Every so often, maybe once or twice a year, I inexplicably break out in a teeny tiny rash – small enough so that I can feel it on the surface of my skin more than I can see it, and over a large enough portion of my body that it can’t be from something weird that I touched. I usually can never figure out what caused it, but what I do know is that it itches.
And that is why Benedryl is both my best friend and my most hated enemy; it makes the itching stop, but it makes me so very sleepy! I have to stay on a low dose throughout the day so that I can get through work without conking out, and then at night I take a normal dose to try to suppress the reaction as much as possible.
I say all of this not to share new information (*gasp* Shocking! Benedryl makes people sleepy? I’m amazed!) but to explain why my posts are less frequent – I’m working too hard during the week, spending much of my weekends preparing for all the weddings I have coming up in the next few months, and now I spend all my time at home either itching or sleeping. My life is just one big barrel of fun right now! 
So have no fear, I’m still up and alive and around, just too brain dead when I’m finally home to share much of anything at all 
Take a moment for me to enjoy your non-itchiness, and I’ll be back more when I can think clearly and stay awake!
