***Ach-OOOOOOO***

Allergies truly are the suck.

Normally, my spring allergies are mild, but this year? Well, the trees have turned stupid and are doing their best to make me miserable. Nothing close to my glorious days of ragweed-ness, of course, but still enough to make me want to tear out my eyebrows.

Is suspect Birch is the culprit, although oak seems to be maliciously high right now as well.

Compound that with a weekend up north with numerous dogs, even more cats (one of them insists on sitting on me when she's shedding -- she must do it on purpose) and voila - messy.

On a happier note, Chris' brother took me on a rather fun little jaunt on his ATV through the backwoods (they all live in rural areas) -- mud, hills, small lakes (puddles gone out of control) and some impressive hills. I believe I might have requested him to not kill me -- but only once.

The rest of the ride was spent whooping, grinning and giggling.

My arms are sore from the effort of keeping myself from flying right off the back.(No, seriously -- my entire body flew off the seat on a regular basis) 'Twas great fun... Despite a nervous moment when the thing nearly tipped over.

I suspect I enjoy vehicles that do terrifying things.