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i, gentle reader, have laryngitis.
i cannot speak !.
i have not been able to utter a single word in almost 35 hours !.
the only person happy about this is my husband. he is filling the void of my banter with annoying ease by making jokes about "how quiet it is in here".
my mother is also here. i took her "shopping" today.
she got lost and i was forced to attract her attention by clapping and waving my arms in a manner that made all the other shoppers assume that i was mentally-challenged.
despite attempted backgroundish-skulking on my part, every sales clerk in every store we entered screeched "how are you today ?" at about 150 decibels at me.
i was forced to only smile mutely in reply.
they all hated that.
some of them even repeated the question !.
my mother, leaping to my defense, succeeded only in compounding the problem by informing one particularly inquisitive sales assistant that "my daughter can't speak".
brilliant.
(that made the snotty sales cow look right at me. and you can imagine the face i was making at my mother for saying something like that. i must have looked deranged. she backed off as if i was on fire !).
needless to say, unless i succeed in squeaking out a few sentences soon, i fear the build up of pressure may cause my head to explode. so, if nobody hears from me for a day or two, think of me with pity.
my last words weren't words at all. prosperity will have had to settle for a round of applause and a squeak.

- now you cant wake me up this weekend with a phone call in the AM - ILLEGAL in Muggaz' world on the weekend 