Don't Feed the Animal

okay, I've needed to make a list for everyone for a while of everything that I am allergic to, although sometimes it feels like it would be easier to just make a list of the stuff I actually can eat. The biggest thing to remember is that I can eat anything in very small quantities, so if a recipe calls for a few cooked carrots, I'll prob'ly be okay, but I'd appreciate it if the recipe could do without...

Also, I have two different types of allergies. Ones that actually mess with my immune system, and others that just make my mouth all itchy. The raw fruits and veggies mostly just make my mouth itch, but the doctor told me that if they make me uncomfortable in any way, I shouldn't be eating them -- plus, if I continue to eat them, my immune system might start to react against them. I am allergic to soy and other nuts, but they only left small bumps.

The ones my immune system reacts to are the ones I really try to avoid whether they are cooked or not. That is mainly carrots and celery -- I reacted to others as well, but the carrot and celery tests left big welts on my arm as opposed to the other bug bite looking bumps when I went to the allergist.

Well, here is a list of things I know that I am allergic to. I'll follow it with a list of things I know that I am not allergic to. I'll just keep adding to them as I think of and discover things.

Do Not Feed Me:

-raw,fresh fruits and vegetables, in general. The only exception thus far seems to be berries. I also seem to be able to eat canned and preserved fruits without cooking them. Carrots, celery, and white potatoes, green peas are the main veggies that I probably shouldn't eat even if they are cooked. The only exception is that mom still has to make her Thanksgiving stuffing balls with all of the original ingredients ^_^.

-nuts. -- peanuts, pine nuts, macadamia nuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, brazil nuts, walnuts, almonds, even coconuts... but I can eat cashews and pecans, technically, but sometimes they make my mouth itchy because they are usually processed with all the other nuts, and nuts are supposed to be the most dangerous allergies because they contain so much in such small quantities.

-soy. almost everything contains some sort of soy nowadays, but in general, as long as it doesn't contain a bunch of soy nuts or soy milk, I'm fine with trace amounts.


That's a lot of the main stuff, but I'll keep adding when I think of more.

Alphabet Stump

All right, my pretties. I have an assignment for you:

Open up a .doc or some sort of window that you can type in, and I want you to try to type the entire alphabet from A to Z.
I'll be damned if I don't get stumped on one letter every time.
David tried and he got stumped too... so try it. I'll put what happens to me at the bottom a bit lower. Try not to look until you've tried. No bias!






























































abcdefghijklmnopqurs.... crap....

I'll be damned if I don't get stumped at Q every time.
It's crazy the way our brains seem to work with the keyboard because we process "u" as the generally accepted letter to come after "q" when typing. Well... that's the best solution I can come up with.
The most interesting thing to me is that my brain wants to pick up with "r" right after "u". And even when I sing the alphabet while doing it, I say "r" and still press "u". Then hit "r" when I say "s" and I get to "t" for "s" and then I have to do some backspacing because that's where my brain finally gets too confused to go on because I've already hit "u" I suppose...
Anyway, just thought it was kind of cool and wanted to share it with you.