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I wrote this seven years ago after undergoing my septoplasty surgery. I just found it today in some old documents and wanted to share! 
On a rough day post-surgery I needed to stop by a convenience store to pick up some medication for my headache after I dropped the boys off at camp. My house is in a cell phone dead-zone so I also do any necessary phone calls while I’m out running errands. One of these on this particular morning to ask my ENT if the intensity of pain I was feeling was normal (she said it wasn’t). Feeling draggy, tired, and a little pitiful, I decided to treat myself to some retail therapy while I was out. I stopped by my usual favorite aisles: office supplies, ice cream, lip balm.
I don’t know what it is, but when Walgreens has that little orange sign in front of an item that says “LAST CHANCE” with a clearance price, that sends some kind of signal to my brain that I need to buy EVERY ONE OF THAT ITEM. And so that day, in the lip balm aisle, I did. I bought every “Chapstick Duo” behind the little orange signs and I ended up with.. well, a lot of Chapstick Duos. And they’re fun and cute and smell incredible, but whether I really needed six of them I’ll leave up to the heavens.
When I got home and opened up my expected favorite – coconut – I was in love. (You know, oddly, I really hate coconut to eat. But I LOVE coconut flavored/scented body products.) I started wondering to myself if I had anything that I could stick this in as a keychain? And of course I do.
The iced coffee case – the closed version of the sanitizer case – holds this little lip balm container as if I’d measured it for that. So now all I need is five more cases to put all my Chapstick Duos in and I’ll be all set. See? Retail therapy works.
