Reasons to be...

[triskellian]

...miserable

• Rain is supposed to take the pollen out of the air and reduce hayfever symptoms. So how come I'm still sniffling and suffering itchy eyes?
• The bit of TV I saw this morning featured Elaine Paige singing a bit of "I know you so well". Unfortunately, I know this song quite well (my mum likes it), and have only just chased the damn' thing out of my head with judicious application of ipod.
• Admiring the contents of my package of new books apparently counts as "reading" for car-sickness-causing purposes. I should know better.

...cheerful

• The rain will continue the work smiorgan's been doing to turn the big space behind our house into a garden.
• iPod with the wedding playlist :-)
• New books! (The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco, Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, Saturday by Ian McEwan, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix. Although I'm not happy about TTTW's embossed "Richard and Judy's book club" sign on the front. Why can't they use a removable sticker like normal people?)

But you know what? Two of the reasons to be miserable have vanished while I've been writing, and the other is diminishing, but the reasons to be cheerful are ongoing. Aren't I a little ray of sunshine?

Comments

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

I'm rather hoping the rain destroys my symptoms as well. If it doesn't I have a cold and this is just annoying.
Go rain...

[triskellian]

Yeah, I had that thought as well. It seems to be fading now, so it's probably not a cold. Hope yours is too.

(Oh, and thanks for the CD!)

[ex-kharin447.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'd be interested to hear about what the Eco book is like.

[triskellian]

I'll try to remember to write about it when I've read it...

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

You could write about it on Recommended Reading!

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

I've always found that rain makes my hayfever symptoms worse, for reasons nobody has been able to explain. Perhaps the pollen gets squashed down to ground level, where it briefly aggravates symptoms before disappearing outright?

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Maybe the rain hits the flowers, which knocks the pollen into the air. Said pollen then nips to the telephone box, puts its underpants on over its trousers so it can fly in the face of danger rain.

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

That is (roughly) my mother's notion, that it stirs up pollen wot has settled.

[adamsmithjr.livejournal.com]

OOoo. Triskellian loves Richard and Judy.

Nice to hear that you are having fun. The little ray of sunshine is now beaming down on Washington DC.
(Actually too many little rays. It's over 85 degrees and it's just gone eight in the morning. Today is going to be a stinker...)

[teawith.livejournal.com]

I'm quite keen to try the Time Traveler's Wife. Let me know what it's like?