Last night around 7pm I began to have sneezing fits. Then my sinuses completely closed up. This lasted till about 2:30am, which at that point I just decided to try and go to bed. I think in cleaning the house to try and make my allergies better I just riled up a whole lot of dust. I also groomed the cats in hopes that they’d shed less, so I’m sure I inhaled a bunch of their dander.

This morning I woke up less congested but with one hell of a headache. I decided I couldn’t live this way anymore. I took myself to TarJay and spent a small fortune on some allergen hepa-filter air systems. I went for the ones that actually have the filters you have to replace as opposed to the ionic breeze ones. We already have two ionic breezes, both of which are broken. Over priced pieces of junk, stay away from them! So I picked up these thinking they’d hopefully work better, the sticker says they trap 16x the amount of allergens that the ionic ones do. Sounds good to me!

They are set up and running, I bought a giant one for downstairs and a medium sized one for upstairs. If I think they are working I might pick up two of the small ones, one for the kitchen area and one for the bedroom. Time will tell if they work for me though.

In other news, I passed a major school work hurdle last night. I finished entering the second to last huge archaeological site into the database! The last one will be done in November after I have enough results from all the others to write a significant portion of the dissertation and write a paper to present at a conference in November. Starting this week I’m cranking out chapters on each of the sites, hopefully with the final results that I WON’T have to re-analyze again.

As for tonight, I rented “Scary Movie 4” and will probably watch it. I’m not expecting much, the 3rd was terrible.

Dustin

2 Replies to “A Breath Of Fresh Air?”

  1. I have the same problem when I clean my house. I always know that I’m going to have to pay a price due to allergies. Let me know how those air filters work out for you.

    And congratulations on crossing that scholastic hurdle!

  2. For 2 years I had an Ionic Breeze which worked great for my dust allergy. But then this summer, when it went over a certain temperature, it started emitting a buzzing noise that sounded like the first 30 seconds of nine inch nail’s “Eraser”. And then it just died completely (I agree they are overpriced pieces of junk). I now just take Loratadine (I think it’s the generic version of Claritin) for my allergies.

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