💬Weekly random discussion & chat thread: W15

I have one to a type of antibiotic, but other than that I'm pretty clean. 

I have 2 allergies right now. One's a very specific washing detergent (Daz) but that's easy to avoid. Right now it's the only detergent I know I'm allergic to and I've tried a few but I'm still careful when using a new detergent for the fist time. The other is Zopiclone which I am violently allergic to. 

Zopiclone is a drug in prescribed sleep meds which is pretty inconvenient considering that I am a chronic insomniac and by the time I got my doctor to give me sleeping pills I'd already gone a few months where I was getting 1-0 hours of sleep. That was a such a horrific night that I never tried sleep meds that don't have Zopiclone in them after that even though natural remedies and other sleep aids don't work for me I pretty much decided I'd rather suffer than risk another allergic reaction.

My stomach can't handle anything more spicy than chilli heatwave doritos so I do wonder if there's a spice related allergy there or I'm just a weak when it comes to spicy food.

I -HAD- allergies but I seem to have grown out of them? My main one, when I was little, was an allergy to milk. NOT lactose intolerance, but actual milk. I recall it causing me incredibly itchy hives and I had to limit my consumption of dairy-based food and sweets because certain common things would make it worse. The hives died down along with a bunch of other health ailments of mine after I started going to school - I guess the other kids fixed up my immune system. I was an incredibly picky eater due to an unrelated childhood stomach illness, but I was interested in learning what milk tasted like, so eventually I convinced my mom to let me try some. I still remember her letting me drink a spoonful of milk. It was tasty. Nothing happened. The next day she'd let me have a bit at the bottom of the cup and then, poof, in no time I'd drink milk like a calf. 

^^ Kinda same here, actually, but with pollen instead. My pollen allergy used to be so bad that during the spring my eyes were so itchy and watery I would rub them until they were red and sore :'( It was pretty bad, and I was a very forgetful child so I never remembered to take medicine for it oof

The past couple years I haven't had much of a problem with allergies during the spring. Not sure what happened but it just sort of randomly cleared up. :o

Week 9: Cold showers or hot showers?

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Week 10: Are you currently saving money for anything?

(Mod is trying to catch up so feel free to answer both or just one of the question)

Week 9: Cold showers or hot showers?

Hot showers! I'm always cold so I use them as a way to make my blood circulation to work if even for an hour until it's back to Not Working 

Week 10: Are you currently saving money for anything?

I'm trying to save for several things tbh! Aside from the general expenses I also try to save for some city trips to see friends and also I need new frames so I can finally put stuff up on my walls! 

9: Most times its warm/hot but not burning and then gradually I turn it towards cool. In summer though its def cool and cold ♡

10: Not anything specific but I do have a small sum stashed away for when I need it. Though I guess I save up to buy k beauty stuff lmao or clothes, or art stuff (though it's been a while since I bought art stuff ;; )

9: Warm leaning towards hot? I usually start the shower in the middle and gradually hike up the temperature. I have ongoing problems with my back muscles bc of an old workplace that wouldn’t rotate the jobs properly and standing under the hot water does seem to help a bit. It doesn’t make much of a difference in a really bad phase like right now but a brief bit of relief is nice ya know? I had a faulty shower that  never got fixed and only ran cold in one of my cabins at work, it was not nice lol.

10: I’m currently saving up for a couple of top 5 bucket list items which are a Lancaster taxi run and a Spitfire flight! 

I have the bulk of the money for the VIP package (which actually works out better value) of the Lancaster taxi run saved already I just need to cover cost of fuel to get there and accommodation. Mum likes this sort of stuff too so we decided to make a little holiday of it and visit some other aviation heritage sites/museums we would usually consider out of range so I will need to work out admission fees for those, too. I’m also starting to put money aside for a Spitfire flight which is gonna be easier now the company I wanna do the flight with accept split payments.

Week 11: Are you currently collecting anything? 

(Do show us your proudest collections!)

i collect dragons (i've got at least 45ish) - usually breakable figurines but i've got schleich figures and stuff, trinket boxes (over 50), beanie boos (not as many, only like 30-something), and pokemon plushies (around 60-something from last count? i don't remember)! i still have all my dragons and trinket boxes packed away from when we were renovating (i got nowhere to put them yet) but here's my pokemon! i do have a few dragons out which u can see here but that's bc i didn't pack them away in the first place bc they were either too big to fit in boxes or i bought them later on

sorry the photo quality is so bad i have an android :'/