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I have an honest to goodness full blown cold, yay me! It only took a few weeks of sucking in B's germs for it to hit me, but here it is. Joy.

Yesterday was not a good day. I felt all this coming on and it made me cranky and ornery as hell. After doing my normal morning stuff I went to the store and picked up diatomaceous earth as our next attempt at getting rid of fleas in this house. I could feel this cold coming on and it just put me in a lousy mood. Everyone was annoying, everything was bugging me. I also stopped and bought some groceries and other stuff on our household list. Again, I was being cranky and having to spend money and having to be out in the cold while she slept, blah blah blah. I get back home and she finally wakes up an hour after. In that time, I did all the dishes, prepped to put the powder down, and started one load of laundry. Getting grumpier and grumpier the whole time mind you.

She gets up and bathes the cats while I do the powder. For those of you who don't know what diatomaceous earth is, it's essential natural silica dioxide, or ground up exoskeleton of tiny animals. To humans and animals it's too small to be damaging but to insects, especially fleas, it's like walking on razors. They also ingest it so they are swallowing razors. It tears them up both inside and out. It is as bad ass as it sounds. It's also something that is a pain to put on your floors and get up your nose as you're doing it.

Got everything done and then it was time to do more laundry. Here's where my crankiness met her crankiness. Supposedly the dryer is making a high pitched whine. I could hear it at first but then I moved the dryer and TO ME it went away. She SWORE it was still there and I was trying to get her to come closer to point out WHERE she thought it was coming from when she says "It's a FACT as you get OLDER you can't hear certain high frequencies." Yes, she is correct, but do you know what I heard? YOU'RE OLD YOU CAN'T HEAR IT. That was it. I was pissed and stormed off. The next two hours until we had to go out we're tense as fuck.

We had to go out at 3:30 as I had an eye doctor appointment at 5 back near our old place. That was a tense ass drive. I saw the eye doctor, who put me in a new brand of contact lens which right now I really like, and things were better afterwards. As she put it - you're always nicer and defused after being around someone where you have to be nice - essentially faking it makes me go back to the real thing. We both apologized to each other and went to have pizza. We had pizza at the place we both miss quite a bit and got larger than we needed so we could have leftovers! While we were at dinner we texted friends we haven't seen in a while and decided to get together. Yes, we did have a show last night, but call time wasn't 11:20 and it was 7. We had WAY too much time to kill. We hung out at our friends for quite a while and it was great. We both needed that kind of social interaction. We headed to the show around 11.

The show was okay. Not bad but not great either. I think it's this cold that made it annoying for me but it was also a moderate crowd and we had very little time to setup and get ready. Got through it and was home at 3:30. I did have to vacuum the bedroom otherwise neither of us could have slept in there. The powder from earlier? Yep, you let it stay in the carpet for as long as you can handle. Therefore the whole rest of this place minus the bedroom is covered in powder. By the time I finished vacuuming and dumping the dust it was 4am. B was already asleep. I fell asleep and woke up at 7:30. I forced myself back to sleep until 8:30 but that's still only 4.5 hours. Sigh.

Today I am going to strive to make it better. I need to go get some NyQuil but otherwise have no reason to leave the house today. I don't have to teach tomorrow which is good as I probably won't be able to talk. I also need to finish vacuuming. Whee.