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| This is mostly for my records but some of you will find it amusing:
These are the numbers for my allergy test I took on 6/15/09. Some numbers appear lower than they actually are because the way the test works is that there are two types of needles. There are really small one (think TB innoulantions) that they do first with a higher concentration of allergen but a smaller needle that doesn’t go as deep under the tissue. If you get any sorta of reaction of note, or if it is a dangerous allergen (peanuts for instance) they will not move you on to Phase 2 for safety.
Phase Two consists of hyperdermic needles with a weaker dose.
So here we go. They grade you (by touch and appearance and based on the experience of the nurse involved, so take some of this with a grain of salt….) and write down a score from 0-4. Zero is no reaction. Three and Four are considered Severe. Espically Fours….here are my numbers, separated by Inhalants and Food:
I’m listing the food first since they are more interesting to read about than various types of mold, though the Inhalents are by far the bigger problem.
Foods:
Beef: 4 (sweet mother of mercy!)
Chicken: 0 (this number is better than 6 years ago as are a lot of things believe it or not)
Egg: 0
Pork: 4 (my BBQ!!!)
Apple: 1
Avocado: 0
Banana: 0
Cantaloupe: 2
Coconut: 1
Orange: 3
Peach: 0
Pear: 0
Pineapple: 4 (MEAT FAUCET – OH NOZS!)
Strawberry: 0
Watermelon: 0
White Grape: 1
Almond: 3
Brazil: 0
Cashew: 0
Hazelnut: 3
Pistacho: 3
Pecan: 0
Walnut: 0
Barley: 3 (Wait, I don’t like where this is going…)
Corn: 1
Cottonseed: 2
Malt: 3 (heeeeeeyyyyyy….)
Oats: 3
Rice: 0
Rye: 2
Wheat: 2
Yeast: 0
Clam: 2
Crab: 0
Fish Mix (Codfish, Flounder, Halibut, Mackeral, Tuna): 2
Flounder: 0
Tuna: 0
Lobster: 2
Oyster: 3
Salmon: 2
Scallops: 3
Shrimp: 0 (There is a God!)
Cocoa Beans: 0 (ditto!)
Coffee: 0
Hops: 0 (Great, the ONE Beer ingredient that I dislike…)
Milk: 2
Tea: 0
Black Pepper: 2
Cinnamon: 1
Garlic: 0
Green Olive: 0 (Martini time!)
Mushrooms: 1
Mustard: 0
Onion: 0
Sesame Seed: 3
Green Bean: 2
Green Peas: 2
Lima Bean: 2
Navy Bean: 2
Peanut: 2
Soybean: 3 (Take that Lactaid!)
Broccili: 0
Cabbage: 2
Carrot: 0
Cauliflower: 2
Celery: 0
Lettuce: 0
Spinach: 1
Sweet Potato: 2
Tomato: 0
White Potato: 2
Inhalents:
House Dust: 2
Standardized mite Mix: 2
Cockroach: 0
Cat epithelia: 4 (was a zero on the first test…I thought I was going to the SPCA that day!)
Dog epithelia: 2 (didn’t do second test on that one…)
Grass: 4
Weed Mix: 2
Marsh Elder: 0
Mugwort: 3
Plantain-Sorrel Mix: 3
Ragweed: 3
Molds – (last time I was hardly allergic to mold – this is a bad year for them because of the cold winter.)
Fungi Mix: 2
Acremonium strictum: 2
Alterbarua alternata: 0
Aspergillus mix: 2
Aureobasidium pullulans: 3
Bipolaris sorokiniana: 1
Botrytis cinerea: 0
Candida albicans: 2
Chaetomium globosum: 2
Cladosporium sphaerospermum: 0
Epicoccum nigrum: 1
Fusarium moniliform: 2
Mucor plumbeus: 2
Penicillium Mix: 2
Phoma betae: 2
Rhizopus oryzae: 0
Trichophyton mentagrophytes: 1
Drechslera spicifera: 0
Geotrichum candidum: 3
Grain Smut Mix: 2
Grass Smut Mix: 2
Trees –
Tree Mix: 2
Elm: 2
Maple: 2
Eastern Oak: 3
Sycamore: 2
Tree Mix II: 2
White Ash: 2
Beech: 2
Birch: 4
Cottonwood: 2
White Hickory: 0
Walnut Pollen, Black: 1
Black Willow: 1
Alder: 2
Box Elder: 3
Cedar, red: 0
Mulberry, red: 2
Pine Mix: 1
Privet: 2
Sweet Gum: 2
So, very soon I am going to try a ten day elimination diet on the threes and fours. For food that means no:
Beef
Pork
Oranges
Pineapple
Almonds
Hazelnut
Pistacho
Barley
Malt
Oats
Oyster
Scallops
Sesame Seed
Soybean
Then I’m suppose to bing on this stuff. I’m going to try and work this around Summer War. (Ya’ll are coming right?) so that should be interesting….
