Allergies

Disclaimer: I took Benadryl a few hours ago (and by few I mean almost 7) and am still a little drugged up.  So keep that in mind if you're reading this.

So this morning, I woke up for work and my face felt all swollen and puffy.  It didn't look that bad except around my eyes so I figured it was nothing and went to work.  It got progressively worse as the day went on, and it was freaking awful.  Then in the afternoon I started getting itchy.  I had already assumed I was having some kind of allergic reaction based on the puffiness, and the itchiness basically confirmed that.

I tried to suck it up and stay at work but I was miserable.  I ended up leaving a little after 3:30 (and only lost an hour of work since I hadn't taken a lunch).  I came home and took a Benadryl and just woke up a little while ago.  I feel better; my face still feels kinda puffy but I'm not itching, so that's good.

Seriously WTF?  I know it's allergy season and with the wind we've had lately it seems like everyone's reacting to something that's blowing around, but I have so rarely dealt with allergies that this just irritates me.  I know it was the summer of 2009 that I ever even remotely thought I had allergies, because it was right after Jerbs and I moved to the east side of town.  I didn't have anything like that once I moved back to Kingman in 2011, but it seems like the summer allergies have gotten progressively worse since I came back to Flagstaff almost 2 years ago.

Conclusion: I am apparently allergic to something that blooms in Flagstaff but not (or just less) in Kingman.  Lovely.  And as I have yet to find an allergy medicine that doesn't completely knock me out for hours on end, I'm going to have to just deal with it during work hours.  Fabulous.

And now that I've recorded this lovely bit of drugged up rambling, I'm going back to bed.