the flying squirrel

I have no way to connect these two stories, so I won\'t bother.

Story 1: I was brushing my teeth last night and wandered out to the living room where Haru was keeping watch in the front window. He mewed when he saw me and craned his neck to meet my face as I got close. I figured he must be intrigued by the teeth-brushing process and wanted a closer smell. So, mouth still full of toothpaste, I blew in his face.

He freaked out and immediately jumped down from the window, and he gave me this look like \"What are you, you horrible monster?!\" He wouldn\'t come near me for a good five minutes and backed away when I tried to pet him. It was fun. :D

It didn\'t take him long to get all mewly and affectionate again, though. I guess I\'m forgiven.

Story 2: According to xiola, multivitamins still taste and smell bad. Yes. Yes they do.

Back in the halcyon days of my youth, I worked as a stock boy (stocker? stock person? stockist?) at a drug store. At one point, the store had a couple boxes full of Centrum multivitamins that had expired. My boss had me get rid of them. By flushing them down the toilet.

I couldn\'t just dump them, of course, that would clog the toilet. I had to mash them up first. I have to tell you, inhaling multivitamin dust isn\'t fun. It got a little better when I decided to add some water to the bucket I was mashing the vitamins up in. That helped a little, but I still had to take frequent breaks to keep myself from retching. And just when I thought I was through the worst of it, I got to the Vitamin E and cod liver oil capsules. I learned very quickly that trying to squish those was a very bad idea. So I just flushed them all and hoped for the best.

God, that job sucked.

Whenever I take multivitamins, I get a little bit of that smell and it takes me back to being a highschool kid smashing the things in the staff washroom of a drugstore, trying not to puke. Ah, memories.