dragonimp

I think I mentioned this, but part of the treatment for allergies is to avoid the thing you're allergic to for 25 hours after the treatment. Ever try to avoid B vitamins? I'm eating nothing but cauliflower and fish that's been cooked within an inch of its life. At least I only have to do this for another 2 hours.

Had the appointment with the acupuncturist this morning. Even just talking to a health practitioner who is focused on finding the root of the problem and solving it instead of here have a pill for your symptoms was refreshing. I like this guy, though; he seems to know his stuff and looks into a lot of different avenues for treatment. Like he suggested getting my iodine levels tested and supplementing with iodine for PCOS - he's know people who've 'cured' (gotten rid of all their symptoms, I'm guessing) PCOS after correcting their iodine levels.

He used kinesthesiology to test for allergies - kinesthesiology is one of those things that seems like it shouldn't work, but does. I've used it before (for non-health related things) and seen it used with other people so I had no problem accepting it for this. I tested sensitive for dairy, specifically casein - no surprise there. I also tested sensitive to weed, grass, and tree pollens - a bit harder to eliminate. And also for - B vitamins.

Yeah, kinda hard to eliminate those. Especially since you, y'know, kinda need them. There's a way to treat the sensitivity, though, but it means avoiding the thing you're sensitive to for like 25-30 hours. That's going to mean eating really, really bland food for about a day and a half. Just about the only things on the list of "foods you can eat" that I could actually eat were cauliflower and "well-cooked or deep-fried fish" (though I thought fish had B-vitamins - maybe the cooking destroys it?). I really, really don't like being that picky, but if I have a serving of white rice of pasta now, especially without any protein or fat, I'm going to get a headache and probably a stomach ache.

I do want to do the treatment, though, because I'm ready to be done with these goddamn migraines, and maybe if I treat the B-vitamin and pollen sensitivities I don't have to be quite so vigilant about milk.

I did get an acupuncture treatment, too, a general one for headaches. Except for a small poke/pinch when the needle goes in it really doesn't hurt, but it feels kinda ... weird. Like I felt like I had a blanket over my legs and feet. And with a couple of the needles it was like "Oh! A nerve!" going in, but not in a painful way. But then you have to lie there and not move for a half-hour or so.

Just a little ficlet for 3 Oct. Happy FMA Day!!!

Title: Several Years Late
Author: dragonimp
Rating: PG
Genre: Fluff
Pairing: Roy/Ed
Warnings: None
Summary: "Shit, how was I supposed to know how you'd react? I was a kid."
Notes: (Long over-due) sequel to Chocolate-Covered Coffee Beans (a White Day fic)

( It's an old tradition )

Not dead tired, but tired enough, so in brief. We kinda spent most of the con a)wondering where everyone was; and b)feeling old and out of touch because who are these characters and where are these costumes/merch from?? This was tiny compared to the last two times I was at y-con, and I can't help but think the move to SoCal and back really hurt them. To give you some indication, Dealers' Room and Artists' Alley were in the same (not especially large) room (who does that??), and we saw it kinda crowded maybe ... once? And they sold out their hotel block, so either it was a really small block, or people were ... elsewhere? Had abandoned the con? But still, we had fun just hanging and doing the small amount of people-watching we could manage (the space was really not conducive to it). I hope they manage to pick it back up somehow in the future, because as a con, this was ... kinda disappointing.

HOLY SHIT yaoi con is early this year. I thought it was still going to be late October again so I thought I had some time. But according to the website pre-reg is over and the hotel block is already sold out. Yikes.

So, uh ... who's planning to go? IS anyone planning to go? Any hotel plans yet? I need to figure out if this is something I can afford.

Anyone?

Sometime in mid-May I cut out all dairy protein, as well as peanuts and (most) soy, on the theory that these proteins were stressing my immune system and a stressed immune system was the ultimate cause my my allergies. Since then, I've had two migraines, but they've been the wimpiest migraines ever to migraine (they still leave me drained and grumpy, though). I'm considering this a good sign, and hopefully things'll improve more the longer I'm away from these foods.

