Because even the most ordinary tasks are annoying when your head feels as if it is about to explode. And you’re having sneezing fits that make it worse. And waking up in the middle of the night because you can’t breathe through your nose, your head hurts, and you’re unable to tell whether you’re coming down with a cold, someone has released a noxious chemical into the air, or you’re just having an extra special bad hay fever attack.

I love flowers. I plant too many. So some of this is self-inflicted.

But I refuse to give up my right to grumble!

Even though one of the first things I did when I woke up this morning was to go outside and water my tomatoes. Then I paused to smell the flowers our friend gave us yesterday for our anniversary. Which made me stop to check the roses I gave Michael for the same reason.

I want my pretty flowers, and I think it is really cosmically unfair that I have to put up with all these other symptoms to get them.

*whine* *whine* *grumble*