I get terrible spring allergies, with sniffing, watering eyes, and sneezing until I get a headache. I take medication for it, so I wonder how bad it would be without. This all started about 15 years ago and prior, I had zero allergies at all. It makes me really tired, as my body puts in effort to react to something it doesn't need to worry about.
Oh well.
Just add it to the already long and continuously growing list of discomforts.
But it is holding me back.
My capacity to perform has decreased, so I have been taking it a little easier the last couple days and focusing on the hard physical work in the garden, letting a few other things slide. The weather is going to turn cooler again and rain, and I want to get a number of things done before that happens, because I won't be able to do them when it is raining, and the rain will be good for the garden - if it is ready to receive it, that is. We took a big step toward that end today, planting an entire large garden bed with a range of plants that will hopefully stagger and flower from May all the way through to October.
I suspect that we are going to have to spend a few years adjusting to get it right, but at least we now have something to work with. And Hopefully they will take and grow and give us something greenish to look at during this summer too. Since we won't be travelling very much, the plan is to enjoy our garden and grill a lot of meat and vegetables. I am looking forward to sitting around with a glass of wine too. If crypto has a good summer, I might build a patio.
Do you remember how crypto was all "Lambo!"
I wonder if those people have matured much in the last decade or so. They were in their mid twenties to early thirties back then, so now they are fortyish and likely in different stages of life. Have their expectations and desires changed? Are they more like me where instead of Lambo, it is
Patio!
I have always found it a bit strange when people's desires from when they were younger haven't changed at all, because with more experience, more exposure, it just seems natural that we would "grow out" of some things and "grow into" other things. Some people seem to spend a lot of their time looking at satisfying their childhood desires though. It is a bit weird.
But to each their own in this case, and I know that there are plenty of people who have absolutely no interest in the things that I currently find interesting. Maybe one day they will, or maybe I will pivot to look into what they are interested in now, but the beauty of the world is, we don't have to do what others are doing. Though, a lot of the culture and trend content we are pushed can make it seem like we have to do whatever our group is doing, and if we don't, we are out.
But who actually cares?
Yet, no matter how many times people say they don't care - I only ever half believe them.
But that is another topic.
Taraz
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I am worried about your allergy and yet you work in the garden, it seems contradictory to me, heh, heh, heh, heh. Well, you shouldn't worry about what others say or don't say, what's really important is what you think of yourself. It's like the famous question that psychologists are now using a lot: tell me which are the three most important people for you, I hope you tell me that the first one is you and the other two are your wife and daughter.
As we get older, bodily ailments increase. I was once told by a friend who has passed away: ‘If nothing hurts after 50, you are no longer in this world’. At least I don't get headaches.
Pollen is everywhere. Most homes aren't air-conditioned and filtered here - the windows are open :D
What if - if everything has hurt since 15?
Lambo - patio...same same. Any desire or want can become a soul-deep need if it eats at you long enough 😂. As a young girl, I only wanted a horse. Since then, I've had them, and while I still love horses, that deep longing is gone. Can't say the same for the Lambo😂
Is it the fantasy of having a horse as a young girl that does it?
I fell off a horse when I was 7 - haven't got back on.
If someone gave me a lambo - I wouldn't say no.
I've been thinking about putting in a tiny patio. A tiny place for me to sit on a bench where no one can see me. I spent ten years getting the foliage just right in my Brooklyn garden so that when I put that bench along the north fence of my far back 900 sq ft yard, I would have complete privacy. Within a week of my installing a pretty stone bench back there, my neighbor to the north cut down the hedge just behind my wee bench, and my back was exposed. Why am I telling you this?
It will take at least ten years, like most things, and even then you will change it constantly. Gardening is a slow motion visual art.
Imagination has been killed, our opportunities limited.
We are seeing a great deal of this behavior these days. Common sense is dead.
This is my office ;D
I think that one of the great things of an old home, is that it gets evolved with each new owner. Ours has changed a lot over the 60+ years it has been here, and now we get to make our mark - for better or worse!
This is something that saddens me a lot. People without an imagination, don't realise what they are missing.
