Pollen @ MindSay

Allergies have hit me with full force! I hate this time of year. No wonder I'm a fall person. I hate this congested, exhausted, itchy-eyed, light-headed, generally-miserable time of year. Beauty and blooming flowers? Ha! I'll take the rich, warm colors of the changing leaves and the still late-summer/early-autumn air any day. Just...bleh. I hate it.

 

 

Oh--and I'll work on the second part of chapter one and the first part of chapter two later on today. I have a feeling I'm going to have a long stretch of solo time this afternoon.

Eileen Rose lived one street over and I would cut through the Cabot’s backyard to get to Eileens. The Cabots lived in a Georgian brick colonial  right across from us and everyone had long long yards … so for a seven year old it was quite a trek.

 

Eileen was the first girl I knew who had asthma, like I had, only hers was worse and she had to carry a nebulizer all the time. She wasn’t to get “excited” and I envied the eggshell walking her family did due to her fragile condition. Eileen was also the first person  I slept over with other than cousins. And she had a Harriet Hubbard doll which I REALLY coveted. Eileen also had siblings that perfectly mirrored my own family constellation. Carol and then Jordon and then Eileen. As a young adult Eileen went to Julliard (voice) and sadly died young from breast cancer.

 

Why am I thinking of Eileen today? Because Mondays Wednesday or Fridays are shot days. Shots for my many allergies. Cat dander, dust mites, grasses trees and many other pollens. The only thing that doesn’t get to me yet is mold and I am keeping my fingers crossed. I have been getting these shots for several years. First because my winter sinus infections began to be spring winter and fall infections. And I got great relief from the shots and also the nasal irrigations my ENT told me about. And then I decided to get a cat which is a super huge taboo for allergy sufferers but I would rather have post nasal drip while I play with my cat than have a clear URT and no fur ball to love up.

 

The Eileen/asthsma/allergy thoughts lead somehow to freshly made popovers and then to beignets and then to café au lait which of course led to tall silver coffee pots in a new Orleans bed and breakfast we visited.  And then of course to the Vietnamese coffee filters I got on ebay . so maybe tomorrow after I am finished with clients I will make beignets?  They will go well with the cherry pie I baked last night.

 

Oh and my calla lilies are in bloom. Arlene gave them to me when she visited last summer and I love having a bit of her world in my yard. Love and friendship are grand.

Pollen sucks.

That's right.  I said it.  Pollen sucks.  This is why I hate spring.  Sure the tulips look great and nice to see the flowers and junk.  But I hate walking outside and seeing my orange car be shades of yellow.  I hate having to tell Av not to touch the car because I know shortly thereafter his pollen covered fingers will be in his mouth and hair.  I hate coughing all the time, being congested, and having my eyes itch and water after just a few minutes outdoors that I think to myself that I'd rather be chopping onions.

And yes, I take medication - prescriptions - year round in fact.  A lovely drug cocktail that works most of the time, except when the pollen count through the frigging roof every day!  That is why I like Fall and Winter so much.  Summer is OK - but just too hot.

So damn you pollen!  I shake my fist at you - you yellow scrooge of humanity!

I woke up this morning and felt a chill in the air.  I looked outside and it was dark and dreary looking.

And I said let it rain, let it rain and wash all this pollen out.  Well on my way to work this morning it

starting raining.  We do need more rain in our part of town.  There is still green stuff (pollen) on the ground.

What am I wishing for today?  Some more rain of course.

 

 

Went to work at 8 am this morning to find that the cart guys had desided to take the weekend off. The trash can's where not done. I mean there was enough trash in the lot , to pile up to my head, and I am not joking. Also, a rather large peice of card board that I placed next to a trash can in the lot on friday,  was still there this morning. How sad is that ? I guess ,  CSL's , closing store manager's and expecally the closing carts guys, and sorry , lazy , worthless peieces of shit. They don't deserve there paychecks if you ask me, but, enough about all that. I walked 7.27 miles in a uneventful day at work.

 

Came home at 230. Got the mail , dusted all the pollen off my car, cause it is seriously covered in it. Then went inside. Where I quickly retired to my room. I got changed and turned on the TV. In time to cacth half of the post poned NASCAR race.  I tuned in just in time to see Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s car blow its engine.  Jimmie Johnson ended up in victory lane at the end of the racing day.

 

My mother arrived home and made dinner. Witch was Alfredo with chicken in it. There are left over's in our fridge. If that tell's you what I think of that dinner. Then my father took my mother grocery shopping. After they arrived back at home. Myself and my father cut the entire lawn.  Gee how fun ? I get to work all morning , then come home add do my fathers "work".

 

I am now watching WWE raw. Witch is on till 11:05 pm.  Then it will the local news, and maybe some leno. Then it will be time to end this day and head for bed.

 

What's on my mind ? I want longer hair now , dam it ! I also want other people at work , to do work. I am tired of having to do all the shit myself. I am tired of cleaning up everything , every morning cause no one at night does squit shit !

 

Anything else ? Well no, not really. I just had a snack. Other then that. There really isnt anything on my mind, or anything that I wanna mention.

 

~ chilling