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You are viewing the most recent 20 entries November 12th, 2009whitecrow0 @ 06:57 pm: more modcloth
 Oh, hey! I think I found a way to share my likes: Mod Retro Indie Clothing & Vintage ClothesDoes that link work for you? I added the No Place Like Gnome Tee today. I love that shirt! Today's other particular favorites are the Lecture Series Dress and the Amsonia Dress, which looks rather retro. Current Mood:  embarrassed redrumwolf, posting in gardening @ 11:05 am: How to make my plants Kitty-Free?
 Does anyone have a good solution to perhaps save my indoor plants from my ever-eating-plants-cat? I'm running out of space to put my plants on that she can't reach, and I'd love getting more so! Any suggestions someone tried that worked? Current Mood:  hopeful whitecrow0 @ 12:30 pm: because i don't want to bitch on twitter
 Pooooooooop. My coworker is eating the chinese food again. "Don't sniff my lunch!" she said. "It's not good for you!" It's really really weird. I can go to some Chinese restaurants - particularly the family-run Kim Wah near our house - and I won't notice reactions at all, even when I pick my food out of the buffet, where they'll have baby corn in one or two steaming dishes. But my poor coworker will bring in a styrofoam container of a dish with baby corn in it (granted, the food may also be thickened with corn starch) and I will ITCH LIKE CRAZY inside my right ear, across my throat and chest, down my torso and arms. I do not break out in hives, but the itching is so bad it feels like it. I suppose it has something to do with the airflow. At the buffet, I'm in a big, well-ventilated restaurant? Unfortunately, at my office, the air flow moves from her desk to my desk. If we switched positions (we can't) I don't think I'd have as much as a problem. I do hate complaining about the way her food bothers me, because it almost always does. Sometimes it's aggravating, because she knows I have the issue ... but at the same time, I don't think she should have to rearrange her entire (lunch) life, particularly because corn is practically inescapable. It'd just be nice if sometimes she didn't eat at her desk. Because I don't want to have to wear a mask. I don't want to have to pop extra allergy meds. But I don't want to itch! My eyes are itching now, and my lymph nodes are starting to swell 1. Someone on the Avoiding Corn forum suggested an air purifier. I wonder if that'd actually help.
1 - Traditional medicine maintains that swollen lymph nodes have nothing to do with food allergies.
I say bosh! to this.
Some of the more newfangled food allergy docs - particularly those that study and treat IGg mediated allergies (those that aren't your typical and / or anaphylactoid symptoms, which is to say delayed onset reactions, gastrointestinal distress - I suppose these are food intolerances) do acknowledge the correlation:
The lymphatic tissues of the nose and throat (lymph nodes, tonsils, adenoids) are the primary sites of immune response to in-coming food materials. It is not surprising then to find the tonsils and adenoids enlarged in a food allergic child.
-- http://www.nutramed.com/children/tonsils_nodes.htm
All I know is that when I wake up in the morning my throat feels fine. I usually come to work and my throat feels fine. When I am exposed to cardboard, corn-laced food, or other corny materials, my lymph nodes start to swell. When the items are removed from my environment, I get some relief, but my throat generally stays swollen for at least four to eight hours (sometimes longer).
But when I wake up the next morning, my throat's okay again. So it's not constant. I don't think that it's chronic, either, unless I'm always exposed to corn.
I don't think this is psychological.
Um.
Yeah.Current Mood:  ITCHY!!! junycherry, posting in slash_this @ 11:02 am: US-based Seller, Juny's
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wildernesscat, posting in gardening @ 09:26 am: Composter agitated.
 After stirring the contents of the composter a bit, I discovered some huge roaches running around the box. I'm kinda new to this compost thing. Is that normal?
November 11th, 2009whitecrow0 @ 11:30 pm: today's tweets
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whitecrow0 @ 10:51 pm: modcloth
I ♥ ModCloth. I subscribe to the new items RSS feed and I have my own "loved items" page, which I'd simply point you to were it sharable, but apparently it's only viewable to me when I'm logged in. Here are some of my favorite ModCloth items: Cher-ish DressOMG I want this! Child-Hoodie in Mac-n-ChesseFat CellGift Giving DressReminds me of Marilyn Monroe. Mixed Media HeelsOwl Through the Night ScarfTee-hee! Thankful for This DressLazy Daisy FlatsChartreuse Chanteuse DressCurrent Mood: embarrassed ironman1231, posting in austincommunity @ 11:23 pm: Gateway Laptop for Sale - Windows 7 Ultimate - $350 OBO (Price lowered!)