I have first discovered allergy in my 30s. I was under impression that I had an un-usually long cold that lasted for a month. And then someone told me that I probably have an allergy, that was a revelation :)
For me any over the counter anti-allergy meds completely clear it and no side effects. I do notice I get more allergy if I am outside, so your gardening outside where you consume a lot of pollen might be counter-productive...
In terms of interests and Lambo or any other luxury vehicles. I guess I was born old :) I have always considered cars silly toys and have always been interested in real estate a lot more. This has not changed with age, but I am getting out of my real estate investments to reposition into a less leveraged state as well as for tax reasons.
I take one all year in "preparation" for the season - but when it starts, it suppresses it, but I still get tired.
Me too, but not significantly different.
If the person I knew had spent the money on real estate instead, he would have been a multi-millionaire, and then could afford any car he wanted.
Have things changed there?
The main changes are:
Basically 20-30 years ago real estate was a no-brainer investment, now not so much.
Thanks for the info! I have been gathering little bits here and there for when I am finally ready to buy - or not.
Mine is still not Patio, and never was Lambo. It's "Bathtub!" now. But yes, when I was younger, my desires where totally different. I think it was "Attention!" more than anything. These days, I like having less attention and do things differently. We should put a timer on this post, so it pops up again in 10 years, and see what happened.
This is on my list too. Finnish homes very rarely have them, but I want one in the sauna area.
I always wonder what would come of some of these posts :)
I don't even dare to dream of a sauna area... but maybe that will be the one in 5 or 10 years :-D
My expectations have definitely changed. I am not expecting life changing wealth anymore with crypto, but it would be nice to have something to make life a bit more comfortable.
A lifelong stipend to pad retirement :)
I'm starting to get there and I'm the only one to blame.
That's already more than one can hope in finland. xD
Do all you can to stay healthy!
And yeah, I am sceptical about October, but I won't be outside much in the garden at that point anyway, so I don't care :D
I prefer cooler weather if I will do some stuffs in my garden so that I will get less sweaty and tired :)
I think you should continue travelling, you are stil young to spend most of your time in the garden 😉
The "hot weather" here today was 19 degrees :D
The photo looks a bit like a hand to me.
I wonder if I am the only caveman here who had no idea what that is? I think so...
Nah, they call them different things in different countries :)
My wife now spends half a day every day in our garden. She has planted many different plants, she says she likes it there. I am now in another city and I also want to go to our garden, but only to sit with a shashlik and a glass of wine in good weather :)
Sounds okay to me. What kind of meat do you normally use there?
I buy ready-made marinated pork shashlik at the butcher's. In June, we pick a lot of things for the table in our garden - greens, garlic, cucumbers and berries.
Allergies can be so draining. I totally get what you mean. It’s impressive that you’re still managing to get things done in the garden despite feeling rough and roughly coping with the allergies couple with the weather.
I think people 'taste' or 'want' change with time or better still. i should say that human just accept it as they are since they couldn't fulfil what their dreams are when they were young.
I know a person who as a kid wanted to spend all their money on toy cars. And he told his parents while in a tantrum that they wouldn't buy him a car, said "When I grow up, I am going to spend all my money on toy cars". As an adult, he essentially did this with actual cars - to the detriment of his family.
Hmm, I guess he is fortunate to have the resources to get those at his disposal even though it costs his family dearly.
I just watched a movie about someone who had an allergy for 15 years due to something that hurt him psychologically. He eventually got better. My husband also has allergies when he has an illness, we previously thought he was allergic to sugar. I hope you get better.
I reckon everyone is allergic to too much sugar!
yes.. thats so true.. why do we spent so much time and effort on childhood dreams?? what a mystery.
u gotta have ur priorities and it sux to get older at times, or to have life throw challenges in your way. Hope u feel all better soon. 😉☺️👊🌈
You could always try without meds and see how you go seeing as you like testing different conditions 🤣
Or you could just not and say you did given you still seem to have massive symptoms despite the meds.
One of my childhood desires never changed, I still want to be a comic artist/animator/something 😝
The first decade was med-free - it progressively got worse until I had to succumb to big pharma.
Why not do it forever!?!
You just weren't trying hard enough!
that sounds pretty rough D:
I have been doing it forever and am unlikely to stop XD
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