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Damn it, body, you had ONE JOB.

 

I have exactly one plant allergy, and that is to juniper pollen. If juniper pollen comes into contact with my skin, it looks like I’ve run face first into sandpaper that’s been used to make lovely floral arrangements of poison sumac. I found out about it this one time when I was chasing my puppy down for a bath.

 

As you could imagine, if it gets into my windpipe, hell ensues.

 

Between the ice pick headaches, sinus headaches, and that infernal juniper pollen, my mood’s been so bad that I have to avoid people. Can’t breathe, head’s going kaflooey, nothing’s getting done…at least I can do something about the last one of those. I’m drinking colloidal mineral water once a day for my headaches; my aunt recommended it, and for the last couple days it’s been a little bit better. I mean, mineral deficiency? With the size of the multi I take, it never would have occurred to me to even think of that.

 

Ooh. Shiny.

 

The Solstice is on the 21st this year. While the intention was to have my ocarina replaced by then, I decided that there were a couple of things that I wanted a little bit more at this point—also, I don’t NEED a new oc until the Winter Solstice—I’m counting on there being some kind of winter sale going on.

I’m also trying to stock up on consumables. Specifically, vape stuff. I got my grubby little mitts on a pair of new accessories, and I have my eye on two herbals.

 

Uh…the projects?

All projects will be resumed when and ONLY WHEN my health is squared. I have five doctor’s appointments in the span of four weeks.

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Weather Report: Midwest Extremes.

In the span of a week, Moore, Oklahoma has been attacked again by the wrath of nature. As they take shelter, we here in the East Boogie region roll our eyes again as we have to throw sandbags at our front doors to keep the flash flood from ruining the freshly waxed tile, flooding into the basements and making the ‘shelter’ a bigger hazard than staying up on the eighth floor.

I just watched my cardboard ‘boards’ warp after hailstones the size of half dollars ripped through the cellophane wrap. I’m not surprised–hail does that. No, what surprises me is that we’re seeing weather THIS violently interesting this close to the middle point of the year. Usually in this area of the country, the weather has a single setting: Hot and Boring.

Well, it’s certainly been Hot. Boring, on the other hand…

I’m keeping a low profile tonight while this weather blows through, seeing as one wall is pretty much NOTHING BUT WINDOW and there’s lightning going on outside of it. A can of Perrier and a small bowl of green curry–not to mention my big red Vea vaporizer–and I’m making it a quiet night.

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WTF Weather

Where am I? Counting my lucky stars that I’m safe, that’s where.

Severe weather blew over the Midwest over the last twenty four hours. The state of Oklahoma got the worst of it; a suburb of Oklahoma City called Moore has quite literally been erased from the map. There’s at least 50 dead.

Here in the East Saint Louis/Saint Louis area, we just got ludicrous flash flooding–watch the cruisers drift over the road, or what might be the road, it might be a river right now.

Here in chronic leg condition land, at about 3 AM, right at the first explosive downburst of wind and thunder, I woke up to a searing pain in my leg. For a moment, I thought I’d been hit by the lightning outside. I’ve spent the day alternating using the Pomodoro Technique–a lifehack involving doing work in short 25-minute bursts with strictly enforced break times–to alternate between cleaning the apartment and using my TENS machine to zap a short sample of pain relief into the leg. It’s the worst it’s been since the first injury three years ago, a few times today having reduced me to this pathetic whimpering thing that couldn’t do anything.

The weather shows no signs of letting up, and to add insult to injury, I have to repair my window boarding again. It blew in this morning.

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100 Things #36: Irregular Creatures by Chuck Wendig

This is the second post where I gush about Chuck Wendig’s work—what can I say, I’m a fan. Irregular Creatures is a collection of his short stories, varying in tone from delightfully dark to friendly family fun—as someone first introduced to him via the blog, the latter was more jarring.

Without spoiling any of the contents, the man has an astounding creative mind. While I got used to him as an advice-tossing profanity-spouting guru, it was bumping into his narratives here that sold me on the man’s mad skills. This was one of the first books I got a sample on and was verily cheesed off when I hit the end of the sample. I honestly took a detour off my route to find someplace with wi-fi to buy the whole book.

At some point, I’m gonna have to review it on Goodreads, after I reread it again and it’s fresh in my head.

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