topics of importance.
1. Katie often does 7 Quick Takes, and she just did one where she mentioned wanting to get an image of the Sacred Heart. I thought, "Hey, I should do one and share my image of the Sacred Heart."
My grandmother drew it in high school, so I guess it's about 75 years old. I like its simplicity.
2. The Husband's vision/dental supplement covers 90% of the cost of routine visits and 100% of fillings, root canals etc. It would seem like preventative care should be the thing fully covered so as to prevent the more expensive work needing to be done, but I guess the number crunchers have figured out that the cost savings from people who skip yearly visits due to the copay outweighs the costs of more expensive work that could have been prevented by more frequent preventative visits.
Also I always want to add an extra "ta" to preventative. Preventatative.
Anyway I need to find and see a dentist for myself, since it's been about 18 months since my last check-up/cleaning. I hate going to the dentist. I had a traumatic experience when I was a preschooler where the anesthesia wore off during a filling. So terrible. I had nightmares about that dentist for years afterwards. When I went in for surgery to fix the damage to my teeth done by me thrashing around, I saw his stupid face in the anesthesia-cloud-hallucination.
Grr.
Anyway, considering all that, I think I do pretty well at the dentist, but I still don't like to go.
3. I recently figured out that part of the key reason why the best possible way to eat ice cream is out of a cone on a hot day is that the heat keeps the ice cream surface constantly at the brink of melting, and the brink of melting is when ice cream is the tastiest. Ice cream increases rapidly in deliciousness from frozen solid to brink of melting, and then falls precipitously once it actually melts, with lukewarm melted ice cream being the worst.
Anyway I've discovered that the best way to recreate this in a dish when it's not hot is to constantly turn the ice cream with your spoon so you can slurp off the "brink of melting" ice cream.
My ice cream consumption has jumped dramatically.
4. Despite aforementioned uptick in ice cream consumption, I am continuing to lose weight.
Because of this, I needed some new bottoms. I went thrifting with my aunt-in-law today. However, because she couldn't hold Pippa too long because of her joints, and because the thrift store wasn't safe for Pip to run around in, I actually had to try on bottoms while wearing her (all 23 pounds) in a back carry.
If my life was a video game, there ought to be a big ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED for that.
End result: a pair of jeans and a skirt, plus I bought another skirt and top in a shop in Little India. I'll be wearing the skirt/top outfit to church tomorrow.
5. I got my hair cut yesterday. The hairdresser was adamant that I should wear it parted on the side. I think it looks better parted in the middle. What do you think?
I think parted on the side it makes my forehead look enormous, which throws everything else in my face off.
6. It is still not summer here in Vancouver. The Husband just had to shut the window because the draft was too cold for The Pipster. :(
7. Pip is teething so badly right now and it's making her behavior regress like whoa. Her screaming issue, which she hasn't really done for weeks, is back. The biting issue is back with a vengeance. She's chewing on cold washcloths like a ball player with a mouthful of chew. Poor baby.
However, and I hope I'm not jinxing myself by writing this, her nighttime sleep has not only not worsened, it's actually improving, inasmuch as she's falling asleep independently in the crib much of the time. Well by "independently" I mean "with me singing a lullaby" but that's still a big jump over falling asleep nursing and getting transferred all the time. So things are pretty good there.
We're going to be out all day tomorrow so I'm concerned about what that will mean for her nap. We'll see. Naps are still the weakest link. (Goodbye!)
My grandmother drew it in high school, so I guess it's about 75 years old. I like its simplicity.
2. The Husband's vision/dental supplement covers 90% of the cost of routine visits and 100% of fillings, root canals etc. It would seem like preventative care should be the thing fully covered so as to prevent the more expensive work needing to be done, but I guess the number crunchers have figured out that the cost savings from people who skip yearly visits due to the copay outweighs the costs of more expensive work that could have been prevented by more frequent preventative visits.
Also I always want to add an extra "ta" to preventative. Preventatative.
Anyway I need to find and see a dentist for myself, since it's been about 18 months since my last check-up/cleaning. I hate going to the dentist. I had a traumatic experience when I was a preschooler where the anesthesia wore off during a filling. So terrible. I had nightmares about that dentist for years afterwards. When I went in for surgery to fix the damage to my teeth done by me thrashing around, I saw his stupid face in the anesthesia-cloud-hallucination.
Grr.
Anyway, considering all that, I think I do pretty well at the dentist, but I still don't like to go.
3. I recently figured out that part of the key reason why the best possible way to eat ice cream is out of a cone on a hot day is that the heat keeps the ice cream surface constantly at the brink of melting, and the brink of melting is when ice cream is the tastiest. Ice cream increases rapidly in deliciousness from frozen solid to brink of melting, and then falls precipitously once it actually melts, with lukewarm melted ice cream being the worst.
Anyway I've discovered that the best way to recreate this in a dish when it's not hot is to constantly turn the ice cream with your spoon so you can slurp off the "brink of melting" ice cream.
My ice cream consumption has jumped dramatically.
4. Despite aforementioned uptick in ice cream consumption, I am continuing to lose weight.
Because of this, I needed some new bottoms. I went thrifting with my aunt-in-law today. However, because she couldn't hold Pippa too long because of her joints, and because the thrift store wasn't safe for Pip to run around in, I actually had to try on bottoms while wearing her (all 23 pounds) in a back carry.
If my life was a video game, there ought to be a big ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED for that.
End result: a pair of jeans and a skirt, plus I bought another skirt and top in a shop in Little India. I'll be wearing the skirt/top outfit to church tomorrow.
5. I got my hair cut yesterday. The hairdresser was adamant that I should wear it parted on the side. I think it looks better parted in the middle. What do you think?
I think parted on the side it makes my forehead look enormous, which throws everything else in my face off.
6. It is still not summer here in Vancouver. The Husband just had to shut the window because the draft was too cold for The Pipster. :(
7. Pip is teething so badly right now and it's making her behavior regress like whoa. Her screaming issue, which she hasn't really done for weeks, is back. The biting issue is back with a vengeance. She's chewing on cold washcloths like a ball player with a mouthful of chew. Poor baby.
However, and I hope I'm not jinxing myself by writing this, her nighttime sleep has not only not worsened, it's actually improving, inasmuch as she's falling asleep independently in the crib much of the time. Well by "independently" I mean "with me singing a lullaby" but that's still a big jump over falling asleep nursing and getting transferred all the time. So things are pretty good there.
We're going to be out all day tomorrow so I'm concerned about what that will mean for her nap. We'll see. Naps are still the weakest link. (Goodbye!)