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From Cyanide & Happiness.

KNEB Sports Director Rob Barney and Coach Tom Osborne join their voices together to promote Teammates of Western Nebraska through the sale of Rob Barney “Robbleheads”, available at Valley Bank in Scottsbluff and Gering, Wm. Eric Vath Clothier, and KNEB Radio.

Paul: Hey guess who just hopped on the couch with me?

Me: (Looks and sees that Cinders, our cat, is on Paul’s lap) Good, let her sit on you all night and have your butt and legs fall asleep.

Paul: Well, that means I can’t make any tea.

Me: Yes, you can. If I have to make all the food, then you have to make all the tea.

Paul: Hey! I made you dinner tonight.

Me: All you did was throw something in the microwave and push three buttons.

Paul: Doesn’t matter. It still counts.

Yeah, he made me tea ten minutes later.

Paul says this is how showers basically go. I wouldn’t know. I only get the two minute part because Paul uses up all the hot water before I ever get there.

Picture via reddit.  If you read the comments on reddit, be prepared to learn of how careless people are when they shower. And gross.

Last week, I was sick. I had a sinus infection that turned into a little bit of a head cold. The worst part of all this is the gunk that you blow out your nose. Because I have a bit of curiosity about these things, I already knew why you have different colored snot as it is your body’s way of telling you what’s wrong. However, I did learn a few new things.

I already knew your snot is green because your body is fighting an infection. However, the new thing that I learned is that it’s green because your body is releasing enzymes to fight that infection. Those enzymes tend to be high in iron, thus the shades of green. The darker green the snot, the more enzymes that are being released to fight the infection.

I can actually get slightly grossed out when I’m sick. I really do not enjoy blowing my nose only to have chunks hit the tissue and bounce off my hand. I find it rather disturbing and always feel that it’s going to break through the tissue and land on my hand, thus triggering a gross-out effect and me running to the bathroom to clean my contaminated hand.

Lastly, I hate thick, mucus-y yellow snot. It sticks in your sinuses and, if it’s just long enough, it starts to fall back down into your throat. When this happens, it causes a gag reflex. You can’t swallow it because it’s so big you can’t possibly get all of it. You can’t break it off because it’s thick and only stretches. So, you spend five minutes blowing your nose so hard that you pull a gut muscle until it comes shooting out of your nose and slams against the tissue and your hand.

I’ll never understand how your sinuses can hold so much snot. Seriously, why can’t bodily functions be a little bit nicer?