tony has been bothering me to help him clean our (very messy) place for the past three weeks. i kept telling him to wait until the beginning of april, i don't have a free life until the beginning of april, upon which (despite the two large projects i will still have to complete, meaning that i'm really honestly only free after september 30th but i can't get away with not cleaning for that long) i will dedicate my remaining light hours of life to cleaning our place, top to bottom.

instead of re-arranging and polishing our living quarters in one fell swoop, as we usually do, we are resorting to cleaning bit by bit (or shelf-by-shelf, as tony affectionately calls it). today we re-arranged and cleaned the spice cupboard. we threw out old spice jars, empty ones, and re-used some for other spices we had a lot of, packed away in bags. this, of course, meant that in a fit of efficiency i had to re-label them all. (this is also an act of self-defense, as i am likely to use a spice as its original label dictates, without realizing the true nature of its contents). one of the labels i will treasure is

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CURRY,

UNKNOWN ORIGIN,

CHEAP,

FROM RABBA

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we also re-arranged the medicine cupboard, which forced me to realize i am out of the one medication that keeps me sane at that awful time of month, the time of The Period. or rather i should call it The Strangled Beginnings of The Period, as that is the worst time when i am assailed by cramps. in any case, i didn't realize i was out of menstrual tylenol, because there WAS a bottle labelled menstrual tylenol, only it was filled with regular tylenol. hence i was forced to commit more frenzied organized re-labelling, which resulted in

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REAL TYLENOL,

DON'T BE FOOLED

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upon studied re-consideration, i think i should have perhaps chosen

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SHHH

REAL TYLENOL

ON THE DOWN-LOW

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~ sappho