From My Deathbed

The title is what I would've used had I written this post 2 days ago. I got a NASTY case of Sinusitis that started on Friday night... oh... what... fun. :( I know what caused it... stupid Mountain Cedar pollen... gets me every year... but this year it was earlier than normal (of course, sleeping with my windows open didn't help). Anyhow, I'm pretty good about using my sinus rinse and everything, but this time it just DIDN'T help at all. Tuesday I really and truly thought I was going to die. I could barely even move or breathe without the entire left side of my face pounding in pain. It was terrible. Then yesterday I woke up and felt like a normal person. It was strange... last night I felt everything that had been on my left side clogging up my right side... then this morning I went and used my sinus rinse and it was evident that the Mucinex D I've been taking since Monday morning had done it's job... I'll leave it at that and not go into the colorful details of how it was evident... just let your imagination do the work on that!

Anyhow, I'm TRULY bummed that my vacation was virtually ruined by sickness... I had less time with friends in town from L.A.... I had less time with my bestie... I missed her hubby's 35th birthday dinner last night (although I did make it over to Ricky's house to visit with him before he left town today for L.A.)... I am glad I didn't have to use up days of work being sick (especially since I'm using a day and a half to head outta town in March!) BUT JEEZ!!!!

Now I'm even less ready to head back to work next week. Oh well, at least we get a 3 day weekend pretty quickly... that will be nice! Thank you Dr. M.L. King jr. for giving us educators a little break before Spring Break... :) I just had a nice lunch of leftover chicken tikka masala that Shrey made, and I'm quite happy about that... now I'm going to watch more Ghost Lab as there's a marathon on Discovery Channel today! :-D

Welp

Can I just say that I'm completely and utterly TIRED of the allergies here? Today marked the 4th day that I woke up with a SPLITTING sinus headache! All of the pain/pressure is on the left side of my head... what's worse is it makes me feel VERY drowsy; like I'm walking around in a fog. I'm really hoping that A) it clears up before I go to the SA Stock Show and Rodeo tomorrow to see Craig Morgan... and B) it definitely clears up before Sunday because I'm reading scriptures at church... and C) it's totally gone by next week Thurs/Fri because I'm subbing for one of the band directors at the middle school (TMEA Music Convention is here in town, and thus pretty much EVERY music educator will be there... I think from the whole state of TX, actually)... anyhow, there's a LOT going on and I seriously can't feel this way much longer. If I wake up this way tomorrow I'm actually considering using a clamp on my head to just pressurize the entire thing rather than having half of my head feeling this way...! It's about to drive me bananas!!!

In other news, today is my Dad's 60th birthday! It's also Jamey Lynn's 26th, and Olive's 26th! I hope they all have a Happy Birthday! Next one up, my Mom's 60th (on the 26th of Feb). I can't believe I'll be turning 27 this summer... I don't feel that old, that's for sure... I still feel like I'm an early 20-something. Hopefully this year will go better, and I'm truly hoping I'll have more than my impending agedness to celebrate this summer (a new job would be a nice thing to celebrate, too!) Anyhow, hope that everyone has a great weekend. I'll probably try and get another post on here tomorrow after the rodeo fun takes place... hopefully I can get some good photos of the grounds and all... :)