Hot and Steamy Date

oooooooh, yeah, that's it, just like that, rub my sinus cavities, rub them real good.

Ahem. Yep, that's about the size of it, that's a hot and steamy date for us. Sitting together in a steam shower, suffering with swollen and inflamed sinuses, hoping we stumble onto that sinus pressure point of lore, the one that magically triggers a great sinus flood. Where is it? We need to find it! We frantically seek out the magic button hidden somewhere beneath our eyes and next to our noses, looking for relief.

What have we become? An old married couple? Is a hot and steamy date really a sick-fest in the shower? We used to be a 'hot' couple, in the 1970's disco sense of the word. Now we sit in the shower discussing our bulging midriffs and our equally bulging, at least that's how they feel, sinuses.

Here's the best part, we stepped out of our steamy shower feeling satisfied, we put on our flannel pajamas, and we slept the sleep of babies (in our house that means with a lot of nocturnal disturbances, but hey, it's the best we can do). How'd it happen? As for the sinuses, like this: start at the corner of each nostril and massage in a circular motion, towards the nose, almost closing each nostril, 10 times. Then massage beneath the inner corner of each eye, again, 10 times. Next find the cavity behind the earlobes and massage 10 times. Finally, the ear lobe itself, 10 times. Repeat this 4 step process 3 times, alternating direction of the circular massage motions. Believe it or not, our nasal passageways opened up allowing us to breathe easier. I think the steamy shower helped too. And as for the rest of our satisfaction that night? I guess we've sunk into the comfort of married life, of family life, of each other. That's pretty nice, too. Although, I must say, I think I'm going to pull the disco ball out of the basement for next date night and see what unfolds.