Who's Phooey?

sliding the metal cover on floppy disks

the slight resistance of inserting cassette and video tapes

ripping off the strips of holed paper off of dot matrix printer paper 

Unkinking the curly cord of a telephone while you talked

The -peww sound and slowly fading image of a crt monitor turning off, and then running your finger through the static on the dusty glass

The crunch of opening or closing a plastic Disney vhs cover

The sound effects in kidpix

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1. told every nurse and doctor that i loved them

2. dmed a bunch of my friends and told them i loved them

3. tried to @ everyone in my private discord server to tell them i loved them, failed, couldnt figure out how to ping everyone, and then sent a bunch of messages saying that i loved everyone

4. called picks twice to tell her that i loved her

5. while walking inside the house, barely able to stand and with bf holding me up, saw two people working on the house next door, said hi to them, told them i had surgery, and tried to tell them i loved them before bf dragged me inside. 

6. told my doctor, who i have to see next week, to his face, that i loved him

7. tried to call bf’s mom to tell her that i loved her, bf stopped me and told me she was at work. i then begged him to text her. 

also here’s some of the dms i sent my friends

the procedure i had done was a colonoscopy/endoscopy. basically, my doctor knocked me out so he could shove a camera up my butt and another down my throat to try to figure out what’s going on with my stomach. if you don’t know, the preparation for this procedure is both rough and pretty disgusting.

for 24 hours, you’re on what’s called a ‘clear liquid’ diet, meaning you cannot have any solid food at all. the best you can have is broth. or jello. except i dont really like jello so instead i drank broth and tea all day. then in the evening you have to drink this utterly disgusting liquid for a few hours and i wont get into that bc it’s even more disgusting. but once midnight hits after 24 hours of clear liquid diet, you cannot have anything at all. not even a sip of water. nothing. and my procedure was around 10-11. which meant that i had not had solid food in about 36 hours, much less anything filling or with nutrients. 

the other thing is, i’ve had this procedure done before. and the EXACT SAME THING happened. i don’t know what it is, but every time i wake up from anesthesia and am told i can have real food again, my still half knocked out brain goes “CHEESEBURGER” and refuses to even comprehend that other food exists. 

i had spinal surgery in august and had to fast for about a day. the exact same thing happened. AS SOON as i woke up from my major, hard surgery, i begged my doctor for a cheeseburger, in between telling him that i loved him, while i was still in the post-op recovery room, before i was even transported to my hospital room.