South, to Augusta!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 11:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniAppointment with the allergist, sigh. I've managed to avoid this for, oh, eighteen or nineteen years -- since we moved to Maine and all the trees in the state decided to try to assassinate me. This year...I dunno...maybe I'm just tired of it. So, we'll go find out what I'm allergic to. Fingers crossed that it's not cat dander.
In the course of excavating my office from the Rubble of Writing(tm), I find that I have...too many stones. Yes, I'm one of those intensely annoying people who pick up stones and rocks -- beach stones, lake stones, woods stones, side of the road stones... I display them among the other bric-a-brac, but -- I've hit critical mass, and I can't choose which ones to get rid of. These aren't, you understand, Just Stones; these are 'Way Cool Stones that I Found Myself. Sigh. I'm guessing the best thing to do is just gather up all of them (even the ones with the teensy crystals? even the ones that had iron veins, which rusted out, leaving a Really Interesting Shape?) and put them outside. They're stones, for heaven's sake.
Um... Maybe tomorrow.
Yesterday, Steve and I recovered the living room, got all of the boxes unpacked and books reshelved. I found the Mencken Table, and hey -- we have a floor in the living room, too! Amazing.
I have now finished reading both Local Custom and Scout's Progress and can therefore commence Staring Balefully at Nothing. Or I would, except my backbrain has helpfully provided the idea for one of stories for the Yule chapbook. You guys are gonna like this one...
I'm outta here.
In the course of excavating my office from the Rubble of Writing(tm), I find that I have...too many stones. Yes, I'm one of those intensely annoying people who pick up stones and rocks -- beach stones, lake stones, woods stones, side of the road stones... I display them among the other bric-a-brac, but -- I've hit critical mass, and I can't choose which ones to get rid of. These aren't, you understand, Just Stones; these are 'Way Cool Stones that I Found Myself. Sigh. I'm guessing the best thing to do is just gather up all of them (even the ones with the teensy crystals? even the ones that had iron veins, which rusted out, leaving a Really Interesting Shape?) and put them outside. They're stones, for heaven's sake.
Um... Maybe tomorrow.
Yesterday, Steve and I recovered the living room, got all of the boxes unpacked and books reshelved. I found the Mencken Table, and hey -- we have a floor in the living room, too! Amazing.
I have now finished reading both Local Custom and Scout's Progress and can therefore commence Staring Balefully at Nothing. Or I would, except my backbrain has helpfully provided the idea for one of stories for the Yule chapbook. You guys are gonna like this one...
I'm outta here.
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Date: 2008-06-24 04:51 pm (UTC)I was injected with a higher dose of cat-'venom', because they just KNEW I had to be allergic to cats, notwithstanding the allergic reactions on the regular tests to all trees and weeds that grow in TN and to none of the household allergens like mold, cats, dogs, dust mites, etc.
And to add insult to injury the insurance company then made me pay for the injection that finally 'proved' that I am allergic to cats.
Btw, I live in a house full of cats and knock on wood, haven't sneezed yet this year, but the evil mugwort will make its appearance in July/August and I'll be in the suds then.
I'd be interested to know whether they will give you the same advice they gave me, if they determine you are allergic to cats: 'wrap the cats in saran wrap but make sure to cut little holes for their mouth and noses'.
I was not amused.
To his credit I have to mention though, that his little cocktail of Prednisone and Rhinocort Aqua eliminated allergic reactions that were thought to possibly be asthma within 24 hours and the RA has served me well when very occasionally administered over the years since.
Good luck!