last week when i had the food poisoning i was basically up from 230am till 630am clutching my stomach. when siobhan woke up she asked if i needed anything, and i replied that the only thing i could think of that would make me feel good would be some flat ginger ale ... and a hot pad. clutching my aching stomach in misery all night had made me remember that this used to happen in high school sometimes (for who knows what reason i would get stomach cramps) and we had this hot pad you could plug into the wall then clutch against your stomach, warming it up and making it feel better. Siobhan did not know where to get a hot pad but she did know where a hot water bottle was.... enter the tigaduck!
Tho to me he resembles a zebra taxi more than a tiger duck, tigaduck lives downstairs from me with our friend Ryan. He was acquired some years ago in Germany, where apparently he is/was as big of a deal there as Barney was here some years ago. (quick note- did you know that Germany is the largest economy in Europe? and that light travels 30cm in one billionth of a second [a nanosecond]?)
here is tigerente in action-
what makes tigaduck special to me is that he contains for some reason a hot water bottle. This I thought was particularly brilliant because you are always trying to keep the towel around the water bottle and it slips and you burn... not good news. this thing has a ZIPPED IN HOT WATER BOTTLE so you can put it in, hold it tight, and drift off to sleep feeling somewhat better no matter what your stomach says.
I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Tigaduck for helping me out, and to thank Ryan and Siobhan. For some reason i have a hair trigger stomach lately (i think last nite it didn't like the sundried tomatoes?) and Tigaduck makes it all better.
from wikipedia-
The Tigerente (lit., tiger duck) is a children's book character created by German artist and author Janosch. It is a little wooden toy duck on wheels, striped black on yellow, that is pulled around on a string by various characters of Janosch's books. It never gets a line of dialogue, but still has become by far the most popular figure ever created by the author. The Tigerente has since appeared on most traditional cultural icon hangouts, including posters, postcards, high school art projects, buttons, mugs, socks, umbrellas, cutlery, and nearly every item of children's furniture imaginable, and has been the namesake and mascot of a German TV show, all without ever uttering a single line.
4 comments:
Ahhh, I remember the good old high school stomach cramps. Especially when you had to give up what was (at that point) the coolest thing in the world: coffee, because you overdosed on Mochas while working at Barnes & Noble in Des Peres.
So my old boss's boss told my new boss's boss that he's probably going to fly me out to NY to do a training with his team fairly soon. With any luck, I'll be out your way sometime before the end of March. I'm going to try to bring Zig along w/ our free ticket for a weekend so we can a) help you out if you need anything, b) buy you some food on one of these excursions you keep going on and c) I can atone for my atrociously ridiculous 30th B-day behavior. I'll let you know when I get the details.
Hugs to your mom and fam from me.
thanks ben. hope to see you soon! i will possibly be more hairy, but so far (as you can see) i am still quite hirsute.
Hi Jason, Amy Keel here. Get well very soon. I am thinking about you! It was nice to see you on Christmas eve and for your unpaid cookie decorating labor. But I'm jealous because you get to see Siobhan and I never do. I hope to see you both soon! Or...Come to North Carolina!
Hi Kid...I tune in to your blog with some frequency, to take your temperature on it all. Some ins, some outs, some what-have-yous are part and parcel of the long and winding road back to the mainstream and out of these woods, it seems.
You're never far away from our thoughts....
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