i am allergic to: dust and dust mites, cats, and dogs. yes, dogs. maya can’t sleep in my room anymore. awwww. hives are totally gone now at least. zyrtec makes me sleepy though, so i can only take it before bedtime.

Hello, fall. Nice to see you.

Zyrtec is finally working. Hives are 95% gone. Have a cough now, though. Sound a little wheezy. Will only write in fragments. Made a “creepy” cd. Post later.

predictably, the hives are back. on my face this time. yay. luckily i work in the dark since my face is now a strange red hue. but now i am getting a cold. also, my finger kept twitching and i thought briefly “i have parkinson’s disease!!” and then i stopped freaking out and watched the rest of csi. please shoot me.

I am really on a CD label making kick. I just did a swap called “saints & sinners” for a mix CD. I did “borrow” this image from someone’s website to make my label art, which I played around with in Photoshop. I think it looks cool.

This is just the image I used, not the CD. The CD has a hole in it. Really.

Song list is here if you are interested.

At Mitsuwa this weekend they had a “Sweet Shop” set up in the back, selling freshly made mochi. I paced around the table a bit before asking one of the ladies to tell me the difference between all the mochi they had laid out, and I picked out five to take home. I tried the green one right away, which was a mochi with red bean paste and green tea powder on the outside. The brown one has soybean powder and I think the rest are just different colored mochi. The lady said the one that has stuff in it was something else, but now I can’t remember what she said. I didn’t eat that one until today. It reminded me that stuff like this really should be eaten right away, because a few days out it was gross and dried out. I threw it away. But the green one was tasty!

I also picked up some gyoza skins to make some dumplings with. I made the same kind of filling I use for lumpia, but instead wrapped them in these round skins. I used a few and dropped them in some soup and later on we boiled and cooked them in a pan. They didn’t really hold up very well to the pan frying. I should just suck it up and make lumpia next time.

Last week when I went to see my regular doctor (again) he gave me the name of an allergist. I called that place, only to find out they didn’t have any appointments available until the end of October. Today I called another place, that’s closer to my house and got an appointment for tomorrow. Score. May the hives soon be a distant memory.