 I really need to make some cash for my wedding, so I'm lowering the price for the laptop. This would make a good Christmas present and it's a great deal. Check out the specs here: http://austin.craigslist.org/sys/1461512760.htmlPlease let me know if you're interested.
veromarie, posting in austincommunity @ 10:53 pm: Under Garments (Womens slips)
 My Grandma lives in a tiny town 3 hours away and she needs help finding slips. You know, the knee-length, old fashioned slips that you wear under dresses, what courtney love thinks are skirts? Yeah those, in skin color. I guess girls are not using them anymore and she can't find them in her lil bitty town. I have tried Target, JC Penney, Wal-Mart, Dollar General/Family Dollar, Big Lots, most Dept. stores and nothing! Anyone seen any in the past week? I would appreciate it so, so much!!! Thanks!! veronica PS. I live south! &Away from the malls if possible but if that's the only place then help me God, I'll do it for my Grandma. lol, thanks again!
bnanafish, posting in austincommunity @ 05:15 pm: Austin Job with local non-profit for a licensed counselor
 Hi all, I work for an employee assistance program here in Austin. We are currently looking for an LPC or LMSW for a full time salary position as a trainer in our organization. The position consists of development and implementation of a wide range of business applicable courses (stress management; team building, management training, dealing with difficult employees, etc). The majority of the training is done in Texas with some out of state travel required. Dependable personal transportation a must. We're a non-profit, so the salary isn't huge to start. But you do get a week of personal time, 2 weeks vacation and 12 sick days a year. Insurance, dental, vision, 401K after a year with 5% company match. There is also an opportunity to make a 10% commission on some trainings that you would sell to established customers (ie, no cold calling). Must be a licensed counselor with a current license. Non-smoker or ex-smoker preferred, as some trainings are smoking cessation programs. During the interview, you will be required to give a power point presentation on a professional topic of your choosing, such as those I mentioned earlier. Send resume to aalexander@alliancewp.com
dwell, posting in lj_maintenance @ 02:00 pm: Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT
 On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice. Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials. We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait! As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.
katu @ 04:00 pm: responsibility
 There are a lot of reasons I don't want to go to work today. I've been getting away with a lot of evenings off because business has been so slow. But there's nothing to indicate that tonight will be slow. The lunch shift was busy, and we have reservations on the book for tonight. Last night was pretty busy, as well. And yet, I am looking for ways to get out of it. I want to work on my homework, I want to play video games, I want to buy groceries. I don't want to work. But...I can't take off if it's going to be busy, that would be ridiculous. It's my shift, I shouldn't plan other activities to take place during the times that I should be at work. I know this. But yeah. Still don't want to go. I don't have any time to myself this week until Saturday. I don't want to wait until then to get food. :/ Okay, well, getting back to class now. Maybe work will be slow and I can get out early.
teribeth, posting in gardening @ 02:24 pm: Uneven lawn?
 We recently moved into our house and are just starting to fix up the yard-gone-feral (the house was empty for six months, which is also about as long as our summer season is here in Florida). As I'm getting out and about, it's very obvious that our yard is uneven. There are a couple of places that are 3'-across circular areas that dip down by an inch or two. They are somewhat hazardous during the day and I expect they'll be even worse at night. Is there a quick and easy way to fix them? We're having our housewarming weekend after next so I'd have this weekend to work on it (stupid non-daylight savings time taking all the weekday sunlight away from me!). I'd also be interested in solutions that take longer because, hey, it has to be fixed eventually. Oh, this is also in the back yard so it's okay if it's a little unaesthetic for a while. Current Mood:  curious kansaschica @ 01:18 pm: OK, here I go again.
 Brian Jay, you're always asking what I'm wearing. Here's what I wore to Poker Night.  ( Patrick cooked us food! )97 pounds. Size 00 jeans. And that's why Patrick is always trying to fatten me up.
hi_im_kelsi, posting in gardening @ 12:23 pm: pathways
 I've been trying to decide what to do with my garden pathways. I decided to go with using straw/wood shavings. I got a TON of cardboard from work to lay down to kill the weeds. So what is the easiest way to go about this? My thinking is (simple!) lay down the cardboard and top with straw/wood shavings. Sounds easy. Will that work?  wow. i cant believe how different my garden looks today. this is a picture from last winter. since then i built a 4' picket fence where the metal fence is, i replaced all of the old bed frames with 2x8's and built 2 new beds. but the weeds in between the beds still grow like.. well... weeds!!! it's a pain in the butt to mow in between all of those beds so often.
rainien, posting in gardening @ 11:11 am: Roses
 With so many here reporting late (OMG LATE!) roses blooming, I thought I'd share these. I picked them yesterday at my employer's house. LOL She's had her gardens for about four years now and has *never* picked so much as *one* of the flowers. Since I had the run of the house and grounds yesterday while she was out of town, I decided to show her what she was missing out on. Included in the arrangement is several pink roses (in various stages of blooming), a few Knockout roses, and foliage from nandina, youpon holly, an unknown shrub, and ornamental grass. I left before she got home, but she called me later asking who'd sent her flowers and what had happened to the card. When I told her the flowers had come from right outside her own door she just couldn't believe it. I have a feeling my list of duties is going to be expanded to include Chief Flower Cutter and Arranger.  Tags: flower: rose, zone 7
muffinmon, posting in gardening @ 11:24 am: Stupid Question
 This morning, I turned on the light for my baby pomegrantes and saw a WORM!! Ok, granted the soil was brought in from a bag in the shed, but when it was warming up and drying out, I thought I thoroughly checked it for bugs. Do I leave the worm to come out on its own again and pluck it out? Do I use tweezers and get it out? [I am thinking no]? Or do I just let the litle worm live in my cupboard? I really dont like worms!! Thanks in advance, and Happy Wednesday! :D
texansasha, posting in austincommunity @ 09:57 am: Origami Paper
 Where in Austin can one find Origami Folding Paper?
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