Happy! + Allergies?

A classmate of mines from my previous campus got married! I'm so happy!

I remember when I went to revisit the campus before I started back to school at my original campus. Before I left the campus I revisited, I told myself I would purchase a gift for my teacher who got married last year. I was very determined! I almost thought I wouldn't be able to give it to her given the circumstances that day, but it worked out.

Anyway, when I went to visit and give her the gift, my previous classmate entered and my teacher told me that he'll be getting married soon too. I have to say that I had quite a bit of excitement stirring up. The thing is I didn't show it. I can get overly happy to the point where most people think I'm over-exaggerating lol But I'd love to jump up and down!

I even remember a time when he was talking in class about how he was watching his then girlfriend play GTA (Grand Theft Auto....it's a video game), and how she'd stop at every light, and when he asked her why she was just sitting there, she replied "the light is red" lol Of course, if anyone as ever played GTA, they know that normal rules don't apply to the gamer and running a red light is okay.

Anyway, he posted a picture and my heart is all fluttery. I so happy.

I've actually only been to one wedding before. I didn't cry (thank god I'm not that emotional!), but I do get very happy. It was okay, it seemed more like a Barbecue afterwards, than a wedding lol Recently a lot of people that I've known are moving forward in their lives. People are getting married or having children!

I guess that's normal stuff! No surprise!

Besides that very lovely news, I've been a bit under the weather...okay I'm not sick, but I seriously thought I was. About three or four days ago my mom was talking about how she had a headache and her head was very stuffy. She said she it was her sinuses acting up.

The next day I noticed I was starting to have a sore throat. Throughout the progression of the day I noticed it was getting worse. Then the following day the sore throat was gone but a new problem was arising, a STUFFY NOSE!!! And I still had a constantly cough, that and quite a bit of sneezing.

My younger sister was constantly saying that I have a cold, but I told her it's not a cold. She says all colds are not the same, but the thing is I know when I have a cold. I feel very drained and I just want to sleep.

Yet, even with thinking that I wondered if it was a cold. I mean my mom had some strange symptoms, and then the next day I end up the way I do.

So I did some research and found that cold symptoms and allergies are very common. The differences are only a few things, a fever and the phlegm color. Sure enough mines if clear. I remember speaking with my grandma about this last year during our visit. She mentioned the exact same thing because during that time she said her allergies were acting up. I was under the impression that she had a cold lol but it was way too hot (it was during the summer) to catch a cold.

So I've been drinking one to two cups of tea per day and drinking water...and constantly dabbing my nose with a tissue lol But the tissue is so rough. I want some soft tissues please!

Actually, I remember thinking yesterday that if I have a cold, I wish all my colds would be this way! Because my nose only becomes runny for about an hour or a bit longer, then it stops for a while and starts up again. I still have a cough and it feels like I'm trying to clear something out, which is why I'm drinking tea.

I've decided to just purchase an air purifier through amazon.

Thinking about this it made me remember that about a week or so ago my dog was having a tough time breathing. In reality, it was  more like he was trying to hack something up, or coughing. Dogs, probably similar to cats, have two different ways of smelling (cats are just weird! You know that thing where they sniff and when they lift their heads their mouth is partially opened....yeah they're deep sniffing. It freaks me out a little lol I use to think it was funny until I realized what they were doing), so he was probably ingesting something in the air.

If I can make a theory, I noticed that when he followed me into the bathroom he wasn't doing it. So that day when it started again, I recommended turning off the A/C. It took a while, but he suddenly stopped. So perhaps the air conditioner blew something into the air. It makes me wonder if they've changed the filters in the AC's in this apartment.

Then again, the guy who we spoke to about the place (the landlord??) said they'd be pulling up the carpets and putting out some new one's over the summer, and that hasn't even happened. I wouldn't put it past them (the fact that they didn't change the filter.

But my question is why now all of a sudden? Was it because my mom made me think about it? But people have spoken about allergies before in the past and I never had a reaction. Another theory I came up with was the fact that our apartment is near a bunch of trees (it's kind of like a small forest). We've never lived by one before, so perhaps this could be it.

I think it could be a number of reason, but I never thought I'd have any kind of allergies. It turns out that our bodies can often mistake certain unharmful allergens as something that is harmful and it can cause this kind of reaction.

This is the reason I plan to buy an air purifier. I wonder if it will make a different. We'll see.

Mon