lobsterchick's Diaryland Diary

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Candlelight Vigil for My Ear Wax

Okay, if you've never tried ear candling, you have to. Basically, you can get the candles at health food or new age stores, and they look sort of like regular candles without the wick. You poke it through a paper plate, so it looks like this:

Then you put the pointy end down in your ear, making sure you form a sort of a seal, and you lie down on your side. You have to have someone help you with this, or else you set your head on fire. So then your lovely assistant lights the big end of the candle, and it's pretty much a giant pillar of fire. You then look like this:

Then, once the candle burns down to the mark you've made on it (Exhibit 1), you take it out, and put it out in a glass of water you have waiting. And here's where the fun begins.

In a combination of revulsion and delight not seen since the advent of the Biore strip, you unroll what's left of the candle and see the ear wax. You alternately groan ("Euuugh!") and squeal ("Eeee!") at the thrill of seeing all that disgusting wax out of your ear and in the confines of the ear candle. If you're like me (since I have allergies, I always have ear wax issues... I use hydrogen peroxide, which feels good, but does very little, and I fall into the trap of the Q-tip, which just pushes it farther in), you ask, "That all fit in my HEAD?"

And then you run out tomorrow and buy some more candles because your sister only had one left.

10:30 PM - 11 July 2004

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