Tinnitus, 2009 and Other Minor Irritants

I know it's still really early in the year, but I'm ready for my first healthy day of 2009.  It can happen any time now.

This head congestion and accompanying earaches (yes, both ears) are really getting stupid annoying.  I noticed a little ringing in my left ear yesterday morning, and I could still feel a lot of pressure there, so I didn't think much of it.  Yesterday evening, however, I kept noticing this really annoying electrical buzzing/humming noise that seemed to always be under everything else I could hear.  Standing in the quiet of the kitchen, I even found myself turning a slow, full circle to the left trying locate the source of the noise ...and then I remembered it was all in my head.  Except, this buzzing isn't like the normal tone I've heard with tinnitus in the past.  I even made Craig put his ear to mine to listen, because I wasn't totally convinced this unfamiliar feedback-like static noise was all in my head.  ...I don't know; it made sense at the time.  The noise is really stupid annoying though!  I'm just glad it's not worse, and I hope it's not permanent.  I don't know how people with chronic tinnitus can stand it.  It would drive me insane.  (Might still.)

Jasmine is getting better, but she still ***HATES*** her treatments and meds!  She hasn't bit me yet though,  She's such a lady.

I very carefully selected my heels for traction in snow today.  They were good in the snow all afternoon.  Then I nearly killed myself with my first step onto my kitchen floor on arriving home, because scuffing my feet across the mudroom rug hadn't been enough to get the packed snow out of the treads, and walking on a thin snow layer over vinyl was as slick as the smoothest ice.  I may have pulled something trying to regain my balance.  (ow)

There's a training area for local firemen out by the airport.  I've always known it was there and still, driving home and seeing the thick, black, oily clouds rolling up from massive bright orange flames...!!!  That always gives me a split second of terror before I remember the training grounds.  I *know* the training grounds are there, right by the airport, and it still scares the hell out of me.  I can't even imagine how those fires must terrify non-locals coming and going from the airport.  Passengers on the corresponding side of the planes on all flights can't possibly miss the seeing the horrific scene.

Argh.  I'm so damn tired.  I think I need an afternoon cup of something caffeinated, or I just won't be able to stay upright.

I also have one more resolution for the year.  I resolve to drink more in 2009.  Alcohol, that is.  I want to be perfectly clear about that.