Well, spring is here and Dallas is in full bloom. The first day of spring did not catch us napping. It did, however, catch us rubbing our eyes and sneezing. The allergens are off the charts here. You can practically SEE the air. It looks like someone turned on a fog machine filled with mustard-colored fog juice. Every morning by 10 AM, it feels like my eyes are full of diatomaceous earth. They are so gritty and itchy that I want more than anything to rub them … but doing so feels like giving them a good buffing with 120-grit sandpaper.
By noon, my eyes are usually bright red, watery, and I have a crazed look that comes from not being able to rub my gritty eyes. Also, my eyes are rotating crazily within my sockets because my contacts are swimming around randomly on my eyes and so I blink rapidly and wall my eyes, trying to get my contacts re-centered over my pupil. All of my co-workers think I am sniffing glue in my office or snorting whiteboard marker dust. I half expect orderlies to show up, fit me for a jacket, and manhandle me down to the back of their waiting truck.
I try to tell them that if they will just flush my eyes with a steady stream of lukewarm saline solution and shoot a couple of Claritin down my throat with a pea-shooter, that I will be as sane as the next person.
But they can’t hear me over all the sneezing.
Allergies are the devil.
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Yes they are! Or, if they’re not the devil, they make him seem like a piker in comparison. 🙂
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Hi Biff, we’re into Autumn weather here down under and already my son is suffering and sneezing. Seems these allergies are a world wide annoyance. Take it easy 🙂
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Sorry to hear about your son. My autumn allergies are actually worse than my spring allergies, so I can sympathize with him. And, yes, sadly, I think allergies are a global problem. 😦 I don’t know what people did before they had antihistamines and other allergy relief medicines.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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And, you still have the Dallas summer to look forward to. I used to work at Texas Instruments and live in Garland… Humidity AND extreme heat? Where do I sign up?
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Ah yes … Texas heat and humidity! What can be better than that?
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I agree, Meg! They are definitely out to get us, I think. It seems like the sort of thing our bodies would build up an immunity to over time, but they just seem to get worse year after year.
And I don’t think there’s any risk of anyone mistaking me for a genius. Lol!
I can’t believe it is March already either. Christmas seems like it was only a week or two ago.
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Allergies. They’re out to get us, I swear. Don’t get too crazy! It can be mistaken for genius. 😜Also…how is it March 21st already?
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Ugh I don’t know how people deal with allergies?!?! My sister in law had horrible allergies but gave them all to my nephew and doesn’t have any anymore!
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Yes, they’re certainly not pleasant! But allergy sufferers don’t really have a choice. It’s either suffer through them or curl up in a ball and give up. I have almost given up a few times. Lol!
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Lol I think I’d go with the ball option🤣
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You’re one crazy, allergic guy, Mr. Biff!
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Thanks, Drooger! Allergies definitely make me crazy. Or, at least, they make me LOOK crazy.
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