of pills (yes, i od) and i can almost forget that i have a headache for long enough to fall asleep.
today i began the process of preparing to move. we only "own" a lease on both apartments for two overlapping days in the beginning of october, so all our stuff needs to be ready to go. i started by washing out all the empty kitty litter buckets we had stacked all over the apartment (turns out there are 14). i figured they would make great storage containers, and i plan to separate the "we use often" stuff from the "we will probably never use again but want to keep for sentimental reasons/the possibility they could become worth money on ebay" stuff. so there are litter buckets drying on towels all down the hallway, and a trash bag half full of "toss" stuff on the floor, and i am already tired of moving prep for the day. i hope i get a lot more motivated soon. unfortunately, i am motivated to start decorating for christmas already (this is the fault of my work - they set up the seasonal food section during my week off, and this week i was responsible for the ornament/decor set - there is some really cool new stuff this year). so in all my packing, i am finding things i want to hang up as opposed to put in a bucket, and i am getting all kinds of fun gift ideas. sadly, i am on a limited budget, both time and money-wise, so most of those ideas will remain just ideas.
i think if the headache would stop, i would be more willing to dig through piles of randomness. it's amazing how some people aquire stuff, and some don't. i really admire some people's ability to cram all their worldly possessions into a vehicle and move to another state. i wouldn't know what to do with my shot glass collection, the stuffed animals i've had since i was 3, every letter anyone's ever written me, etc. etc. i found some stuff today that i can't even figure out what it is, let alone where we got it. i also found some ancient american express gift cheques with someone else's name on them. i don't even know this guy, although i think he was a missionary companion of shaggy's about 15 years ago... but how did we end up with them here?
and then i got into looking through old pictures and wishing i had stayed in contact with the people in them. the sad thing about the military is that if you wait a couple of years to write someone, you have no idea literally where in the world they are. and then i heard that a friend of mine from high school was getting married somewhere in san diego on sept. 7th, but i couldn't track down anyone who knew any details until after i had missed the wedding. and there were people there i haven't seen in years! crazy world.