I just checked, and this cough started on October 16, and has gotten worse and better, but never actually went away.

I think a lot of people have that. Tim got sick the week before Thanksgiving, and while he's 98% better, he still has a cough.

I started having some amped-up allergy symptoms around Thanksgiving, and they're not going away, not even with Benadryl (on top of daily Zyrtec [and I have cycled through Zyrtex, Claritin, and Allegra]), so I have a doctor appt. tomorrow morning. I don't know what it is, unless living with cats finally got to be too much after 4 years.

(You guys, it was 4 years on Dec. 1st. FOUR YEARS OH MY GOD.)

But the thing is, I haven't been having gradually increasing symptoms; they just suddenly got bad around Thanksgiving. Normally, I would assume sudden bad symptoms are due to a change in *something* -- new drug, new food, new cat, new *something.* I can't figure it out, but it's starting to freak me out.

I know what CJ wants for xmas...

Not just CJ. Hmm.

Hil, time to make some noise. Have you been to urgent care or an ER?

But the thing is, I haven't been having gradually increasing symptoms; they just suddenly got bad around Thanksgiving. Normally, I would assume sudden bad symptoms are due to a change in *something* -- new drug, new food, new cat, new *something.* I can't figure it out, but it's starting to freak me out.

That's me right now. Since before Thanksgiving, needing Benadryl almost every day, itchy eyes and throat, sneezing, the whole works. Nothing's changed -- we have the same two cats we've had for two years. I don't get it, but I'm tired of it.

That's me right now. Since before Thanksgiving, needing Benadryl almost every day, itchy eyes and throat, sneezing, the whole works. Nothing's changed -- we have the same two cats we've had for two years. I don't get it, but I'm tired of it.

That's almost exactly what I've got going on. Plus I have this thing (new in the last 2 days) where my face feels sunburned, but it isn't red and there's no rash or hives or whatever. I feel like some crazy histamine reaction kicked in and won't stop.

I know what CJ wants for xmas...

You are so right. Ain't happening, but oh, how he would love that.

That was odd. I took some Advil, then fell asleep for several hours. Woke up, and I feel kind of feverish, but I don't have a fever. Also not hungry, even though it's 10 and the last time I ate was lunch. Definitely calling the doctor again tomorrow.

Hey guys! scattershot ~ma everywhere. I've been reading as much as I can, and skimming where I can't. Shir, I hope your mom gets better super quick. Hil, I hope you get relief soon. What a terrible cough.

I've had a headache since thanksgiving. It's making me a little mean, also whiny. Everything's my fault because I can't shake off a blasted headache.

Nick turned 26 this year!! I don't mind my age, but he's not supposed to grow up like this!

Plei! I need your help (or anyone else's who knows haircolor). Many years ago, I colored my hair with this gorgeous dark, dark brown with a purpley-red tone. It had a definite purplish cast to the color. I want that color again, but it was discontinued after, and I don't even remember the name or anything. Is making me go spare. The closest I can find on the shelf is Garnier dark cherry. Is there a way I can mix up something like that from the shelves? I don't know where to start, so you'd have to talk me through it in words of one syllable, on account of the stupid seems to live here now. I'm not in a hurry or anything. I have to save up the energy to get the stuff and then do it, but I think I need a boost of something.

The description sounds like the old Egyptian Plum which is now simply burgundy brown. It's a semi-permanent color. And there are detailed instructions in the box.

Hiiiiiii, Deena!

Hiiii, Cass! Thank you so much. I'll try that one, then, and see what happens.

I'm reading Seanan McGuire's One Salt Sea with Greg. I don't usually read "with" someone, and we keep reading ahead of one another, and then wanting to talk about something that happened.

Deena! Mwah! Now for sleepy times.