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[austin_tycho]

Quickie before we get on the road to Sweetwater...

I didn't get my eye poked, because I have become un-allergic to cedar in the last year. Wha...? But the good news (besides no eye pokage) is that I now qualify for another study- a dust mite allergy one, and I'm much more allergic to those than to cedar. They're looking for people only allergic to dust mites and not cedar too. And it pays $400! So, more money, no eye poking, huzzah!

I went to look at trucks since Toyota is having a lot of sales. It looks like I'll be able to find what I want for about the price I'm willing to spend. If I get standard instead of automatic, I can even get mileage that's about twice what my current car has. I really prefer automatic, but I may bite the bullet and go with a stick shift. It makes the car cheaper too. They had a '99 Tacoma for $11k that looked like a pretty good candidate- the only reason I didn't test drive it is the guy went off for like 10 minutes to get the keys and I had other things I wanted to get done.

Refinancing loan is apparently still in the works, but we're waiting to hear if the underwriters OK it. We have no idea at this point. We'll end up paying mortgage this month, and hold out hope for February.

I had one black neon bite the bullet. Except for Mr.Pinchy (goddessresthissoul) he's the only fish death I've had so far. Well, and the betta. OK, he's the only community fish death, which I think is not a bad record.

OK, see y'all later!

Comments

becoming unallergic...

[jait.livejournal.com]

Thats so bizarre.

I've heard the theory put forth that every seven years or so, our bodies undergo some substantial changes and we often gain new allergies, lose old ones... But I'd always sort of taken it as having been an offshoot of the fact that in a single seven-year time-span absolutely all the molecules that make up our body will have changed, been replaced with other molecules... And even about that, I'm sceptical.

ANd yet... if your birthdate on your user info page is right, you're dot on a seven-year cusp, and you've quite possibly shucked off the allergy for good! yay!

Re: becoming unallergic...

[mielikki.livejournal.com]

I asked the lady if she sees this often- she said it was pretty common; after living in the same place for years and years people just finally eventually acclimate, and will lose some of their allergies. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this happened in seven year increments, either. All of my molecules are drawn from this area, so it makes sense that my body would stop seeing cedar as an invader, since there's cedar everywhere here.