When Allergies Attack

Most people equate the arrival of Spring with warmer weather, the sun setting later in the day, and flowers and trees starting to bloom. Me? I equate it with itchy eyes, constant sneezing, and sinus congestion. Yes, friends…allergy season has arrived. Unfortunately I fall victim to it every single year. It all started on Friday. I keep some allergy medicine at work so I can take a pill every morning when I get to my office. Usually the medicine I (used to) take worked like a charm, but for some reason it decided not to work on Friday…great start to my weekend. I barely made it through the day. My eyes felt so swollen and I couldn’t stop sneezing. Let’s just say it’s a good thing I didn’t have any plans for Friday night because I probably would have had to break them.

I think I’ve finally found an allergy medicine that works for me, which is good. Most of the ones I’ve tried make me drowsy and unable to function. I went out to the CVS this morning and got myself some Claritin D. I took one when I got back home, and I can honestly say I haven’t felt drowsy at all. Success!

Besides the attack of the allergies, I had a pretty productive weekend. My mom and I ripped up the carpet in our spare bedroom and put down tile flooring on Saturday. We have three cats, so we keep the litter boxes in the spare bedroom. Of course, our lovely (and I use that term loosely..) cats sometimes decide they don’t like the litter box and would use the floor instead. So we figured it would be a MUCH better idea if there was tile instead of carpet in that room for easy clean-up purposes. Plus, it kind of makes the room look nicer. The people who lived here before us had a dog, and I think it liked to pee on the carpet in that room. So needless to say, the carpet in there wasn’t that great to begin with. We worked pretty much all day and finished around 6:30pm. It definitely wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be!

I did laundry literally all day today. I never realized I had so many damn clothes. I picked out a few things that I never wear anymore to donate, but I think I need to go through again and pick out some more things. Besides the laundry, my room needs some more work. It’s really an “organization” issue. I have a problem with not putting things back where they go, so the room gets cluttered. This problem must be solved!

Well, I’m off to prepare myself for another work (and hopefully stress-free) week. Hope everyone had a great weekend!