Balloons

So today was Nicole's (my boss) birthday. She turned 24. She told me that she wasn't going to be in to work until 1 so I had 5 hours to finish all the mail and work stuff that needed to be done plus make her a birthday surprise. I had bought a bag of 72 balloons and I was going to blow them all up and put them all over her office. Let me tell you that blowing up 72 balloons by yourself is tricky already, but I have asthma too. Did you know that balloons have this nasty powdery stuff inside of them? Well today I found out the hard way. After about half of the balloons, the inside of my lips started to hurt so bad to the point where I was going to stop but I had to keep going because I couldn't just do some of them. Anyways the point of this story is to tell you that after finishing all 72 of them, my lips feel like the picture above.