Weight in at 247 today. Time to get back to work on that. | |
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| Last night Jayson and Wayne came over and worked on armour.
Tonight is the COB practice. Should have 15+ in armour. Rain or shine.
Tomorrow is more armouring with Jay to get his stuff together for Novice. Might start packing on wednesday too.
Thursday is the Indigo Girls Concert and packing.
Friday night we leave for Golden Rose.
Thankfully i'm not fighting (though I was very honored to be asked) since I don't really have time to get all my gear to the point it would be acceptable to fight in a tourney of this style. My sword is crap, my shield is shredded.
Come to think of it, maybe I should work on my own armour some...Hm.
Tonight's practice should focus on mellee training if the weather holds. I do want the guys to fight some though. Should be a good shakedown. If it rains, then we can do singles practice as a lot of the new guys can really benefit from that.
A&S should be jumping tonight too, as should fencing. A couple of families have started bringing thier kids out too and I know Kim is bringing Gracie out with her tonight.
I'm sorta rambling aren't I? | |
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| I have access to the Net, as least for a moment! Our home cpu is DED, and my work network has been crapped out since yesterday, but is back up at least for a moment.
The basement flooded last night, no I don't want to talk about it. I do have to throw out some stuff and clean up this weekend though. I am not having the best week...
I wrote this yesterday when the network went down. Enjoy!:
Facebook is killing my LJ. I’ve already started to see the “I’m giving up on LJ for Facebook” posts. The problem is that LJ is just so much more versatile. The Filters alone are worth it. But I do spend way too much of my internet time of FB.
Actually I’m not on the net at all as I type this. Our server has gone ka-flew-y today. At home, we seem to have picked up the Sasser Worm and our computer is out of commission too.
So…I figured I would take a moment to catch up on what has been going on for the last couple of weeks.
Sapphire was the giant time suck that it always is. It was worth it though. I had a really awesome time. I still feel like I am recovering. After the event I went on a purposeful One week off my diet and exercise regime. I wish I hadn’t done that. I am full of fail in trying to get back on the wagon. This is frustrating because I am finally starting to see some positive results. So, today at lunch I am going to go for a walk and tonight I am going to get back on the Bike. I fought at practice for the first time in about three weeks. I did ok but my elbow was really messed up before I even started. I guess it was good that I went slow and took it sorta easy.
In other news, Grace has just been amazing. She has gone through another mental development and picked up some new words, and has been stringing simple two word sentences together like “Daddy, Bye Bye!” and such. Her three favorite words are “NO!”, “Wow!” and “Weeeeeee!” as in – I’m going to spin around like Wonderwoman and say “Weeeeeeeeeee!!!”. The “Wow” thing is super cute, because she will whisper it when she sees something cool that she likes. Like when I say “Look Gracie, its Tinkerbelle!”, she will whisper ‘wow!’ very quietly. Very, very deadly cute.
Yesterday Grace ran into our bedroom where I was changing with a beret in her hair that Mommy had put in. She was clearly showing off how cute she was. Mommy took her ruby tiara from the wedding and place it cockeyed on Gracie’s head. Usually Grace HATES hats, but she just said “wow” in that quiet voice and then spun around and around saying “WEEEEEEEEEE!” When we left the house, she was still wearing the tiara. It was like she was saying “Bout damn time!” or something. So yes, in case there was any doubt, my little girl is a Princess.
So Sapphire Joust Bests in no particular order:
I ate really well. From Beth who got us sandwich fixings on Friday to Isobel and Mathieu’s food plan we were stuffed all weekend.
Keg of Legend. Oh yeah. It rocked.
Bardics! Saturday and Sunday! As usual, the Sunday night bardic was the better one. I kept to my tradition to not repeat myself all weekend. Good tunes. Lots of new good singers too.
Sunday Court. Saturday Court was just off for me. Forgetting the Scrolls really seemed to throw me off my game, but Sunday court seemed to flow well. Lots of good folks got deserved awards at both courts so it is all good.
St. Aiden Mellee Tourney. Caer Mear was victorious! Awesome! It’s great to see the group rally around us and it is gratifyingly to see all the hard work we have done with recruitment and retention of older fighters paying off. I think the group is pumped up. I wish more folks were going to Pennsic, but with the economy in the shitter, it is what it is. Part of me was sad to not be fighting, but I was glad to let Melisent and the team shine and thankful that I wasn’t fighting in the Sump Mud. (yuck!)
