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stoopbeck ([personal profile] stoopbeck) wrote2007-10-24 10:58 pm

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For those of you who don't know, I have asthma.

Sometimes it's completely manageable, but attacks are becoming more and more common. I've been told I should keep track of any triggers, so I can decipher if it's something seasonal like pollen or environmental, like mold or cat dander. Sometimes it's hard to track an attack down to one specific source.

Last night, I had a pretty bad one. And I can tell you exactly what the trigger was. The phrase "miasma of poo."

I would say that context is for wusses. But I'm in a good mood.

The explanation isn't exactly going to help. I promise. My family is odd. That's really about all you need to know.

So my dad and I were trying to make the noise a balloon makes when you rub it. Without the balloon. Because we're special. And Mom came into the room, and saw us clutching our faces, and thought that our aged and evil pug had taken out the most powerful weapon in his arsenal with which he will someday take over the world: his incredibly aggressive flatulence.

So she says, "Miasma of poo?"

And I laughed until I stopped breathing, literally.

And then I fell onto Mom, who fell onto the pug, who let forth a for-real miasma. Which only made us laugh the harder, which only made things worse, which only made things funnier. It was a vicious cycle.

Later, when I'd had medicine pumped into me, and was hanging my face into the hot-water-filled sink in an attempt to steam my lungs open, I wondered what a doctor would say, if he asked me what had triggered my latest attack.

There you have it. Miasma. Of poo. Perhaps the fatal word combination that's going to win us the war on terror. Thank you and goodnight.

[identity profile] jzeiggy.livejournal.com 2007-10-25 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
you made me laugh. :) I needed that. Thanks!

[identity profile] stoopbeck.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Teehee! Yay, I love making people laugh. If I had a calling in life, that would be it. :]

[identity profile] alana-eldora.livejournal.com 2007-10-25 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I am intensely curious as to exactly how you and your father were attempting to make the balloon noises without balloons. Perhaps you can demonstrate? Someday? If I see you ever again? Because it's been for freaking ever? I'm not sure why everything is a question? And I hope your lungs are functioning as they should now?

[identity profile] stoopbeck.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm more than willing to show you in person, because it's rather hard to describe. I was going to in the original post, but really-- it was more confusing than anything else.

I will see you again! I will! Everything is now exclamatory! Because you're right! It has been for freaking ever! We must change that! Also my lungs are feeling much better thank you very much!
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[personal profile] skroberts 2007-10-26 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Uh... Hee?

I forgot to mention that I got my wee Scottish turtle! He's so cute. I've just been nuzzling him. :D

[identity profile] stoopbeck.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Eee! I'm so glad it got to you! He's so wee!

We should definitely make one for a certain actor the next time both he and we attend a certain event... And we could make a hedgehog for Flannigan if he ever shows up!
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[personal profile] skroberts 2007-10-26 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
weehedgehogOMG!!!

You must do it. Now.

[identity profile] thelasttoknow03.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
LAUGHING. TOO. HARD. TO. BREATHE.

[identity profile] stoopbeck.livejournal.com 2007-10-26 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's the miasma! It's contagious!

[identity profile] ewanspotter.livejournal.com 2007-10-28 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Holy crap. It's like your Achilles heal!

[identity profile] stoopbeck.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Most definitely!

[identity profile] mei-chan1029.livejournal.com 2007-10-29 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
And what makes it all the funnier is being able to put the description of the pug to an actual image. priceless.

[identity profile] stoopbeck.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
That pug... he's a mess. I met a happy, beautiful, intelligent, willing-to-please pug at the vet the other day, and I couldn't believe they were the same breed. Crazy!

[identity profile] hokkaidomary13.livejournal.com 2007-10-29 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I just spent the last few minutes trying to get off the floor after laughing so hard.

...If those are the words we're going to use, we better not try to get them past George W. or else even more will not get done.

[identity profile] stoopbeck.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. Heheheheheh. You know the whole White House would be all, "OMGWTFPOO?!!" and China'll be all, "Dude, what's with the giggling? Did you just call me a miasma?" and Russia'll be all, "Peace out, you guys, if you're not even going to take this seriously."

It'll be mass anarchy.

[identity profile] hokkaidomary13.livejournal.com 2007-10-30 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh man! I can totally see the Russians as being the only ones taking it seriously. 'Cause you know the Brits, the Japanese, and Australians would be hiding behind their UN folders giggling.