So remember how awesome (and caffeinated!) I felt yesterday morning?  Well, my day? Did not end on the same positive tone.

Oh, I got everything done that I wanted to do (and early! Thank you Real Simple for the pants ironing video!) and then…and then….

Then I dropped my super expensive iPhone in the toilet.  And even though I did everything I could to dry it out (including but not limited to using a hair dryer on it, blowing condensed air into it, vacuuming the moisture out of it–which was actually very successful–and leaving it in a bowl of rice over night) it died.

And then it turned out that the sniffles I’d been feeling all afternoon were not the result of simply being cold and too stubborn to turn on the heat but a full blown sinus thing.  A sinus thing that required two benadryl to help me sleep through the night.

It’s CRAZY how quickly my day went from awesome to total suck.  Arrrgggh.

The good news is that we foresaw my klutziness contributing to some sort of technology catastrophe when we bought our phones so we also bought the Best Buy insurance.  This insurance allows me to replace my phone (with a refurbished one) through Best Buy and not have to go through a bunch of craptastic red tape with Apple.  The guys I talked to today were all “yep, your insurance policy just paid for itself!” and I should have my new phone in a week (or less).

Can I give a quick shout out to my neighborhood Best Buy? The Beaverton Best Buy is teh awesome.  Seriously.  We have never ever had a bad experience there ever.  And today when I went in today to have them look at my phone both of the guys I worked with were very nice and funny and reassured me that everything would be fine and that replacing my phone wouldn’t be a problem.  They didn’t give me a hard time or ask “how did you drop it?” or any of that stuff.  They got me a “loaner” phone and charged it for me and laughed with me when it started lighting up with a bunch of missed messages.  Honestly–it doesn’t matter what we’re after when we’re there, we always have a good experience.

Oh, and just for the FTC’s sake?  I am giving this store review just because I feel like it.  I’m not being paid to gush for them and the best buy powers that be don’t even know that I’m writing this right now.  So there you go.

The flu/sinus thing though… It is no fun.  I don’t know where I’ve been for the last few years but I guess during that time the laws in Oregon have changed so that you are no longer allowed to get real Sudafed from a pharmacist by simply showing them your ID.  Nope, now you need a perscription.  Suckfest.

So I called the women’s clinic at OHSU to ask my doctor to phone in a perscription for the stuff but after talking to her and the nurse we decided that it would be better if I opted not to get it.  It turns out that taking it during the first trimester isn’t the greatest idea.  And since I’m allergic to Tylenol, this leaves me with Benadryl to help me sleep at night and toughing it out during the day if I want to stay awake.

And just to note: I AM NOT PREGNANT (that I know of).  But we are trying again and I am not taking even a tiny chance of contributing to something going wrong again.

This means that I get to try a bunch of natural remedies so earlier today I tried the holding my face over a big steaming pot of water for a half an hour with a towel over my head thing and that actually felt pretty good.  Now I’m off to search for more natural head cold/sinus remedies.  What’s your favorite?