A Figment Of Fitness

Okay… time for yet another commercial that makes me just scratch my head.

there is one with wonderful children (young kids) who know what their allergy triggers are.  You are supposed to go to a website to see if your kids are at risk for anaphalaxis.  It is supposed to help you figure it out…

you click boxes next to things that you know have caused you or your child issues in the past (there are several common allergens) and several of the common allergic reactions.  you click the boxes and it tells you what you already pretty much know if you have gotten that far… you have triggers and you are at some risk.

This is going to tell you that your child, who has had some reaction, that your child may have another reaction and it may get worse.

I have to tell you… if your child has any reaction, it can get worse… way worse… My squirrel’s first trip to the hospital was for her shell fish allergy.  She could have died.  Despite claims to the contrary to this day by someone who shall not be named who thinks it is fantastic to tell everyone that we now have a slew of shell fish in the freezer and who claims all she really needed was a little benedryl… NOT…

But the website in question won’t give you anything much more than you already have.  See an alergist so you know if you need epipens or if you have to worry about more than you realize you have to worry about (like dust mites in our case)…

Well… my replacement laptop came with Windows Live Writer… so… here I sit… messing with the laptop thinking about what I can do to make it all mine… what I can do to make it most useful… what toys I can play with.

Windows Live Writer might be one of the cool things that you don’t need a new toy to play with, you can download it for free… and… it seems to be pretty much a really cool toy… interesting…

I wonder what all I can do with it…

If I had unlimited resources (resources being all inclusive…) I would create a world where people would allow all other people to just be people and not judge them by arbitrary standards.

Don't get me wrong… laws still have to stay in effect… you can't go around killing people just because… even in texas where "they need killing" is a reason…

I would create a world where it is perfectly okay to be gay or straight, where it is okay to not be "perfect" (it's okay to be fat, thin, wear glasses or braces… on legs or teeth or whatever… it's okay to be hearing impaired, or autistic or epileptic or blind… it's okay to be black or white or green or blue or purple…) where people get over the whole I am better than everyone else or I deserve to be in front of you because I'm better than you or where people think it is okay to take advantage of people just because they can.

Not a utopia… that would be boring… but where people don't find it necessary to dump on the world just because they figure they are better.

No one is better

it isn't good

it isn't bad

it is just different

I try not to inflict my difference on you (maybe explain it so you understand… but not inflict it upon you)

All I ask is that you shut up and tolerate that I (or anyone else who isn't perfect like you) exists

Man… I don’t know if it is anything to do with RA or not, but I have been getting a whole new kind of headache lately… Tension headaches I SO recognize… but these are like….

They are like someone has a bright yellow balloon (yeah… I have thought about it… I and it is yellow… BRIGHT yellow) inside my head and they are slowing inflating the balloon…the pressure seems to be uniform across my whole head.  And there isn’t much that makes it “better”… I got it this morning and I’m not happy.  I have to work 13 hours today and I’m SO not looking forward to it.  The last headache like this lasted three days… I think I’m going to opt for tea at work today rather than pop… I hope something will take the edge off pretty soon…