Just Call Me Squint

It's no secret to people in my life that I have a mystery ailment. When I least expect it, it creeps in like the morning fog, so slowly that you don't even realize it's overtaking you until it's too late, and you wake up and can't see because your eyes are swollen shut. It's painful and it sucks. I rarely get this weird allergy but neither I, nor my doctor can figure out what causes it. It's been happening since the year I moved, never before, and usually in the spring. I'm going to take a stab and say it's a make up or cologne allergy.
Yesterday a friend of mine brought her boyfriend up here so I could re-meet him (went to high school together, but weren't friends) and we decided to go out. Dinner went well enough, but sometime during the 40 year old virgin (funny funny) I began to feel a little stinging in both my eyes. At first I thought I was tired. Then, it became hard to blink. My head felt like it weighed a hundred pounds. Then I dragged my friend out into the hall so she could inspect me. She gasped and my stomach dropped. I high tailed it home and began frantically searching for some Patanol. I thought I was over this. Hadn't happend in nearly a year. So I finally found the eye drops and commenced fighting myself to putthem in. Then fell asleep. This morning I'm only half swollen. Because I finally realized the syptoms. I have to look at things with my head tilted back and totally can't drive today (maybe tomorrow too) but it could be so much worse. As it is, I think I'm the only one who'll be able to tell anything's wrong. Unless someone gets in my face for some odd reason. WHEW! Amelia narrowly excapes another one.

On the bright side, while I was searching for my stuff, I found two cds I had been missing since right after purchase. They're two of my favorites too: Lynyrd Skynyrd "Vicious Cycle" and Def Leppard's "Best of" (2 disc!). At least I'll have something to do today with my eyes closed.