Fog

Another morning dealing with fatigue. This usually happens when I'm suffering from allergies. I can't have allergies like normal people. My symptoms have to be all screwy. Otherwise it wouldn't be very Jen-like.

First is the fatigue. For the past week, I felt like I have slept very little, even though I've been getting my normal amount. I wake up groggy and disconnected, forcing one foot in front of the other, wondering where the night went.

If it's a moderate attack, my eyes will start watering. A full-blown attack includes unending sneezing fits that cause my throat to feel like I've swallowed a bowl of the finest Texas 3-alarm chili and my head to feel like an overinflated balloon. But these are only the really bad days, and they are blessedly few and far between.

But the fatigue... it's the hardest because it's the easiest to write off. I usually think I just didn't get enough sleep, or I slept wrong, or whatever other excuse is handy. When I finally figure it out, I'm days into it. I take a Claritin and feel a million percent better within an hour or two.

That was this morning. Having been dealing with the fatigue for a week, I realized I was irritable, moody, and depressed. I was tired, and I couldn't get up the motivation to do anything other than sit in the recliner and read. The kids annoyed me to no end. They weren't doing anything different, really, but as Bry and I dicussed last night, so much in life is based on perception and reception. (It was actually a very good conversation that started with the difference between nagging and reminding -*reception*- and moved into sexual harrassment in the workplace... I guess you had to have been there.)

By eleven I figured it out. I took a Claritin, and in the past hour not only got up off my rump, but also took sufficient time to bemoan the fact that I skipped the gym this morning, did four loads of laundry, two loads of dishes, and cleaned up the livingroom and the kitchen.

So here's to Claritin-induced clarity and energy. God bless the creators of allergy medication, without whom I could never live in Houston.