2008 SELF Challenge - Day 1

Even though I stayed home sick from work today with a terrible sinus migraine, I was inspired to register for the 2008 SELF Challenge and am very optimistic about actually following it this year and hopefully losing weight and generally feeling better about myself. I am constantly feeling tired and sick (more so lately than in the past) and I am hoping that living a healthier lifestyle can counter-act that. We shall see how it goes ...

Happy Thursday

I am at work and I feel miserable. However, I am heavily medicated (I have copious amounts of robitussin, dayquil, claritin and halls cough drops running through my body) so that makes it a little bit better. And I'm eating yummy chicken noodle soup from Schlotzky's Deli.

Also, I just got the following email ...

"the2ofus" at Luv2viewmovies.com would like to say "CONGRATULATIONS" as the computer has drawn your entry for our current contest. You have won a:
GENERAL HOSPITAL: NIGHT SHIFT (Complete First Season)DVD!

Your DVD will be sent to the address you listed on your entry (below).

In 2008, please keep checking the Luv2viewmovies.com web site for MOVIE and DVD REVIEWS, contests, and promotions (and F U N !)

I have never actually watched General Hospital: Night Shift, but have been a GH fan my whole life and I know that Night Shift features my favorite GH character, Robin. So I am very excited! I never win anything, so the Powers That Be must be feeling sorry for me because I've been feeling sick for so long ...

Sinus Relief

** This is a cross-post from my 1/29/2008 LiveJournal entry.

I have had allergy and sinus problems all my life, but they seem to have gotten worse since I moved to Texas (I am pretty sure it has to do more with my roommate and his friends smoking inside our apartment than the geographic location) and have been pretty much a constant issue since around Thanksgiving. I have been completely miserable on a daily basis for several months, getting temporary relief with the use of my Walgreens-pharmacist-recommended Vicks Sinex Nasal Spray which, contrary to its 12-hour relief claim, helps for only an hour or so after use and cannot be used more than twice in a 24-hour period (which I know from personal experience because using it more than that makes me really shaky and jittery). So, after being basically bed-ridden because of sinus problems for most of last week and the preceeding weekend, I finally went to see my friendly neighborhood Walgreens pharmacist again (because that is much easier than going to the doctor for a lazy and increasingly agoraphobic person such as myself) who suggested using a Vicks Waterless Vaporizer and sleeping with it next to my head and "tenting" my covers (pulling the covers up over my head basically). I have been doing this every night for the last 5 nights and I cannot tell you what a difference it is making! I feel 100 times better than I have in months, and every morning I wake up feeling even better than the day before. I am crossing my fingers that I have finally found the "miracle cure" I was looking for. And with a box of 6 refill vapor pads costing less than $5.00 (actually, they are $3.64 at Wal-Mart), it is a pretty cheap miracle cure at that! I just thought I'd share this info with anyone else who may be having sinus issues. Anything to help my sinus-suffering comrades.

BTW, I have not received any compensation for my endorsement of Walgreens. This help from Walgreens is just the latest in a long line of reasons that it holds a special place in my heart ...