Mother Nature is a true hater this spring.
My allergies have been the worst that they've ever been despite the fact that I'm taking an allergy pill each night and a shot of prescription nasal spray each morning. Regardless, I'm still sneezing up a storm daily.
Do any of you remember a few years ago, Sammy Sosa, then rightfielder for the Chicago Cubs, went on the disabled list because of a strained back. He said it was because he sneezed so violently that he injured himself. Sounded like a load of hooey at the time. But, now, not so much hooey. I've done it to myself. Not to the point where I was incapacitated, but it still strained my back to the point where I needed additional medication to get over the pain.
My sneezes have been hurting my back, my throat, my neck, and my head. And clearly my cerebrospinal fluid is not providing the buffer it's supposed to as my head launches forward thus bashing my brain (yes, I have one, smart alecks) into the front of my skull and temporarily dazing me.
And I think my officemate fears for her life as it occasionally sounds like my sneezes might cause the room to shatter. I somehow doubt a cubicle wall would protect her.
I'm hurtin' here, people. And I don't know what I did to deserve these monster attacks this season.
Totally Unrelated Aside (TUA): I noticed something yesterday while on hold. It's a habit of mine that I perform when I'm stuck waiting for some schmoe to pick up the other end, but never at any other time. I hum a song. No, the humming isn't the peculiar action, although I don't really hum otherwise, I whistle. The oddity is that I hum the same song every time I'm on hold. And I never even really think of this song any time I'm not on hold.
I always seem to notice that I'm doing this by about the second verse. But, as soon as I'm off hold, I promptly forget. Yet, the next time it happens, my brain will be jarred into recalling that I've done this hundreds of times before. So, this time, I wrote it down to make sure I'd remember it so I could tell all of you only further confirming in your heads what a freak I am.
Oh yeah, the song? Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night." Don't ask me why.
