Warning: for the unforeseeable future, I will look like crap.
Spring is hitting me HARD, and I am leaking out of every orifice in ways that are both astounding and horrible. It’s *bad* this year – I know each year around this time I inevitably bitch about my allergies, but this is the first time I’ve ever needed to walk around with a bucket under my nose to catch the drips. When I lean my head forward, a river flows from my nose. It is awesome. Last night I slept with a box of Kleenex and woke up with a soggy pillow.
To save my own sanity and to avoid Picasso-esq facial art, I have to stop wearing makeup until the pollen in the air settles down a little. My eyes are actually leaking worse than my nose, and it’s making things .. crusty. It is not attractive. I hate going au natural – frankly, I *like* looking like a street walking clown – but having makeup drip into my eyes just makes everything worse. I’m swearing off the stuff until I can breathe again. I will look like hell, but the alternative is extremely uncomfortable.
I put 50km on Oscar last night, and by the end of today I’ll be just 80km away from speed. Tomorrow is supposed to be gorgeous – we’re talking double digits – and I’m confident I can get those last restricted km out of the way with a solid day of riding. The only question is where to go. I want to do some exploring and take some pictures, but I’m tired of my usual haunts. Maybe I’ll head east and see what I can find around Port Moody.
Time for caffeine and more Kleenex. I love spring, but this can stop now.
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Sorry, I could never see beyond the cleavage. Are you sure anyone will notice?
Two words: Nasal Irrigation.
That’s so funny – I’m actually going out today to find myself a neti pot. I’m so desperate for relief that putting things up my nose actually seems like a *good* idea.
If this doesn’t work, I’m going to find myself a coke party next.
OK, the neti pot thing SO works – at least for me. In the spring, I do it every morning with the rest of my “getting ready” routine, and I can actually BREATHE FREELY all day. On particularly bad days, I do it again before I go to bed. The one I have is less of a neti pot and more of a squeeze bottle. (link here: http://www.sinucleanse.com/) Call me crazy, but I think that the extra pressure of actually squeezing the water up there helps “encourage” the more, ahem, sticky stuff out.
I get the little saline packets and mix it that way, but you can totally make your own saline with … table salt, if you want to. (The saline packets, I think, are easier, because they dissolve almost instantaneously.) Be warned – in addition to messy, the process can be … productive. Have a hand towel and a box of Kleenex or your favorite tissue handy. It’s disgusting, it feels weird (but oddly comforting, if that’s possible) and it’s messy, but man – I always feel so much better when it’s over.
Of course, if you decide to go the other way, neti pots don’t have the dual benefit of being sinus clearing AND an appetite suppressant.
snot. so hot right now. snot.