Day 6

Hey alll, we are almost caught up.

This gift is close to my heart, because I want it real bad.

Yeeeee.

Day 5

Do you like your money?

Wanna put it to use?

Don't buy gifts that will go unused and sad.

Listen to my tips ya dummy!

Day 4

I'm not going to tell you what day FOUR is about but if you made someone made you can MAKE UP with them with this gift...

But you should probably just apologize, don't buy peoples love, that will make you sad.

Day 3

Hellloooo

It's day THREE

For this one I focused on skin care.

I have skin, I like to care for it, so do other people, help them.

Yeeee.

Day Two!

Here is Day TWO.

This gift is very close to my heart. 

And my bladder. 

Is that weird? Whatever, watch it and everything will make sense. 

Here is my YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/caitiesallergictoyou

Thanksssss

12 Days of Giving Super Cool Allergy Friendly Gift Giving

Hello! I have decided to do a segment called 12 Days of Christmas! It is 12 different ideas for gift giving to a person who has allergies. 

I know I know I know it is almost Christmas and these are wayyyy behind to their corresponding days BUT I am home for the holidays and separated from my wonderful Final Cut and I'm stuck with iMovie... blerg

So after days and days of fighting with iMovie I have finally conquered it! 

So here over the next couple days you are going to get a crash course in 12 Days but tomorrow granted my computer doesn't crash (which is very possible, my baby is dying!) we should be all caught up!

Yeeeeee!!! 

Here is the video, make sure to click over to my YouTube channel CaitiesAllergicToYou and follow meeeee. 

Hello I'm back!... For real...

Hello! I am back and here is a video with all the juicy deets. Sorry about the poor quality, I'm home for winter break and only have sad sad iMovie to edit with. It wont be long until I am reunited with my Final Cut and these videos will be much better.

Yay!

So I was going to attach the video but blogspot is being weird and it wont work so, I'm going to attach the youtube link!

Yay!


YouTube Video Yayyyy!

Stop The Lights! I'm Back!

Stop the Lights! I’m back!

Haha, I heard that saying this weekend from an Irish guy and I really liked it, thanks Mark!

Anyway, back to business.

Thank you/I’m so sorry for understand my break from the blog. I am taking summer classes trying to finish up my degree, which includes a full year of Italian condensed into 11 weeks. So I have been quite busy. But! I will not forget you!

So I’m back.

I have decided to switch things up from my last post about the weekly happenings. I think four (I think?) posts a week was a little ambitious especially while going to school so I am going to cut it down to one a week. But this one a week will be great, I promise. Expect a new post every Sunday night. This coming Sunday will be a normal post but the week after, the 11^th, will be a special video review of some great products from OmaxCare. They are wonderful and have been so patient with me so thanks so much to them, go check them out!  

I’m excited to get back into the game. I’ve got some really cool ideas in store so get ready guys; this is going to be awesome.

Bye!

UPDATE blurrrrghhhh --> (my brain right now)

Hello everyone!

Alright so as you all know I am in college and part of being in college is doing collegy things such as going to class and doing homework. Well since I took a bit of a different approach to college (like community college first) and starting my two years of language my senior year and then changing my major Fall term senior year I have been busy. (I banked on doing my major in 5 five years since I was going to double major in journalism and film but this past fall I dropped journalism and shaved off my course load by a billion, yay for doing what you really want! But I still have that pesky language...)
Basically what I am trying to say but saying it not so well since my brain is all collegy right now is this:

• I have a very heavy course load right now/working
• I will be done in twoish weeks (thanks Oregon for getting out forever late)
• after those twoish weeks my course load will be significantly lighter in my second senior year (lol)
• I will have more time to spend on you!

So from now until after finals week I will be mostly MIA BUT! don't worry I will not forget about you. After finals I will come back with vengeance, just right now I barely have time to sleep.

Thanks all and I really appreciate your support so far. And in the meantime please go check out OmaxCare! I am doing a review on their products and along with my brain being fried so apparently is my editing software SO look for that first thing when finals have finished killing me, and maybe a day for recovery... But go look at them, they are AWESOME!