Laughter. I had a great camp full of good folks. We laughed and laughed and there was No Camp Drama. It was awesome.
Our guys doing well in the tourneys. Melisent really wanted to see Caer Mear folks bring it home this year, and we sure did our damndest. Amos finaled in Sapphire, Augustine in the Novice, and we won the Mellee Tourney. Always our guys fought with strength and honor, as if there was any question. Also, three of the final four finalists in Sapphire were from VA and attend the COB practice. It shows that all the hard work and effort we have been doing is finally paying off. Everyone should be very proud.
Overall, an outstanding event. The first year of our two year tenure is done now. It is an amazing time for us in the SCA that is for sure. A part of me will be sad when it ends because there is always more that can be done, and a part of me will be relieved and grateful. That being said, there is no coasting on this second year. We build and build and build until we are done.
Then we drink. A lot.
In the meantime Summer War is one month away today. Melisent is getting her autocrat stuff together. I am just trying to stay out of her way at this point. Next week is Golden Rose where she is going to retain for the day and I’m watching Gracie. That should be fun!
This weekend’s activities will depend on what the weather does. It might be a rainy one so who knows. I really need to attack the damn holly trees and cut some other shrubs back. This is really the last free weekend till Pennsic for us…isn’t that CRAZY?
Why yes, yes it is. | |
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| "We're deathly afraid of that stabbing word "pretentious," the word that
students use to curse each other's ambition. It's a young
person's word, a shortcut-to-thinking word.
I'm a big fan of pretension. It means "an aspiration or intention
that may or may not reach fulfillment." It doesn't mean
failing upward. It means trying to exceed your grasp. Which
is how things grow." - Warren Ellis | |
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| So….
Things have been very busy, as it always is for Sapphire. Last year we were being invested as baronage so getting ready for that really sucked up a lot of energy. This year the demands are different but not necessary easier. Over the last couple of weeks things have slowly been ramping up. As of now I think we are in good shape. Right now there is a 40% chance of rain on Saturday but it decreases to 30% on Sunday. Think good thoughts!
The reality is that things are in pretty good shape, at least as it stands on getting ready for the event, which is today and tonight’s main focus. I have to finish packing the household and personal stuff, finish Court stuff, and watch the girlie so Kim can finish up her packing. Last night Kim finished her new black dress (very nice!) and repaired her fighting tunic for the Aiden Battle. It was armory night for me and we helped the guys get a lot of stuff done. I mean a lot. Wow.
Tonight is our last night with Grace. Julie has offered to take her to Suffolk on Thursday during the day since this way she can get a doctor’s appointment in and get her truck inspected. While this makes perfect sense since I will be at the site right after work on Thursday, it sucks to have the girlie go away for five days. I know it for the best for everyone but none the less it is hard. Grace has had a cold/allergies this week but has been very, very sweet. Since she has been feeling poorly she has wanted more contact which is awesome. Last night we snuggled and read together.
She has gone through some sort of developmental change (which explains the tantrums and fussiness of the last week previous) because in the last couple of days she has started stringing simple sets of words together on her own. She also has picked up a few new distinct words: Bubble, NO! (sigh), and new as of last night – Blue.
For some reason (because it is a calming color?) a lot of the backing pages of children’s books are blue. When I open and shut the books I always point at them and say “Blue. That color is Blue.”
Last night I pointed at the page and said “What color is that?” To which she replied “BLLLUUUUUUUUUUUUEE!”
Awesome.
Today’s big news is that I weighted in. I wasn’t expecting much even though I have upped my activity and exercise. Instead I was shocked. After a couple of weeks of not being able to get below 251, and in fact gaining to 252 last week, this week I weighted in at 244. Wow. Thank you stress induced IBS! Haha! I’m actually not too happy about this, even though I have made my weight goal. It could be that I finally pushed through a plateau or it could be that I have lost a lot of hydration and muscle from being sick the last week or so.
Either way, I’ll be a little lighter on my feet this weekend, which is a good thing.
Anyway, time to coffee up and get back to the fray. See some of you on Friday. We’ll miss those not in attendance! | |
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| Grace was crazy cute at Yarnvid's Mock Court last night. I was talking about how sometimes you get called into court because you won a competition or tourney and I needed a volunteer.
Grace says "OHHH!" and toddled out of the ranks of chairs and came up, BOWED (wow!) and I said "Gracie you have won the archery shoot today! Very good, here is your prize! Thank you!" and handed her a combat archery arrow that Larry had just given me.
She took the arrow, said "Bye Bye!" and waived as she turned around and headed back to her seat!!!
:-)
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