hot water returns to my pipes

for the first time in 9 days I took a shower in my apratment that did not entail shivering during and after the cleaning of my body and folicles. It did spit out some (what i assume was) rusty water just as I turned it own.

The shower itself was a glorious affair. I shampooed, I soaped. I took my time, and hit all the important places. some of them, twice.

However, this was still not enough of a boost to get me to work on time.

It should be noted I did shower everyday in the last week, save sunday. I used the ice faucets to wash my hair and scrubbed myself clean the first 3 days. I showered in a Hilton hotel on saturday. Abstension sunday. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I got clean in the yellow confines of my preacher's house.

God provides.

brain freeze

My apartment is devoid of luxury. The hot water heater is the latest thing to go. Some time, late Tuesday is stopped heating water that is piped into my small flat.

There are 3 spigits in my home: Kitchen sink, bathroom sink, shower head. In the past weeks there has been a developing problem with these devices.

First, and even when the cold nob was turned the faucet would run 20 seconds worth of warm water. Then it would get cold.

Now all the water is cold.

I needed to shower before work. It was too cold to shower in that water, but I have quite a tuft of hair on my head so I decided to wash it in the shouwer and cloth wash the rest of my outer self.

Initial rinse was fine. Cold, but doable. I scrubbed the 2 in 1 Dove product in my hair. I looked in the mirror at myself because it is not often one gets to see themself with such sudsy follicles, and it was all the visual I hoped it would be.

Then came the tricky part, rinsing it out. This takes longer. I have think hair, and it require some hand squiggy work. and all the hair has to be rinsed out. about 45 seconds into this process my head got the same sensation I had given it early tuesday evening. The feeling one gets when they eat ice cream too quickly and the skull seesm to shrink.

For the record I blame the neighbors upstairs for the whole mess.

Eats

I brown bagged it. And I had done a good job: carrot sticks, granola bar, 2 reese's eggs, 1 6-pack of peanut butter on cheese crackers, a pouch of ruit snacks, and an oatmeal cream pie. Lunch is at 12:22.

Normally, I eat some of my lunch in the morning because I do not usually eat breakfast. So I started out with the Oatmeal pie and about 8:49am. This is an early start. A minute or so later the bag of carrots had been consumed as well. The Reese's eggs got eaten next, and the fruit snacks and granola bar were gone by 9:05.

I found myself in the Burger King parking lot at 9:18. I went inside, and I ordered the new 10000 calorie Enourmous Omlette Sandwich meal ($4.99 plus tax).

The reasoning behind this choice in two fold. Anytime (with the avalanche of Dieting programs and healthy concious activists) that a food service thumbs its nose at the public and says, "We like fat, calories and cholesterol, and you will too" i am intrigued. After seeing the film "Super Size Me" I had not eaten fast food in over month. I broke the fast. I was mad hungry and these times called for extreme measures.

Secondly I was hungry, very hungry.

I ate the sandwich the hashbrowns and downed the OJ (you know for Vitamin C) in 11 minutes. I was still not satisfied. Also the sandwich would be better with either a biscuit or crossaint type of bread around it. The sesame seed hoagie bun seemed dry and out of place at breakfast.

The sandwich gets 2 thumbs up (out of 5).