What New Fresh Hell

Last week the Walking Nazi gave me a lipstick she got as a free gift with purchase. She knew it was my color and she would never wear it so I was happy to get it and started wearing it that day. Several day later, after wearing it every day, my lips and mouth area were very swollen. I sort of looked like Goldie Hawn in Second Wives Club. 

 Had a trout pout, but after several years of being almost lipless even though it hurt and was very chapped I kind of liked having a mouth again. 

Also, my jaw area was a bit swollen and I looked much more like my old self before the wrinkles appeared. (It really wasn't that obvious to anyone but me but I was out with a friend one day and got hit on by two old guys much to our amusement. We both decided it was my new lips and perhaps the $7 dangly earrings from Steinmart because I haven't been even noticed for years now!) So, chapped and peeling and painful and all, it finally subsided and I had normal-mouth back again.

Today I grabbed a handful of peanuts from a little bowl on the coffee table and within a half hour my big fat painful chapped lips are back.

Yes folks, it seems that I have a peanut allergy. Not the lipstick after all. I don't know the extent (peanut oil? peanut butter?) but I am quite bummed out. I am way too old to be developing allergies, certainly allergies that limit my poor limited diet even further. As soon as my mouth gets better again I guess I will try a little peanut butter. I looked and I've been eating almond butter lately so maybe it will react, who knows. God, this is annoying.

I made my reservation to go back to MA for Halloween and for a crit group meeting and have always been a bit pissy about the peanut ban on the flights...

Who's sorry now?  Please pass the cashews?