This does mean, however, that between this and eating low-carb, I've gone from making 75% of what I eat, to having to make 90-95% of everything I eat. Pretty much every commercial protein bar I've found uses whey protein, and often also soy and peanuts. Every brand of jerky I've looked at has some form of sugar in it. It's pretty much impossible to find a grab-and-go or microwave meal that doesn't use flour, cheese or cream, or large amounts of starch. This isn't even touching sugar alcohols, which I can eat in small quantities, which are also often used in anything labeled "low-carb".

I've come to like most of the home-made stuff better, anyway, but the thing is, it just takes time. And it means planning ahead, which, hi, ADHD. It's worth it if I can get rid of the allergies, but I have enough problems already with allocating my time. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle this once I do get a job.

But right now I have to go finish making some egg protein cookies.

Ohai internets, long time no see.

Well, the job has concluded. Or at least I assume it has, since when I got there Sunday morning there were maybe 3 other cars in the lot and no one in the building. The two people I talked to also worked for Manpower (there were four staffing agencies) and hadn't worked Friday or Saturday, so our best guess? The project concluded one of those two days and Manpower friggin' forgot to tell us. I would've liked to know this before driving all the way out there, but at least it wasn't weekday traffic. The rest of the day felt like a bonus day after that, so whatever.

Still would've liked to know beforehand.

The job was terribly mind-numbing and boring, just verifying tax information (for the love of god, people, make your checks legible). At times I was reading the numbers to myself in Spanish to keep myself awake; otherwise I was zoning out like crazy. But it's done now (apparently), and I can go back to looking for something more permanent.

I have a lot to catch up on around the house and elsewhere, so I still don't know when I'll have time to catch up online. But I should be around more, at least.

Last-minute garage sale this weekend kind of plowed over everything else ^^;. My neighbor was having a sale and asked if we wanted to tack on some items. There's a lot we want to get rid of, so emphatically yes, but that meant locating the items and cleaning them up, and of course, the actual sale on Friday and Saturday.

We got rained out halfway through the day yesterday, but still, not too bad. The larger items that didn't sell will probably go on ebay or Craig's List, the smaller ones to the thrift shop. But we kind of wore ourselves out.

Touching anything vaguely political online gets you put on political mailing lists, as I quickly discovered, so I'm on several equal rights/lgbt rights/women's issues/whatever other (undoubtedly left-leaning) petition I might have signed, but I'm not sure how I got on the list for Faithful America. I vaguely remember clicking on some page about the Pope that I think came through one of my OTHER lists (that's how they all snag you), but, uh, I really don't think I'm their intended audience? I mean, from what I can tell so far, politically we're probably about in the same field, but I'm pretty sure I'm standing off to the side of where they're aiming. Just saying I would feel kinda funny signing a petition to tell someone their behavior is "unchristian." And. Kinda don't think the person(s) in question would appreciate hearing it from someone like me. Not that they would know from a name on a list. But still. I would know.

All of this "white Santa - white Jesus" stuff made me think of this article/blog post, and in particular this section:

In quite notable opposition to those who are adamant that these images do nothing to suggest that the Virgin Mary was a dark-skinned woman, the 15th-century scholar Gabriel di Barletta quotes the thirteenth-century St. Albert the Great. According to him:

You ask: Was the Virgin dark or fair? Albertus Magnus says that she was not simply dark, nor simply red-haired, nor just fair-haired … Mary was a blend of complexions, partaking of all of them, because a face partaking of all of them is a beautiful one … And yet this, says Albertus, we must admit: she was a little on the dark side. There are three reasons for thinking this-firstly by reason of complexion, since Jews tend to be dark and she was a Jewess; secondly by reason of witness, since St. Luke made the three pictures of her now at Rome, Loreto and Bologna, and these are brown-complexioned; thirdly, by reason of affinity. A son commonly takes after his mother, and vice versa; Christ was dark, therefore …(Scheer p 14, Vaz De Silva p. 7)

It is also notable that according to Albertus, the dark skin of Christ is a well-known fact, and is used to demonstrate that by virtue of heredity, it follows that Mary herself would also be dark-complected

(Bolding mine.) Interesting that that gets left out of so much history/art history/religious history teachings....