Spring Time Sickness

Well Hello There!

I know that I have not kept up with my blogging endeavors as I usually would, but I've been hit. Yep, hit with the spring time sickness. Every year when the Bradford Pear trees bloom my allergies go haywire. Usually a week or so of Mucinex and Zyrtec will do the trick and this year I thought it would be the same, but boy was I wrong. 

A few days before we left for Wind Ensemble tour I was feeling my spring time sickness starting to come about. I started a Mucinex/Zyrtec regimen and I started to feel better. We left for tour in Texas and when we came back I was so exhausted I took a four nap, only to wake up to eat something and then went back to sleep for the rest of the night. The rest of the weekend I just rested and tried to regain my energy. On Monday when I went to class I felt rejuvenated and ready to get stuff done. By Monday night though, I started to feel bad. I had trouble falling asleep because I was snotty and had a cough. By Tuesday morning, I was feeling rough. I had a really gross cough and sore throat. This continued for the next few days and it just kept getting worse. I continued to get worse of a sore throat and each morning when I woke up I felt absolutely miserable. At first everything was just kind of located in my throat, but Thursday night we had a Wind Ensemble concert and playing my trumpet kind of loosened everything up and made my nose snotty and the drainage start to go into my ears the next day. I went to the campus doctor and he he thankfully said that I don't have strep or anything like that. Just a whole lot of drainage. So I'm taking a Z pack and some Mucinex and hoping that that will do the trick. If one concert to loosen all this crud up wasn't bad enough, I had to do recordings for Wind Ensemble's next cd and so I had to play my trumpet for five hours yesterday and two today. let's just say everything is runny. I'm just ready to feel better again and to not have drainage running down my throat and out of my ears. Hopefully this medicine, some rest, and a lot of orange juice will get the job done in the next few days so I will be healthy and happy for my spring break trip to the beach with AA! 

Spring Break!

Now that I have mentioned my spring break trip, I realized that I haven't written about it yet! AA and I have had quit the experience trying to decide what to do for spring break this year. First we had plans to go to Washington D.C. with her parents, but after the fire at the strip where their gun store was (the gun store just experienced smoke and water damage, thankfully the fire didn't actually get to the ammo and guns) we knew that it would be best not to spend so much money for the trip. We then decided that a good way to save money would be to just do a local Arkansas trip. We thought about staying in a cabin a little ways away from her house and do outdoorsy things like hiking. AA's dad didn't think that would be very fun for us and knew that the cabins would be taken up. That being said, he decided to generously give us some money to go wherever we wanted to. So, that being said, AA and I decided that we are going to drive down to Seaside, Florida for a few days! We are going to stay in a cute little bed and breakfast in Seagrove and go into Seaside for restaurants, shops, and other fun things! I'm super excited to go on this adventure and can't wait to see what the beach will have in store for us! Stay tuned for pictures and a big post to encapsulate our trip! We just have to make it through one more week of school/midterms and then I get to go home and then off to the beach! 

Also, expect pictures of two very exciting changes coming in my life soon, I won't give any hints but just know that something different is coming!

Picture of the Week 

Throwback to summer at Piney Creek