So until then be good. See ya in a bit!

-Caitie 

Oh Heyyy!

Hello Everyone! I did not forget about you!

Midterms grabbed ahold of my brain and refused to let go until I was no longer a functioning student but more like a shell of where one once was.

Anyway, have no fear I am back!

Updates!
First:
The first couple weeks of my blog was kind of a blur. I was just trying to get as much out as possible to get a strong base to start with. But I have now created a timeline for each week so there will be a schedule of what is coming out each week. Here is what you can expect:
Monday: Post highlighting one food item or company that has worked for me or has shown great strides in being allergy friendly. I love hearing from other people what foods they eat so I thought this would be helpful.
Wednesday: Post highlighting a product non food related that has made my life easier. This could be anything from Epi-Pen holders (coming soon!) to makeup.
Friday: My big post! This post will be where I pick a hot topic I want to highlight and just generally talk about. These will be pretty meaty.
Sunday: Recipes! Yayyy. Since Sunday is the day I treat myself and the one day I don't have school or work I figured this would be a good day to show some different dishes I make!
Second:
I have mentioned in my earlier posts I was hoping to go to Italy this summer. I really wanted to be able to take this opportunity and use this blog to show that traveling with food allergies is possible. However the program was just way too expensive so I have chosen not to do that this summer. Instead I will be staying at school taking loads of classes! Joy! But! Traveling with food allergies is still very much a passion of mine and I really want to further explore that in the future, stay tuned for more to come hopefully!


Thanks a lot to everyone following my blog; the support shown to me has been overwhelming and has left me speechless. Thank you guys so much!

Medicine and Milk

Sometimes finding out if allergens are in products goes far beyond just reading a label that clearly states “milk.” This has been the problem for me in recent years when trying to find medications.

           

Letter to Mom About the Dreaded Lunchroom

Recently a mom of a child with food allergies e-mailed me asking some questions. (Which I was sooo excited about! I can’t even begin to explain how ecstatic I am over the support I have been getting! Please e-mail me!) She was going into her daughters school soon to have the talk about the lunch room. She wanted to get my perspective on it. I thought I should do some research before answering her because in reality when I first started eating in a lunch room I was 4 and in kindergarten so my memory may be off. So I enlisted the help of my dear sweet mother and called her. She gave me some (surprising) advice and this is what I wrote back to her. A little edited of course for privacy and all that jazz. Enjoy!

My Personal Journey

Pardon me while I get a little real on ya’ll.

I woke up this morning in a ball and bawling. (say that ten times fast, sorry, okay serious time!) I was jolted awake from a dream I was having that left me sobbing in my bed. I can only remember this type of violent reaction from a dream one other time in my life. Needless to say I was in a weird state as I began to regain my awareness of my surroundings and put together the pieces of what I had just dreamt. 

         

This is how I remember it:

Finally! Croutons!

I remember going to The Olive Garden as a young child (it was the first restaurant I ever went to!) and seeing the giant salad they would bring for my family that was covered in cheese and the biggest croutons I had ever seen. They were giant and looked so wonderful. I loved anything bread and the idea that bread could be on my salad was amazing to me. However I would have to get my own salad minus the wonderful bread chunks and tasty dressing. Instead my salad was bare and kinda boring, but I had the whole bowl to myself so that was pretty neat. 

       

Get the Disease or Keel Over from the Vaccine?

As some of you know and I have mentioned it a couple times in my blog already, I am trying to study abroad in Italy this summer. I had to go to a travel meeting at the health center to talk about health concerns traveling abroad. We went over immunizations and usually this would be the point in the conversation when the health professional urges me to get as many shots as possible and I clam up saying “well I think I’m allergic to all those but I’m not sure…” and they would push on. My history with doctors has not been completely great in the past. It seemed I always had to do a lot convincing and defending which seemed totally backwards to me. But I will talk in depth in a later post about finding a good doctor. 

