Am I the only one that knows not to put Q-Tips in your ear? It seems that everyone I ask cleans their ears this way, but I thought it was a no-brainer. That just pushes the wax farther into your ear and also, you want wax in your ear, like the doc said.

Glad you had a fun weekend with the folks! Tea at the garden sounds awesome…let’s do that sometime soon!

so what did he say? are you going to live?

I’m guilty of Q-tips in the ear. I guess I can try the hair dryer thing.

i’m sorry but that’s bunk! the problem with q-tips is that people mis-use them and shove them way down into the canal. you’re only supposed to use the q-tips in the outer part of the ear. (i’m deaf and my mom is an audiologist, so i think that makes me an ear expert…or not!)

If you wake up with you mouth so dry that your teeth creak and as nasty as a Turkish parade ground, you’ve been snoring. Also, next time you wake suddenly with a jerk (I mean a bodily jerk; not next to a jerky person), stop and think. What’s the last thing you heard? More than likely, a gulping, snorty sound. That’s you snoring.

I am going to live. And at the risk of grossing everyone out, the doctor said that the antibiotics I took two weeks ago killed the bacteria on the surface of the tonsils, but not the bacteria in the crypts. So he put me on two heavy duty three-day Z-Packs. I take the first pack, wait ten days, then take the other pack. Then I’m cured or something.

wasn’t he cool? did he give you the magic numbing stufF?

Wow. Q-tip abuse. Huh. Who knew? Your blog is entertaining AND educational!

Wikipedia rocks!

Some other things you never knew that either you or your sleeping partner were capable of while in bed…sleeping.

1.) Talking. Like complete rational sentences, sometimes with comands in them. And Woe be unto you should you misinterpret those commands. Better still, there’s no good answer for these one way ‘conversations’. ‘Get me the IBM file on XYZ’, does not brook an answer such as ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about hon’. This will bring a scowl and a fullsome argument. While sleeping.

2.) Loud teeth grinding that sounds like small nut crackers.

3.) Thrashing that will have one or both of you hanging off the bed by morning.

4.) Snoring so loud that it can be heard behind closed doors the next floor down.

5.) Moaning & shouting, with no external inputs, interference or prompts.

Then there’s the usual suspects; never being warm or cold enough due to his/her preferences for fresh air and/or artic /desert conditions, the old fashioned blanket hogs, regular non jack hammer like snoring, and the bad morning breath that is worse with the loud ones.

The way I see it, this is one of the places you come out ahead H. So let the Q-Tip aruments begin! Cheers, ‘VJ’

Your blog is both educational and hilarious, my love. Someday, you will have a sleeping partner who can answer all of these questions and more about your night habits. But until then, you provide an important research service: providing more fodder for the “society discriminates against single people” argument…

Hope to see you soon! The advantage to being in the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps is, as our secondary slogan states:

“In NY, no one can hear you snore…”

Oh, VJ is so right! I talk in my sleep and when I make no sense and my husband calls me on it I get beyond frustrated & confused. I’ll be arguing a point in my sleep and then I will begin to wake-up and realize I am making no sense, which just gets me more confused. Ugh!

Let’s just be honest here, Hil, okay?

If you snore. And no one hears it? Well, then you’re not snoring. You’re just breathing heavy internally. Now, if you snore and no one hears it and just you hear it — it’s an internal lung problem. If you snore and you don’t even hear it, then you’re honestly just making up the fact that you’re snoring because you want attention.

I say don’t snore, and everything will work out okay in the end.

Q-Tips! Gotta love ‘em.

I HAVE heard that you are not supposed to clean your ears with them, but I can’t help myself. I’m addicted to dry ears immediately after a shower.

I am definitely addicted to q-tips. I love them. And I sometimes wake myself up when I snore. How does that relate to the last question in the post?

hello, my name is liz i am addicted to q-tips.