Pollywog's Log of Life

I have had allergies since I was a little kid. They are the hay fever type, so many different pollens from trees, shrubbery, and other flowery plants send my body's system into attack! mode almost instantly. I grew up in California where for eighteen years it was unknown to me that a nose had any other purpose than to drive me nuts and be a bump on my face. Breath through it you say? Well if I could have I would have. I tried the over the counter stuff. I saw my regular doctor about prescribing something to help. I then went to see a doctor specializing in allergies. He prescribed me some more stuff: nose spray, daily pills, eye drops, and inhaler. There are three different nose sprays, all have a different purpose. There are different daily pills (mainly Claritin, Zyrtec, and Allegra) ALL of which I have tried at one point or another. There is of course Benadryl which I resort to only when desperately needed and at night time (if I can help it, we all know Benadryl knocks you out ...

Soo, John and I recently went on a drive to check out bikes. We didn't get one, just browsing, but on our way out of the parking lot we saw some canadian geese. Then, John notices some grey fluffy things in the grass and they were baby geese! They were so cute and I had my camera so I snapped some pictures. Nom nom nom on the grass  All these guys had adult supervision of course, though I'm not sure how many were moms and how many were the dads protecting. Keeping a lookout  This one above was smaller and much younger than the ones below. It was cool to see the groups together at obvious different ages =) These were the bigger babies that look more like dinosaurs  We watched them for a couple minutes and I kept seeing the babies plop down in the grass after munching. My guess is their legs aren't strong and built up yet, so they tire out more quickly than their parents.  Here's one of the geese that took notice of us. I call this picture "mama...

Well, I graduate tomorrow, should be fun although I'll wake up earlier than I have in a while. With the help of some coffee that shouldn't be an issue, coffee and a good breakfast. I feel like the biggest task in the morning will be doing my hair. I'll have to wear the silly cap every graduating student wears, but since I have longer hair I can do it so that my hair looks good even with the cap on (hopefully). On a completely separate note, I have a pretty long list of 'to-dos' and 'things to shop for', and one of them is to find a new knitting project as I've finished my most recent one. I'd really like to learn how to make socks but that will require me to get help from someone more experienced. This is entirely possible, just a matter of deciding what day to go and then actually going. Most yarn stores are run by people that know how to knit (and crochet), and the one I'm thinking of does do classes. I'm not sure this shop will offer a s...

What's funny about the credit photo is that's not my camera. As you can see, I'm on my tippy toes, definitely not how a real photographer would use a tripod... In addition, the last scene has those three crosses. These were put up by the farmer who lives here. I have no idea who he is (or she) but it made for a nice shot with the pretty clouds and everything. Hope you enjoy the video and the soundtrack =P can you name the song?

I've been super crazy, and things are starting to wind down but by no means are they over. I woke up feeling maybe around 80%, my sinus's feel pretty under pressure, and otherwise ok, but I'm really hoping I feel better by the afternoon. There isn't any other really big news as I only have one homework assignment and one final between me and the end of school. I look back on the past couple weeks and I'm pretty happy I didn't stress out TOO much. Obviously I was stressed but it felt better than during undergrad when I think back and somehow it felt more rough and way more stressed. My thoughts are pretty scattered today. I need to get this homework assignment done, but I keep having moments where I think about my place in the world compared to the people I know. Then that gets me going on questions like am I happy where I am right now? (yes) Where am I going to be in the near future? (who knows) and similar questions. This seems to happen at life turning e...

My final defense is Thursday morning and then...well, two more finals but I'm so not worried about those. I'm almost done! =)

I just got an update on JT's most recent blog challenge and unfortunately I missed out in participating (just too busy!) but I did skim some of the blogs, and I plan to go back and read them later. A lot of the tips I saw were about "keep writing" and "blog a lot", which I like and it's true, if you don't keep it up then it feels harder to get back into. I've gotten more comfortable in writing shorter posts just for the sake of getting something up so people don't think I've forgotten about my blog. Listen up though! I'm so close to graduating and I need to stay focused or else it could all crumble apart! I don't think that's very likely but I need to stay focused nonetheless. I had one of the best classes last night though, my once a week 3 hour long class. My professor was in a good mood and just feeling light I guess, he kept making jokes and going way off track from the material. He has good tangents, the ones you like list...