Not only do I love the pollen, I especially enjoy the extremely high pollen counts in Atlanta. A count yesterday of 3397. 3397!! Dang…150 is considered irritating.
MY eyes itch, I’m sneezy and coughing and just mean tempered because I’ve got a headache from coughing and sneezing and constantly breathing in pollen. I already have my AC running, because I can’t open a window, because then I’ll end up with a migraine because of the damn allergies.
Maybe it’ll rain soon and settle some of this crap out of the air. But I doubt it. I think I’ll go grump at my co-workers now.
Bite me, Mother Nature.
My hayfever started in February this year when the tree catkins started flowering. It used to start in May, but has crept earlier and earlier the last few years with mild winters. AND, yes Steve, the season has started here but the jerks on the radio don’t bother to report on tree pollens, only grass pollens.
It’s topped 3400 today. I have to hose my car off every morning before I get in it. I have become OC about washing my hands and face, at least 8 times a day now.
Sneeze. Wheeze Choke. Itch. Scratch. Choke. Sneeze. Sneeze. Sneeze. Sneeze. Wheeze. It’s big fun living in Atlanta in the early spring!
What do you say, Lsura? I think it’s about time we (re)introduced FIRE to the city of Atlanta. Or it’s trees, anyway. This is F-n ridiculous.
3488 today and no rain in sight. This is the second highest count on record, we’ll almost certainly hit a new high before the end of the week.
The pine pollen has coated everything. You can’t walk on the grass without stirring up a cloud of pine pollen. It’s like living in some surreal Godzilla movie.
::step, boom, cloud of yellow dust::
My shoes are yellow, my car is yellow, lakes are yellow, everything is yellow. Each breeze brings with it a yellow fog. It’s like looking at the world through a piss mist. And it’s not the pine pollen that triggers alergies, it’s too big. It’s the oak, birch, elm and grass pollens that you can’t see that’s killer.
I’d tell Mother Nature to go screw herself, but that’s what got us into this mess to begin with. It’s nature’s version of the porn “money shot”. A facial for the whole world. Next year, Mother Nature, swallow!
Jeez, I feel for you guys. I never had allergies until about 3 years ago and now it’s payback time. At least it’s not as bad as my mother. When she was in England 10 years ago, she had to wear a plastic bubble over her head whenever she went outside, said she felt like a spaceman. Fortunately the drugs are better now.
Since we are ranting about allergies, I’d like to formally invite the makers of Claritin to go shove flaming twigs up their asses. “Hmm…if we take some over the counter shit that doesnt work on severe allergies, repackage it, and make it by prescription only, then we can charge 5x as much.” :mad:
And I’d like to also formally invite my health insurance company to aim a sand blaster filled with pine pollen right up their asses and then turn it on full blast – For taking so long to finally cover Allegra-D (the only thing that even puts a dent in my symptoms). “Yes, we cover lots of new meds this year, and Allegra-D is one of them!” I guess that’s why my co-pay went up? :mad:
…but I’ve never noticed pollen levels, because my only allergy is to penicillin, which is rarely airborne. So 3397 is high, huh?
Allergies notwithstanding, I have noticed my car and running shoes have turned yellow. And how about the piquant muskiness of those Bradford pear trees, huh?
A little slash-n-burn, eh? I can handle that. Let me get rid of this headache first though. Smart chica here went walking at lunch time today. Peachtree center to CNN Center. Yeah…I knew I’d pay for it, but I just wanted to be outside.
First the cell phone rant and now a pollen rant. Lsura is quickly becoming my new best friend!
I can’t stand the freaking pollen. Bad enough my car is covered with the crap, but my eyes itch like crazy and are so watery, I can’t even wear my contacts; I can’t stop sneezing (I’m one of those 10-at-a-time sneezers); my nose is alternately running like a faucet and completely stopped up, and my throat itches so bad I want to shove a wire brush down it.
It’s about 65-70 today, sunny, with some clouds. I should be able to have the windows open, but noooooooo, the damn pollen is enough to kill me.
Think of pollen as the ejacula from thousands of enormous, hard, thick trees, spraying their love into your eyes, into your hair, on your face, down your throat, and even into your lungs.
I have Oak trees around and over my driveway. I only wish I had a hose to hose the van off with each morning. It looks like it’s covered with Resin and Goop overnight.
