Last night's trip to the Nissan dealership went fairly well, but we don't have a new car yet. We met with the salesman Chris has been e-mailing, and took the car for a test drive. We had a 6:00 dinner date with friends, plus we did not yet have the payoff amount for the loan on the Pathfinder, so we made an appointment to go back tomorrow morning to work the numbers. Chris is adamant that after all is said and done with trade-ins, rebates, etc., he pays no more than $22,500, or no deal. The salesman didn't seem too thrilled when he heard that number, so we'll see what happens.
In the meantime, talk about a crappy Friday. The day started off with a bang, putting me in a rotten, pissed-off mood right off the bat. Unfortunately I can't go into detail here, as I never know who might be reading. Oh, in a perfect world I would speak my mind and let everyone know exactly how I feel, but in the interest of self-preservation, in the real world it's just not possible.
It doesn't help that I feel like crap. Every year I have a round of two or three sinus infections in a row. Usually I get the first one in mid-to-late November, right before Thanksgiving. I'll take an antibiotic, it will go away, and then come back a few weeks later. Of course then I have to take a different antibiotic. If I'm lucky it will go away for good after the second round, if not I go through it all a third time. But like I said, this usually doesn't start until November. However, here we are in early September and I'm already starting to feel those early telltale signs.
I think it was Tuesday that it started. I felt like someone was jabbing a fork into my left temple. The next day it moved over to the right side. Now, it's not so much pain, just pressure around the whole top of my head. I don't have a stuffy nose or anything, just this pressure, dry and painful nasal passages (so much so that I have the urge to blow my nose just to coat them), and the overwhelming urge to sleep. I seriously just want to find a dark, quiet room, curl up with a warm blankie and sleep. With no congestion to speak of, no colorful discharge or phlegmy cough, I know it doesn't sound like a sinus infection. But this is always what I feel like when it starts. I do hope I'm wrong, that it's not starting this early, because how many months am I going to spend on and off of every antibiotic in the book if it does start now? It doesn't do any good to go to the doctor at this point, either, because every time I do he says the same thing, that without any congestion or discharge, it's not a sinus infection... but I'm always back a week or two later, with all the snot, glorious snot that he could ever dream of, and out comes the prescription pad. (The proverbial prescription pad, because my doctor's office is all electronic and all he does is enter the prescription into the exam room computer and transmit it directly to the pharmacy.)
(I apologize if I've offended any delicate sensibilities with my, uh, graphic descriptions, but seriously, if your sensibilities are that delicate, why on Earth are you hanging out with me?)
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