February 5, 2012

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February 1, 2012 - I just put on my pajamas and noticed that my underwear perfectly match my pajama bottoms (color wise)! I was so thrilled I wanted to show my husband, but he is asleep and sighing loudly and bumping into his chair did not wake him - so I'll blog about it because it happens so rarely and should be celebrated. I fail at that;  My girly instincts did not develop so when I accidentally do something I consider 'girly' I get quite excited about it.

I found out something interesting tonight. (Well, I didn't know it - possibly you did, so good for you and all, but for me it was a learning experience.) The first thing I learned was sometimes if you accidentally go click crazy on a web page you won't always end up on a porn page, and secondly I learned about ground hogs. (That is where my misguided clicking took me.) I did not know that ground hogs were woodchucks. Woodchucks are also known as land beavers. Land beavers are also known as whistle pigs. This fascinated me. Whistle Pigs? Land Beaver!? I am pleased by this knowledge and no doubt these terms will be incorporated in to my daily vocabulary.

I made cookies tonight for my friend Judy's Birthday. I won't be at work Friday, so I had to do it tonight to take them in tomorrow. I thought about making a cake, but cakes have frosting and if there is frosting anywhere near me I have to shove it in my mouth in large quantities. Cookies are safer. I am not a cookie monster. I made a dark cocoa cookie with white chocolate chips and a normal chocolate chip cookie but with dark chocolate chips. (She likes dark chocolate.) I am taking them ALL to work. I don't need them anywhere in the house. I started using parchment paper to bake my cookies a bit before Christmas time, and I am feeling stupid for not using parchment paper for baking for all the prior years of my life. Best stuff ever. Easy clean up. It's the little things.

I have called the dentist twice this week to see if he could fit me in before Friday. (Yes, folks, you heard it here first. I CALLED A DENTIST on my own free will and I called several times.) My temporary filling that the Endodonist put in has been falling apart since Saturday. Today the last large metal chunk of filling fell out, and now there is a tiny metal rod sticking out from it. I have kept the tooth surrounded by dental wax all week since it was ripping apart the inside of my mouth. (I normally lose the wax covering during the night and I've probably pooped out enough swallowed dental wax to make a good amount of candles.) Sigh. One of these vacation Fridays I have off will not be spent at a dentist office I hope (a girl can dream, at least).

February 3, 2012 - Yet another vacation day for me. I am trying to burn them up before I roll over again in May. I originally had a dentist appointment scheduled for today to fix my exploded tooth from the root canal, but the dentist office called me yesterday and said they had an opening at 2:45 yesterday, so I said, "HELL YES!" I left work and meandered over to the dentist office and got my tooth prepared for crowning. I took a 'anti spaz' pill an hour before I left. Then my youngest son called me at work and wanted to stop out at the house. "OK, but I'll be snoring and drooling in a chair because of the pill I just took..." He has seen this event before, so he said he would still stop over.

When I got to the dentist, I figured they would have to use a rubber dam on my tooth, and the thought of that made me panic, so in my infinite wisdom I took another half pill. (Klonopin is a good medicine for calming you down. It saved me when I had a nervous break down in 1998. It has gotten me through countless dentists appointments. It is, however, NOT A DRUG YOU WOULD TAKE FOR FUN. Klonopin stays in your system for about 18 hours. If you drink beer with Klonopin you have black outs and you cannot remember a thing. I learned that the hard way years ago.) By the time the drilling started (without a rubber dam, mind you) I was quite relaxed. I had borrowed a squeezy ball from Laura at work, since playing with something in the dentists chair seems to help me as well. The dentist got in there and got the tooth prepared and sealed it off with the a temporary 'crown' as it were (actually feels like he put a rubber ball on it) and I was out the door. Sigh. I did not need drugs, after all. Once you swallow the drugs, however - well, there you go - they are coursing through your blood stream and suddenly it's a Kegger Party for every neural transmitter I possess. I came home and sat in my chair and fell asleep and snored and drooled. My husband made dinner. I did manage to wake up enough to eat that and it was very good. I think we had Tuna Helper. I know we had lima beans, as I found one on the floor that the dogs have been dragging around for fun. My son arrived and I know he ate dinner, too. I also remember getting up and cleaning up and starting a load of laundry and filling the dish washer, but that is about it. Next thing I know was my husband was kicking my foot to make me stop snoring so loud. The boys couldn't hear the T.V. Then I remember the wee one saying, "Well, THIS is fun, I'm leaving..." and off he went. Poor boy. Yep, kids - when your parents get older and get hopped up on goof balls, the party ends ten minutes before anyone gets there...

Even though the evening was a bust, at least today I am NOT at a dentist office! Yay - so that is a good thing. I've done two loads of laundry already and cleaned the toilet and the tub. I am now washing the bedding since Jake got so excited he puked on my bed. Sigh. Plus I need to get upstairs and sweep and change that bedding since my daughter is coming home for the weekend. It is time for our annual "Hair Day Extravaganza"  - it falls on the same day as our local "Chili Cook Off and Ice Festival" day in our little town. The first year we did that was awesome - as the wind was blowing and it was really snowing and it was a HOOT of winter fun. This year, as with two years ago, it will be warm on Saturday and the ice sculptures they make will melt as fast as they carve them. Still, it's fun to be out with my daughter and get my hair touched.

February 5, 2012 - I had a nice day Friday. A "me" day. I went to get groceries after blogging in the morning, and came home and finished cleaning the house. I listened to Big Band music as I cleaned. Very fun. We took my daughter and her boyfriend out to dinner on Friday night. (Meaning, "Sandy was too darned lazy to cook!") When we got home, I went to boot up my home PC. The system announced that no hard drive was detected. "Um, what?" I said to the screen. I tried many things. There was no sign of the hard drive. I was a bit upset. (I have back ups in general, but those do no good if your PC's brain cannot find a hard drive to restore.) I got that Dell in May of 2011, and a week or so after I had it the mother board went out. I got that replaced for free, of course, but come on! What happened to quality? We have some old PCs at work that have been chugging along for years now. My prior PC was a work horse as well. Apparently I got a lemon this time. Sure, I get a new hard drive since it decided to commit discaside whilst still under warranty and this time, the help desk did not make me rip things apart too much. I told them I had tried a list of things already. I just had to plug/unplug the hard drive from the mother board after clearing the static factor. Nope, no hard drive. I was not happy. The thought of loading everything again (all my programs and files, etc.) does not thrill me whatsoever. Ugh, I say. Capital UGH.

"Terri Time" (our hair goddess is Terri) on Saturday was a hoot. The ice festival was a bust. The ice sculptures looked cracked and melty by noon. The sun was cruel - very cruel. My daughter and I ended up going to Noodles and Company for lunch. Yum. Then we came home and off she went to see a movie with her boyfriend and his family. I basked in the post happiness from someone playing with my hair. Contented sigh.

Today was a lazy day. I did not get our of my pajamas until three p.m. I am thinking about getting back in to my pajamas again soon, at seven p.m. Husband is watching the Super Bowl and already it's depressing. I, personally, am going in to the bedroom to watch Fox Animation Domination.

Have a good week!

"...the secret to life is enjoying the passage of time..."