         

Let Them Have Non Refrigerated Snacks!

Long periods away from my house make me nervous. Some people would call this agoraphobia; I would call this liking to eat. When I am away from my home for long periods of time I get hungry as any normal person does but unlike the normal college folk I’m surrounded by on a normal basis I cannot just pop into Starbucks and pick up a tasty treat to tide me over until later. As a general rule of mine I do not eat anything someone else prepares. This is something I have taken upon myself to give me piece of mind and insure my safety. If I know 100% what is in it and how it was prepared than I feel a lot better about eating it.

            

The Holy Grail - Dating with Allergies

Dating with Allergies DUN DUN DUNNNN!!

I know at least with my friends this is the one topic they always ask me about. “So like what happens if the guy like eats a peanut and then like kisses you? I mean would you like die?” Well hypothetical friend first off I don’t let just any stranger come up and kiss me, chances are good if I’m kissing him, he know me and my situation. Well, hang on, I’m getting ahead of myself.

Lets start from the beginning.

My Top 5 Always

Hi all. So I think a good early post would be one that lays the foundation for how I think about allergies. Here are my top 5 ALWAYS when it comes to your allergies and how you interact with the world around you, because that’s what it’s all about right?? We can’t be hermits kids, we have to get out there and live! Okay anyway, here you go.

Oh My! Oh My! That Gal's Got Pies!

The way to any man’s heart is through his stomach. More specifically though, through pie.

            I was never to smooth with the man folk. I was shy and awkward. I always seemed to have some version of a bad bowl cut going on. It was not until junior year in high school did I figure out the magic needed to make a man happy. Pie.

           

Here Comes The Sun... For Two Minutes

I woke up today to something very strange. It was the sun. Here in Oregon the sun is a stranger. Our sad pale bodies can only handle so much so when it streamed through my windows this morning I was startled and confused. But then I remembered the long forgotten days of summer where the sun would shine between the clouds for like three whole hours! It was amazing.

           

Why I Hate Moustaches

I have never known my father sans moustache. I’m not talking about a tiny attempt or he just forgot to shave. My father has had a full on make Tom Selleck jealous moustache since 1974… when he promptly was kicked out of the house for it. When most pimple faced boys are asking girls to their senior prom, my dad at the tender age of 17 fresh out of high school (the nuns would not allow facial hair) made a decision that has shaped his destiny forever. He started to grow the stache.

Happy Easter!

       Holidays for children are normally filled with excitement and anticipation of the candy filled days to come. However for me the sight of candy filled baskets was nothing I was interested in. Chocolate shaped into funny animals wearing candy coated pants did not tickle my fancy. I just opened doors with a little more caution as I spotted chocolate covered fingers. As I went home this weekend for Easter and walked downstairs to see my first Easter basket in years I was pleasantly surprised. I remembered back to my previous Easter baskets. They were bright and colorful and always made me feel special. And then I remembered the go to candy that was given to me by other people. If jelly beans could be used as fuel, I would be set for life.

The Story Behind The Name - It's A Doozy

       So although the name of my blog might seem a little obvious, there is more than meets the eye when it comes to my title. 

       

       Because I’m Allergic To You… the most romantic words ever uttered…

       Here is the story…

Hello!

       Hello! So if you could not guess by the title, I am allergic to things… most things. Anyway. I am a 21 year old college student doing college-y things with my life and I thought you know what! It’s about dang time that someone made a resource for young adults with allergies. I’m not a mom dealing with a baby with allergies so that about limits me from most websites and support groups dealing with allergies out there. So! I decided, well gosh golly (haha who says that?!) that I was going to make my own! So here it is. This is my place to talk to you. My aim is towards young adults, so ranging from teens to early 30s. I want to talk about what you want to hear so I’m going to start off with what I would have liked to hear someone else talk about. Whew, was that as confusing to read as it was to write? Sorry it’s late and I’m excited. Once this things gets rolling I’ll base what I’m going to talk about off what feedback I get from you. So let’s get started!

       

       A little bit about me:  (Allergy wise)