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whitereflectionAn educational couple of days, inna way. Felt like crap yesterday, and eventually went home early to doze until my dr.appt. So I have learned how very much I appreciate Allegra. May not do it all for me, but does a hell of a lot of help.
And learned from skin tests that I'm, as I suspected, allergic to Nebraska, work, and home. No really. Am average to strongly sensitive to a variety of trees, grasses, weeds, mold, dust, mites, etc. And--hear my smug har of vindication--very, very little-minimally sensitive to cats, ie. basically not. So a giant I told you so to anyone who's ever nagged at me to get rid of them. So I stay on the meds I'm on (even the Advair, guess my normal dr. is right that the asthma is permanent), and I add on shots. Now I have no problem with injections, I'm just a bit nervous about the costs. Because for three years I get one shot a week, the year after that it's a shot every other week, and the year after that it's a shot a month. So that's a hell of a lot of fees for shots and office visits. I need to call and see how much this is going to run me, even with insurance. *anxiety*
I guess the other sort of thing I'm stressing on because of this, is that I feel like it's one more thing chaining me to my job. I have to get this done, because my allergies and asthma are getting worse each year--and I don't want to end up disabled like my mother or in the emergency room all the time like my aunt. I can't keep getting sick so often, and getting bronchitus, ear infections, pneumonia and worse. But on the other hand, to do this--I absolutely can't afford to ever lose having medical insurance now. And if one switches jobs, you usually have a short time without health insurance, unless you pay your old company out the nose to extend your old plan for a while.
And how difficult will it be to switch insurances and physicians and such if I ever want to move, get new employment, etc...? It makes it all more complicated--I'll have to worry much more about always making sure to not have any time between jobs/insurances/doctors if I ever do have to get new employment or move or something. I don't like adding complications to my life. It's like there's more and more that make it difficult to get out of this job, out of this city/state/country/what-have-you. I dunno. I'm making a big deal out of it, I suppose. Just is what I think about, especially at night when I keep waking up over and over for some unknown reason (in the midst of having playing-WoW dreams. Again.)
Anyway. Shutting up on that. Am caffinated, so I'm rambling and jittering/worrying. (I was going to be good and not do fancy coffee drinks this week, but then James stayed home sick, and that was like a sign from god to go to Starbucks. I can rationalize a lot of things into a sign from god to go to Starbucks.)
Also finally got a list of troubleshooting tips from WoW tech support, none of which really helped--except for switching my sound output from my Soundsticks (external speakers)/iSub to built-in sound. Now, I had this same setup for the beta and for my first week of play, and it worked *fine* then, so it still doesn't explain why my sound went broken in the game as of about last Wednesday. So I sent them another query as to what could have changed to mess up what was already working. *Buuut*, at least for now, with built-in sound I have a quick fix that's given me back all the ambient game sounds and sound effects. Which is really nice--I like having the full sound experience, not just that little bit of background music. But I want it to all work on my Soundsticks/iSub like it used to, because I know how much better that is.
Annnd...yeah, Christmas shopping is so barely started. Knowing me, with the way I am on shopping (even online), packing and shipping, getting to the post ofc...yeah, everything's going to be late, I can tell. I suck. And I haven't even put up any decorations or anything--I don't have the excuse of going out of town, and while I can rationalize it being because of the cats (ie.Bebop)...really, I'm just lazy and apathetic. I really suck. Yep.
And learned from skin tests that I'm, as I suspected, allergic to Nebraska, work, and home. No really. Am average to strongly sensitive to a variety of trees, grasses, weeds, mold, dust, mites, etc. And--hear my smug har of vindication--very, very little-minimally sensitive to cats, ie. basically not. So a giant I told you so to anyone who's ever nagged at me to get rid of them. So I stay on the meds I'm on (even the Advair, guess my normal dr. is right that the asthma is permanent), and I add on shots. Now I have no problem with injections, I'm just a bit nervous about the costs. Because for three years I get one shot a week, the year after that it's a shot every other week, and the year after that it's a shot a month. So that's a hell of a lot of fees for shots and office visits. I need to call and see how much this is going to run me, even with insurance. *anxiety*
I guess the other sort of thing I'm stressing on because of this, is that I feel like it's one more thing chaining me to my job. I have to get this done, because my allergies and asthma are getting worse each year--and I don't want to end up disabled like my mother or in the emergency room all the time like my aunt. I can't keep getting sick so often, and getting bronchitus, ear infections, pneumonia and worse. But on the other hand, to do this--I absolutely can't afford to ever lose having medical insurance now. And if one switches jobs, you usually have a short time without health insurance, unless you pay your old company out the nose to extend your old plan for a while.
And how difficult will it be to switch insurances and physicians and such if I ever want to move, get new employment, etc...? It makes it all more complicated--I'll have to worry much more about always making sure to not have any time between jobs/insurances/doctors if I ever do have to get new employment or move or something. I don't like adding complications to my life. It's like there's more and more that make it difficult to get out of this job, out of this city/state/country/what-have-you. I dunno. I'm making a big deal out of it, I suppose. Just is what I think about, especially at night when I keep waking up over and over for some unknown reason (in the midst of having playing-WoW dreams. Again.)
Anyway. Shutting up on that. Am caffinated, so I'm rambling and jittering/worrying. (I was going to be good and not do fancy coffee drinks this week, but then James stayed home sick, and that was like a sign from god to go to Starbucks. I can rationalize a lot of things into a sign from god to go to Starbucks.)
Also finally got a list of troubleshooting tips from WoW tech support, none of which really helped--except for switching my sound output from my Soundsticks (external speakers)/iSub to built-in sound. Now, I had this same setup for the beta and for my first week of play, and it worked *fine* then, so it still doesn't explain why my sound went broken in the game as of about last Wednesday. So I sent them another query as to what could have changed to mess up what was already working. *Buuut*, at least for now, with built-in sound I have a quick fix that's given me back all the ambient game sounds and sound effects. Which is really nice--I like having the full sound experience, not just that little bit of background music. But I want it to all work on my Soundsticks/iSub like it used to, because I know how much better that is.
Annnd...yeah, Christmas shopping is so barely started. Knowing me, with the way I am on shopping (even online), packing and shipping, getting to the post ofc...yeah, everything's going to be late, I can tell. I suck. And I haven't even put up any decorations or anything--I don't have the excuse of going out of town, and while I can rationalize it being because of the cats (ie.Bebop)...really, I'm just lazy and apathetic. I really suck. Yep.
