'Tis the Season To Be Sneezing

     Let me be honest right up front.  I have almost no idea what this post will be about.  I usually come up with an idea at least a few days beforehand.  Some really good ideas come about a week or more in advance, like last week's "Peaches" parody or some of my puzzles.  This week, if I did have a good idea at one point, I forgot it.  I tried this morning to come up with something on the fly, but I got nothing.  I heard something on the radio a few minutes before I got into work that would be a great seed for a post, but it is time-sensitive, and I will have to wait at least another week before mentioning it.  So, I am forced to write today's post without much of plan.  One of the reasons that I am having problems are my allergies.  I seem to be afflicted with very bad symptoms this season, and I don't know why.  Many summers, I get some mild symptoms and I think nothing of it.  This year, I am having symptoms somewhat more severe and earlier than normal.  This latest attack started last night, just before a storm died off before it reached home.  My nose felt stuffy.  This is actually a normal feeling for me, as a think that I have abnormal sinuses.  Anyway, I had a slight problem falling asleep.  I woke up in the middle of the night with pressure on one side of my head, as my sinuses had drained to the side I was sleeping on.  This has been happening frequently the past few weeks.  As I mentioned, this is a normal condition for me, just not this common.  I have also been having sneezing fits.  Random fits.  That isn't too bad, except my sneezing fits have always been strange.  I start out with a few small sneezes, like two to three, building up to one huge sneeze that ends the fit.  The fit I had this morning had five or six of these smaller sneezes before the build-up to the last big one.  Fortunately, I was stopped at an intersection when this happened, so my driving wasn't effected.  Even now, over an hour later, I am still snuffy, but breathing quite comfortably.  At least through one nostril.  For some reason, maybe the previously mentioned sinus condition, I usually just breath easily through one nostril at a time.  While this is the average condition for most people, my instance seems to be highly pronounced at times compared to others.  What gets me the most is that I have no idea what the trigger could be.  I was fine for most of the evening, when all of sudden the stuffiness began.  I don't believe anything new has been added to environment lately.  Most pollen would not have gotten inside so late at night, especially with all entries closed.  I can't think of anything else that I haven't been in fairly close contact lately.  Although, if it is some sort of pollen, then a good rain will slow it down until the season ends.  Not soon enough for me, but it will happen soon.