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• 22:36 Con: infected w/stupid, left lame/frisbee @ other club. Pro: can muddle thru illness, nice person @ other club helping me out, free blades!
• 22:38 Other pro: fencing helps me feel less under the weather. Gonna pay tomorrow, but see doc to see if I can stop payments :P
• 15:59 Back from doc. Diagnosis: really bad allergies. New medicine + clean house will probably = calming down lymph nodes.

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because we're grown ups now

...and we get to decide what that means....

I'm deciding that it means I need a cleaner house.

Ever wonder why you've never been over (or not been over recently, if you have actually visited)? It's because I'm a lousy housekeeper.

Let me explain: it's never been to the point that it's unsafe to use the kitchen or bathrooms, but the dust is building up and the clutter is.. well, not completely out of hand, but certainly not attractive either.

There is cat hair on everything. Little incentive to clean it up, as the Feline Americans spend more time in the house than D. and I do.

I've tried to keep on top of it, but dusting makes me itch and vacuuming isn't much better. D. will occasionally go on a furious cleaning binge, but not often enough. That, and I don't think either of us will go to our graves wishing we'd done more housework :P

But this is the worst round of allergies I've ever had in my life, and the buildup of lint, dander, pollen and dust mites are in no small part responsible. It's affecting my health.

D. and I are going to get a monthly cleaning service to reboot the house and because the pros will do this better than we can. Still, [hand on heart, pinky swear] I'm going to try and keep up in between times so I don't endure more headaches and scratchy throats than I have to.