car dealership cooking, curious fawn and a bug

First thing in the morning I went to the car dealer to get a new battery. I barely made it across town with the  jump. Greeted in the waiting area by  massive television screen blaring  heavy metal cranky blurty  guitar  riffs while show casing  manly men in Carharts and leather, backwards ball caps, cooking with blow torches, chainsaws, hatchets, manly implements. I learned some things. You can add vinegar to mayonnaise and call it white sauce, you can clear a field, truck in tons of hay, light it on fire and roast enough chickens to feed a few thousand "hangry" folks. You can build a log house looking thing, make sure every log in the county is used, and make sure it is large enough to fill a parking lot, torch it, and wait for the embers. Load up an entire steer sawed in half  toss it on the embers with a dash of salt. That's dinner folks! 

 

 I did fall in love with this 60's vehicle and offered to buy it for that 60's price, but they said "NO Ma'am."
 

OK then, I will just take my battery and go. Battery still on warranty which was a nice surprise , instead of spending $250.00 I spent zero, just my precious time.  

Afternoon we decided to go to the theater to see "Living" , sweet little film , Bill Nighy, Britain after the war. Typically British in the good sense, everyone polite and caring for the most part except for the stinker working head desk at public services. He is a pickle! UNTIL....

The acting is flawless, the characters relatable, and Bill Nighy is wonderful as always. He looks like a character Erik would use in animation, severe slash for a mouth, crippled hands, upright ,so much so that bending is probably never an option. His trousers never need pressing.

Halfway through the film I started feeling less well. I hung on thinking that I only need to use the loo and all would be better. I did do that-  a  bit better, then off to the grocery to get cat food. While talking to the man in front of us I felt off , like my head was circling the man buying the hershey bar and my hair was lifting him up to reach the cash register because he was only three inches tall,  the minute we got home I went to bed. 

If you google salmonella it tells you basics, like no big deal you may vomit, have diarrhea, a fever, cramps- sounds do-able.  If you have ever had a period you are well versed  and can handle it.What they leave out are descriptive adjectives and, that when everything gooshy in your body  realizes there is a bug they all get the hell out of there fast and at the same time! It is violent and you will upchuck all the way back to last thanksgiving! Everything that erupts , for hours, is a  trump orange color due to the bacteria's preference for "vile things." Your face will become a red marshmallow from all of the pressure exerted and your head will pop.  You are WAY sick, no fooling. This went on all night, by morning it was just massive orange diarrhea, having run out of orange vomit, every ten minutes or so- and a headache that pounds like the Manly Man's guitar on the highway to hell . Too bad, you can not take a head ache pill, your devastated system will not allow. You are wiped out and stay in bed all night all day and all the next day, slowly rising on the forth day to shake it off ,  unable to lift a kitten, so weak.

On the mend. Two bananas, a hand full of grapes, and a cup of tomato soup just now, days later...feeling almost normal. And water, buckets of water!

The bacteria can stay with a person for a few days  or  a few years...it only takes 100 hundred of those cells , which can fit comfortably on the tip of a ballpoint pen, to destroy you.

This is the fluffy fawn looking in through the bedroom window offering comfort, or is that judgement, hard to tell. Bottom line is this: Do not leave your chicken soup on the counter too long, forget about it and stick it in the fridge. Do not eat that soup unless you have boiled the bejesus out of it. I reckon I am off of chicken soup for the rest of the year.  

Now there is snow falling and it is very lovely. I am going to live to rue another day! Cheers y'all- stay alive. I am off to take a nap after my nap.