I've been having fits lately - of the coughing variety that is. And to my family, no it's not the habitual familial cough that I tend to have - this is from the tail end of a head cold.
And for some reason they conveniently begin to affect me about 5 min after I lie down in bed. Five minutes after I've laid down in bed, gotten warmed, and am waiting for that happy, fuzzy almost asleep feeling to set in - and then it begins. It's the involuntary kind of coughing fit - where you can try to repress it, but then it just pushes it's way furiously up your lungs and bursts out. I lay in bed as long as I can stand it (or as long as my dh can stand it) and then get up to get a drink of water or a cough drop.
I got smart the second night and left some water and a cough drop by the bed. Well, last night I thought I won't need it - so I only had some "old" water next to the bed and a tiny, mostly eating cough drop. I usually cannot finish an entire cough drop due to the nasty flavor - so kind of like a kid putting their chewing gum on the bed post for the next day, I wrap up the cough drop in it's little paper and leave it for the next time.
I shuddered when I realized I was gonna have to take a sip of water that had been sitting out for about 24 hours. I even hate the look of it - with all those little bubbles in it. Sure I could get a refill but that would require getting out of bed and climbing a flight of stairs to the kitchen. I took a sip of that tepid, sweetish water and popped in the mostly eaten cough drop. Then I fell asleep.
Woke up an hour or so later with another coughing fit - again I tried laying there hoping it would all go away and that I would not need to get up and hunt for another cough drop. But alas, I got up and got another one. Then I had to worry that I'd fall asleep with the cough drop in my mouth.
Now I'm leading somewhere with all of this - to the question of whether or not you have a "thing" about getting water from a faucet in your home that is not the kitchen (ie. bathroom or laundry room) and whether or not you have a problem drinking water out of a mug.
See if I wanted to refresh my water last night I would have had to bypass the two closest water sources b/c ever since I was a child, I have not been able to drink water out of a bathroom or laundry room faucet. I really can tell that there is a taste difference and just the way the water comes out of the faucet looks different (to me). It has nothing to do with drinking filtered vs unfiltered water (b/c they are all unfiltered).
And the idea of drinking water out of a mug gives me the shivers. I can drink milk out of a glass or a mug. I can drink tea out of a mug or a tea cup. But water or juice or soda - must be in a glass!
Am I the only one who thinks this way??
And for some reason they conveniently begin to affect me about 5 min after I lie down in bed. Five minutes after I've laid down in bed, gotten warmed, and am waiting for that happy, fuzzy almost asleep feeling to set in - and then it begins. It's the involuntary kind of coughing fit - where you can try to repress it, but then it just pushes it's way furiously up your lungs and bursts out. I lay in bed as long as I can stand it (or as long as my dh can stand it) and then get up to get a drink of water or a cough drop.
I got smart the second night and left some water and a cough drop by the bed. Well, last night I thought I won't need it - so I only had some "old" water next to the bed and a tiny, mostly eating cough drop. I usually cannot finish an entire cough drop due to the nasty flavor - so kind of like a kid putting their chewing gum on the bed post for the next day, I wrap up the cough drop in it's little paper and leave it for the next time.
I shuddered when I realized I was gonna have to take a sip of water that had been sitting out for about 24 hours. I even hate the look of it - with all those little bubbles in it. Sure I could get a refill but that would require getting out of bed and climbing a flight of stairs to the kitchen. I took a sip of that tepid, sweetish water and popped in the mostly eaten cough drop. Then I fell asleep.
Woke up an hour or so later with another coughing fit - again I tried laying there hoping it would all go away and that I would not need to get up and hunt for another cough drop. But alas, I got up and got another one. Then I had to worry that I'd fall asleep with the cough drop in my mouth.
Now I'm leading somewhere with all of this - to the question of whether or not you have a "thing" about getting water from a faucet in your home that is not the kitchen (ie. bathroom or laundry room) and whether or not you have a problem drinking water out of a mug.
See if I wanted to refresh my water last night I would have had to bypass the two closest water sources b/c ever since I was a child, I have not been able to drink water out of a bathroom or laundry room faucet. I really can tell that there is a taste difference and just the way the water comes out of the faucet looks different (to me). It has nothing to do with drinking filtered vs unfiltered water (b/c they are all unfiltered).
And the idea of drinking water out of a mug gives me the shivers. I can drink milk out of a glass or a mug. I can drink tea out of a mug or a tea cup. But water or juice or soda - must be in a glass!
Am I the only one who thinks this way??
