Well, I sat down to type that I was sick as a dog all day yesterday and today I'm feeling better... and then I sneezed (duh, duh, duhhh!). So I went into the bedroom and got my arsenal of nose sprays and took a Singulair, which is the only type of oral medicine I can take (I'm allergic to antihistamines). And got a new box of kleenex from the garage, I went through an entire box yesterday.

I've had bad allergies my entire life, and a couple of times a year I'll just start sneezing non-stop and I know I'm coming down with a sinus infection. Lucky for me, my best friend's husband is a doctor and he gives me a prescription for a season's worth of antibiotics at a time so I can head them off when I feel one coming on. I need to use my nasal saline more often, I've found that's one of the best deterrants to getting sick.

So I spent the entire day yesterday basically sneezing, blowing my nose, and coughing, which makes it difficult to do much of anything else. I managed to wrap all of my packages for eBay so Sparky could bring them in today, but I stayed up till 7am doing so and was too tired (and dizzy) to even take a shower by that point. So I took lots of Keflex last night and before bed, used some Afrin to make my nose temporarily stop dripping, took a couple of codeine for the headache and coughing, and half a valium to make sure I actually slept because that's the only way my body knows to heal. And I did feel much better when I woke up, thank goodness. Still stuffy nose and ears, swollen lymph nodes, sore throat and sore ribs but so far only one sneeze (knock on wood).

And to compound matters last night, my postage program, Endicia, which makes my life SO much easier, was down for monthly maintenance and was supposed to be back up at 4 am CST, and didn't come up till 6:30 am (grumble). So no packing tonight, I think I'm going to be lazy and go watch TLC's "What Not to Wear". I hope they're doing a girl, the guys are no fun at all...