Barking Mad

Oh, the Horror of it All!

Crap, this sucks.

First thing I do when I wake up is rub my eyes because they itch so bad.  And then I rub them some more because they itch even worse. I even try to get my eyes to water because they itch so bad.  Then they begin to itch so bad that I want to take them out and roll them in some gravel or scrape them across some sandpaper.  The agony!!!!

Finally I run screaming upstairs (all the while avoiding breaking my neck as I trip UP the stairs) to try and find the last place I left the allergy eye drops and in a blind stumble I grab the breath drops instead and go to plop a few drops into my eyes and the smell hits me! 

Whoooaaaaaaa! These aren't the eye drops!  Tragedy narrowly averted.  I somehow manage to grab the Visine AC (this stuff just barely cuts it) and squeeze into each eye waiting for some sort of relief.  I would never make a good blind person.  If I got a guide dog it would probably leave me out of fear for it's life.  Lord, please have mercy and don't ever let me go blind...for everyone's sake!

The Visine usually lasts a couple of hours, unless I am stupid enough to walk outside and then I'm in agony again. I'm going to chop down every single blooming thing out there...from the lilacs to that fluffy pink and white tree to the  blue and white whatever-they-ares that are all over the place.   

Never ever ever have I suffered from any sort of allergy until this year. How long is this going to last? Why doesn't our insurance cover Pataday? I'd like to drown my eyes in the stuff.  Why doesn't Claritin do ANYTHING for me?  I should write them a nasty letter and enclose a picture of my itchy, bloodshot, watery eyes. I've used so much of the Visine AC eye drops that the skin around my eyes is becoming irritated, something else to piss me off and moan about. Oh and the next person that tells me to keep my fingers out of my eyes (duhhh!) is going to get smacked!   I just want to blowtorch my eyeballs they itch so bad at times.

And it sucks!

What a Difference a Year Makes

This photo was taken in August of 2006.  Ok, so technically we are two months shy of a year, but anyways.....(once again you have to click on the photo to see the entire thing...TypePad is really begining to annoy me the way it offsets my pics!!!!!)....

The above were taken out at the Portland Headlight (lighthouse) last summer when all the kids were here.   The outfit Gabz is wearing is a size 18 months.  At the time it was all I could get on her due to her striking resemblence to a butterball turkey.   And even then the shorts were tight.

Now, fast forward nearly a year.  This was taken this afternoon, here at home....

That is the same exact outfit!  Just kinda makes me giggle when I realize how incredibly tall and thin this kiddo is.  She has really thinned out and is long and lanky.  The shorts are pretty big around the waist and the blouse is pretty loose too.   But hey, it's cute and it was 90F outside this afternoon, so as long as she's cool and stylish then who cares.

She loves dandelions by the way.  Wish I could say the same.  They  make me sneeze and wish I could remove my eyeballs and rub them on sandpaper. 

Um Helloooo, Mother Nature, I Think We Skipped a Season

Yeah ok, I know that last month I posted that spring had been cancelled here in our little slice of New England.  Mother Nature opted to dish out another one-two winter punch.  This proceeded a couple of lovely days of 70F weather when the crokus' and daffodils started to bloom.

Well jeeeeeeeeeez, we went from winter straight to summer!  Just the other night it got down into the low 20's and we had frost advisories everywhere, and now this......

It's ninety freakin' degrees AT THE COAST!  We almost never get that hot sitting on the water's edge as we are.  But it's hot.  Heck, it's not just hot, it's stifling.   We're talking record breaking heat for this time of year.  Not only that, this annoying weather bug thing keeps going on with an "air stagnation" alert.  Couple that with the ticker-alerts on TV and I'm about to pack Gabz up and head to the mall, where the air isn't stagnante but it is air conditioned!!!!

Oh and to add insult to injury, there's a breeze, but it's not one of our gorgeous sea-breezes...nope it's a hot icky west-northwest breeze.  Yuck!  This makes me wanna sit around in wet sheets with the fan aimed straight at me.