Pirates ARRRGGGHH Cool!

For the past 48 hours my left eye has been twitching. What started out as a small little annoyance has now turned into a massive disturbance bordering harassment! At first I had tricked myself into believing that it was only twittering at work, because then I had something easy to blame it on. However; it's not a work thing. It flutters all day and night. Even when I lay down and close my eyes to go to sleep - it's still jumping around. Yesterday Jen was sick of hearing me complain about it so she Googled "twitching eye" and told me that I had fatigue, or too much caffeine, or dry eyes. So I went to bed at 8 last night, didn't drink any Dr. Pepper (you know I love me a DP!) and started using Skip's visine (he always has red-eyes, one day I will tell you about the South Dakota State Trooper). None of this made any difference. Everyone else that i mention this to tells me that it is caused by stress. Um, ok.... And can you tell me why the twitching started this week? I have been stressed continually for the past two years, at least - and NOW my eye is fluttering. Is this the result of some kind of stress build up? Seriously. And it's like hiccups, nobody knows why you get them or how to get rid of them. Today my eye feels sore, from all the movement, I mean my eye hasn't had this much winking action since Vegas in 1998! It also feels crusty, which Bernie has told me was from "touching' it too much but could be from the visine. In any case, the one thing that temporarily alleviates the blinking, is to cover my eye with my hand. Yes, you heard me right - I need to cover my eye. I hope you see where I am going with this...


Tomorrow you can expect to see me with my striped shirt, big hoop earring and black shoes with buckles. And don't forget the most important piece.... The eye patch.