Here in Michigan, we're lucky enough to experience all four season: Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring. The bulk of the population has similar feelings about each season:

Summer is the best. It's hot. We don't have to go to school, instead usually picking up a Summer job to pay for the crazy shenanigans we find ourselves getting into throughout the hottest three months of the year.
Fall is a favorite among many, giving us orchard visits and corn mazes to explore while we don cozy-yet-stylish sweaters.
Winter, after December, is cold and dreary and we all wish it was, instead, Spring.
With Spring comes the green grass, budding trees, and unpredictable weather that could range from freezing temperatures and snow that will disappear within a few minutes of hitting the ground to bright, sunny, skies with temps in the high 70's. (This is Michigan we're talking about, after all. It keeps us on our toes.) We're close to Summer. It's so close we can taste it!! We get Spring Break and everything is becoming bright and happy again after Winter has stripped all the joy from our beings. It's a time for new beginnings!

Alas, there is one thing to truly hate about Spring: ALLERGIES.

Yes, those eye-watering, sniffle-inducing curses that sometimes, if you're like me, get worse the older you get. Sometimes you're fortunate and you grow out of them. Nope, not this girl.

Here are five ways to tell you have Spring Allergies in Michigan:

1. Your nose is selectively runny

You stand up from sitting on the couch? It's like someone turned on a faucet. Move a little too fast? Suddenly you're stuffed up so much you feel like someone is suffocating you. You walk outside to smell the flowers? Oh, buddy, big mistake!! The Hoover Dam is now kaput.

2. Your eyes? Not so much.

They're watering. All. The. Time.

3. I mean, your eyes are dead giveaways.

They're so bloodshot constantly that you've been asked if you've been smoking anything. You've been asked if you've been sleeping well no thanks to how puffy the bags under your baby blues are. It's annoying as all hell.

4. You end up with a six-pack from sneezing so much and so hard.

Sneezing is the Spring workout craze! No, really. And to make matters worse, everyone that hears you sneeze comments on the adorable squeal you let loose. Oh, is that just me? Poo.

5. And you usually find yourself with a sinus infection and/or bronchitis by Mid April.

By now, your doctors, like mine, know the routine. You don't bother with antibiotics anymore, unless the infection moves about the rest of the head (such as your ears). You have an inhaler on hand, even though you don't have asthma. You're just a giant mess of sneezes and fluids dripping from every hole on your face.