For the past few months, I’ve been taking Ginkgo Biloba because it’s SUPPOSEDLY one of those herbal remedies that improves your memory. Since I can spend all day going from room to room and saying “Now, what did I come in here for?”, I figured my memory could use all the improving it can get.
Seriously, right now there’s a note in front of me that says “Christy Jan 27th” and then “11:15” and then “X-acto Knife” and I do not have the slightest clue who Christy is, or what our date on January 27th at 11:15 is about (or where it is) and why I might need an X-acto knife with me. Maybe I feel threatened by Christy.
(I’m not kidding – Christy, if you’re a reader and you’ve been threatening to come kick my ass at 11:15 on January 27th, you’ve been warned: I have an X-acto knife!)
So. Anyway. What was I saying?
(SEE??)
I’ve been taking Ginkgo Biloba and to be honest I have noticed zero zilch nada in the memory-improvement area and also I think I might be getting dumber judging by the number of games wherein my ass is handed to me when I’m playing Words with Friends. AM I RIGHT, WWF OPPONENTS?!
Every morning, I have a handful of supplements to take, and some of them are the ones I swallow whole, and others are ones that are chewable – if I could, every supplement I take would be chewable because they’re so much easier to take than the other ones. I take the swallow-whole ones first, and then I toss the chewable ones into my mouth and chew them while I’m getting into the shower or brushing my hair or whatever.
Yesterday, I swallowed the swallow-whole pills, and then I tossed the chewables into my mouth, and I turned to step into the shower without realizing that the Ginkgo had gotten mixed in with the chewables.
And then. Oh good lord, and then. It was like a Ginkgo Biloba tree (?) had taken a shit in my mouth. It was the most awful, most disgusting, foulest, most HERBAL thing I have ever tasted in my entire life. I immediately spit everything in my mouth out into the toilet (THAT was pretty), and then I scraped my tongue with a tongue scraper, and then I spit some more, and then I brushed my teeth and my tongue and gargled with some mouthwash from the very back of the under-sink cabinet, and finally when I was eyeballing the toilet cleaner because ANYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER, the taste started to abate. I could still taste it faintly for the next few hours, but it did eventually go away. THANK GOD.
I stopped taking the Ginkgo Biloba because I don’t ever ever ever want that horrible experience to happen again because I swear I would have to cut my tongue out if it did.
Now, what was I saying?
Jax keeps his eye on the feather teaser.
After hanging out on the little cat tree, Tig heads for the ground. Do you love his little nub of a tail, or what? Isn’t that awesome?
“Is it SAFE, or is she still vacuuming?”
The vacuum’s put away, so it’s safe.
Clay, hanging out in the box we commonly refer to as the “Corbie box”, because – try to follow, here – Corbie likes to hang out in it.
Jake, making sure there’s no food in that box.
They love climbing this scratching post like nothing else.
Alice Mo (current nickname: MoMo), taking a bath in the morning sun.
“What?”
Previously
2011: I amuse myself so.
2010: No entry.
2009: No entry.
2008: Even though I never did look ratty, and she’s a whore.
2007: An entry in pictures.
2006: I’m not germ-phobic or anything, but GAG ME.
2005: Stuff I Bought.
2004: No entry.
2003: Frequently asked questions.
2002: I love me some messing around with the camera.
2001: I was being subjected to porn without realizing it!
2000: Ben and me, we had sex in the back of a van.
OMG, you are KILLING me. Also, THESE are the cutest kittens you have ever fostered. I know I say that every time, but still.
Every time you get new fosters I wonder how every batch can be so photogenic. Then, (DUH) I realized that it’s your skill with picture-taking. These guys are pretty damned cute, though.
I took Ginko Biloba years ago and noticed nothing as well (and I gave it several months). It was surprising because I take a ton of supplements and I’ve noticed an improvement after introducing each one (except Ginko Biloba…is it just a placebo?).
My parents have a Ginkgo tree and from the way it smells when the fruit falls off… Yeah, can’t imagine that would be a taste treat!
Well, I’m sorry to learn you are in the great hereafter. You know, that’s when you go into a room and ask yourself: “What am I here after?”
Couldn’t resist that; it’s a favorite joke I was told when I started entering the hereafter. 🙂
You do perfectly fine in WWF. Don’t sell yourself short! I know it sucks when it feels as though each game is hopeless. I am sorry 🙁
I actually enjoy the games, whether I win (I’ve won a few!) or lose. Most of the time I don’t even notice the score, but it cracks me UP when the person I’m playing with plays something like “Men” and gets 300 points, and then I play something with 7 letters and get like 3 points. 🙂
Also, don’t you dare try to throw the next game – not that you would, but in case you’re tempted. (I always suspect when I’m winning a game that my opponent is throwing the game and letting me win, heh.)
I have a note to myself in the notepad feature on my phone. Nestled in amongst defunct shopping lists and half-developed story ideas, there it is… three words:
“Morgan Freeman, reverberating.”
One day someone is going to read some of the stuff I write, send me in for a drug test, and be utterly baffled when it comes back clean.
You Elayne, are one funny lady.
Looking at the pictures of The Sons, I remembered that when we got out Bailey, his litter consisted of two tabbies and two black and white kitties. The tabbies had normal tails and the black and whites had stubby tails. I wonder how common that combination is.
That’s an interesting question! The only other tail-less kitten I’ve had in the past (that I remember) was orange and white.
Hey, I’m reading in the news that WordPress is going to ‘go dark’ tomorrow for the SOPA protest — does that mean no Bitchypoo/LovenHisses tomorrow as well?
I don’t have any plans to go dark at this point, but I honestly don’t know whether their going dark will affect my sites (since the WordPress I use is hosted on my own site), so I guess we’ll see. 🙂
Ummmm, you beat me in WWF….. so yea I threw the game….. NOT! I think I need a re-match!
LOL, Christine – see? I would never have remembered that I won that game! 😀
Those tailess kitties are so, so cute! I think I agree with Paula, cutest ever. Also, I love Jax’s tail. Always straight up.
Years ago, my mom got on the Ginkgo Biloba bandwagon and had been taking them for a couple months. She was probably about 63 years old at the time. I was over for dinner one night and said “Hey Mom, how are those pills workin out for ya?” She stopped in her tracks and said “ahh shit! I forgot all about the damn things…it’s probably been a week or more since I took one!” I just cracked up and said “money well spent.” She passed on back in ’98; but still to this day, every time I hear Ginkgo Biloba, I think of that conversation and smile! 🙂
Ok, I’m a big dork but I’m laughing like a 12 year old boy reading the previously blurbs from 2000-2002. “Ben and me, we had sex in the back of a van. I was being subjected to porn without realizing it! I love me some messing around with the camera.”
Apparently, it doesn’t take much to amuse me. 😉
Everytime you pass by a Kitty in a box, do you yell out “KITTY IN A BOX “? 🙂