That's awesome Strix. Thanks.

De nada!

I made it to therapy. There were no snow squalls. I forgot about my brink appointment tomorrow so my idea of not leaving the house is out. I get to go tell him Benadryl helped me sleep but I felt depressed and I've been off caffeine for nearly a month and I haven't seen any improvement with sleeping or anything else.

He was telling me giving up caffeine would help me sleep. No dice.

A day without caffeine is ... hell, how would I know? I've slept through any attempt at it.

If I could have it I would, but with the bladder issues I can't risk it. So the only things I've been drinking are water and milk with the occasional peppermint tea. I did have a rootbeer the other day just because I was having some serious cravings and figured a caffiene free soda (I checked the label) would be better than diet coke.

I hate my sinuses. They hurt all spring and summer from the pollen, then I get maybe a couple of weeks in the fall after the pollen is mostly gone but before the leaves have started falling. Then, once the leaves fall and dry up and blow around everywhere, that sets off my allergies, too. And then it gets cold and the cold air hurts my sinuses, and then I turn on the space heater and the dry air hurts my sinuses, and now I've got a space heater and two humidifiers going and I just want to have more that a couple weeks a year when I don't feel like the inside of my head is on fire. (It's better when I'm at my parents', because they've got decent insulation that keeps the pollen and the cold outside, and central heat that doesn't dry up the air like my space heater does.)

does anyone have suggestions for thin, yet warm fingerless gloves I could wear while typing? The computer room is poorly insulated and freezing and my hands are always freezing.

askye, I used to wear those very stretchy knit gloves...the ones that look small but stretch to fit...when I was a receptionist at a company and the wind from the front door was cold and constant. I could keep typing in them.

My husband has the same problem, askye. I cut the tips off a pair of those stretchy knit gloves quester is talking about and carefully seared the loose edges of the fingers with a lighter to seal the threads.