lirazel: An outdoor scene from the film Picnic at Hanging Rock ([fall] are you trying to save my soul?)
lirazel ([personal profile] lirazel) wrote2012-03-23 10:19 am

<3

I embody conflict at the moment.

On the one hand: I can't not be joyful when the world is so beautiful. Everything's coming up green! That bright, bright spring green when the trees bud! And flowers and flowering trees everywhere! Dogwoods and Bradford pears and redbuds (which are PURPLE WHAT KIND OF A LOSER NAMED THEM?) and tulip poplars! GORGEOUSNESS.

On the other hand: OMG EVERYTHING ITCHES I AM DYING. I take Claritin every morning to keep me from being incapacitated by my allergies, but it's not strong enough to deal with the onslaught at the moment and so my eyes and nose refuse to quit itching. At least it hasn't settled in my sinuses (most miserable I have ever been, I swear: when I ran out of Claritin and didn't take it for a few days last spring--I felt like my sinus cavities were completely full of pollen). But I have to wash my face every few hours and still it's not stopping. I feel a headache coming on.

And my truck is cooooooovered in pollen because it sits under trees both at home and work, and what is the point of washing it if it's going to get covered again?

But all of this is, I suppose, the price I have to pay for having such a gorgeous spring, I suppose. But sometimes when the allergies get really bad, I wish I lived in Arizona or something.

[identity profile] upupa-epops.livejournal.com 2012-03-23 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, I'm sorry about the allergies :(. I know the feeling, and I can fully sympathize.

Hey, it usually helps me when I put a piece of wet cloth around my mouth and nose. I mean, it makes a person look like some crazy cowboy-wannabe, but if you're home, maybe it's worth a shot?

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-03-23 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It sucks, doesn't it?

I will have to try that when I get home tonight! Not workable at work, but it's definitely worth a shot at home! Thanks!

And your icon is perfect in this context. Nobody has allergies in fiction!

[identity profile] upupa-epops.livejournal.com 2012-03-23 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Allergies are the actual worst. People in fiction should have allergies that make them look like pissed-off hamsters, I'd have someone to relate to!

The wet cloth thing was originally a way to avoid crying your eyes out when you're cutting onion :). I don't even remember who taught me that.

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-03-23 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha!

Oh, that's a good idea, actually. And it makes sense that it would work with both.

[identity profile] dollsome.livejournal.com 2012-03-23 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
COME TO ALASKA, WHERE SPRING IS A MYTH, BUT IT IS A BALMY 27 TODAY!

WHAT IS A BLOOMING PLANT?

Hope your allergies have mercy, love. ♥

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-03-23 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I will take allergies over freezing to death any day! But I do want to visit Alaska eventually...probably in the summer.

Thank you kindly!

YOUR ICON ♥

[identity profile] zombie_boogie.livejournal.com 2012-03-24 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I used to get really bad allergic reactions to ragweed, so I sympathize. But ever since I moved to the concrete jungle that is Toronto my allergies in the spring/summer have gotten a lot better. It may not have the greenery of a smaller town or rural community but my eyes and nose really appreciate the big city.

[identity profile] penny-lane-42.livejournal.com 2012-03-27 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I am so not a city person, but I think the lack of allergies would be the one thing I would appreciate about living on a slab of concrete. ;D I am very pleased yours are a thing of the past!